50 Books like The Last Assignment

The Women

by Kristin Hannah • 2024

A Navy daughter enlists as a combat nurse in Vietnam for honor her family denies women.

4.58

1.7M+

🪖 Vietnam War 🩺 Combat Nursing 👩‍⚕️ Women In Wartime 🎖️ Military Family 🏠 Veteran Homecoming

The Women 94%

A Navy daughter enlists as a combat nurse in Vietnam for honor her family denies women.

by Kristin Hannah 2024

4.58

1.7M+ ratings

🪖 Vietnam War 🩺 Combat Nursing 👩‍⚕️ Women In Wartime 🎖️ Military Family 🏠 Veteran Homecoming

Sweet Caress

by William Boyd • 2015

A woman photographer documents the twentieth century's chaos while her life remains out of focus.

3.97

11k+

📖 Fictional Memoir 🎨 Artist's Life 📷 Woman Photographer 🪖 War Trauma 🪵 Family Dysfunction

Sweet Caress 94%

A woman photographer documents the twentieth century's chaos while her life remains out of focus.

by William Boyd 2015

3.97

11k+ ratings

📖 Fictional Memoir 🎨 Artist's Life 📷 Woman Photographer 🪖 War Trauma 🪵 Family Dysfunction

The Mountains Sing

by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai • 2020

A grandmother in Vietnam tells her granddaughter the story of a family that refused to break.

4.31

65k+

🏮 Vietnamese History 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multigenerational Saga ⚔️ Women In Wartime 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 📖 Family Storytelling

The Mountains Sing 93%

A grandmother in Vietnam tells her granddaughter the story of a family that refused to break.

by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai 2020

4.31

65k+ ratings

🏮 Vietnamese History 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Multigenerational Saga ⚔️ Women In Wartime 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 📖 Family Storytelling

The Bronze Horseman

by Paullina Simons • 2000

Leningrad under siege: Tatiana falls for her sister's soldier, whose secret past could doom them.

4.29

97k+

🪖 Wartime Romance 🏚️ Siege Of Leningrad 💫 Star-Crossed Lovers 🥖 Gritty Survival 🔥 Slow Burn

The Bronze Horseman 92%

Leningrad under siege: Tatiana falls for her sister's soldier, whose secret past could doom them.

by Paullina Simons 2000

4.29

97k+ ratings

🪖 Wartime Romance 🏚️ Siege Of Leningrad 💫 Star-Crossed Lovers 🥖 Gritty Survival 🔥 Slow Burn

Home Front

by Kristin Hannah • 2012

Her marriage broken, a soldier deploys to Iraq. She returns without a leg; both need rebuilding.

4.26

241k+

🪖 Military Family Drama 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🚁 Wartime Deployment 👩‍✈️ Female Soldier 🇮🇶 Iraq War Era

Home Front 92%

Her marriage broken, a soldier deploys to Iraq. She returns without a leg; both need rebuilding.

by Kristin Hannah 2012

4.26

241k+ ratings

🪖 Military Family Drama 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🚁 Wartime Deployment 👩‍✈️ Female Soldier 🇮🇶 Iraq War Era

The Diamond Eye

by Kate Quinn • 2022

A legendary Soviet sniper lands in Washington on a goodwill tour, unaware an old enemy waits.

4.29

212k+

👩‍✈️ Women At War 🎓 Unlikely Soldier 🤝 Unexpected Bond 🥺 Lonely Hero 💔 Emotional Depth

The Diamond Eye 91%

A legendary Soviet sniper lands in Washington on a goodwill tour, unaware an old enemy waits.

by Kate Quinn 2022

4.29

212k+ ratings

👩‍✈️ Women At War 🎓 Unlikely Soldier 🤝 Unexpected Bond 🥺 Lonely Hero 💔 Emotional Depth

The Secret War of Julia Child

by Diana R. Chambers • 2024

1943: a restless OSS clerk talks her way to Asia, where trust is the deadliest weapon.

