7 best-selling mystery books like The Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn Taylor

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The Paper Girl of Paris

By: Jordyn Taylor

4.04

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Now: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and …

"Things never get any easier during wartime. Either the war ends or life gets worse."

-Jordyn Taylor, The Paper Girl of Paris

"For years, we lingered on the bank of the river, scared to dip our toes in the water - but how do you cross to the other side that way? There's only one way to do it, and we've finally figured it out. We have to hold each other's hands and wade into the deep."

-Jordyn Taylor, The Paper Girl of Paris

"Here is the thing that is true about fire: it creates power, but it also creates destruction. My fire has fueled many victories, but it has destroyed what I had with the person I love most in the world. My fire had caused me much pain but I can't put it out. I don't want to."

-Jordyn Taylor, The Paper Girl of Paris

If you liked the mystery plot in The Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn Taylor , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1) by Jenna Evans Welch

1. Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)

By: Jenna Evans Welch

4.04

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

“I made the wrong choice.” Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1) book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"You're the one I like. Maybe love."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)

"And why did he have to call me “quiet"

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)

"„O viaţă fară dragoste e ca un an fară vară."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)

"One day with Hadley was easily worth a lifetime in Italy."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1)

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2. Rescue

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.31

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

A World War II story of espionage and intrigue, as one girl races to save her father and aid the Fr… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Rescue book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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3. I Must Betray You

By: Ruta Sepetys

4.41

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu … read more

Similar categories in Ruta Sepetys's I Must Betray You book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"A revolution eats its heroes."

-Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

"I envied him, the courage to be himself. In public."

-Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

"Fertility under state control? That's an abuse of human rights!' Bunu would wail."

-Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

"I hadn’t yet absorbed one of life’s universal truths: Things that seem straightforward? Often aren’t."

-Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

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4. The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

3.94

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Four brothers. Two missions. One explosive read. Jennifer Lynn Barnes returns to the world of her #… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4) book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Heiress"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

"Four Hawthornes, four suits. Avery wore black."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

"Then why haven’t you noticed I’m not your only tail?"

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

"Nash." The gleam in Jamie's eyes was downright wicked, "I dare you to eat your hat."

-Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne (The Inheritance Games, #4)

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5. The Summer of Lost Letters (Golden Doors #1)

By: Hannah Reynolds

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A summery romance set in Nantucket that follows seventeen-year-old Abby Schoenberg as she uncovers … read more

Similar categories in Hannah Reynolds's The Summer of Lost Letters (Golden Doors #1) book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Do you miss him? When you spend so much time with someone, it's impossible not to."

-Hannah Reynolds, The Summer of Lost Letters (Golden Doors #1)

"Light, air, and faint classical music filled the store. My shoulders relaxed. I breathed easier in a room full of books, as if the paper retained the capacity of the trees they'd once been. So many b…"

-Hannah Reynolds, The Summer of Lost Letters (Golden Doors #1)

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6. Uprising

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Lidia is outside her grandfather's house when planes fly overhead, bearing the Nazi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Uprising book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Paper Girl of Paris by Jordyn Taylor

7. The Paper Girl of Paris

By: Jordyn Taylor

4.04

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Now: Sixteen-year-old Alice is spending the summer in Paris, but she isn’t there for pastries and … read more

Similar categories in Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • france
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Things never get any easier during wartime. Either the war ends or life gets worse."

-Jordyn Taylor, The Paper Girl of Paris

"For years, we lingered on the bank of the river, scared to dip our toes in the water - but how do you cross to the other side that way? There's only one way to do it, and we've finally figured it out…"

-Jordyn Taylor, The Paper Girl of Paris

"Here is the thing that is true about fire: it creates power, but it also creates destruction. My fire has fueled many victories, but it has destroyed what I had with the person I love most in the wor…"

-Jordyn Taylor, The Paper Girl of Paris

Cover of Words on Fire by Jennifer A. Nielsen

8. Words on Fire

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Danger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. She always avoids the occupying Russian … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Words on Fire book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"The words wouldn't lead to our independence - words, themselves, their very existence, were our independence"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, Words on Fire

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9. Lines of Courage

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.30

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

The stories of five kids living through World War I, each of whom holds the key to the others' futu… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer A. Nielsen's Lines of Courage book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Bluebird

By: Sharon Cameron

4.34

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A historical novel, set in postwar New York City. In 1946, Eva leaves behind the rubble of Berli… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Cameron's Bluebird book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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11. Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

By: Jenna Evans Welch

4.00

Format: 506 pages, Hardcover

Santorini felt like an island holding its breath. As if it were keeping in a secret... Liv Varan… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Evans Welch's Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3) book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Sometimes moving forward is as simple as admitting what you already know."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

"What was there to worry about? It's not like I was an active aquaphobic carrying nine years of emotional baggage onto a boat held together by duct tape."

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

"There’s an awkward like, Can we continue on our merry little way and pretend this never happened? and then there’s an awkward like, Do you happen to know of any nondormant volcanoes that I could thro…"

-Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives (Love & Gelato, #3)

Cover of The Light in Hidden Places by Sharon Cameron

12. The Light in Hidden Places

By: Sharon Cameron

4.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary story of Stefania Podgorska, a Polish teenager who chose bravery and humanity by … read more

Similar categories in Sharon Cameron's The Light in Hidden Places book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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13. They Went Left

By: Monica Hesse

4.24

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over,… read more

Similar categories in Monica Hesse's They Went Left book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Choose to love."

-Monica Hesse, They Went Left

"Our minds are nothing. That's the biggest nothing, the reason we are still in the hospital. Our minds are soft. Confused."

-Monica Hesse, They Went Left

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14. The Keeper of Hidden Books

By: Madeline Martin

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming story about the power of books to bring us together, inspired by the true story of t… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Martin's The Keeper of Hidden Books book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Artifice

By: Sharon Cameron

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A dramatic story of duplicity and resistance, betrayal and loyalty, set against the backdrop of Wor… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Cameron's Artifice book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Girl in the Blue Coat

By: Monica Hesse

4.04

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods t… read more

Similar categories in Monica Hesse's Girl in the Blue Coat book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Sometimes hope can be poisonous."

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

"Isn't love the opposite of rational?"

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

"But when it comes down to it, we all die alone."

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

"Girls in love will do desperate and creative things."

-Monica Hesse, Girl in the Blue Coat

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17. The War Outside

By: Monica Hesse

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal.It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe… read more

Similar categories in Monica Hesse's The War Outside book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Hummingbird Dagger

By: Cindy Anstey

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

1833. After young Lord James Ellerby witnesses a near-fatal carriage accident on the outskirts of h… read more

Similar categories in Cindy Anstey's The Hummingbird Dagger book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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19. Trajectory

By: Cambria Gordon

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The stirring and dramatic story of one young woman who must find a way to overcome her deepest fear… read more

Similar categories in Cambria Gordon's Trajectory book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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20. I Am Not Jessica Chen

By: Ann Liang

4.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After getting rejected by every single Ivy League she applied to and falling short of all her Asian… read more

Similar categories in Ann Liang's I Am Not Jessica Chen book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. The Poppy and the Rose

By: Ashlee Cowles

3.62

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

1912: Ava Knight, a teen heiress, boards the Titanic to escape the shadow of her unstable mother an… read more

Similar categories in Ashlee Cowles's The Poppy and the Rose book and Jordyn Taylor's The Paper Girl of Paris

  • romance
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Some say violence is the result of clinging to the past, but I believe it is more often the consequence of forgetting it—of forgetting who we are, a core nature not even time can change. Humankind wi…"

-Ashlee Cowles, The Poppy and the Rose

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