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Ron Perlman's voice carries a roughness that suits a story set in a starving city during wartime — there's gravel and weight in his delivery, and a dry, dark humor that keeps the Leningrad siege from becoming pure suffering. At eight hours the listen moves quickly, and Perlman keeps the friendship at the story's center feeling warm even when the circumstances are brutal. These recommendations share similar runtimes and carry the same balance of historical violence and human connection.

10 books for fans of City of Thieves

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    The Immigrant's Wife

    by J B Harris, Julia Whelan

    ★ 5.00 Goodreads (1 ratings)
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    The Chosen: Come and See

    The Chosen • Book 2

    by Jerry B. Jenkins

    ★ 4.78 Goodreads (624 ratings)
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    For Crew and Country (April, 2014)

    by John Wukovits

    ★ 4.35 Goodreads (452 ratings)
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    In the Heart of the Sea

    by Nathaniel Philbrick

    ★ 4.17 Goodreads (119.9K ratings)
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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    All Quiet on the Western Front/The Road Back • Book 1

    by Erich Maria Remarque

    ★ 4.11 Goodreads (525.3K ratings)
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    Pompeii

    by Robert Harris

    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (54.4K ratings)
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    Munich

    by Robert Harris

    ★ 3.88 Goodreads (29.8K ratings)
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    The Prince and The Pauper

    by Mark Twain

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    Identical boys from opposite ends of 16th-century London's social hierarchy swap places and discover how circumstances shape identity. Twain uses mistaken identity to skewer class assumptions and royal privilege.

    ★ 3.87 Goodreads (126.0K ratings)
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    The Sisters Brothers

    by Patrick deWitt

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    Two professional killers travel through Gold Rush America to assassinate a prospector, but their fraternal relationship and strange encounters complicate the simple job. DeWitt subverts Western tropes with mordant humor and unexpected humanity.

    ★ 3.85 Goodreads (103.8K ratings)
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    Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

    by Anderson Cooper, Katherine Howe

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    From German immigrant John Jacob Astor's 1783 arrival to the family fortune's 20th-century collapse—the quintessential American story of ambition and excess.

    ★ 3.77 Goodreads (20.5K ratings)
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