3.60

7k+

🖋️ Fictionalized Biography 🕵️ Wartime Espionage 💪 Woman In A Man's World 💘 Rivals To Lovers 💕 Slow-Burn Romance

The Secret War of Julia Child 91%

1943: a restless OSS clerk talks her way to Asia, where trust is the deadliest weapon.

by Diana R. Chambers 2024

3.60

7k+ ratings

🖋️ Fictionalized Biography 🕵️ Wartime Espionage 💪 Woman In A Man's World 💘 Rivals To Lovers 💕 Slow-Burn Romance

The Atomic City Girls

by Janet Beard • 2018

Young women monitor machines in a secret city, never told they're building the atomic bomb.

3.54

26k+

🏭 Home Front WWII 💔 Secret Romance 👥 Multiple Perspectives 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Social Climbing

The Atomic City Girls 91%

Young women monitor machines in a secret city, never told they're building the atomic bomb.

by Janet Beard 2018

3.54

26k+ ratings

🏭 Home Front WWII 💔 Secret Romance 👥 Multiple Perspectives 🤝 Found Family 🎭 Social Climbing

A Girl Called Samson

by Amy Harmon • 2023

A servant disguises herself as a man to join the Revolution, then falls for her commander.

4.46

58k+

🎭 Woman Disguised As Man 💕 Wartime Romance 📜 Biographical Fiction 🇺🇸 Revolutionary America 🏠 Found Family

A Girl Called Samson 91%

A servant disguises herself as a man to join the Revolution, then falls for her commander.

by Amy Harmon 2023

4.46

58k+ ratings

🎭 Woman Disguised As Man 💕 Wartime Romance 📜 Biographical Fiction 🇺🇸 Revolutionary America 🏠 Found Family

Front Lines

by Michael Grant • 2016

1942: women are drafted into combat. Three soldiers face the brutality of the North African front.

4.09

6k+

🕰️ Alternate History 🪖 Women In Combat 🫂 Found Family 🏋️ Military Training 💥 Gritty War Story

Front Lines 91%

1942: women are drafted into combat. Three soldiers face the brutality of the North African front.

by Michael Grant 2016

4.09

6k+ ratings

🕰️ Alternate History 🪖 Women In Combat 🫂 Found Family 🏋️ Military Training 💥 Gritty War Story

The Girls of Pearl Harbor

by Soraya M. Lane • 2019

Three nurses arrive in Hawaii. Pearl Harbor turns their island into a battlefield of love and loss.

4.29

12k+

🩺 World War Ii Nursing 🌊 Pearl Harbor 🤝 Found Family 👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance

The Girls of Pearl Harbor 91%

Three nurses arrive in Hawaii. Pearl Harbor turns their island into a battlefield of love and loss.

by Soraya M. Lane 2019

4.29

12k+ ratings

🩺 World War Ii Nursing 🌊 Pearl Harbor 🤝 Found Family 👩‍⚕️ Women In Medicine 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance

Brotherless Night

by V.V. Ganeshananthan • 2023

While her brothers join the insurgency, a Tamil girl heals the wounded in a secret clinic.

4.45

19k+

🇱🇰 Sri Lankan Civil War 🌏 Tamil Diaspora 👁️ Witness To War 🩺 Frontline Medicine 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Family Saga

Brotherless Night 91%

While her brothers join the insurgency, a Tamil girl heals the wounded in a secret clinic.

by V.V. Ganeshananthan 2023

4.45

19k+ ratings

🇱🇰 Sri Lankan Civil War 🌏 Tamil Diaspora 👁️ Witness To War 🩺 Frontline Medicine 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Family Saga

The Heirloom Garden

by Viola Shipman • 2020

A botanist still grieving WWII meets a military family falling apart next door.

4.18

6k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🌸 Gardening Fiction 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🎖️ Veteran Ptsd 📜 WWII Home Front

The Heirloom Garden 91%

A botanist still grieving WWII meets a military family falling apart next door.

by Viola Shipman 2020

4.18

6k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline 🌸 Gardening Fiction 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🎖️ Veteran Ptsd 📜 WWII Home Front

Meet the Newmans

by Jennifer Niven • 2026

America's favorite TV wife is unraveling off camera. Her husband's accident forces the reckoning.

