21 best-selling fiction books like Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies / The Mirror and the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #1-3) by Hilary Mantel

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Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies / The Mirror and the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #1-3)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy is the magnificent, riveting hi…

If you liked the fiction plot in Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies / The Mirror and the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #1-3) by Hilary Mantel , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Cold Six Thousand (Underworld USA #2)

By: James Ellroy

4.03

Format: 688 pages, Paperback

The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellr… read more

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  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The Perfect Paragon (Agatha Raisin, #16)

By: M.C. Beaton

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Agatha Raisin, recent divorcee, hates adultery cases and pompous Robert Smedley, but needs work. Un… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook

3. Perfect Little World

By: Kevin Wilson

3.71

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she's just about out of options. She recently graduate… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook

4. The Sound of Things Falling

By: Juan Gabriel Vásquez , Anne McLean

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Juan Gabriel Vasquez has been hailed not only as one of South America's greatest literary stars, bu… read more

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5. The Line of Beauty

By: Alan Hollinghurst

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home… read more

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6. The Six Wives of Henry VIII

By: Alison Weir

4.50

Format: None pages,

'At last we have the truth about Henry VIII's wives. This book is as reliable and scholarly as it i… read more

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7. A God in Ruins

By: Kate Atkinson

1.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Life After LifeUrsula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and agai… read more

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8. Humboldt's Gift

By: Saul Bellow

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The novel, for which Bellow won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1976, is a self-described "comic … read more

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9. The Bookseller of Inverness

By: S.G. MacLean

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drumossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally s… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

By: Rebecca Donner

4.31

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in … read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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11. The Familiars

By: Stacey Halls

3.88

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Respect is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

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12. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

By: Cat Jarman

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
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13. A Thousand Moons (Days Without End #2)

By: Sebastian Barry

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new novel about memory and identity set in Paris, Tennessee in the aftermath of the Amer… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"But we only have one path across the mire of remembrance in general."

-Sebastian Barry, A Thousand Moons (Days Without End #2)

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14. The Whalebone Theatre

By: Joanna Quinn

4.06

Format: 558 pages, Hardcover

A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Without passion we are only machines."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

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15. The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)

By: Elodie Harper

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy Amara's journe… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Square of Sevens

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

4.14

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."

-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

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17. L'Ordre du jour

By: Éric Vuillard

3.90

Format: 138 pages, Kindle Edition

L’Allemagne nazie a sa légende. On y voit une armée rapide, moderne, dont le triomphe parait inexor… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
"The sun is a cold star."

-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour

"Political maneuvering tramples facts."

-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour

"Si l'on soulève les haillons hideux de l'Histoire, on trouve cela: la hiérarchie contre légalité et l'ordre contre la liberté. (p127)"

-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour

"They might not give in to the demands of justice, they might not yield to an insurgent populace, but they'll always fold before a bluff."

-Éric Vuillard, L'Ordre du jour

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18. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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19. The House with the Golden Door (Wolf Den Trilogy, #2)

By: Elodie Harper

4.22

Format: 472 pages, Kindle Edition

The life of a courtesan in Pompeii is glittering, yet precarious... Amara has escaped her life as … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. Women and Children First

By: Alina Grabowski

3.38

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping literary puzzle that unwinds the private lives of ten women as they confront tragedy in … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

21. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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  • audiobook
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22. A Council of Dolls

By: Mona Susan Power

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

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23. Joan

By: Katherine J. Chen

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Girl. Warrior. Heretic. Saint? A stunning secular reimagining of the epic life of Joan of Arc, in t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What would I gain by being a man?" she says. "A cock, a deeper voice, hair across my chest. I would not become stronger. I am already strong." And, she thinks, I would inherit several weaknesses of m…"

-Katherine J. Chen, Joan

"You must make your own map of the world. Search out your own piece of sky and patch of earth, your own awning to sleep under when it is raining and it feels the sun may never shine again, for there w…"

-Katherine J. Chen, Joan

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24. Good Samaritans (Detective Sergeant Pace, #1)

By: Will Carver

3.86

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

One crossed wire, three dead bodies and six bottles of bleachSeth Beauman can’t sleep. He stays up … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Sun Damage

By: Sabine Durrant

3.64

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Reminiscent of the works of Patricia Highsmith and Lucy Foley, a compulsive psychological thriller—… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. The Shadow Key

By: Susan Stokes-Chapman

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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27. The Proxy Bride

By: Zoe Boccabella

4.13

Format: 418 pages, Paperback

In 1939, Giacinta sets sail from Italy to Australia. Decades later, a granddaughter discovers the t… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. The Heartbeat Library

By: Laura Imai Messina

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Nel sud-ovest del Giappone, in una pozza di mare condivisa da due province, Kagawa e Okayama, nuota… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies / The Mirror and the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #1-3)

By: Hilary Mantel

4.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy is the magnificent, riveting hi… read more

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  • literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of The Skeleton Army (Oxford Mysteries #2) by Alis Hawkins

30. The Skeleton Army (Oxford Mysteries #2)

By: Alis Hawkins

3.98

Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition

Why should the devil have all the best tunes? The Salvation Army has come prancing and singing from… read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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31. Karla's Choice

By: Nick Harkaway

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, writ… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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