Books like The Paris Wife
If you liked The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Sarah's Key
Because shares tags: paris, historical fiction.
In 1942 Paris Sarah locks her brother to save him, then vanishes. Sixty years later journalist Julia traces her, exposing family guilt and…
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Winter Garden
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
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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Voyager
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
Claire returns through the stones in 1968 after learning Jamie survived Culloden.
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Truly Madly Guilty
Because shares tag: marriage.
A Sydney barbecue turns when two-year-old Ruby falls in a fountain. Three couples face guilt, marriage strain, and repair.
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The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
Because shares tag: marriage.
A young mother confined for her health fixates on yellow wallpaper, plus 39 other Gilman stories on marriage and work.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
An unemployed Tokyo man hunts a lost cat, then his missing wife, and slips from quiet suburbs into wells and wartime memory.
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The Wife Upstairs
Because shares tag: marriage.
A struggling dog walker falls for a wealthy widower in Alabama, but his missing wife may still be alive upstairs.
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The Things They Carried
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
Alpha Company humps through Vietnam carrying rifles, letters, and guilt. O'Brien's linked 1990 collection asks what a true war story really…
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The Rose Code
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
Three Bletchley Park women reunite in 1947 to expose a wartime traitor in Quinn's codebreaking novel.
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The Lincoln Highway
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
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 Kitchen House
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
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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The Invention of Wings
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
Sarah Grimke and enslaved Handful grow up bound in Charleston, then push toward freedom and abolition.
