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…
Want to Read $ 13.99"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 them."-Diane Setterfield, Once Upon a River
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1. 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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2. The Essex Serpent
By: Sarah Perry
3.64
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890's, and enlivened by the debates on scienti… read more
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3. Homecoming
By: Kate Morton
4.07
Format: 547 pages, Hardcover
Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the groun… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"Stress can make even the most loving mother lose control."-Kate Morton, Homecoming
"What is the truth anyway?" Jess had once been asked by a curious friend. "It's what happened." "According to whom?"-Kate Morton, Homecoming
"There's other ways to travel." She was right. He had books, and there was no barrier to the places he could visit in his own mind."-Kate Morton, Homecoming
"Bad things happen to the best of people, and we cannot let them overwhelm us. Life doesn’t always work out the way we plan, but it does work out in the end."-Kate Morton, Homecoming
4. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
5. Go as a River
By: Shelley Read
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Women endure. That’s what we do."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"-Shelley Read, Go as a River
6. 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
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- 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
7. The Covenant of Water
By: Abraham Verghese
4.45
Format: 724 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
8. 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
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- audiobook
9. 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
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- 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
10. 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
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
11. The Household
By: Stacey Halls
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more
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- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
12. The Marriage Portrait
By: Maggie O'Farrell
4.01
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. The author of award-winning Hamnet… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- audiobook
"May I keep this?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"The animal was orange, burnished gold, fire made flesh; she was power and anger, she was vicious and exquisite;"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
"Is it possible for a woman to be so unsettled in spirit that a child will have no hope of taking root within her?"-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait
13. 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
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- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- 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
14. Mrs England
By: Stacey Halls
3.91
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the chi… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- audiobook
"I wondered if there was a word for homesickness not for a place but for people."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"The room was so quiet I could hear my heart breaking, and it sounded like a daisy snapping at the stem."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"sometimes,' I said, 'When people we love die, we have all sorts of thoughts to try to cope with it better. We try to imagine their last hours and what we might have done differently."-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
"It made my spirits low, and when your spirits are low it's hard to see the point in anything. Nobody understood how I suffered. Everybody told me I was lucky to be alive, that it was a miracle. They …"-Stacey Halls, Mrs England
15. The Snow Child
By: Eowyn Ivey
4.00
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel.… read more
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- literary fiction
- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"A boy trying out a man's language."-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"Why was it always the woman's fate to pace and fret and wait?"-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?"-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
"It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her."-Eowyn Ivey, The Snow Child
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
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Diane Setterfield's Once Upon a River book and Diane Setterfield's Once Upon a River
- literary fiction
- magical realism
- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- 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
17. The Foundling
By: Stacey Halls
3.99
Format: 400 pages, ebook
London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hosp… read more
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- british literature
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- adult
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Waarom moesten we de kaarten die ons waren toebedeeld, klakkeloos accepteren?"-Stacey Halls, The Foundling
"Mijn wereld was gekrompen tot de grootte van een walnoot. En toen was Daniel naar een van tante Cassandra's feestjes gekomen en had hij de noot gekraakt."-Stacey Halls, The Foundling
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
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- magical realism
- 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
19. 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
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- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- mystery
- fantasy
- audiobook
20. The Ten Thousand Doors of January
By: Alix E. Harrow
4.03
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As t… read more
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- magical realism
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- fantasy
- audiobook
"Books are Doors and I wanted out."-Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
"Sometimes pain is too unavoidable, too necessary to feel."-Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
"Every story is a love story if you catch it at the right moment"-Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
"It isn’t pain or suffering that unmakes a person; it’s only time."-Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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21. The Thirteenth Tale [13TH TALE] [Paperback]
By: DianeSetterfield
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
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