26 Best fiction books like More Miracle Than Bird by Alice Miller

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More Miracle Than Bird

By: Alice Miller

3.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of World War I, twenty-one-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees—on her own for the first time—is i…

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1. The Inheritance of Loss

By: Kiran Desai

4.32

Format: 632 pages,

Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in o… read more

Similar categories in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

2. Noah's Compass

By: Anne Tyler

4.07

Format: None pages,

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3. Rules of Civility

By: Amor Towles

2.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On the last night of 1937, twenty-five-year-old Katey Kontent is in a second-rate Greenwich Village… read more

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4. The Last September

By: Elizabeth Bowen

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Paperback

The Last Septemberis Elizabeth Bowen's portrait of a young woman's coming of age in a brutalized ti… read more

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5. Last House

By: Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Shattuck's Last House book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Silence for the Dead

By: Simone St. James

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow...… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Silence for the Dead book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Stone Girl

By: Dirk Wittenborn

4.17

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Three women scarred by a chain of misogyny and death at the hands of a secret brotherhood seek a re… read more

Similar categories in Dirk Wittenborn's The Stone Girl book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • adult
  • fiction
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8. The Lost Book of Bonn

By: Brianna Labuskes

3.95

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from… read more

Similar categories in Brianna Labuskes's The Lost Book of Bonn book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Paris Apartment

By: Kelly Bowen

4.29

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

This heart-wrenching novel about family and war unearths generations of secrets and sacrifices—perf… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Bowen's The Paris Apartment book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The General and Julia

By: Jon Clinch

3.82

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and… read more

Similar categories in Jon Clinch's The General and Julia book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World

By: Pádraig Ó Tuama

4.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Expanding on the popular podcast of the same name from On Being Studios, Poetry Unbound offers imme… read more

Similar categories in Pádraig Ó Tuama's Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • adult
  • ireland
  • audiobook
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12. Charming Billy

By: Alice McDermott

3.48

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Charming Billy is the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Fiction. Alice McDermott's striki… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Charming Billy book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • literature
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • ireland
"so your husband's home with the little ones?—it'll be good for him, let him see what it's like with kids all day, right? men never understand until you ask them to do it and then they say, Well, the …"

-Alice McDermott, Charming Billy

"Dan Lynch was chuckling, his hand around his small glass. 'I remember Billy saying that AA was a Protestant thing when you came right down to it. Started by a bunch of Protestants. He said he didn't …"

-Alice McDermott, Charming Billy

"It made it easier that they both believed in the simplest kind of afterlife - that my father could say to her, even in those last days, joking but without irony, 'You're going to get tired of hearing…"

-Alice McDermott, Charming Billy

"In the arc of an unremarkable life, a life whose triumphs are small and personal, whose trials are ordinary enough, as tempered in their pain as in their resolution of pain, the claim of exclusivity …"

-Alice McDermott, Charming Billy

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13. Conjure Women

By: Afia Atakora

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the h… read more

Similar categories in Afia Atakora's Conjure Women book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It was an honor to lift this burden and so the burden was light."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"It was folly to think that she was the only one that had ever had any secrets."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"Ain't every woman's daughter made from the death of the mama, somehow or another?"

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"In death he looked himself a celebration - though surely his life had never been. But here it was, close up: freedom. He'd reached finally what he'd been running toward."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

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14. The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)

By: Sujata Massey

4.02

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex … read more

Similar categories in Sujata Massey's The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4) book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. A Quantum Love Story

By: Mike Chen

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The only thing harder than finding someone in a time loop is losing them. Grieving her best friend… read more

Similar categories in Mike Chen's A Quantum Love Story book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. What You Wish For

By: Katherine Center

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Samantha Casey is a school librarian who loves her job, the kids, and her school family with passio… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's What You Wish For book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"If you never let yourself want anything,"

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"We made a choice to do joy on purpose. Not in spite of life’s sorrows. But because of them."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"...courage makes everything easier next time. And I'm not going to let you live your life in fear."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"I'm telling you. I know all about darkness. That's why I am so hell-bent, every damn day, on looking for the light."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

