8 Best historical books like Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie

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Songs in Ursa Major

By: Emma Brodie

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1969, and the Bayleen Island Folk Fest is abuzz with one name: Jesse Reid. Tall and sof…

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1. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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2. Funny Story

By: Emily Henry

4.27

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

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3. Romantic Comedy

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

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4. Songs in Ursa Major

By: Emma Brodie

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1969, and the Bayleen Island Folk Fest is abuzz with one name: Jesse Reid. Tall and sof… read more

Similar categories in Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • music
  • historical
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. This Summer Will Be Different

By: Carley Fortune

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won’t give into temptation. This summer wi… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's This Summer Will Be Different book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,"

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've waited so long for this. You feel so fucking right."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've been burned in the past, which you know. I rebuilt my life once. I can't rebuild it again. I make sure I get things right at the first time. Going slow is good for me, too."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

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6. Talking at Night

By: Claire Daverley

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he … read more

Similar categories in Claire Daverley's Talking at Night book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Good Material

By: Dolly Alderton

3.91

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

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8. Cleopatra and Frankenstein

By: Coco Mellors

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Cleopatra and Frankenstein book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And you’re in love?"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"People are like this too, you know,"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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9. California Golden

By: Melanie Benjamin

3.57

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters navigate the turbulent, euphoric early days of California surf culture in this dazzling… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Benjamin's California Golden book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Mary Jane

By: Jessica Anya Blau

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In 1970s Baltimore, fourteen-year-old Mary Jane loves cooking with her mother, singing in her churc… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Anya Blau's Mary Jane book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • music
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But there I was, in Roland Park, and a big, heavy shattered-glass storm had landed."

-Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane

"Feelings were splattered around the household with the intensity of a spraying fire hose."

-Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane

"No one on this Earth would pay five cents to see my talents if I didn't look the way I do."

-Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane

"It had never before occurred to me that sometimes dishes weren't just dishes, that things could represent ideas in more powerful ways than the ideas themselves."

-Jessica Anya Blau, Mary Jane

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11. Once More with Feeling

By: Elissa Sussman

3.56

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Then. Katee Rose is living the dream as America's number one pop star, caught in a whirlwind of sol… read more

Similar categories in Elissa Sussman's Once More with Feeling book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • music
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Lady Sunshine

By: Amy Mason Doan

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

ONE ICONIC FAMILY. ONE SUMMER OF SECRETS. THE DAZZLING SPIRIT OF 1970S CALIFORNIA. For Jackie Pi… read more

Similar categories in Amy Mason Doan's Lady Sunshine book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • music
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Groupies

By: Sarah Priscus

3.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In a debut perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six, Mary Jane, and The Final Revival of Opal & Ne… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Priscus's Groupies book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • music
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Desire's not deviant. It's human nature."

-Sarah Priscus, Groupies

"If I didn’t do this one thing, I’d never do anything at all."

-Sarah Priscus, Groupies

"We needed something to nurture, and they needed nurturing. Constant attention made you need it even more. The band never learned to be alone and neither did we. But if they were starved for attention…"

-Sarah Priscus, Groupies

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14. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

By: Dawnie Walton

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying novel about the meteoric rise of an iconic interracial rock duo in the 1970s, their… read more

Similar categories in Dawnie Walton's The Final Revival of Opal & Nev book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • music
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Disclosure: My father, a drummer named Jimmy Curtis, fell in love with Opal Jewel in the summer of 1970."

-Dawnie Walton, The Final Revival of Opal & Nev

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15. The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers

By: Sarah Tomlinson

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six and Almost Famous , a gripping debut about the complicate… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Tomlinson's The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • music
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Daydreams

By: Laura Hankin

3.59

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously entertaining novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s—and th… read more

Similar categories in Laura Hankin's The Daydreams book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • music
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There are certain feelings you don’t believe are real until you feel them yourself. Take anger so strong that you could kill someone. You cannot wrap your head around how a person could get to that p…"

-Laura Hankin, The Daydreams

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17. Funny You Should Ask

By: Elissa Sussman

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Then. Twentysomething writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former MFA classmates are nabbing b… read more

Similar categories in Elissa Sussman's Funny You Should Ask book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Glad I can trust the two of you with steak knives. Let's eat."

-Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

"It's almost like I'm coming home. Not to a place, necessarily, but to a feeling. To a possibility of more."

-Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

"He laughed. It was a great laugh, all low and dark and rich. If chocolate cake had a laugh, it would be like that."

-Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

"Thank you to my parents for taking me to the library whenever I needed to refresh my stacks of paperback romances."

-Elissa Sussman, Funny You Should Ask

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18. Carrie Soto Is Back

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"They can't make us go away just because they are done with us."

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

"My dad and I. Always together. Our little team of two. Proud coach and star student."

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

"Grief is like a deep, dark hole. It calls like a siren: Come to me, lose yourself here. And you fight it and you fight it and you fight it, but when you finally do succumb and jump down into it, you …"

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

"It was okay to win as long as I acted surprised when I did and attributed it to luck. I should never let on how much I wanted to win or, worse, that I believed I deserved to win. And I should never, …"

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

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19. The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

By: Elissa R. Sloan

3.47

Format: 448 pages, ebook

In vein of Daisy Jones & The Six and Everything I Never Told You, this debut novel probes the dark … read more

Similar categories in Elissa R. Sloan's The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • music
  • adult fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Listen, Cassidy."

-Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

"But we’re also friends, right?"

-Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

"Just bring that sass, Miss Cass."

-Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

"One day he’ll wake up and realize you don’t love him in that way."

-Elissa R. Sloan, The Unraveling of Cassidy Holmes

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20. The View Was Exhausting

By: Mikaella Clements

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Faking a love story is a whole lot easier than being in love . . . The world can see that intern… read more

Similar categories in Mikaella Clements's The View Was Exhausting book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Leo stood close behind her. “You want to do the Titanic thing?"

-Mikaella Clements, The View Was Exhausting

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21. A Language of Dragons

By: S.F. Williamson

4.35

Format: 470 pages, Kindle Edition

The most exciting debut of 2025 – an incredible fantasy Dark Academia, perfect for fans of Babel, F… read more

Similar categories in S.F. Williamson's A Language of Dragons book and Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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