Historical fiction · Similar reads
Books like The Giver of Stars
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes is about female solidarity, books and literacy as liberation, depression-era appalachia. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Bel Canto
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Ann Patchett · Literary fiction
Bel Canto opens at a birthday party in an unnamed South American country: a Japanese industrialist, Hosokawa, is celebrating in the private residence of the country's vice president, the sole attraction being a performance by his favorite soprano, Roxane Coss.
Read the summary → - The Alice Network
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Kate Quinn · Historical fiction
The Alice Network alternates between two timelines and two women.
Read the summary → - The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck · Literary fiction
The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's 1939 novel about the Joad family, Oklahoma sharecroppers forced off their land by the Dust Bowl and bank foreclosure, who load everything they own onto a truck and drive Route 66 to California in search of work and a decent life.
Read the summary → - The Diary of a Young Girl
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Anne Frank · Memoir
Anne Frank's diary, kept during the two years she spent hiding with her family in a concealed Amsterdam apartment, stands as one of the most widely read first-person accounts of the Holocaust.
Read the summary → - A Gentleman in Moscow
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Amor Towles · Historical fiction
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced by a Bolshevik tribunal — not to death, but to permanent house arrest in Moscow's Metropol Hotel.
Read the summary → - A Tale of Two Cities
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Charles Dickens · Historical fiction
A Tale of Two Cities is set against the French Revolution and follows three intertwined characters: Charles Darnay, a French aristocrat who has renounced his title and family legacy; Lucie Manette, the daughter of a man who spent eighteen years imprisoned in the Bastille; and Sydney Carton, a dissolute English lawyer who loves Lucie without hope and knows he will never be the man Darnay already is.
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