14 must-read historical fiction books like The Rules Upheld by No One by Amie McNee

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The Rules Upheld by No One

By: Amie McNee

4.42

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

There is no dowry left for Elisabeth Knolly. She is destined for a nunnery, for eternal chastity – …

If you liked the historical fiction plot in The Rules Upheld by No One by Amie McNee , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of A Book to Kill For (Bookish Cafe, #1) by Harper Lin

1. A Book to Kill For (Bookish Cafe, #1)

By: Harper Lin

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

A quiet book lover falls for a rugged carpenter... who doesn't even like to read?!? Maggie Bell … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Silver Spells (Midlife Elementals #1) by Kate Moseman

2. Silver Spells (Midlife Elementals #1)

By: Kate Moseman

3.95

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Luella Campbell is having the weirdest day ever. Getting fired from her job at the sunscreen factor… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Bakery in Paris by Aimie K. Runyan

3. A Bakery in Paris

By: Aimie K. Runyan

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteent… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Watching Women & Girls

By: Danielle Pender

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It's very boring to call people crazy because they don't do what you tell them to"

-Danielle Pender, Watching Women & Girls

Cover of The Glamourist (The Vine Witch, #2) by Luanne G. Smith

5. The Glamourist (The Vine Witch, #2)

By: Luanne G. Smith

4.16

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

A spellbinding novel of bloodlines, self-discovery, and redemption by the author of the Washington … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Conjurer (The Vine Witch, #3) by Luanne G. Smith

6. The Conjurer (The Vine Witch, #3)

By: Luanne G. Smith

4.23

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Sidra didn’t murder her husband. Yet even a jinni can’t wish away a wrongful imprisonment. Determin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Fox Wife

By: Yangsze Choo

4.01

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Some people think foxes are similar to ghosts because we go around collecting qi, or life force, bu… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Chinese traditionally consider shadows part of the soul. Harm done to a shadow, whether by pinning it to the ground or stepping on it, was considered spiritual damage to the person. Of course none of…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

"Sometimes our wishes come back in the darkest, most twisted ways, like a thorn that pierces and grows through your flesh. A tree that drinks blood and blots out the sun. The sin was mine; I had water…"

-Yangsze Choo, The Fox Wife

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8. The Electricity of Every Living Thing

By: Katherine May

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A life-affirming and perspective-shifting memoir of one woman's walk in the wilds as she comes to t… read more

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  • audiobook
"Perhaps he has just never been at the wrong end of a dead-eyed bombardment of boy-band facts from a particularly obsessed teenage girl."

-Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing

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9. Garlic and the Witch

By: Bree Paulsen

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Bree Paulsen's brave little protagonist, Garlic, is back in this charmingly illustrated standalone … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1) by Olivia Atwater

10. Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

By: Olivia Atwater

4.09

Format: 304 pages, ebook

It's difficult to find a husband in Regency England when you're a young lady with only half a soul.… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There is such a thing as evil in this world,"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

"It may be true that you have only half a soul, Dora,"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

"Every fish you throw back into the ocean is a triumph of the idea that human beings can be better. I do my best, every day, to throw at least one fish back into the ocean. I hope that you will join m…"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

"I think that Elias has been angry now for so long that he is scared to let it go - I think he is scared that if would make him too complacent, and he might become all of those things which he so desp…"

-Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul (Regency Faerie Tales, #1)

Cover of To Woo and to Wed (The Regency Vows, #5) by Martha Waters

11. To Woo and to Wed (The Regency Vows, #5)

By: Martha Waters

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The final installment in the Regency Vows series follows the heir to a dukedom and a young widow, o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Most Excellent Midlife Crisis (Good To The Last Death, #3) by Robyn Peterman

12. A Most Excellent Midlife Crisis (Good To The Last Death, #3)

By: Robyn Peterman

4.42

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

A Paranormal Women's Fiction with a bit of class, and a lot of sass, for anyone who feels like age … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Whose Midlife Crisis Is It Anyway? (Good To The Last Death, #2) by Robyn Peterman

13. Whose Midlife Crisis Is It Anyway? (Good To The Last Death, #2)

By: Robyn Peterman

4.39

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

A Paranormal Women's Fiction with a bit of class, and a lot of sass, for anyone who feels like age … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Woods All Black

By: Lee Mandelo

3.81

Format: 153 pages, Kindle Edition

The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Spill enough blood on it, and the earth was bound to go strange."

-Lee Mandelo, The Woods All Black

Cover of Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet by Meggan Watterson

15. Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet

By: Meggan Watterson

4.25

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

--WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER-- The Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveals a very different love story… read more

Similar categories in Meggan Watterson's Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet book and Amie McNee's The Rules Upheld by No One

  • audiobook
Cover of Drinks and Sinkholes (The Weary Dragon Inn, #1) by S. Usher Evans

16. Drinks and Sinkholes (The Weary Dragon Inn, #1)

By: S. Usher Evans

3.80

Format: None pages, ebook

Bev may not know who she was before she showed up in the quaint village of Pigsend five years ago, … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Medusa's Sisters

By: Lauren J.A. Bear

4.18

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

A vivid and moving reimagining of the myth of Medusa and the sisters who loved her. The end of t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"To have choices is to have power. Most women have neither."

