Books like The Historian
12 books with a reading profile close to The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Escapist; a moderate read.
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by Casey Cep
history, narrative
In the 1970s, Reverend Willie Maxwell was accused of murdering five family members for insurance payouts in rural Alabama.
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
history, narrative
In 1860, the brutal murder of three-year-old Saville Kent at Road Hill House shocked mid-Victorian England.
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The Address
by Fiona Davis
history, narrative
The Address follows two women connected by the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan across different centuries.
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The Devil and the Dark Water
Also escapist · history, narrative
Set in 1634, the narrative follows the Saardam, an East India Company merchant ship traveling from Batavia to Amsterdam.
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The Familiars
by Stacey Halls
history, narrative
Set in 1612 Lancashire, the story follows noblewoman Fleetwood Shuttleworth, who is eighteen years old and pregnant for the fourth time.
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The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon
Also escapist · history, narrative
In 1789 Maine, Martha Ballard is a midwife and healer tasked with investigating a body found trapped in the Kennebec River.
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Ring Shout
Also escapist · history, horror
In 1915 Georgia, Maryse Boudreaux hunts monsters known as Ku Kluxes—demonic entities with pale tentacles and multiple eyes that hide beneath the white hoods of the Klan.
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The Silent Companions
Also escapist · horror, narrative
Newly widowed and pregnant, Elsie Bainbridge moves to the decaying country estate of the Bridge, the ancestral home of her late husband.
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Zodiac
history, narrative
Robert Graysmith provides a chronological reconstruction of the unidentified serial killer who terrorized Northern California beginning in the late 1960s.
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
history, narrative
For over a decade, a violent predator terrorized California through fifty sexual assaults and thirteen murders, vanishing without a trace.
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
history, narrative
John Berendt’s narrative follows his relocation to Savannah, Georgia, where he documents the eccentric subcultures of the city’s high society and underground circles.
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