9 Best book club books like Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline

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Orphan Train

By: Christina Baker Kline

2.55

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The author of Bird in Handand The Way Life Should Bedelivers her most ambitious and powerful novel …

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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 Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
"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 Red Tent

By: Anita Diamant

2.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within th… read more

Similar categories in Anita Diamant's The Red Tent book and Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
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3. Orphan Train

By: Christina Baker Kline

2.55

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

The author of Bird in Handand The Way Life Should Bedelivers her most ambitious and powerful novel … read more

Similar categories in Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train book and Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
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4. The Alice Network

By: Kate Quinn

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Alice Network book and Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Great Alone

By: Kristin Hannah

3.28

Format: 437 pages,

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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6. The Nightingale

By: Kristin Hannah

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isab… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale book and Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

7. Before We Were Yours

By: Lisa Wingate

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant … read more

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8. The Secret Life of Bees

By: Sue Monk Kidd

4.22

Format: 224 pages,

Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Beestells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has… read more

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9. All the Light We Cannot See

By: Anthony Doerr

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths c… read more

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10. The Kitchen House

By: Kathleen Grissom

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that ex… read more

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11. Water for Elephants

By: Sara Gruen

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa … read more

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12. The Invention of Wings

By: Sue Monk Kidd

3.83

Format: 35 pages,

Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece … read more

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13. The Light Between Oceans

By: M.L. Stedman

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel that opens in 1918 Australia - th… read more

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14. Sarah's Key

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Tatiana de Rosnay offers us a brilliantly subtle, compelling portrait of France under occupation an… read more

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15. 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 Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
"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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16. 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

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
Cover of The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1) by Heather   Morris

17. The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

By: Heather Morris

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at… read more

Similar categories in Heather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1) book and Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
"If you wake up in the morning, it is a good day."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"How can a race spread out across multiple countries be considered a threat?"

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"Good and evil coexist in the worst of times. It is then when hope shines through."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"You see your world reflected in a mirror, but I have another mirror I look into mine, and I see a world that will bring yours down."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

Cover of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1) by Kim Michele Richardson

18. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

By: Kim Michele Richardson

4.22

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition for ISBN 978-1492671527 can be found here. In 1936, tucked deep into … read more

Similar categories in Kim Michele Richardson's The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1) book and Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
"What I wanted most was to be okay as a Blue. I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing."

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

"Well, them cloths are a lot like folks. Ain't much difference at all. Some of us is more spiffed up than others, some stiffer, and still, some softer. There's the colorful and dull, ugly and pretty, …"

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

"There's nothing wrong with your color, being you," he said firmly. "Nothing wrong with what the good Lord gives us in His world, Cussy Mary." He didn't know, couldn't know, the load I'd carried as a …"

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

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19. 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 Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"...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

"Eva refused to believe that a person who had made a life from books could have evil in her heart."

-Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

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20. The Things We Cannot Say

By: Kelly Rimmer

4.53

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Rimmer's The Things We Cannot Say book and Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
Cover of The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

21. The Four Winds

By: Kristin Hannah

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighti… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Four Winds book and Christina Baker Kline's Orphan Train

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
"Love is what remains when everything else is gone."

-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

"Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave."

-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

"Passion is a thunderstorm, there and gone. It nourishes, si, but it drowns, too."

-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

"Books had always been her solace. Novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her imagination."

-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

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4.29

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2.60

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Christina Baker Kline

2.55

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John Boyne

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Kathryn Stockett

3.37

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