Books like Lilac Girls
If you liked Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Rose Code
Because shares tags: historical fiction, world war ii, friendship.
Three Bletchley Park women reunite in 1947 to expose a wartime traitor in Quinn's codebreaking novel.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Because shares tags: historical fiction, holocaust, survival.
Heather Morris retells the years of Lale Sokolov as tattooist at Auschwitz Birkenau, his love for Gita Furman, and the food trades and…
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Winter Garden
Because shares tags: historical fiction, world war ii.
Two sisters keep a deathbed promise: hear their cold mother's Russian fairy tale to the end, and find besieged Leningrad inside it.
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
Because shares tags: historical fiction, survival.
A Cro-Magnon girl orphaned by disaster grows up with a Neanderthal clan, learning their medicine and customs while testing their limits.
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Robinson Crusoe
Because shares tags: survival, historical fiction.
Shipwrecked near South America, Crusoe spends 28 years farming, building, praying, and facing who he becomes alone.
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Because shares tags: historical fiction, world war ii.
A Chinese American boy befriends a Japanese American girl in wartime Seattle, then loses her to the internment camps.
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Because shares tags: friendship, historical fiction.
Evelyn meets Ninny in a nursing home and hears the story of Idgie and Ruth and their Alabama cafe.
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City of Girls
Because shares tags: historical fiction, friendship.
City of Girls retold: a Vassar dropout, a shabby theater, one scandal, and a love like no other.
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The Three Musketeers
Because shares tags: historical fiction, friendship.
Young dArtagnan joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis to recover the queens diamonds and face Milady.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Because shares tags: historical fiction, friendship.
Footbound Lily and Snow Flower share laotong bond through 19th century Hunan hardship.
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My Brilliant Friend
Because shares tags: friendship, historical fiction.
Elena and Lila grow up in 1950s Naples bound by rivalry and love.
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Because shares tags: survival, historical fiction.
Left alone on San Nicolas Island for eighteen years, Karana builds shelter, faces wild dogs, and finds company with Rontu.