Cover of What We Kept to Ourselves by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

17. What We Kept to Ourselves

By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim

3.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Story of Mina Lee retu… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Bullet Swallower

By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Gonzalez James's The Bullet Swallower book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Forest of Stolen Girls

By: June Hur

3.75

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

Suspenseful and richly atmospheric, June Hur's The Forest of Stolen Girls is a haunting historical … read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Last Story of Mina Lee

By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Margot Lee's mother, Mina, isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot,… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Jooyoun Kim's The Last Story of Mina Lee book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Her mother had once screamed, “How am I going to pay for this? Why don’t you take better care of yourself?"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

"Beauty is a construct, but theory is not at the reality we live, she thought. Theory didn't live in the bones. Theory didn't erase the years of self-scrutiny in a mirror and not seeing anyone at all,…"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

"But if she allowed that story to continue to be told, over and over again - that her mother was a nobody, anonymous, an immigrant who couldn't speak the language, another immigrant who worked a job t…"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

"She wondered how many women had been trapped - in terrible marriages, terrible jobs, unbearable circumstances - simply because the world hadn't been designed to allow them to thrive on their own. The…"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

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21. The Water Witch

By: Jessica Thorne

4.19

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

The man smiles at the water witch as he opens the city gates and unleashes the wild sea. All will b… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise by Pico Iyer

22. The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise

By: Pico Iyer

3.61

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From "one of the most soulful and perceptive writers of our time" (Brain Pickings): a journey throu… read more

Similar categories in Pico Iyer's The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • audiobook
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23. Pelican Girls

By: Julia Malye

3.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping epic in the vein of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and inspired by a… read more

Similar categories in Julia Malye's Pelican Girls book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. The Paris Deception

By: Bryn Turnbull

4.07

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

From internationally bestselling author Bryn Turnbull comes a breathtaking novel about art theft an… read more

Similar categories in Bryn Turnbull's The Paris Deception book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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25. Elsewhere

By: Alexis Schaitkin

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and the ima… read more

Similar categories in Alexis Schaitkin's Elsewhere book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Difficult, but comforting, the way I suppose one's own life always feels."

-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

"He didn't understand that a mother and daughter cannot be protected from one another, that the harms that pass between them cannot be mitigated because they are also expressions of love."

-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

"I saw then that he was drawn not just to me, but also to the dark potential all women in our town carried inside us, and I was startled to realize he feared me a little. I began to know what women he…"

-Alexis Schaitkin, Elsewhere

Cover of Teen Killers Club (Teen Killers Club #1) by Lily  Sparks

26. Teen Killers Club (Teen Killers Club #1)

By: Lily Sparks

4.00

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Framed for the murder of her best friend, a young girl joins a super-secret society of teenage assa… read more

Similar categories in Lily Sparks's Teen Killers Club (Teen Killers Club #1) book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. Win Me Something

By: Kyle Lucia Wu

3.55

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A NPR, Electric Lit, and Entropy Best Book of the Year A Washington Post , Shondaland , NPR Books, … read more

Similar categories in Kyle Lucia Wu's Win Me Something book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. Bride of the Sea

By: Eman Quotah

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

During a snowy Cleveland February, newlywed university students Muneer and Saeedah are expecting th… read more

Similar categories in Eman Quotah's Bride of the Sea book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The way she talks about family—the way everyone here does—is more foreign to Hannah than anything else. She has always had only Mama. To have dozens of people feels like a gift, a gift of love that s…"

-Eman Quotah, Bride of the Sea

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29. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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30. Your Life Is Mine

By: Nathan Ripley

3.08

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Instant national bestseller Nathan Ripley follows up the success of Find You in the Dark with anoth… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ripley's Your Life Is Mine book and Alice Miller's More Miracle Than Bird

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. More Miracle Than Bird

By: Alice Miller

3.09

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of World War I, twenty-one-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees—on her own for the first time—is i… read more

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  • world war i
  • british literature
  • literature
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • ireland
  • audiobook

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