Books like The Briar Club
12 books with a reading profile close to The Briar Club by Kate Quinn. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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The Paris Daughter
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1939 Paris, Elise Duval and Juliette Foulon are friends and mothers whose lives fracture when the German occupation begins.
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The First Ladies
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
This historical novel centers on the real-world partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune.
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Out of the Easy
by Ruta Sepetys
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set in 1950 New Orleans, the story follows Josie Moraine, the daughter of a French Quarter prostitute.
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The Spectacular
by Fiona Davis
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set in 1950s Manhattan, the narrative follows Marion Brooks, a young woman who defies her father’s expectations by auditioning for the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.
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Finding Dorothy
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
This novel follows Maud Gage Baum, the widow of L.
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set in Italy during the final years of World War II, the story follows Pino Lella, a teenager who becomes an underground operative helping Jews escape across the Alps.
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The Book of Lost Names
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1942, Eva Traube flees Paris for a mountain town near the Swiss border after the authorities arrest her father.
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Looking for Jane
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set against the backdrop of Toronto from the 1970s to the 2010s, this novel follows three women linked by a clandestine network providing illegal abortions.
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America's First Daughter
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph serves as the primary protector of Thomas Jefferson’s reputation and household throughout this narrative.
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Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Elizabeth Keckley, a formerly enslaved woman who bought her freedom through her needlework, establishes a successful business in Washington, D.C., and becomes the personal confidante and modiste to Mary Todd Lincoln.
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The Things We Cannot Say
by Kelly Rimmer
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
The story follows Alice Walsh, a mother managing her son’s autism, as she travels to Poland to uncover her dying grandmother Hanna's past.
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Refugee
by Alan Gratz
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Three children, in three different decades, are forced to flee their homes.
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