3.66

16k+

🎬 1960s Hollywood ✊ Feminist Awakening 🎭 Show Business Family 🏳️‍🌈 Closeted In Hollywood 💔 Marriage In Crisis

Meet the Newmans 91%

America's favorite TV wife is unraveling off camera. Her husband's accident forces the reckoning.

by Jennifer Niven 2026

3.66

16k+ ratings

🎬 1960s Hollywood ✊ Feminist Awakening 🎭 Show Business Family 🏳️‍🌈 Closeted In Hollywood 💔 Marriage In Crisis

Come Fly with Me

by Camille Di Maio • 2025

Fleeing abuse and privilege, two women join Pan Am and find a sisterhood that changes everything.

4.27

6k+

✈️ Pan Am Stewardesses 👯‍♀️ Female Friendship 🕰️ 1960s Historical Saga 💔 Domestic Abuse Survival 🇵🇭 Filipino Heritage

Come Fly with Me 91%

Fleeing abuse and privilege, two women join Pan Am and find a sisterhood that changes everything.

by Camille Di Maio 2025

4.27

6k+ ratings

✈️ Pan Am Stewardesses 👯‍♀️ Female Friendship 🕰️ 1960s Historical Saga 💔 Domestic Abuse Survival 🇵🇭 Filipino Heritage

The Age of Light

by Whitney Scharer • 2019

A Vogue model enters Man Ray's studio, determined to become the photographer, not the photographed.

3.57

13k+

🎨 Art Historical Fiction 📖 Biographical Fiction 💋 Artist And Muse 🗼 1920s Paris 🥂 Lost Generation

The Age of Light 91%

A Vogue model enters Man Ray's studio, determined to become the photographer, not the photographed.

by Whitney Scharer 2019

3.57

13k+ ratings

🎨 Art Historical Fiction 📖 Biographical Fiction 💋 Artist And Muse 🗼 1920s Paris 🥂 Lost Generation

Becoming Madam Secretary

by Stephanie Dray • 2024

FDR needs her to rescue a nation in despair. She cannot save her own husband.

4.45

29k+

🖋️ Biographical Fiction 🏛️ Women In Politics 👭 Female Friendship 🏚️ Great Depression Era ⚒️ Labor Rights History

Becoming Madam Secretary 91%

FDR needs her to rescue a nation in despair. She cannot save her own husband.

by Stephanie Dray 2024

4.45

29k+ ratings

🖋️ Biographical Fiction 🏛️ Women In Politics 👭 Female Friendship 🏚️ Great Depression Era ⚒️ Labor Rights History

The Lost Letters of Aisling

by Cynthia Ellingsen • 2024

Her Irish grandmother's letters reveal a wartime love and a child the family never named.

4.31

25k+

🍀 Irish Historical Fiction 🔄 Dual Timeline Narrative 💌 Hidden Love Letters 🔍 Lost Child Search 🤝 Ride Or Die Friendship

The Lost Letters of Aisling 91%

Her Irish grandmother's letters reveal a wartime love and a child the family never named.

by Cynthia Ellingsen 2024

4.31

25k+ ratings

🍀 Irish Historical Fiction 🔄 Dual Timeline Narrative 💌 Hidden Love Letters 🔍 Lost Child Search 🤝 Ride Or Die Friendship

The Alice Network

by Kate Quinn • 2017

A pregnant girl fleeing a forced abortion enlists a ruined spy to find her missing cousin.

4.32

643k+

🌓 Dual Timeline 🕵️ Female Spies 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 🗡️ Revenge Quest 🇫🇷 Occupied France

The Alice Network 91%

A pregnant girl fleeing a forced abortion enlists a ruined spy to find her missing cousin.

by Kate Quinn 2017

4.32

643k+ ratings

🌓 Dual Timeline 🕵️ Female Spies 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 🗡️ Revenge Quest 🇫🇷 Occupied France

The Travelers

by Regina Porter • 2019

Two families, bound by love and divided by race, navigate five decades of the American century.

3.60

4k+

🔗 Interlocking Narratives 🌳 Generational Saga 🫂 Found Family 💞 Interracial Love 💥 War Trauma

The Travelers 91%

Two families, bound by love and divided by race, navigate five decades of the American century.

by Regina Porter 2019

3.60

4k+ ratings

🔗 Interlocking Narratives 🌳 Generational Saga 🫂 Found Family 💞 Interracial Love 💥 War Trauma

When the World Fell Silent

by Donna Jones Alward • 2024

A nurse's secret pregnancy. A widow's missing child. The Halifax Explosion binds two women's fates.

