Books like The Kitchen House
If you liked The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom, 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.
Emmett and Billy plan California in 1954, but two escapees steal their car and drag them east to New York.
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The Invention of Wings
Because shares tags: historical fiction, slavery.
Sarah Grimke and enslaved Handful grow up bound in Charleston, then push toward freedom and abolition.
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The House of the Spirits
Because shares tags: family saga, historical fiction.
Three generations of the Trueba family face love, ghosts and a coup, from Rosa's strange death to Alba's prison cell.
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The Clan of the Cave Bear
Because shares tags: historical fiction, coming of age.
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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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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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Because shares tags: family saga, 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, 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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The Thorn Birds
Because shares tags: historical fiction, family saga.
Meggie loves priest Ralph across decades on Drogheda sheep station.
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Homegoing
Because shares tags: historical fiction, slavery.
Half sisters Effia and Esi lines span Ghana to America across centuries.
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Fall of Giants
Because shares tags: historical fiction, family saga.
Five families from Wales to Russia live through World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the fight for women's votes.
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The Underground Railroad
Because shares tags: historical fiction, slavery.
Cora escapes Georgia on a literal railroad through states of terror and hope.
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Beloved
Because shares tags: historical fiction, slavery.
Sethe lives with the memory of killing her child to save her from slavery until a young woman named Beloved arrives.
