8 must-read historical fiction books like The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

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The Tenderness of Wolves

By: Stef Penney

3.80

Format: 242 pages,

A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the Uni…

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1. The Way I Found Her

By: Rose Tremain

3.61

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

This is the summer that Lewis Little, precocious thirteen-year-old, is spending in Paris with his b… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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2. The World My Wilderness

By: Rose Macaulay

3.75

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Banished by her mother to England, Barbara is thrown into the ordered formality of English life. Co… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Yes grand' mere" The clear brown eyes flickered and blinked; he looked at once apprehensive and shifty. His grandmother reflected that he knew nothing yet of what his future was to be, he was in her …"

-Rose Macaulay, The World My Wilderness

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3. The Road Home

By: Rose Tremain

3.88

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

In the story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe, Rose Tremain has written a wise a… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Lev,' said Ruby, 'when I was younger, I always told people the things I thought they wanted to hear. But I don't do that anymore. It's a cruel thing to do. So I can't say now that you will be free of…"

-Rose Tremain, The Road Home

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4. The Van (The Barrytown Trilogy, #3)

By: Roddy Doyle

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The further misadventures of the Rabbitte family in working-class Dublin--from the author of The Co… read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Ventriloquist's Tale

By: Pauline Melville

3.51

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Pauline Melville conjures up vivid pictures both of savanna and forest and of city life in South Am… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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6. Sealskin

By: Su Bristow

3.69

Format: None pages, Paperback

Donald is a young fisherman, eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

7. In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)

By: Eugene Thacker

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

"Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror and philosophy is utterly original and utterly c… read more

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8. The Tenderness of Wolves

By: Stef Penney

3.80

Format: 242 pages,

A brilliant and breathtaking debut that captivated readers and garnered critical acclaim in the Uni… read more

Similar categories in Stef Penney's The Tenderness of Wolves book and Stef Penney's The Tenderness of Wolves

  • canada
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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9. Any Human Heart

By: William Boyd

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991,… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Elegy for Iris

By: John Bayley

3.64

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--wor… read more

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11. Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind

By: Alice Jamieson

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When Alice was a teenager, strange things started happening to her. Hours of her life simply disapp… read more

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12. Citadel (Languedoc, #3)

By: Kate Mosse

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Carcassonne, 1942. Terwijl talloze Franse soldaten aan het front hun leven geven om de Duitsers het… read more

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13. From the Wreck

By: Jane Rawson

0.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

From the Wreck tells the remarkable story of George Hills, who survived the sinking of the steamshi… read more

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14. The Gustav Sonata

By: Rose Tremain

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War see… read more

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15. The Sealwoman's Gift

By: Sally Magnusson

4.15

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including … read more

Similar categories in Sally Magnusson's The Sealwoman's Gift book and Stef Penney's The Tenderness of Wolves

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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17. The Letter

By: W. Somerset Maugham

3.74

Format: 74 pages, None

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledg… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Stef Penney's The Tenderness of Wolves

  • mystery
  • fiction
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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19. Falling Animals

By: Sheila Armstrong

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more

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  • fiction
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20. Prehistorias de mujeres. Descubre lo que no te han contado sobre nosotras

By: Marga Sánchez Romero

4.33

Format: 288 pages, ebook

¿De verdad eran ellas las que se quedaban cuidando a la prole? ¿Cómo era realmente la maternidad y … read more

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  • historical
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21. House Woman

By: Adorah Nworah

3.34

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

When Ikemefuna is put on a plane from Lagos to Texas, she anticipates her newly arranged All-Americ… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

14 must-read fiction books like The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney

Transform Your Habits

The Way I Found Her

Rose Tremain

3.61

Transform Your Habits

The World My Wilderness

Rose Macaulay

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The Road Home

Rose Tremain

3.88

Transform Your Habits

The Van (The Barrytown Trilogy, #3)

Roddy Doyle

3.94

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20 must-read fiction books like House Woman by Adorah Nworah

Transform Your Habits

A Spell of Good Things

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Pity

Andrew McMillan

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Knock Knock, Open Wide

Neil Sharpson

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Rootless

Krystle Zara Appiah

3.83

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