20 best-selling fiction books like The Great Level by Stella Tillyard

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The Great Level

By: Stella Tillyard

3.74

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A ‘magical, haunting’ (Philippa Gregory) novel of a tragic love affair in a threatened worldIn 1649…

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1. The Music Shop

By: Rachel Joyce

3.84

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the world-wide bestseller, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a new novel ab… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Aretha is soul. You can’t argue with Aretha."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"...the vivid past would not go away. Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"Real love was a journey with many pitfalls and complications, and sometimes the place you ended up was not the one you hoped for."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

"Frank was so busy loving other people he had no room to accommodate the fact that someone might turn around one day and love him back."

-Rachel Joyce, The Music Shop

2. Heresy (Giordano Bruno, #1)

By: S.J. Parris

3.55

Format: 288 pages,

Masterfully blending true events with fiction, this blockbuster historical thriller delivers a page… read more

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3. Pure

By: Andrew Miller

3.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Deep in the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing, tainting the very breath … read more

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4. Saga, Vol. 4 (Saga, #4)

By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples

5.00

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

Sagais the sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the universe. As they … read more

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5. The Franchise Affair (Inspector Alan Grant, #3)

By: Josephine Tey , Robert Barnard

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Mar… read more

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6. Anatomy of a Scandal: A Novel

By: Sarah Vaughan

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

An astonishingly incisive and suspenseful novel about a scandal amongst Britain's privileged elite … read more

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7. Saga, Vol. 5 (Saga, #5)

By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Multiple storylines collide in this cosmos-spanning new volume. While Gwendolyn and Lying Cat risk … read more

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8. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more

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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."

-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

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9. Still Life

By: Sarah Winman

4.17

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

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10. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

By: Imogen Hermes Gowar

3.55

Format: 487 pages, Hardcover

One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A whore is a whore is a whore."

-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

"For what is she, but a spare daughter?"

-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

"I cry out and there is a dull nothing."

-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

"All cats are grey with the candles out."

-Imogen Hermes Gowar, The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

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11. A Winter Grave

By: Peter May

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

It is the year 2051. Warnings of climate catastrophe have been ignored, and vast areas of the plane… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7) by Robert Galbraith

12. The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)

By: Robert Galbraith

4.61

Format: 960 pages, Hardcover

In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in t… read more

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  • fiction
"Wace's charm and ease of manner, his smile, his warmth, had vanished. Once before, Strike had faced a killer whose eyes, under the stress and excitement of hearing his crimes described, had become as…"

-Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)

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13. Washington Black

By: Esi Edugyan

3.95

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Washington Black is an eleven-year-old field slave who knows no other life than the Barbados sugar … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You cannot know the true nature of another's suffering." "No. But you can try your damnedest not to worsen it."

-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

"I do not much care for childhood. It is a astate of terrible vulnerability, and is therefore unnatural and incomaptivle with human life."

-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

"...a good parent is as rare as snow in summer, I am afraid. Well." He smiled sadly. "It is possible I have some prejudices in this respect."

-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

"But then, gradually, miraculously, things began to clear between us. We were able to speak as we'd once done, with great love and little calculation."

-Esi Edugyan, Washington Black

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14. Shrines of Gaiety

By: Kate Atkinson

3.85

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

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15. Just Sayin': My Life In Words

By: Malorie Blackman

4.53

Format: 267 pages, Kindle Edition

The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world's greatest children's writers, and an empowering… read more

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"Sometimes, when love has flown or is absent, when life knocks us to the ground and won't let us get back up, hope may be all we have left to cling to."

-Malorie Blackman, Just Sayin': My Life In Words

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16. Cuddy

By: Benjamin Myers

4.33

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"

-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy

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17. Meet Me at the Museum

By: Anne Youngson

3.93

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Please be aware I am writing to you to make sense of myself ... When the curator of a Danish mus… read more

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  • fiction
"Our letters have meant so much to us because we have both arrived at the same point in our lives. More behind us than ahead of us."

-Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum

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18. In the Blink of An Eye (Kat and Lock, #1)

By: Jo Callaghan

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an ey… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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20. The Reading List

By: Sara Nisha Adams

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books h… read more

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  • fiction
"The library isn’t just about books."

-Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

"...books, they had the power to heal."

-Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

"People don’t always understand lonely people."

-Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

"I guess books say different things to different people."

-Sara Nisha Adams, The Reading List

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21. The Manningtree Witches

By: A.K. Blakemore

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Wolf Hall meets The Favourite in this beguiling debut novel that brilliantly brings to life the res… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin.To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"I wish freely to embrace the deliciousness of sin. To sin with abandon is, after all, the only prerogative of the damned."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

"My imps need no doors, sir. They go where I tell them. Through any crack, be it as narrow as a nun's or wide as your wife's."

-A.K. Blakemore, The Manningtree Witches

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22. The Skeleton Key

By: Erin Kelly

3.78

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART... Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insist… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime by Susannah Stapleton

23. The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime

By: Susannah Stapleton

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having started sleuthing o… read more

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24. The Witching Tide

By: Margaret Meyer

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Margaret Atwood and Hilary Mantel, an immersive literary debut inspired by historica… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. Dolphin Junction: Stories

By: Mick Herron

4.02

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Now, for the first time, Mick Herron’s short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin… read more

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  • fiction
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26. The Great Passion

By: James Runcie

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the s… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980 by Ysenda Maxtone Graham

27. British Summer Time Begins: The School Summer Holidays 1930-1980

By: Ysenda Maxtone Graham

3.81

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

British Summer Time Begins is about summer holidays of the mid-twentieth century and how they were … read more

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28. Midwinter Break

By: Bernard MacLaverty

3.62

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Sixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of th… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of When the Village Sleeps: A Novel by Sindiwe Magona

29. When the Village Sleeps: A Novel

By: Sindiwe Magona

3.58

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

‘All the way to school, and all day long, the same thought kept turning and turning in Busi’s mind.… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Figurine by Victoria Hislop

30. The Figurine

By: Victoria Hislop

4.14

Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition

In her irresistible new novel, Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author Victoria Hislop shines a light … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Great Level by Stella Tillyard

31. The Great Level

By: Stella Tillyard

3.74

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A ‘magical, haunting’ (Philippa Gregory) novel of a tragic love affair in a threatened worldIn 1649… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

11 Top historical fiction books like The Great Level by Stella Tillyard

Transform Your Habits

The Music Shop

Rachel Joyce

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Still Life

Sarah Winman

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock

Imogen Hermes Gowar

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Washington Black

Esi Edugyan

3.95

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Transform Your Habits

Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

Sophie Hannah

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

Lucy Worsley

4.20

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Into the Uncanny

Danny Robins

4.27

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