Books like The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
12 books with a reading profile close to The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. Inward-looking, contemplative, clear-cut and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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1
Good Night, Mr. Tom
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
As World War II begins, William Beech is evacuated from a London slum to the English countryside.
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2
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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3
Between Shades of Gray
by Ruta Sepetys
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina Vilkas is seized from her Lithuanian home by the Soviet secret police.
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4
The Book Thief
by Markus Zusak
Also inward-looking and contemplative · history, narrative
In 1939 Nazi Germany, Death narrates the life of Liesel Meminger, a young girl living with foster parents on Himmel Street.
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The Help
Also clear-cut · 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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6
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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7
Salt to the Sea
by Ruta Sepetys
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In early 1945, the Soviet army advances through East Prussia, forcing thousands of refugees toward the Baltic coast.
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8
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
by Lisa See
Also clear-cut · 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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9
The Kitchen House
Also clear-cut · 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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10
Winter Garden
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Meredith and Nina Whitson are sisters who share a strained relationship with their cold, detached Russian mother, Anya.
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The Nightingale
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Set in German-occupied France during World War II, the narrative follows two sisters, Vianne Mauriac and Isabelle Rossignol, as they navigate divergent paths of survival and defiance.
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12
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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