18 Top adult books like The Familiars by Stacey Halls

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The Familiars

By: Stacey Halls

3.88

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h…

"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Respect is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

If you liked the adult plot in The Familiars by Stacey Halls , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. La Femme indépendante: Extraits du Deuxième Sexe

By: Simone de Beauvoir

3.97

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

" La femme a toujours ete, sinon l'esclave de l'homme, du moins sa vassale ; les deux sexes ne se s… read more

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2. The Silent Companions

By: Laura Purcell

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country e… read more

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3. The Muse

By: Jessie Burton

4.00

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller A picture hides a thousand words . . . On a hot July day in … read more

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4. The Miniaturist

By: Jessie Burton

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam--a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion--a … read more

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5. The Witchfinder's Sister

By: Beth Underdown

3.45

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Essex, England, 1645. With a heavy heart, Alice Hopkins returns to the small town she grew up in. W… read more

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6. The Dance Tree

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a s… read more

Similar categories in Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Dance Tree book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. The Familiars

By: Stacey Halls

3.88

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies h… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Familiars book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • gothic
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
"Respect is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Loyalty is earned, not demanded."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Si el diablo es pobreza, hambre y dolor, entonces sí, creo que lo conocen."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

"Egy leánygyermek élete ugyanaz, mint egy feleségé – épp csak egy másik férfi mondja meg, mit csinálj."

-Stacey Halls, The Familiars

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9. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The Maiden book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Last Witch of Scotland

By: Philip Paris

3.95

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Being a woman was her only crime. Scottish Highlands, 1727. In the aftermath of a tragic fire… read more

Similar categories in Philip Paris's The Last Witch of Scotland book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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11. Wakenhyrst

By: Michelle Paver

3.87

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wa… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Paver's Wakenhyrst book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
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12. Weyward

By: Emilia Hart

4.07

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackl… read more

Similar categories in Emilia Hart's Weyward book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • witches
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • audiobook
" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

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13. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

By: Jessie Burton

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Burton's The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2) book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."

-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)

Cover of The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

14. The Mercies

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

4.01

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village s… read more

Similar categories in Kiran Millwood Hargrave's The Mercies book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Handsome man, as these Scots often seem to be…"

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"It is written, and once written, things aren’t easily forgotten."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"…she isn’t sure a life spent here is worthy of the label of living."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

"This is your land?' 'No.' The girl's tone was firm as her gaze. 'We only lived here."

-Kiran Millwood Hargrave, The Mercies

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15. The Keeper of Stories

By: Sally Page

4.08

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard … read more

Similar categories in Sally Page's The Keeper of Stories book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on a…"

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

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16. Once Upon a River

By: Diane Setterfield

3.95

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes pla… read more

Similar categories in Diane Setterfield's Once Upon a River book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There must be more to stories than you think."

-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

"A curtain was drawn back in every man's inner theater and their storytelling minds got to work."

-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

"They think I am concealing my ugliness from them, when in truth it is their ugliness I am hiding."

-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

"A child is not an empty vessel.... to be formed in whatever way the parent thinks fit. They are born with their own hearts and they cannot be made otherwise, no matter what love a man lavishes on the…"

-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River

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17. The Doll Factory

By: Elizabeth Macneal

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Macneal's The Doll Factory book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"You have everything you want! You cleave to your principles, and you are a man with the advantage of station! This - this interaction with me - it doesn't degrade you. In the eyes of the world, it ma…"

-Elizabeth Macneal, The Doll Factory

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18. The Binding

By: Bridget Collins

3.86

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Books are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Bridget Collins's The Binding book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Memories,"

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"I ran through air that held me back."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"We make books - we make beautiful books - out of love."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

"the fear with elderly characters is the high likelihood of their death..."

-Bridget Collins, The Binding

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19. Lily

By: Rose Tremain

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter's … read more

Similar categories in Rose Tremain's Lily book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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20. The Lost Bookshop

By: Evie Woods

4.09

Format: 448 pages, ebook

The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of myster… read more

Similar categories in Evie Woods's The Lost Bookshop book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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21. The Leviathan

By: Rosie Andrews

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

She is awake... Norfolk, 1643. With civil war tearing England apart, reluctant soldier Thomas Tr… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Andrews's The Leviathan book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Before leaving, I stopped to drip some water into my father’s mouth. I took one unresponsive hand in mine, willing him to understand. ‘A day, no more, and we will return with help for you. My oath up…"

-Rosie Andrews, The Leviathan

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22. The Whispering Muse

By: Laura Purcell

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of obsession, superstition and ambit… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Whispering Muse book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Witches of Vardø by Anya Bergman

23. The Witches of Vardø

By: Anya Bergman

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Norway, 1662. A dangerous time to be a woman, when even dancing can lead to accusations of witchcra… read more

Similar categories in Anya Bergman's The Witches of Vardø book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Confession by Jessie Burton

24. The Confession

By: Jessie Burton

3.91

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

One winter's afternoon on Hampstead Heath in 1980, Elise Morceau meets Constance Holden and quickly… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Burton's The Confession book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"[...] And women are always like that.' 'What do you mean?' 'Well, all the women I know who've left long-term relationships in their thirties checked out of it long before they actually did. They went…"

-Jessie Burton, The Confession

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25. The Glass House

By: Eve Chase

3.98

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

Outside a remote manor house in an idyllic wood, a baby girl is found. The Harrington family tak… read more

Similar categories in Eve Chase's The Glass House book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

"Don't worry what other people think, be who you want to be."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

"Families can also be formed without blood ties. Good things really can happen."

-Eve Chase, The Glass House

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26. The Corset

By: Laura Purcell

4.15

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

Is prisoner Ruth Butterham mad or a murderer? Victim or villain? Dorothea and Ruth. Prison visit… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's The Corset book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Notoriety is by no means a death sentence in the world of art."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"Grief is a violent emotion, a sort of acid that eats away at the best parts of us."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"You'll call me heartless for thinking such thoughts. Maybe I was: a cavity yawned in my ribs, where once I'd felt a heart beat back."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

"I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, miss. Charitable people like yourself saved my life. But I wish they’d thought a bit more about what I was to do with it, once it was safe."

-Laura Purcell, The Corset

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27. Bone China

By: Laura Purcell

3.65

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken… read more

Similar categories in Laura Purcell's Bone China book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • gothic
  • british literature
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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28. The Asylum

By: Karen Coles

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

1906: Being a woman is dangerous, being different is deadly. Maud Lovell has been at Angelton Lu… read more

Similar categories in Karen Coles's The Asylum book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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29. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Macneal's The Burial Plot book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Revels by Stacey  Thomas

30. The Revels

By: Stacey Thomas

3.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set and the witch-hunt is about to begin… ‘I am no witch. I have not sold my soul t… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Thomas's The Revels book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • gothic
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • witches
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Blue Hawk by Chloe Turner

31. Blue Hawk

By: Chloe Turner

4.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

17th century Gloucestershire. Joan, the daughter of a millworker with drink-fuelled pipe dreams, is… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Turner's Blue Hawk book and Stacey Halls's The Familiars

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

26 must-read fiction books like The Familiars by Stacey Halls

Transform Your Habits

The Dance Tree

Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.90

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The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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The Familiars

Stacey Halls

3.88

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The Maiden

Kate Foster

4.05

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20 must-read fiction books like The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal

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The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

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Moonstone

Laura Purcell

3.38

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The Burial Plot

Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

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The Book of Secrets

Anna Mazzola

4.26

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