10 books for fans of [The Paris Wife] [By: McLain, Paula] [January, 2012]
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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) - 2
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) - 3
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller
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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) - 4
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The Colonel's Daughter: Prequel to the Senator's Wife
The Senator's Wife • Book 4
by Jen Lyon
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Before becoming the powerful Catharine Cleveland, Cate Brooks was a scholar and rower at Oxford who fell in love, her privileged youth spanning from ancient halls to French vineyards.
★ 4.74 Goodreads (674 ratings) - 6
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) - 7
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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) - 9
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) - 10
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)