10 books for fans of The Song of Achilles
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The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
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Hannah follows two sisters through occupied France — one hiding refugees, one smuggling Allied airmen — as ordinary women become unlikely heroes.
★ 4.65 Goodreads (2.2M ratings) - 2
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) - 3
The Frozen River
by Ariel Lawhon
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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) - 4
The Shadow of the Wind
Cemetery of Forgotten Books • Book 1
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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In 1945 Barcelona, a boy finds a cursed novel in a secret library, uncovering a decades-old mystery involving a forgotten author, book burning, and revenge.
★ 4.31 Goodreads (727.6K ratings) - 5
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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and Survival
by Peter Stark
★ 4.10 Goodreads (13.0K ratings) - 8
Flags on the Bayou
Dave Robicheaux
by James Lee Burke
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Set during the Union occupation of Louisiana, Burke weaves together enslaved women, Confederate soldiers, and plantation gentry caught in the war's chaos.
★ 3.90 Goodreads (6.7K ratings) - 9
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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)