8 best-selling historical books like Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam…

If you liked the historical plot in Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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2. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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3. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

Similar categories in Pip Williams's The Bookbinder book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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4. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

Similar categories in Anna Funder's Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • historical
  • book club
  • audiobook
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5. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Wood's Stone Yard Devotional book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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6. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Arnott's Limberlost book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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7. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Lucashenko's Edenglassie book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

Similar categories in Tony Birch's Women & Children book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
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9. Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

By: Julia Baird

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that mos… read more

Similar categories in Julia Baird's Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • australia
  • audiobook
"our bodies, our misshapen, lumpy, wobbly, birth-marked, uneven, scarred, imperfect bodies are our vessels. If only we were more gracious towards them. They won't last forever, they will eventually gr…"

-Julia Baird, Bright Shining: How Grace Changes Everything

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10. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hammer's The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3) book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • australia
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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11. The Things That Matter Most

By: Gabbie Stroud

4.44

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of… read more

Similar categories in Gabbie Stroud's The Things That Matter Most book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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12. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

Similar categories in Meg Bignell's The Angry Women's Choir book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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13. The Banksia House Breakout

By: James Roxburgh

3.79

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

When Ruth Morris is moved into Banksia House by her workaholic son Michael, she is eighty-one years… read more

Similar categories in James Roxburgh's The Banksia House Breakout book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • audiobook
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of What Happened to Nina? by Dervla McTiernan

14. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

Similar categories in Dervla McTiernan's What Happened to Nina? book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

Similar categories in Kate Mildenhall's The Hummingbird Effect book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • historical
  • australia
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. Kill Your Husbands

By: Jack Heath

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A witty, page-turning, twisty whodunit from the bestselling author of the Hangman series, perfect f… read more

Similar categories in Jack Heath's Kill Your Husbands book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Burn your bras. Kill your husbands."

-Jack Heath, Kill Your Husbands

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17. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Gray's Green Dot book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

Similar categories in Louise Milligan's Pheasants Nest book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's The Work book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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20. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree

By: Alli Parker

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more

Similar categories in Alli Parker's At the Foot of the Cherry Tree book and Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

  • historical
  • australia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook

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