4.25

33k+

🏥 Wartime Nursing 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏠 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Love 💔 Maternal Grief

When the World Fell Silent 91%

A nurse's secret pregnancy. A widow's missing child. The Halifax Explosion binds two women's fates.

by Donna Jones Alward 2024

4.25

33k+ ratings

🏥 Wartime Nursing 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🏠 Found Family 🔥 Slow Burn Love 💔 Maternal Grief

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

by Janet Skeslien Charles • 2024

In 1918 France, a librarian builds a children's library; decades later, her story is unearthed.

3.98

19k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📚 Books About Books 📖 Librarian Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🪖 Women In War

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade 91%

In 1918 France, a librarian builds a children's library; decades later, her story is unearthed.

by Janet Skeslien Charles 2024

3.98

19k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline 📚 Books About Books 📖 Librarian Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🪖 Women In War

The Great Alone

by Kristin Hannah • 2018

1974 Alaska: a girl discovers the wilderness is less cruel than her father's love.

4.46

1.2M+

🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🖤 Domestic Abuse 🪖 War Trauma 💔 Forbidden Love 🔄 Second Chance Romance

The Great Alone 91%

1974 Alaska: a girl discovers the wilderness is less cruel than her father's love.

by Kristin Hannah 2018

4.46

1.2M+ ratings

🏔️ Alaskan Wilderness 🖤 Domestic Abuse 🪖 War Trauma 💔 Forbidden Love 🔄 Second Chance Romance

The Booklover's Library

by Madeline Martin • 2024

A young widow in 1939 Nottingham hides her motherhood to work in a subscription library.

3.97

25k+

🏠 Wartime Home Front 📚 Books About Libraries 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Bond 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The Booklover's Library 91%

A young widow in 1939 Nottingham hides her motherhood to work in a subscription library.

by Madeline Martin 2024

3.97

25k+ ratings

🏠 Wartime Home Front 📚 Books About Libraries 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Bond 🔥 Slow Burn Romance

The March

by E.L. Doctorow • 2005

Civil War flames consume Georgia as a passing girl, a surgeon, and two deserters chase survival.

3.78

14k+

🏚️ Civil War Fiction 🎭 Racial Passing 🤝 Found Family 💥 Total War 🏛️ Antebellum South

The March 91%

Civil War flames consume Georgia as a passing girl, a surgeon, and two deserters chase survival.

by E.L. Doctorow 2005

3.78

14k+ ratings

🏚️ Civil War Fiction 🎭 Racial Passing 🤝 Found Family 💥 Total War 🏛️ Antebellum South

Great Circle

by Maggie Shipstead • 2021

A biplane over Montana: an orphan girl decides nothing will keep her from the sky.

4.09

84k+

🛩️ Female Aviator 📖 Epic Life Saga 👯 Twin Connection 🥃 Prohibition-Era 🔄 Self-Reinvention

Great Circle 90%

A biplane over Montana: an orphan girl decides nothing will keep her from the sky.

by Maggie Shipstead 2021

4.09

84k+ ratings

🛩️ Female Aviator 📖 Epic Life Saga 👯 Twin Connection 🥃 Prohibition-Era 🔄 Self-Reinvention

The Island of Sea Women

by Lisa See • 2019

Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.

4.32

174k+

🧜‍♀️ Haenyeo Divers 💔 Broken Friendship 🕯️ Political Massacre 👩‍👩‍👧 Matrifocal Culture 🌱 Generational Healing

The Island of Sea Women 90%

Two haenyeo divers share a bond deeper than the sea until a massacre tears them apart.

by Lisa See 2019

4.32

174k+ ratings

🧜‍♀️ Haenyeo Divers 💔 Broken Friendship 🕯️ Political Massacre 👩‍👩‍👧 Matrifocal Culture 🌱 Generational Healing

Lessons in Chemistry

by Bonnie Garmus • 2022

She wanted a lab. They gave her a kitchen. So she taught a nation of housewives chemistry.

