12 best-selling historical books like Undersong by Kathleen Winter

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Undersong

By: Kathleen Winter

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“A stunning, spellbinding, poetic triumph." — Toronto Star From Giller-shortlisted author Kathleen…

If you liked the historical plot in Undersong by Kathleen Winter , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Stone Angel

By: Margaret Laurence , Adele Wiseman

3.77

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

The Stone Angel , The Diviners , and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret La… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
"Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young."

-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

"Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I'll not beg."

-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

"Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to."

-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

"I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'…"

-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel

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2. The Secret Scripture

By: Sebastian Barry

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Nearing her one-hundredth birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an uncertain future, as the Roscommon Re… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Jest of God by Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence

3. A Jest of God

By: Margaret Atwood , Margaret Laurence

3.80

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rac… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada

4. A Bird in the House

By: Margaret Laurence

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of Canada's most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and t… read more

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5. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

Similar categories in Michael Crummey's The Adversary book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) by Waubgeshig Rice

6. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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7. Fourteen Days

By: Margaret Atwood

3.23

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Atwood's Fourteen Days book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Haven

By: Emma Donoghue

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Fog makes an island of every man."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

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9. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Learned by Heart book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

Cover of I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1) by Ian Ferguson

11. I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1)

By: Ian Ferguson

3.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A once-famous TV sleuth An amateur theater production An onstage murder A town full of suspects…… read more

Similar categories in Ian Ferguson's I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1) book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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12. Fayne: A Novel

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

4.26

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more

Similar categories in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fayne: A Novel book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel

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13. Snow Road Station

By: Elizabeth Hay

3.77

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the Giller Prize-winning author comes a novel, witty and wise, about thwarted ambition, unreal… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Hay's Snow Road Station book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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14. Closer by Sea

By: Perry Chafe

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER CBC Books “86 Works of Canadian Fiction to Read in the First Half of 20… read more

Similar categories in Perry Chafe's Closer by Sea book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • historical fiction
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15. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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16. All the Colour in the World

By: C.S. Richardson

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Daughters of the Deer

By: Danielle Daniel

4.40

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ances… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Daniel's Daughters of the Deer book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Strangers

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 336 pages, None

From the bestselling author of The Break comes a staggering intergenerational saga that explores ho… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
"Summer was always the worst season. Everyone always complained about winter, but winter was simple, you just didn't go outside. Summer always tried to sneak in where it was not wanted."

-Katherena Vermette, The Strangers

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19. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's The Story of Us book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of The Circle by Katherena Vermette

20. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's The Circle book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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21. Bloomsbury Girls

By: Natalie Jenner

3.86

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

The internationally bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society returns with a compelling and hea… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Jenner's Bloomsbury Girls book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"As her eyes met his, Grace took strength in that feeling of understanding, which she now knew to be another form of love. Being understood, appreciated, and not judged: these, surely, were the corner…"

-Natalie Jenner, Bloomsbury Girls

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22. August Into Winter

By: Guy Vanderhaeghe

4.11

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The first novel in nearly a decade from the three-time Governor General's Award‒winning author of T… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family by Rowan Jette Knox

23. Love Lives Here: A Story of Thriving in a Transgender Family

By: Rowan Jette Knox

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

All Amanda Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father,… read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Double Life of Benson Yu by Kevin  Chong

24. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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25. A Minor Chorus

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Northern Alberta, a queer Indigenous doctoral student steps away from his dissertation to write … read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's A Minor Chorus book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of The Relatives by Camilla Gibb

26. The Relatives

By: Camilla Gibb

3.70

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From the renowned author of Sweetness in the Belly , The Beauty of Humanity Movement and This Is Ha… read more

Similar categories in Camilla Gibb's The Relatives book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Away from the Dead by David Bergen

27. Away from the Dead

By: David Bergen

3.96

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Longlisted, Scotiabank Giller Prize Violence is the domain of both the rich and poor. Or so it seem… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of DreadfulWater (DreadfulWater, #1) by Hartley GoodWeather

28. DreadfulWater (DreadfulWater, #1)

By: Hartley GoodWeather

3.81

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The award-winning, bestselling author of The Back of the Turtle and The Inconvenient Indian masters… read more

Similar categories in Hartley GoodWeather's DreadfulWater (DreadfulWater, #1) book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Instructions for the Drowning by Steven Heighton

29. Instructions for the Drowning

By: Steven Heighton

3.91

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023 • One of CBC Books Best Books of 2023 • One of the Globe 100's Best … read more

Similar categories in Steven Heighton's Instructions for the Drowning book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel by Jane Urquhart

30. In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel

By: Jane Urquhart

4.28

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable … read more

Similar categories in Jane Urquhart's In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Undersong by Kathleen Winter

31. Undersong

By: Kathleen Winter

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“A stunning, spellbinding, poetic triumph." — Toronto Star From Giller-shortlisted author Kathleen… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Winter's Undersong book and Kathleen Winter's Undersong

  • poetry
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • audiobook

29 Best fiction books like Undersong by Kathleen Winter

Transform Your Habits

The Stone Angel

Margaret Laurence , Adele Wiseman

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Scripture

Sebastian Barry

3.50

Transform Your Habits

A Jest of God

Margaret Atwood , Margaret Laurence

3.80

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The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

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21 must-read fiction books like The Adversary by Michael Crummey

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

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The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

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Donna Morrissey

3.97

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