Remarkable Creatures

6 best books like Remarkable Creatures (Tracy Chevalier): Year of Wonders, Caleb's Crossing, The Heretic's Daughter, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World, Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Year of Wonders

Author	Geraldine Brooks
ISBN	0142001430

When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the fateful year of 1666, as she and her fellow villagers confront the spread of disease and superstition....

Caleb's Crossing

Author	Geraldine Brooks
ISBN	0670021040

A richly imagined new novel from the author of the New York Times bestseller, People of the Book.

Once again, Geraldine Brooks takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard...

The Heretic's Daughter

Author	Kathleen Kent
ISBN	0316037532

Martha Carrier was one of the first women to be accused, tried and hanged as a witch in Salem, Massachusetts. Like her mother, young Sarah Carrier is bright and willful, openly challenging the small, brutal world in which they live. Often at odds with one another, mother and daughter are forced to stand...

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

Author	Helen Simonson
ISBN	1400068932

You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely...

The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

Author	Shelley Emling
ISBN	0230611567

Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the first dinosaur skeleton--of an ichthyosaur--while fossil hunting on the cliffs of Lyme Regis, England. Until Mary's incredible discovery, it was widely believed that animals did not become extinct. The child of a poor family,...

Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Author

Susan Vreeland

A professor invites a colleague from the art department to his home to view a painting he has kept secret for decades in Susan Vreeland's powerful historical novel, Girl in Hyacinth Blue. The professor swears it's a Vermeer -- but why exactly has he kept it hidden so long? The reasons unfold in a gripping...