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Books like The Women
The best books like The Women are The Nightingale, The Things They Carried, and Beloved. The Women by Kristin Hannah is about women and war, invisible service, trauma and homecoming. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah · Historical fiction
France, 1939-1944.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Things They Carried
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Tim O'Brien · Memoir
Tim O'Brien served as a foot soldier in Vietnam in 1969 and 1970.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - Beloved
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Toni Morrison · Literary fiction
Beloved is set in post-Civil War Ohio, where Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, lives with her daughter Denver in a house shadowed by the ghost of a baby she killed rather than let be taken back into slavery.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Great Alone
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Kristin Hannah · Contemporary fiction
In 1974, Ernt Allbright brings his wife Cora and teenage daughter Leni to the Alaskan wilderness.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - Little Fires Everywhere
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Celeste Ng · Contemporary fiction
In Shaker Heights, Ohio — a meticulously planned, deliberately integrated suburb — two families collide.
A kindred historical fiction read.
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.
A kindred historical fiction read.
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.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini · Historical fiction
A Thousand Splendid Suns follows two Afghan women across nearly forty years of their country's turbulence: Mariam, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy merchant who is married off at fifteen to a much older man in Kabul, and Laila, a young woman from a different generation whose family is destroyed in a rocket strike during the civil war and who is subsequently forced into the same household.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - Alias Grace
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Margaret Atwood · Historical fiction
Alias Grace is based on the historical case of Grace Marks, a young Irish immigrant servant who was convicted in 1843, along with stable hand James McDermott, of the murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper Nancy Montgomery in Upper Canada.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr · Historical fiction
All the Light We Cannot See follows two children through the Second World War on a collision course neither can see coming.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - Babel
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R.F. Kuang · Historical fiction
Set in an alternate 1830s Oxford, Babel imagines a Royal Institute of Translation at the heart of the British Empire — a place where silver bars engraved with translation "match-words" generate the industrial magic that powers British supremacy.
A kindred historical fiction read.
Read the summary → - Bring Up the Bodies
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Hilary Mantel · Historical fiction
Bring Up the Bodies is the second novel in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, picking up where Wolf Hall ended: Anne Boleyn is Queen, Henry VIII is restless, and Thomas Cromwell is the indispensable minister who keeps the machinery of the court running.
A kindred historical fiction read.
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Books like The Women: quick answers
What are the best books like The Women?
The best books like The Women by Kristin Hannah are The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Women, such as women and war, invisible service, trauma and homecoming.
What should I read after The Women?
A natural next read after The Women is The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. A kindred historical fiction read. Other strong choices are The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah.
What books are similar to The Women by Kristin Hannah?
The Women centers on women and war, invisible service, trauma and homecoming. Books with a similar feel include The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
