20 must-read fiction books like The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer

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The Warsaw Orphan

By: Kelly Rimmer

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond t…

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1. Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls, #1)

By: Martha Hall Kelly

4.29

Format: 487 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by the life of a real World War II heroine, this powerful debut novel reveals an incredibl… read more

Similar categories in Martha Hall Kelly's Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls, #1) book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"After that, we were like flies stuck in honey, alive but not really living."

-Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls, #1)

"The quiz said you would feel a click like the sound of a compact if you were in love, and I felt that click every time I saw Pietrik."

-Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls, #1)

"I walked home with a lighter step, for that night had knocked something loose in me, something long overdue to be knocked. At long last, I saw that group for what they were, with a few exceptions - a…"

-Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls (Lilac Girls, #1)

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2. The Room on Rue Amelie

By: Kristin Harmel

4.20

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale and Martha Hall Kelly’s Lilac Girls, this powerful nov… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Harmel's The Room on Rue Amelie book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am not sure about anything. But if we don’t have hope, we don’t have anything."

-Kristin Harmel, The Room on Rue Amelie

3. We Were the Lucky Ones

By: Georgia Hunter

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who are separ… read more

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4. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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5. The Golden Doves

By: Martha Hall Kelly

4.18

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Naz… read more

Similar categories in Martha Hall Kelly's The Golden Doves book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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6. The Paris Daughter

By: Kristin Harmel

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two m… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Harmel's The Paris Daughter book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This isn't a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It's about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chanc…"

-Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

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7. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Orphan Collector

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman

4.24

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

In the fall of 1918, thirteen-year-old German immigrant Pia Lange longs to be far from Philadelphia… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Marie Wiseman's The Orphan Collector book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"May God forgive you for what you’ve done."

-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector

"Obey the laws and wear the gauze, protect your jaws from septic paws."

-Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Orphan Collector

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9. Only the Beautiful

By: Susan Meissner

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune th… read more

Similar categories in Susan Meissner's Only the Beautiful book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Winemaker's Wife

By: Kristin Harmel

4.22

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The author of the engrossing international bestseller The Room on Rue Amélie returns with a moving … read more

Similar categories in Kristin Harmel's The Winemaker's Wife book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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11. The Woman with the Blue Star

By: Pam Jenoff

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Lost Girls of Paris comes a riveting tale of courage and unlikely friendship… read more

Similar categories in Pam Jenoff's The Woman with the Blue Star book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • poland
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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12. The Little Liar

By: Mitch Albom

4.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Gree… read more

Similar categories in Mitch Albom's The Little Liar book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"Dead men tell no lies, but their truths must be unearthed."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"But the lies you tell by daylight leave you lonesome in the dark."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"The sad thing is, by the time you share what a loved one wants to hear, they no longer want to hear it."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"...a lie told once is easy to expose, but a lie told a thousand times can look like the truth. And destroy the world."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

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13. Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)

By: Heather Morris

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A promise to stay together. An unbreakable bond. A fierce will to survive. From international … read more

Similar categories in Heather Morris's Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3) book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"Looking at these photos in this special light we have remembered the past without grief and if we can do that, we can also look ahead without fear."

-Heather Morris, Three Sisters (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #3)

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14. Code Name Sapphire

By: Pam Jenoff

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A woman must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz in this riveting tale of b… read more

Similar categories in Pam Jenoff's Code Name Sapphire book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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15. The Warsaw Orphan

By: Kelly Rimmer

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond t… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • poland
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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16. The Book of Lost Names

By: Kristin Harmel

4.43

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Harmel's The Book of Lost Names book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"...we are only responsible for the things we do—or fail to do—ourselves."

-Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

"Remember that God’s plan for you might be different than the plan you have for yourself."

-Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

"Ah. I should have known. You’re one of us. … You’re someone who finds herself in the pages,"

-Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

"I know it’s sometimes hard to believe the best. Isn’t it better than believing the worst, though?"

-Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

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17. 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 Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • historical
  • war
  • poland
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
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18. The Huntress

By: Kate Quinn

4.30

Format: 560 pages, Kindle Edition

In the aftermath of war, the hunter becomes the hunted… Bold and fearless, Nina Markova always d… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Huntress book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Maybe,"

-Kate Quinn, The Huntress

"Cameras didn't lie, but they could certainly mislead."

-Kate Quinn, The Huntress

"Because we can keep on. Others, they try keeping on, they just..."

-Kate Quinn, The Huntress

"If she had a camera, she didn't need to tell stories; she could tell the truth."

-Kate Quinn, The Huntress

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19. The Diamond Eye

By: Kate Quinn

4.29

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Diamond Eye book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. When We Had Wings

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From three bestselling authors comes an interwoven tale about a trio of World War II nurses station… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's When We Had Wings book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Forest of Vanishing Stars by Kristin Harmel

21. The Forest of Vanishing Stars

By: Kristin Harmel

4.26

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative comin… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Harmel's The Forest of Vanishing Stars book and Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook

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4.29

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4.20

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4.64

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Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

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4.64

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4.13

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