Books like The Last Year of the War
12 books with a reading profile close to The Last Year of the War by Susan Meissner. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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The Atomic City Girls
by Janet Beard
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1943, the Army transforms Oak Ridge, Tennessee, into a secret city of thousands of workers building the weapon that will end the war, though almost none of them know what they are making.
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Ten Days in a Mad-House
by Nellie Bly
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1887, journalist Nellie Bly feigned insanity to secure a commitment to the Women’s Medical College on Blackwell’s Island.
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3
The Women of Chateau Lafayette
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
This novel follows the history of the Chateau de Chavaniac, the birthplace of the Marquis de Lafayette, across three distinct centuries.
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4
Whistling Past the Graveyard
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1963 Mississippi, nine-year-old Starla Caudill, a spirited girl with a hard home life, runs away.
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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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The Lost Wife
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
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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The Personal Librarian
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In the early twentieth century, Belle da Costa Greene serves as the personal librarian to financier J.P.
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Glory Over Everything: Beyond The Kitchen House
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1830s Philadelphia, James Pyke lives as a wealthy white gentleman, concealing his identity as the son of a black runaway from the Pyke plantation.
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9
White Chrysanthemum
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Hana lives in a Korean fishing village during the Japanese occupation in 1943, where she is a young woman who dives for a living.
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Sarah's Key
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In July 1942, ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski hides her younger brother in a bedroom cupboard to protect him from the French police during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup.
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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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12
The Book of Lost Friends
by Lisa Wingate
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
The narrative follows dual timelines centered around the real-life "Lost Friends" advertisements placed by formerly enslaved people searching for displaced family members after the American Civil War.
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