7 must-read novels books like The Road from Belhaven by Margot Livesey

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The Road from Belhaven

By: Margot Livesey

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom…

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1. 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 Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. Last House

By: Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Shattuck's Last House book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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4. Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more

Similar categories in Roxana Robinson's Leaving book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

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5. The Road from Belhaven

By: Margot Livesey

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more

Similar categories in Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

6. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

8. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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9. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

Similar categories in Simon Van Booy's Sipsworth book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Lucky

By: Jane Smiley

3.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more

Similar categories in Jane Smiley's Lucky book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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11. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth O'Connor's Whale Fall book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • novels
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud

14. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

Similar categories in Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

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15. The Limits

By: Nell Freudenberger

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost a… read more

Similar categories in Nell Freudenberger's The Limits book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson

16. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

By: Helen Simonson

3.96

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about… read more

Similar categories in Helen Simonson's The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. The Stolen Child

By: Ann Hood

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child’s fate in this mo… read more

Similar categories in Ann Hood's The Stolen Child book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bear by Julia  Phillips

18. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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19. Followed by the Lark

By: Helen Humphreys

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A novel as wise as it is tender, a meditation on the miracle of friendship and the heartbreak of ch… read more

Similar categories in Helen Humphreys's Followed by the Lark book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Held by Anne   Michaels

20. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaels's Held book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Cover of The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier

21. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Chevalier's The Glassmaker book and Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven

  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

21 Top fiction books like The Road from Belhaven by Margot Livesey

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Last House

Jessica Shattuck

3.64

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James

Percival Everett

4.54

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Leaving

Roxana Robinson

3.87

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Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

Colm Tóibín

3.82

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Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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