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by Geraldine Brooks · about this book

Loved Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks? If its historical fiction, plague and small town hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Corrag, Hamnet and The Weight of Ink. 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 Year of Wonders: Historical Fiction · Plague · Small Town · Female Lead · First Person Narrator

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   Corrag

   Susan Fletcher

   Healer · Historical Fiction · Tragic · Faith Crisis · Character-Driven

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   Hamnet

   Maggie O'Farrell

   Healer · Historical Fiction · Tragic · Grief and Mourning · Death of a Child

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   The Weight of Ink

   Rachel Kadish

   Faith Crisis · Plague · Historical Fiction · Character-Driven · Religious Identity

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   Menewood

   Nicola Griffith

   Historical Fiction · Religious Identity · Character-Driven · Grief and Mourning · Faith Crisis

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   The Dead Don't Dance

   Charles Martin

   Faith Crisis · Death of a Child · Grief and Mourning · Religious Identity · Small Town

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   The God of Endings

   Jacqueline Holland

   Grief and Mourning · Historical Fiction · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator

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   The Great Alone

   Kristin Hannah

   Tragic · Survival Story · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Small Town

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   The Miniaturist

   Jessie Burton

   Historical Fiction · Tragic · Religious Identity · Literary Fiction · Character-Driven

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   Gone with the Wind

   Margaret Mitchell

   Death of a Child · Historical Fiction · Survival Story · Tragic · Female Lead

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    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Bronte

    Religious Identity · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven · Historical Fiction · Female Lead

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    The Seamstress

    Frances de Pontes Peebles

    Historical Fiction · Tragic · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction · Female Lead

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12. 

    Between Two Fires

    Christopher Buehlman

    Plague · Faith Crisis · Historical Fiction · Atmospheric · Dark

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    The Diary of a Young Girl

    Anne Frank

    Religious Identity · Survival Story · First Person Narrator · Tragic · Character-Driven

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    Malas

    Marcela Fuentes

    Small Town · Grief and Mourning · Character-Driven · Atmospheric · Historical Fiction

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15. 

    All the Broken Places

    John Boyne

    Historical Fiction · Tragic · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator

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16. 

    Interview with the Vampire

    Anne Rice

    Faith Crisis · Tragic · Character-Driven · Grief and Mourning · First Person Narrator

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17. 

    The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

    Stephen Graham Jones

    Historical Fiction · Faith Crisis · Religious Identity · First Person Narrator · Literary Fiction

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18. 

    The Bookbinder

    Pip Williams

    Historical Fiction · First Person Narrator · Grief and Mourning · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction

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19. 

    The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

    Robert Dugoni

    Faith Crisis · Religious Identity · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction · First Person Narrator

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    The Mirror & the Light

    Hilary Mantel

    Historical Fiction · Tragic · Religious Identity · Character-Driven · Atmospheric

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