Books Like Homegoing

10 books for fans of Homegoing

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   The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

   by James McBride

   Construction workers uncover a skeleton that reveals the hidden history of Chicken Hill, a forgotten neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side. McBride excavates decades of secrets through the lives of families who created community despite systemic exclusion.

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   Construction workers uncover a skeleton that reveals the hidden history of Chicken Hill, a forgotten neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side. McBride excavates decades of secrets through the lives of families who created community despite systemic exclusion.

   ★ 3.91 Goodreads (329.9K ratings)

   400 pages • 2023

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   The Women

   by Kristin Hannah

   Hannah chronicles the untold story of women who served in Vietnam, tracking one nurse's journey through war trauma and the hostile homecoming that awaited female veterans.

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   Hannah chronicles the untold story of women who served in Vietnam, tracking one nurse's journey through war trauma and the hostile homecoming that awaited female veterans.

   ★ 4.59 Goodreads (1.6M ratings)

   471 pages • 2024

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   The Things We Cannot Say

   by Kelly Rimmer

   Rimmer weaves together a Polish woman's wartime survival story with her granddaughter's modern family struggles, including caring for an autistic child. The parallel narratives explore how family secrets across generations can both wound and ultimately heal.

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   Rimmer weaves together a Polish woman's wartime survival story with her granddaughter's modern family struggles, including caring for an autistic child. The parallel narratives explore how family secrets across generations can both wound and ultimately heal.

   ★ 4.54 Goodreads (284.0K ratings)

   448 pages • 2019

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   Gates of Fire

   by Steven Pressfield

   George Guidall's epic narration matches Pressfield's visceral recreation of ancient warfare and the warrior culture that made such sacrifice possible.

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   George Guidall's epic narration matches Pressfield's visceral recreation of ancient warfare and the warrior culture that made such sacrifice possible.

   ★ 4.40 Goodreads (44.4K ratings)

   526 pages • 1998

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   The Book Thief

   by Markus Zusak

   Young Liesel steals books to cope with wartime Germany while her foster family hides a Jewish refugee. Zusak uses Death as narrator to explore how stories and words become acts of resistance and love.

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   Young Liesel steals books to cope with wartime Germany while her foster family hides a Jewish refugee. Zusak uses Death as narrator to explore how stories and words become acts of resistance and love.

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (2.9M ratings)

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   The Frozen River

   by Ariel Lawhon

   A midwife in 1789 Maine becomes a detective when a man's body is found frozen in the river, drawing on her intimate knowledge of every family secret in town. Lawhon turns colonial America into a forensic thriller.

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   A midwife in 1789 Maine becomes a detective when a man's body is found frozen in the river, drawing on her intimate knowledge of every family secret in town. Lawhon turns colonial America into a forensic thriller.

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (594.0K ratings)

   448 pages • 2023

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   The Killer Angels

   The Civil War Trilogy • Book 2

   by Michael Shaara

   ★ 4.33 Goodreads (92.5K ratings)

   345 pages • 1974

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   The Alice Network

   by Kate Quinn

   Quinn links two women across wars—Eve, a WWI spy in the real Alice Network, and Charlie, an American searching 1947 Europe for family lost in WWII's chaos.

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   Quinn links two women across wars—Eve, a WWI spy in the real Alice Network, and Charlie, an American searching 1947 Europe for family lost in WWII's chaos.

   ★ 4.32 Goodreads (642.8K ratings)

   503 pages • 2017

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   The Song of Achilles

   by Madeline Miller

   Patroclus narrates his devotion to godlike Achilles from their boyhood friendship through the brutal siege that will claim them both.

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   Patroclus narrates his devotion to godlike Achilles from their boyhood friendship through the brutal siege that will claim them both.

   ★ 4.30 Goodreads (2.0M ratings)

   408 pages • 2011

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    Bring Up The Bodies

    Thomas Cromwell • Book 2

    by Hilary Mantel, Unknown Author

    ★ 4.30 Goodreads (105.7K ratings)

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