Books like The Book Thief
12 books with a reading profile close to The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Okay for Now
Also thought-provoking · history, narrative
In 1968, Doug Swieteck, a fourteen-year-old boy, moves with his family to Marysville, a small town in upstate New York.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
Also contemplative · history, narrative
In 1922, a Bolshevik tribunal sentences Count Alexander Rostov to life imprisonment within the Metropol Hotel.
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3
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Also inward-looking · history, narrative
As World War II begins, William Beech is evacuated from a London slum to the English countryside.
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4
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
by John Boyne
Also inward-looking and contemplative · history, narrative
Nine-year-old Bruno moves from Berlin to a house located next to the Auschwitz concentration camp after his father is promoted to Commandant.
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5
The Lion Women of Tehran
history, narrative
Set in mid-twentieth-century Iran, the narrative follows Homa and Ellie, two girls from disparate socioeconomic backgrounds whose lives intersect in a Tehran classroom.
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6
The Good Lord Bird
history, narrative
Henry Shackleford, an enslaved boy in Kansas Territory, survives an encounter with abolitionist John Brown by pretending to be a girl named Henrietta.
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7
Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
history, narrative
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas is seized from her Lithuanian home by the Soviet secret police.
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8
The Help
history, narrative
In 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, university graduate Skeeter Phelan returns home and finds herself at odds with the rigid social hierarchy of her white peers.
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9
Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
history, narrative
In early 1945, the Soviet army advances through East Prussia, forcing thousands of refugees toward the Baltic coast.
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10
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
by Lisa See
history, narrative
In fifteenth-century China, Tan Yunxian is raised by her physician grandparents to practice medicine, a rare privilege for a woman of the Ming Dynasty.
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The Kitchen House
history, narrative
Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan, arrives at a Virginia tobacco plantation in 1791 as an indentured servant.
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Bin Muhteşem Güneş
Also inward-looking and contemplative · history, narrative
Mariam and Laila are two women from different generations and social backgrounds whose lives collide in Kabul during decades of political upheaval.
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