4.28

1.8M+

👩‍🔬 Women In Stem ✊ Feminist Historical Fiction 🏠 Found Family 🇺🇸 1960s America 👩‍👧 Single Mother

Lessons in Chemistry 90%

She wanted a lab. They gave her a kitchen. So she taught a nation of housewives chemistry.

by Bonnie Garmus 2022

4.28

1.8M+ ratings

👩‍🔬 Women In Stem ✊ Feminist Historical Fiction 🏠 Found Family 🇺🇸 1960s America 👩‍👧 Single Mother

My Dear Hamilton

by Stephanie Dray • 2018

She survived Hamilton's scandal and his duel. His death began her fight to write history.

4.30

55k+

🇺🇸 Revolutionary America 💍 Political Marriage 👤 Wife Behind The Legend 💔 Marriage After Betrayal 📜 Epic Historical Saga

My Dear Hamilton 90%

She survived Hamilton's scandal and his duel. His death began her fight to write history.

by Stephanie Dray 2018

4.30

55k+ ratings

🇺🇸 Revolutionary America 💍 Political Marriage 👤 Wife Behind The Legend 💔 Marriage After Betrayal 📜 Epic Historical Saga

The Resistance Girl

by Mandy Robotham • 2022

A grieving Norwegian woman teams up with a British spy to sabotage Bergen's Nazi occupation.

4.10

3k+

🥷 Wwii Resistance 🇳🇴 Occupied Norway 🏠 Forced Proximity 💔 Second Chance Love 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family

The Resistance Girl 90%

A grieving Norwegian woman teams up with a British spy to sabotage Bergen's Nazi occupation.

by Mandy Robotham 2022

4.10

3k+ ratings

🥷 Wwii Resistance 🇳🇴 Occupied Norway 🏠 Forced Proximity 💔 Second Chance Love 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family

The Only Woman in the Room

by Marie Benedict • 2019

A film star weds a munitions mogul, escapes, then invents a weapon the world dismisses.

3.87

111k+

📖 Biographical Fiction 🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🏰 1930s Vienna 🔒 Gilded Cage 🎭 Hidden Intellect

The Only Woman in the Room 90%

A film star weds a munitions mogul, escapes, then invents a weapon the world dismisses.

by Marie Benedict 2019

3.87

111k+ ratings

📖 Biographical Fiction 🎬 Golden Age Hollywood 🏰 1930s Vienna 🔒 Gilded Cage 🎭 Hidden Intellect

The Book Club for Troublesome Women

by Marie Bostwick • 2025

In 1962, four suburban women read The Feminine Mystique and find the courage to want more.

4.07

141k+

🏘️ Suburban Discontent 📚 Book Club Fiction 👭 Female Friendship 🏠 Found Family ✊ 1960s Feminism

The Book Club for Troublesome Women Summary

The Book Club for Troublesome Women 90%

In 1962, four suburban women read The Feminine Mystique and find the courage to want more.

by Marie Bostwick 2025

4.07

141k+ ratings

🏘️ Suburban Discontent 📚 Book Club Fiction 👭 Female Friendship 🏠 Found Family ✊ 1960s Feminism

Mrs. Everything

by Jennifer Weiner • 2019

Two sisters. One loves women in secret. One buries her past. A lifetime of becoming themselves.

3.85

95k+

🏡 Family Saga 👭 Sisterhood 🏳️‍🌈 Repressed Sexuality 🩹 Trauma And Healing 🇺🇸 Midcentury America

Mrs. Everything 90%

Two sisters. One loves women in secret. One buries her past. A lifetime of becoming themselves.

by Jennifer Weiner 2019

3.85

95k+ ratings

🏡 Family Saga 👭 Sisterhood 🏳️‍🌈 Repressed Sexuality 🩹 Trauma And Healing 🇺🇸 Midcentury America

The World Played Chess

by Robert Dugoni • 2021

A Vietnam vet's journal links a father and son to a war that never ended.