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

"When I choose myself, do not be afraid if my choice looks different than yours"

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

"She thought love a perfect pain. Come then. Break me, bend me. Hurt me flawless."

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

"Find delight in your pain, she said, and rejoice in your longing. If it still hurts, you are alive, you are alive."

-Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

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18. Fruiting Bodies: Stories

By: Kathryn Harlan

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the go… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Champagne Witches (A Shot of Midlife Magic, #1) by Tegan Maher

19. Champagne Witches (A Shot of Midlife Magic, #1)

By: Tegan Maher

4.47

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

Divorced, empty-nested, and staring fifty in the eye is every bit as crappy as it sounds. Luckily, … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Bacchanal

By: Veronica G. Henry

3.84

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South. But the carnival’s newest act,… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Medea

By: Rosie Hewlett

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Medea longs for a different life. Since childhood, she has been separated from her sister, shunned … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I hate him for infecting me with this love I have carried for so long – I wish I could remove it, sever it from me like an infected limb."

-Rosie Hewlett, Medea

Cover of A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

22. A Sorceress Comes to Call

By: T. Kingfisher

4.24

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl, rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fiends and Festivals (The Weary Dragon Inn, #2) by S. Usher Evans

23. Fiends and Festivals (The Weary Dragon Inn, #2)

By: S. Usher Evans

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

A cozy fantasy novel The Harvest Festival is the most-anticipated event in the quaint village of… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Secrets and Snowflakes (The Weary Dragon Inn, #3) by S. Usher Evans

24. Secrets and Snowflakes (The Weary Dragon Inn, #3)

By: S. Usher Evans

4.09

Format: 301 pages, Paperback

The Witzel Winter Solstice Party is the highlight of an otherwise quiet winter season in Pigsend. B… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of An Intrigue of Witches (Secret Society Mystery, #1) by Esme  Addison

25. An Intrigue of Witches (Secret Society Mystery, #1)

By: Esme Addison

3.61

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Introducing the Secret Society mystery series, and kick-ass red-headed heroine Sidney, a Black his… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5) by Deborah Harkness

26. The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

By: Deborah Harkness

4.18

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Diana Bishop journeys to the darkest places within herself—and her family history—in the highly ant… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Kümmere dich um deine eignen Wünsche und Bedürfnisse." S. 222"

-Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

"Sehnsucht spornt mich an, Furcht bremst mich ... Was für ein Weg, gerade oder krumm, wird mir Frieden geben und mich erlösen?" S 414 f"

-Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

"Du musst ihr [der Dunkelheit] die Stirn bieten ... Schau ihr ins Auge, ohne mit der Wimper zu zucken. Die Dunkelheit ist von einer verschlagenen Tücke und du darfst nicht zulassen, dass sie deine Sch…"

-Deborah Harkness, The Black Bird Oracle (All Souls, #5)

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27. A Dark and Drowning Tide

By: Allison Saft

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor's murder in t… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke

28. The Wood at Midwinter

By: Susanna Clarke

3.73

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Dark and Secret Magic by Wallis Kinney

29. A Dark and Secret Magic

By: Wallis Kinney

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A warm, spellbinding tale about a witch and the secrets her coven has been keeping from her, with e… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Ravenswood Witch by Jenni Keer

30. The Ravenswood Witch

By: Jenni Keer

3.92

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

‘There are a lot of shadows at Ravenswood, so you will need to be strong…’ The year is 1885 and … read more

Similar categories in Jenni Keer's The Ravenswood Witch book and Amie McNee's The Rules Upheld by No One

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Rules Upheld by No One by Amie McNee

31. The Rules Upheld by No One

By: Amie McNee

4.42

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

There is no dowry left for Elisabeth Knolly. She is destined for a nunnery, for eternal chastity – … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

29 must-read fiction books like The Rules Upheld by No One by Amie McNee

Transform Your Habits

A Book to Kill For (Bookish Cafe, #1)

Harper Lin

3.98

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Silver Spells (Midlife Elementals #1)

Kate Moseman

3.95

Transform Your Habits

A Bakery in Paris

Aimie K. Runyan

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Watching Women & Girls

Danielle Pender

3.69

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19 must-read fiction books like The Glamourist (The Vine Witch, #2) by Luanne G. Smith

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Magic Bitter, Magic Sweet

Charlie N. Holmberg

4.67

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The Master Magician (The Paper Magician, #3)

Charlie N. Holmberg

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Glass Magician (The Paper Magician, #2)

Charlie N. Holmberg

3.93

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The Plastic Magician (The Paper Magician, #4)

Charlie N. Holmberg

4.07

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