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Books Like The Blind Assassin

by Margaret Atwood · about this book

Loved The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood? If its literary fiction, female lead and writer protagonist hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Atonement, The Seamstress and The God of the Woods. 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 The Blind Assassin: Literary Fiction · Female Lead · Writer Protagonist · Multiple Timelines · Frame Story

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   Atonement

   Ian McEwan

   Writer Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Frame Story · Unreliable Narrator · Classism

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   The Seamstress

   Frances de Pontes Peebles

   Sisters · Classism · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Feminism

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   The God of the Woods

   Liz Moore

   Nonlinear Narrative · Classism · Family Secrets · Literary Fiction · Multiple POV

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   The Miniaturist

   Jessie Burton

   Tragic · Family Secrets · Wealthy Families · Feminism · Sisters

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5. 

   Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

   V E Schwab

   Multiple Timelines · Nonlinear Narrative · Feminism · Historical Fiction · Multiple POV

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6. 

   The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

   Taylor Jenkins Reid

   Frame Story · Writer Protagonist · Family Secrets · Twisty · Feminism

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7. 

   Jane Eyre

   Charlotte Bronte

   Classism · Secret Past · Literary Fiction · Family Secrets · Feminism

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8. 

   All the Broken Places

   John Boyne

   Tragic · Family Secrets · Secret Past · Literary Fiction · Unreliable Narrator

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9. 

   The Great Gatsby

   F. Scott Fitzgerald

   Classism · Literary Fiction · Unreliable Narrator · Secret Past · Tragic

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10. 

    The Weight of Ink

    Rachel Kadish

    Writer Protagonist · Literary Fiction · Feminism · Secret Past · Historical Fiction

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11. 

    The Echo of Old Books

    Barbara Davis

    Writer Protagonist · Family Secrets · Tragic · Secret Past · Historical Fiction

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12. 

    The Bewitching

    Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    Multiple Timelines · Historical Fiction · Family Secrets · Feminism · Multiple POV

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13. 

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë

    Frame Story · Classism · Literary Fiction · Unreliable Narrator · Tragic

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14. 

    The Bone Clocks

    David Mitchell

    Multiple Timelines · Literary Fiction · Death of a Sibling · Multiple POV · Writer Protagonist

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15. 

    The God of Endings

    Jacqueline Holland

    Multiple Timelines · Death of a Sibling · Secret Past · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction

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16. 

    Anna Karenina

    Leo Tolstoy

    Literary Fiction · Classism · Tragic · Wealthy Families · Multiple POV

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17. 

    Cloud Cuckoo Land

    Anthony Doerr

    Multiple Timelines · Nonlinear Narrative · Literary Fiction · Frame Story · Multiple POV

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18. 

    House of Leaves

    Mark Z. Danielewski

    Frame Story · Nonlinear Narrative · Literary Fiction · Unreliable Narrator · Twisty

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19. 

    The Shadow Sister

    Lucinda Riley

    Family Secrets · Sisters · Wealthy Families · Historical Fiction · Writer Protagonist

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20. 

    The Nightingale

    Kristin Hannah

    Sisters · Tragic · Multiple POV · Female Lead · Historical Fiction

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