4.44

40k+

🎖️ Vietnam War 🏖️ 1970s California 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🤝 Male Friendship

The World Played Chess 90%

A Vietnam vet's journal links a father and son to a war that never ended.

by Robert Dugoni 2021

4.44

40k+ ratings

🎖️ Vietnam War 🏖️ 1970s California 👨‍👦 Fathers And Sons 😔 Survivor's Guilt 🤝 Male Friendship

The Women on Platform Two

by Laura Anthony • 2025

A Dublin nurse, fleeing a fight about motherhood, meets a stranger with a photograph from 1971.

4.41

32k+

📖 Dual Timeline Narrative 🖤 Domestic Abuse Survival 💪 Female Solidarity ⚖️ Reproductive Rights 🌱 Quiet Resilience

The Women on Platform Two 90%

A Dublin nurse, fleeing a fight about motherhood, meets a stranger with a photograph from 1971.

by Laura Anthony 2025

4.41

32k+ ratings

📖 Dual Timeline Narrative 🖤 Domestic Abuse Survival 💪 Female Solidarity ⚖️ Reproductive Rights 🌱 Quiet Resilience

The Widow of the South

by Robert Hicks • 2005

A grieving widow buries 1,500 fallen soldiers in her garden, seeking purpose among the dead.

3.78

19k+

🔥 Civil War Fiction 🏥 Field Hospital 🤕 Wounded Soldier ⚰️ War Cemetery 🌿 Quiet Resilience

The Widow of the South 90%

A grieving widow buries 1,500 fallen soldiers in her garden, seeking purpose among the dead.

by Robert Hicks 2005

3.78

19k+ ratings

🔥 Civil War Fiction 🏥 Field Hospital 🤕 Wounded Soldier ⚰️ War Cemetery 🌿 Quiet Resilience

Code Name Hélène

by Ariel Lawhon • 2020

A woman with many aliases parachutes into occupied France to turn untrained Maquis into soldiers.

4.41

83k+

🎖️ Women In Resistance 🇫🇷 Occupied France 🔍 Women Spies 💔 Wartime Separation 🎭 Multiple Identities

Code Name Hélène 90%

A woman with many aliases parachutes into occupied France to turn untrained Maquis into soldiers.

by Ariel Lawhon 2020

4.41

83k+ ratings

🎖️ Women In Resistance 🇫🇷 Occupied France 🔍 Women Spies 💔 Wartime Separation 🎭 Multiple Identities

Mary Jane

by Jessica Anya Blau • 2021

A sheltered Baltimore teen spends one summer nannying for a family hiding a famous rock star.

4.12

115k+

📅 1970s Coming Of Age 🏠 Bohemian Household 🩷 Found Family 👶 Nanny Protagonist 🔒 Sheltered Protagonist

Mary Jane 90%

A sheltered Baltimore teen spends one summer nannying for a family hiding a famous rock star.

by Jessica Anya Blau 2021

4.12

115k+ ratings

📅 1970s Coming Of Age 🏠 Bohemian Household 🩷 Found Family 👶 Nanny Protagonist 🔒 Sheltered Protagonist

Where the Rivers Merge

by Mary Alice Monroe • 2025

At eighty-eight, Eliza must give her plantation to a stranger, or her son will sell it.

4.28

16k+

👵 Multigenerational Saga 🌾 Lowcountry 👭 Interracial Friendship 💌 Wartime Love Letters 🤫 Family Secrets

Where the Rivers Merge 90%

At eighty-eight, Eliza must give her plantation to a stranger, or her son will sell it.

by Mary Alice Monroe 2025

4.28

16k+ ratings

👵 Multigenerational Saga 🌾 Lowcountry 👭 Interracial Friendship 💌 Wartime Love Letters 🤫 Family Secrets

The Nightingale

by Kristin Hannah • 2015

When Nazis occupy France, two sisters resist in opposite ways, but history remembers only one.

4.65

2.2M+

🗡️ French Resistance 👭 Estranged Sisters 👩 Women In Wartime 🧒 Hidden Children 📖 Epic Family Saga

The Nightingale 90%

When Nazis occupy France, two sisters resist in opposite ways, but history remembers only one.

by Kristin Hannah 2015

4.65

2.2M+ ratings

🗡️ French Resistance 👭 Estranged Sisters 👩 Women In Wartime 🧒 Hidden Children 📖 Epic Family Saga

Buckeye

by Patrick Ryan • 2025

A single kiss on V-E Day begins a four-decade secret that binds two Ohio families.

