Books like A Town Like Alice
12 books with a reading profile close to A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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Gone With the Wind
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Scarlett O'Hara begins as the pampered daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, but her world collapses during the American Civil War and the subsequent Reconstruction era.
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2
The Room on Rue Amelie
Also clear-cut · history, romance
The story centers on Ruby, an American woman who moves to Paris in 1939 with her French husband.
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The Robe
Also clear-cut · history, classic literature
Marcellus Gallio, a Roman tribune stationed in Palestine, participates in the execution of Jesus of Nazareth and wins the condemned man’s seamless robe in a dice game.
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The Lost Wife
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Set in pre-war Prague, the narrative follows Lenka, an art student, and Josef, a medical student, who fall in love and marry just as the German occupation begins.
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5
The Postmistress
by Sarah Blake
history, romance
Set in 1940, this story follows three women on opposite sides of the Atlantic as the Second World War intensifies.
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The Sandcastle Girls
Also clear-cut · history, romance
In 1915, Elizabeth Endicott travels from Boston to Aleppo with a relief committee to provide food and medical aid to Armenian refugees.
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Lovely War
by Julie Berry
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Set in 1917 and 1944, this historical novel uses Greek deities as narrators to chronicle two unfolding romances during World War I.
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From Sand and Ash
by Amy Harmon
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Set in 1943 Italy, the narrative follows Eva Rosselli, a Jewish woman, and Angelo Bianco, a Catholic priest, as they navigate the German occupation of Rome.
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Inés of My Soul
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Inés Suárez is a seamstress in sixteenth-century Spain, whose husband has left for the New World and not returned.
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Jamaica Inn
romance, classic literature
After her mother’s death, Mary Yellan moves to facts the bleak Cornish moors to live with her Aunt Patience at Jamaica Inn.
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The Indigo Girl
by Natasha Boyd
Also clear-cut · history, romance
In 1739, sixteen-year-old Eliza Lucas is left in charge of three South Carolina plantations while her father pursues military ambitions in Antigua.
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The Far Pavilions
by M.M. Kaye
Also clear-cut · history, romance
Set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century India and the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the story follows Ashton Pelham-Martyn.
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