7 must-read holocaust books like Once We Were Home by Jennifer Rosner

Cover of Once We Were Home by Jennifer  Rosner

Once We Were Home

By: Jennifer Rosner

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings , com…

If you liked the holocaust plot in Once We Were Home by Jennifer Rosner , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of After Annie by Anna Quindlen

1. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly

2. 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 Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of The Paris Daughter by Kristin Harmel

3. 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 Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • 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

Cover of Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner

4. 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 Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lost English Girl by Julia  Kelly

5. The Lost English Girl

By: Julia Kelly

4.08

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of The Light Over London weaves an epic saga of love, motherhood, and betrayal… read more

Similar categories in Julia Kelly's The Lost English Girl book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

6. The Secret Book of Flora Lea

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.07

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her mi… read more

Similar categories in Patti Callahan Henry's The Secret Book of Flora Lea book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"The heart can hold much joy and great sorrow at the same time. It's a mystery. And it's also true."

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

"What a fairy tale is meant to do," she said, "if it's meant to do anything at all, Tolkien says, is give us new perspective on our world, the consolation of a happy ending. A recovery of sorts. Like …"

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

Cover of Code Name Sapphire by Pam Jenoff

7. 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 Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Canary Girls by Jennifer Chiaverini

8. Canary Girls

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

Rosie the Riveter meets A League of Their Own in New York Times bestselling novelist Jennifer Chiav… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Chiaverini's Canary Girls book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea

9. Good Night, Irene

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

4.14

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more

Similar categories in Luis Alberto Urrea's Good Night, Irene book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"

-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene

Cover of The House Is on Fire by Rachel Beanland

10. The House Is on Fire

By: Rachel Beanland

4.10

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction abou… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Beanland's The House Is on Fire book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If you want to help... any of us, then you get where you're going and you work hard and you find a way to take care of someone else the way your uncle has taken care of you."

-Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire

Cover of Kantika by Elizabeth Graver

11. Kantika

By: Elizabeth Graver

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Graver's Kantika book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • jewish
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

Cover of The Last Lifeboat by Hazel Gaynor

12. The Last Lifeboat

By: Hazel Gaynor

4.33

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

A Most Anticipated Book by Real Simple ∙ SheReads ∙ BookBub ∙ and more! Inspired by a remarkable… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Gaynor's The Last Lifeboat book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash

13. Beyond That, the Sea

By: Laura Spence-Ash

4.24

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of t… read more

Similar categories in Laura Spence-Ash's Beyond That, the Sea book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Must Not Think of Ourselves by Lauren Grodstein

14. We Must Not Think of Ourselves

By: Lauren Grodstein

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Grodstein's We Must Not Think of Ourselves book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • jewish
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
"We had never practiced Judaism before, and I thought myself too old to try believing something new, or to take advantage of an accident of birth to claim some brown patch of desert as my home."

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

"Our task is to pay attention... To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about the…"

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

"There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which ne…"

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

Cover of Sisters Under the Rising Sun by Heather   Morris

15. Sisters Under the Rising Sun

By: Heather Morris

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A phenomenal novel of resilience and survival from bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz… read more

Similar categories in Heather Morris's Sisters Under the Rising Sun book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Keeper of Hidden Books by Madeline  Martin

16. 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 Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Once We Were Home by Jennifer  Rosner

17. Once We Were Home

By: Jennifer Rosner

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings , com… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • adult fiction
  • jewish
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr

18. The Goddess of Warsaw

By: Lisa Barr

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphan… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Barr's The Goddess of Warsaw book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • jewish
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate

19. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Wingate's Shelterwood book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

Cover of The Enemy Beside Me by Naomi Ragen

20. The Enemy Beside Me

By: Naomi Ragen

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Inspired by true events, Naomi Ragen's The Enemy Beside Me is a powerful, provocative novel about t… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Ragen's The Enemy Beside Me book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

  • jewish
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • holocaust
  • audiobook
Cover of Hotel Cuba by Aaron Hamburger

21. Hotel Cuba

By: Aaron Hamburger

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl… read more

Similar categories in Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba book and Jennifer Rosner's Once We Were Home

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

21 Top fiction books like Once We Were Home by Jennifer Rosner

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Golden Doves

Martha Hall Kelly

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Paris Daughter

Kristin Harmel

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Only the Beautiful

Susan Meissner

4.47

View all the books

29 best-selling fiction books like Hotel Cuba by Aaron Hamburger

Transform Your Habits

The Woman Beyond the Sea

Sarit Yishai-Levi

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Postcard

Anne Berest

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

Lisa See

4.36

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.