4.12

149k+

🌿 Family Saga 🌽 American Midwest 🪖 WWII Home Front 🎖️ Vietnam War Era 🚪 Closeted Identity

Buckeye 90%

A single kiss on V-E Day begins a four-decade secret that binds two Ohio families.

by Patrick Ryan 2025

4.12

149k+ ratings

🌿 Family Saga 🌽 American Midwest 🪖 WWII Home Front 🎖️ Vietnam War Era 🚪 Closeted Identity

We Were the Lucky Ones

by Georgia Hunter • 2017

Scattered across continents by war, a Polish Jewish family fights to survive and reunite.

4.42

201k+

🌳 Epic Family Saga 💔 Wartime Separation 📖 Based On A True Story 🎭 Hidden Identities 🇵🇱 Occupied Poland

We Were the Lucky Ones 90%

Scattered across continents by war, a Polish Jewish family fights to survive and reunite.

by Georgia Hunter 2017

4.42

201k+ ratings

🌳 Epic Family Saga 💔 Wartime Separation 📖 Based On A True Story 🎭 Hidden Identities 🇵🇱 Occupied Poland

The Chanel Sisters

by Judithe Little • 2020

The forgotten sister who built Chanel tells the story Coco never would.

3.95

9k+

🧵 Fashion History 👤 Woman Behind The Icon 🏙️ Belle ÉPoque Paris ⚔️ Wartime Separation 👩‍👩‍👧 Orphaned Sisters

The Chanel Sisters 90%

The forgotten sister who built Chanel tells the story Coco never would.

by Judithe Little 2020

3.95

9k+ ratings

🧵 Fashion History 👤 Woman Behind The Icon 🏙️ Belle ÉPoque Paris ⚔️ Wartime Separation 👩‍👩‍👧 Orphaned Sisters

Sparks Like Stars

by Nadia Hashimi • 2021

She survives the coup that kills her family. A child of Kabul starts over in America.

4.28

24k+

🏔️ Afghan Diaspora 👧 Child Displacement 😔 Survivor Guilt 🎭 Hidden Identity 👥 Found Family

Sparks Like Stars 90%

She survives the coup that kills her family. A child of Kabul starts over in America.

by Nadia Hashimi 2021

4.28

24k+ ratings

🏔️ Afghan Diaspora 👧 Child Displacement 😔 Survivor Guilt 🎭 Hidden Identity 👥 Found Family

The Japanese Lover

by Isabel Allende • 2015

Polish refugee and Japanese gardener's son keep a secret love across decades of war and separation.

3.89

98k+

👪 Multigenerational Saga 🌹 Wartime Romance ⏳ Lifelong Affair ✉️ Letters Across Time 🏘️ Found Family

The Japanese Lover 90%

Polish refugee and Japanese gardener's son keep a secret love across decades of war and separation.

by Isabel Allende 2015

3.89

98k+ ratings

👪 Multigenerational Saga 🌹 Wartime Romance ⏳ Lifelong Affair ✉️ Letters Across Time 🏘️ Found Family

A Well-Behaved Woman

by Therese Anne Fowler • 2018

Her family ruined, Alva Smith marries a Vanderbilt. But old New York keeps its gates shut tight.

3.96

24k+

🏛️ Biographical Novel 🪜 Social Climbing 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🥀 Mother-Daughter Conflict 💔 Betrayed Wife

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One Good Thing 90%

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4.26

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After their family drowns fleeing Vietnam, three siblings reach England haunted by a dead brother.

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Wandering Souls 90%

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by Cecile Pin 2023

4.12

20k+ ratings

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The Paris Daughter 90%

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4.23

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The Golden Cup

by Belva Plain • 1986

A tenement fire, a radical reformer. She marries him anyway, then spends a lifetime reckoning.

4.02

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The Golden Cup 90%

A tenement fire, a radical reformer. She marries him anyway, then spends a lifetime reckoning.

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4.02

2k+ ratings

🏠 Multi-Generational Saga 🕍 Jewish American Family 💔 Marriage In Crisis 💰 Class Divide Romance 🪖 War Trauma

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