15 Top historical books like The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

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The End of Drum-Time

By: Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder…

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Cover of The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

1. The End of Drum-Time

By: Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder… read more

Similar categories in Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • 19th century
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • sweden
  • scandinavian literature
  • audiobook
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2. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Anne Phillips's Night Watch book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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4. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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5. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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7. This Other Eden

By: Paul Harding

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden te… read more

Similar categories in Paul Harding's This Other Eden book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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9. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

Similar categories in Maylis de Kerangal's Eastbound book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

Similar categories in Paul Murray's The Bee Sting book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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11. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Absolution book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

Similar categories in Zadie Smith's The Fraud book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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14. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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15. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

Similar categories in Justin Torres's Blackouts book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Morningside

By: Téa Obreht

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the critically beloved, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife and Inland, a ma… read more

Similar categories in Téa Obreht's The Morningside book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Temple Folk

By: Aaliyah Bilal

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with … read more

Similar categories in Aaliyah Bilal's Temple Folk book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. A Council of Dolls

By: Mona Susan Power

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more

Similar categories in Mona Susan Power's A Council of Dolls book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

Cover of Holler, Child: Stories by LaToya Watkins

20. Holler, Child: Stories

By: LaToya Watkins

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forg… read more

Similar categories in LaToya Watkins's Holler, Child: Stories book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Loot

By: Tania James

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more

Similar categories in Tania James's Loot book and Hanna Pylväinen's The End of Drum-Time

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."

-Tania James, Loot

21 must-read literary fiction books like The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen

Transform Your Habits

The End of Drum-Time

Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

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17 Best fiction books like Holler, Child: Stories by LaToya Watkins

Transform Your Habits

The End of Drum-Time

Hanna Pylväinen

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Night Watch

Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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