8 Best historical fiction books like Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh

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Mercy Street

By: Jennifer Haigh

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a…

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Swimmers

By: Julie Otsuka

3.67

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de… read more

Similar categories in Julie Otsuka's The Swimmers book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

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2. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Mercy Street

By: Jennifer Haigh

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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5. The Latecomer

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more

Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Lucy by the Sea

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Lucy by the Sea book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Tracy Flick Can't Win

By: Tom Perrotta

3.64

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon “Tom Perrotta is…one of the great w… read more

Similar categories in Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But it wasn't really about her looks; there was just this current running between us, a really strong connection. Her absence always felt abrupt and unfair when we parted at the end of the day, like …"

-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

"I try not to think too much about those days now - let the past be past. The truth is, we're all prisoners of our historical context. Anybody who says morality is absolute, that right and wrong don't…"

-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

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8. 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 Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cunningham's Day book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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10. 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 Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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11. French Braid

By: Anne Tyler

3.64

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey dee… read more

Similar categories in Anne Tyler's French Braid book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Ocean State

By: Stewart O'Nan

3.44

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O'Nan's latest is a crushing, beautifully wr… read more

Similar categories in Stewart O'Nan's Ocean State book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Candy House

By: Jennifer Egan

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most dazzling and iconic writers of our time and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, an e… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Egan's The Candy House book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A new remote and unfamiliar place can make the prior remote and unfamiliar place seem like home."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Mysteries that are destroyed by measurement were never truly mysterious; only our ignorance made them seem so."

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

"Nothing is free! Only children expect otherwise even as myths and fairy tales warn us: Rumpelstiltskin, King Midas, Handsel and Gretel. Never trust a candy house! It was only a matter of time before …"

-Jennifer Egan, The Candy House

Cover of Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang

14. Joan Is Okay

By: Weike Wang

3.67

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be… read more

Similar categories in Weike Wang's Joan Is Okay book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wasn't a genius in the end, but a girl could still hope."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"A woman who twirls her hair while speaking is a woman never to be taken seriously"

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"The average Joe in America is expected to move 11.3 times in his life. Who knows about Average Jane."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

"Proud to be an American, a feeling that I lacked but also a phrase that I didn't think applied to me."

-Weike Wang, Joan Is Okay

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15. Svetimkūniai

By: Patricija Tilvikaitė

4.14

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Meda jaučiasi pati save įkalinusi prestižinio darbo gniaužtuose. Ją į neviltį varo vidinis kritikas… read more

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16. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Our Missing Hearts

By: Celeste Ng

3.80

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

A novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gard… read more

Similar categories in Celeste Ng's Our Missing Hearts book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Succulents would grow anew from a broken-off leaf, pushing roots out into the air, then down into the soil: a piece of its own body, transformed into its child."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Evidence of his mother, out there, elsewhere, so worried about somebody else's children though she'd left her own behind. The irony of it leached into his veins."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"And we need their generosity to keep this place open. Or, just as likely, someone got nervous and got rid of it preemptively. Us public libraries--a lot of us just can't take the risk."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

Cover of Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane

18. Small Mercies

By: Dennis Lehane

4.29

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Lehane's Small Mercies book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. Fellowship Point

By: Alice Elliott Dark

4.07

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more

Similar categories in Alice Elliott Dark's Fellowship Point book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"

-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point

Cover of Marrying the Ketchups by Jennifer Close

20. Marrying the Ketchups

By: Jennifer Close

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the de… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Close's Marrying the Ketchups book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A reminder of how many people there were in the world. A reminder that sometimes the right person shows up just when you need him to."

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Gretchen walked by and saw Kendall and another waitress dipping fries in Armando's garlic aioli and shoveling them into their mouths. This was the number-one hangover food for the staff at Sullivan's…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Mistakes were made all over the place, all around her, all the time, and she couldn't live her whole life with the sole purpose of not messing up. She didn't know if it would be a mistake or not, she…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Along with the regular brunch selections of eggs Benedict and Belgian waffles, they planned to serve individual portions of Poof in custard dishes. They also had a whole section for different kinds o…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

Cover of Groundskeeping by Lee Cole

21. Groundskeeping

By: Lee Cole

3.57

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

In the run-up to the 2016 election, Owen Callahan, an aspiring writer, moves back to Kentucky to li… read more

Similar categories in Lee Cole's Groundskeeping book and Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Complication makes life interesting."

-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping

"You know how doctors are, he said. Could be weeks, could be months. They say it’s not an exact science. I’m like, “What are we paying you for then? Isn’t medicine an exact science?"

-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping

"Love is simple, she said. That’s my advice to both of you, not that you’re asking for it….People try to make it complicated , but it’s very simple, she said. You’ll realize that when you’re dying."

-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping

"We both laughed. I felt the competing desires, as I often did when meeting someone new, to know everything at once and to save it all for later. It was like the feeling one has reading a good book, t…"

-Lee Cole, Groundskeeping

20 must-read fiction books like Mercy Street by Jennifer Haigh

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Julie Otsuka

3.67

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Jennifer Haigh

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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

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The Swimmers

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3.67

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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Ann Patchett

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Elaine Hsieh Chou

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