10 books for fans of The Lost Girls of Paris
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Fatal Throne: The Wives of Henry VIII Tell All
by Candace Fleming, M.T. Anderson, Stephanie Hemphill, Lisa Ann Sandell, Jennifer Donnelly, Linda Sue Park, Deborah Hopkinson
★ 3.96 Goodreads (6.9K ratings) - 2
The Things We Cannot Say
by Kelly Rimmer
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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) - 3
Homegoing
by Yaa Gyasi
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Two family branches—one sold into slavery, one complicit in selling—unfold across three centuries from 18th-century Ghana to contemporary America.
★ 4.47 Goodreads (410.6K ratings) - 4
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
Constable Evan Mystery
by Rhys Bowen
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After thirty years of marriage, Ellie Endicott's husband demands a divorce in 1938 England—giving her the perfect excuse to finally live for herself.
★ 4.46 Goodreads (25.5K ratings) - 5
Where the Sky Begins
Constable Evan Mystery
by Rhys Bowen
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Blitz victim Josie Banks loses her London home and discovers her husband's betrayal, then finds unexpected purpose evacuating children to the countryside. Bowen explores women's resilience during World War II's home front battles.
★ 4.34 Goodreads (34.4K ratings) - 6
The System of the World
The Baroque Cycle #6–8 • Book 8
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Natural philosophers and political schemers collide in early 18th-century London as the modern world takes shape through scientific revolution. Stephenson concludes his massive historical cycle with intellectual fireworks and adventure.
★ 4.34 Goodreads (24.6K ratings) - 7
The Lies They Told
by Ellen Marie Wiseman
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A young immigrant mother in 1930s rural Virginia faces America's rising eugenics movement, where class and origin determine who deserves forced sterilization. Wiseman illuminates this horrific period when pseudoscience justified systematic oppression.
★ 4.34 Goodreads (21.4K ratings) - 8
The Sunflower House
by Adriana Allegri
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In 1939 Germany, bookshop worker Allina Strauss is torn from her peaceful life and forced into a Nazi breeding facility, where survival means finding ways to resist the unthinkable.
★ 4.34 Goodreads (19.6K ratings) - 9
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The Paris Assignment
Constable Evan Mystery
by Rhys Bowen
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An English mother married to a French journalist joins the Resistance during Nazi occupation, risking everything to save downed Allied pilots.
★ 4.32 Goodreads (24.3K ratings)