Books like The Clan of the Cave Bear
If you liked The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Lincoln Highway
Because shares tags: historical fiction, coming of age, adventure.
Emmett and Billy plan California in 1954, but two escapees steal their car and drag them east to New York.
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Robinson Crusoe
Because shares tags: adventure, survival, historical fiction.
Shipwrecked near South America, Crusoe spends 28 years farming, building, praying, and facing who he becomes alone.
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Hatchet
Because shares tags: survival, adventure, coming of age.
A plane crash leaves thirteen-year-old Brian alone in the Canadian wild with only a hatchet.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Because shares tags: adventure, coming of age, historical fiction.
Huck Finn fakes his death, floats the Mississippi with the runaway Jim, and tears up the letter that would betray him. Twain's river…
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Voyager
Because shares tags: historical fiction, adventure.
Claire returns through the stones in 1968 after learning Jamie survived Culloden.
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The War of the Worlds
Because shares tags: adventure, survival.
A Surrey writer watches Martians land in cylinders, march on London in tripods, and fall to Earth's smallest life.
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The Kitchen House
Because shares tags: historical fiction, coming of age.
Irish orphan Lavinia is raised by enslaved cooks in the kitchen house, then torn between that family and the big house.
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Lilac Girls
Because shares tags: historical fiction, survival.
Three women meet across World War II: a New York volunteer, a Polish courier turned prisoner, and a German camp doctor.
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Because shares tags: historical fiction, coming of age.
A Chinese American boy befriends a Japanese American girl in wartime Seattle, then loses her to the internment camps.
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Fairy Tale
Because shares tags: adventure, coming of age.
A grieving teen cares for a recluse and his old dog, then finds a shed well leading to Empis, a fading world at war.
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City of Girls
Because shares tags: historical fiction, coming of age.
City of Girls retold: a Vassar dropout, a shabby theater, one scandal, and a love like no other.
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A Wizard of Earthsea
Because shares tags: coming of age, adventure.
A proud goatherd becomes the wizard Ged, looses a shadow at Roke, and must hunt it across Earthsea to name it. Le Guin's lean 1968 series…
