Books Like Burial Rites

Loved Burial Rites by Hannah Kent? If its historical fiction, literary fiction and crime hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Atonement, Hamnet and Night Watch. 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 Burial Rites: Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Crime · Witch Hunters · Female Lead

Atonement
Ian McEwan

Wrongful Conviction · Sexual Assault · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction

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Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell

Haunting · Literary Fiction · Dual Timeline · Tragic · Historical Fiction

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Night Watch
Jayne Anne Phillips

Literary Fiction · Haunting · Historical Fiction · Sexual Assault · Rural Farm

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Corrag
Susan Fletcher

Haunting · Literary Fiction · Tragic · Historical Fiction · Slow-Paced

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The Hounding
Xenobe Purvis

Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Haunting · Rural Farm · Lyrical Prose

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We Begin at the End
Chris Whitaker

Wrongful Conviction · Crime · Rural Farm · Tragic · Literary Fiction

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The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel

Literary Fiction · Haunting · Tragic · Historical Fiction · Lyrical Prose

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Where the Crawdads Sing
Delia Owens

Sexual Assault · Dual Timeline · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction

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Tom's Crossing
Mark Z. Danielewski

Literary Fiction · Rural Farm · Historical Fiction · Haunting · Lyrical Prose

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The Seamstress
Frances de Pontes Peebles

Tragic · Literary Fiction · Rural Farm · Historical Fiction · Slow-Paced

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I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca Makkai

Wrongful Conviction · Sexual Assault · Literary Fiction · Dual Timeline · Crime

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The God of Endings
Jacqueline Holland

Haunting · Lyrical Prose · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced

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The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah

Tragic · Historical Fiction · Snow and Ice · Rural Farm · Literary Fiction

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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë

Literary Fiction · Haunting · Rural Farm · Tragic · Historical Fiction

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Lady of Avalon
Marion Zimmer Bradley, Diana L. Paxson

Island · Historical Fiction · Tragic · Slow-Paced · Lyrical Prose

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Frankenstein
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wrongful Conviction · Snow and Ice · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Tragic

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Perfume
Patrick Süskind

Haunting · Crime · Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Lyrical Prose

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Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
V E Schwab

Lyrical Prose · Historical Fiction · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced

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The Other Side of the Bridge
Mary Lawson

Literary Fiction · Rural Farm · Dual Timeline · Slow-Paced · Historical Fiction

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
Stephen Graham Jones

Haunting · Historical Fiction · Dual Timeline · Literary Fiction · Slow-Paced

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