8 Best world war ii books like Hotel Cuba by Aaron Hamburger

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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…

If you liked the world war ii plot in Hotel Cuba by Aaron Hamburger , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Woman Beyond the Sea

By: Sarit Yishai-Levi

3.98

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

A mesmerizing novel about three generations of women who have lost each other—and the quest to weav… read more

Similar categories in Sarit Yishai-Levi's The Woman Beyond the Sea book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • jewish
  • historical
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
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2. The Postcard

By: Anne Berest

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more

Similar categories in Anne Berest's The Postcard book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • jewish
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

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3. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

By: Lisa See

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more

Similar categories in Lisa See's Lady Tan’s Circle of Women book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Wolf Hunt

By: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Ayelet Gundar-Goshen returns with a timely exploration of the fault lines in a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • jewish
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6. Künstlers in Paradise

By: Cathleen Schine

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewi… read more

Similar categories in Cathleen Schine's Künstlers in Paradise book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • literary fiction
  • jewish
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
"If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do …"

-Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

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7. Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more

Similar categories in Roxana Robinson's Leaving book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

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8. 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 Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 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

Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

9. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Absolution book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

Similar categories in Amor Towles's Table for Two book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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13. The Museum of Failures

By: Thrity Umrigar

4.13

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of… read more

Similar categories in Thrity Umrigar's The Museum of Failures book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Because, ultimately everybody's story was written in scars."

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

"He had often thought of Bombay as the museum of failures, an exhibit hall filled with thwarted dreams and broken promises."

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

"Of course, there were unhappy people everywhere on earth, and if you catalogued all their griefs and disappointments, every place could be considered a museum of failures. One could argue that this w…"

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

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14. The Boy with the Star Tattoo

By: Talia Carner

4.15

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage… read more

Similar categories in Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • jewish
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Becoming Madam Secretary

By: Stephanie Dray

4.45

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

She took on titans, battled generals, and changed the world as we know it… New York Times bestse… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Dray's Becoming Madam Secretary book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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16. 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 Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • literary fiction
  • jewish
  • historical
  • judaism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • 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

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17. The Hebrew Teacher

By: Maya Arad

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome cris… read more

Similar categories in Maya Arad's The Hebrew Teacher book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • jewish
"״ילד לא צריך בכלל מסיבה גדולה עד גיל ארבע,״ פוסקת רוית. ״מה, בארץ עושים רק עם הסבתות, הדודים...״ ״אבל זו הבעיה, אין פה סבתות,״ היא מחווה את דעתה. ״איי,״ מלכה מסכימה, ״זאת בדיוק הבעיה. אין פה סבתות.״"

-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher

"יועד לוגם מהכוס ומעווה את פניו. ״חרא קפה.״ ״בפעם הבאה תלך לקפה מול הספרייה,״ היא מציעה לו טיפ של מקומיים. רק לפני שנה פתחו אותו, וכל הקמפוס מדבר עליו: כמו בניו יורק, כמו בסן פרנסיסקו, בסיאטל: קלייה ע…"

-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher

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18. Daughters of Shandong

By: Eve J. Chung

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An instant USA Today Bestseller! A propulsive, extraordinary novel about a mother and her daught… read more

Similar categories in Eve J. Chung's Daughters of Shandong book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Bird Hotel

By: Joyce Maynard

4.30

Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition

Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard.   After… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Maynard's The Bird Hotel book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"A person can start off fresh in this place,"

-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

"I hadn’t shaken my bone-deep sadness, but in small ways, I was coming back to life. My body, that had gone numb, began to feel again. Sun on my skin, good food, something as simple as the smell of th…"

-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

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20. 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 Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • adult fiction
  • jewish
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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21. 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 Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • jewish
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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22. Goyhood

By: Reuven Fenton

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Funny, poignant, and revelatory while plumbing the emotional depths of the relationship between est… read more

Similar categories in Reuven Fenton's Goyhood book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • fiction
  • judaism
  • family
  • jewish
Cover of Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy by Letty Cottin Pogrebin

23. Shanda: A Memoir of Shame and Secrecy

By: Letty Cottin Pogrebin

3.99

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An intimate memoir from a founding editor of Ms. magazine who grew up in a Jewish immigrant family … read more

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  • audiobook
  • judaism
  • family
  • jewish
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24. The Marriage Box

By: Corie Adjmi

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Casey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she start… read more

Similar categories in Corie Adjmi's The Marriage Box book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • jewish
  • historical
  • judaism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. 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 Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

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

26. 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 Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • jewish
  • historical
  • judaism
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel by Matthew Daub

27. Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel

By: Matthew Daub

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Brooklyn’s Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Daub's Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • fiction
  • jewish
Cover of Your Presence Is Mandatory by Sasha Vasilyuk

28. Your Presence Is Mandatory

By: Sasha Vasilyuk

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A riveting debut novel, based on real events, about a Ukrainian World War II veteran with a secret … read more

Similar categories in Sasha Vasilyuk's Your Presence Is Mandatory book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • jewish
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard

29. How the Light Gets In

By: Joyce Maynard

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Maynard's How the Light Gets In book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of On Her Own by Lihi Lapid

30. On Her Own

By: Lihi Lapid

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis that melds the clock-ticking tension of Laur… read more

Similar categories in Lihi Lapid's On Her Own book and Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba

  • fiction
  • jewish
Cover of Swimming to Jerusalem: A Novel by Seth Bornstein

31. Swimming to Jerusalem: A Novel

By: Seth Bornstein

4.52

Format: 482 pages, Kindle Edition

Swimming to Jerusalem is the story of Bram Goodman; his family, friends, colleagues, and demons.Bor… read more

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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

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20 Top fiction books like Kantika by Elizabeth Graver

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The Postcard

Anne Berest

4.37

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

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Tan Twan Eng

4.14

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