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by Margaret Atwood · about this book

Loved Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood? If its historical fiction, female lead and victorian era hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Jane Eyre, Night Watch and The Mad Wife. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Alias Grace: Historical Fiction · Female Lead · Victorian Era · Unreliable Narrator · Literary Fiction

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   Jane Eyre

   Charlotte Bronte

   Victorian Era · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Atmospheric · Female Lead

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   Night Watch

   Jayne Anne Phillips

   Asylum · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Atmospheric · Female Lead

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   The Mad Wife

   Meagan Church

   Historical Fiction · Unreliable Narrator · Literary Fiction · Atmospheric · Female Lead

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   Wuthering Heights

   Emily Brontë

   Unreliable Narrator · Victorian Era · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Atmospheric

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   There Are Rivers in the Sky

   Elif Shafak

   Victorian Era · Historical Fiction · Atmospheric · Literary Fiction · Female Lead

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   The Seamstress

   Frances de Pontes Peebles

   Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Atmospheric · Female Lead · Dark

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   Plain Bad Heroines

   Emily M. Danforth

   Historical Fiction · Unreliable Narrator · Literary Fiction · Atmospheric · Female Lead

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   The Weight of Ink

   Rachel Kadish

   Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Atmospheric · Female Lead · Immigrant Protagonist

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9. 

   The Turn of the Key

   Ruth Ware

   Unreliable Narrator · Atmospheric · Female Lead · Dark · Wrongful Conviction

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    The Miniaturist

    Jessie Burton

    Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Atmospheric · Female Lead · Dark

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11. 

    The House on Vesper Sands (Inspector Cutter Mystery, An)

    Paraic O'Donnell

    Victorian Era · Historical Fiction · Atmospheric · Dark · Female Lead

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12. 

    Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

    V E Schwab

    Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Atmospheric · Female Lead · Dark

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13. 

    The God of the Woods

    Liz Moore

    Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Atmospheric · Female Lead · Dark

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14. 

    Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

    Laura Ruby

    Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Atmospheric · Female Lead · Working-Class Protagonist

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15. 

    The Hounding

    Xenobe Purvis

    Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Atmospheric · Dark · Female Lead

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16. 

    Atonement

    Ian McEwan

    Unreliable Narrator · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Classism · Wrongful Conviction

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17. 

    A Dangerous Collaboration

    Deanna Raybourn

    Victorian Era · Historical Fiction · Atmospheric · Female Lead · Feminism

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18. 

    Bringing Down the Duke

    Evie Dunmore

    Victorian Era · Historical Fiction · Female Lead · Working-Class Protagonist · Classism

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19. 

    The Bewitching

    Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    Historical Fiction · Atmospheric · Female Lead · Literary Fiction · Dark

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    Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

    R.F. Kuang

    Victorian Era · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Dark · Immigrant Protagonist

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