5 best-selling nonfiction books like My Longest Night: A Twelve-Year-Old Heroine's Stirring Account of D-Day and After by Genevieve Duboscq

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My Longest Night: A Twelve-Year-Old Heroine's Stirring Account of D-Day and After

By: Genevieve Duboscq

4.26

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Writing from the perspective of herself as a young girl, Duboscqthe daughter of a railway guard on …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in My Longest Night: A Twelve-Year-Old Heroine's Stirring Account of D-Day and After by Genevieve Duboscq , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (Crosswicks Journals, #4) by Madeleine L'Engle

1. Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (Crosswicks Journals, #4)

By: Madeleine L'Engle

4.24

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Since her debut with The Small Rain in 1945, L'Engle has continued to write critically acclaimed b… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy."

-Madeleine L'Engle, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (Crosswicks Journals, #4)

"We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature."

-Madeleine L'Engle, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (Crosswicks Journals, #4)

"I was filled with anxiety that something might happen to him while we were far from home. I did not voice my fear or write about them in my journal, because that would have given them a reality I des…"

-Madeleine L'Engle, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (Crosswicks Journals, #4)

"Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous stran…"

-Madeleine L'Engle, Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage (Crosswicks Journals, #4)

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2. The Wake Up

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.28

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde comes a hauntingly emotional novel of ho… read more

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3. One of Ours

By: Willa Cather

3.95

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

One of Ours is Willa Cather's 1923 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the making of an American sol… read more

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"As he looked out and saw the grey landscape through the gently falling snow, he could not help thinking how much better it would be if people could go to sleep like the fields; could be blanketed dow…"

-Willa Cather, One of Ours

"He is convinced that the people who might mean something to him will always misjudge him and pass him by. He is not so much afraid of loneliness as he is of accepting cheap substitutes; of making exc…"

-Willa Cather, One of Ours

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4. Nurse, Come You Here!: More True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle

By: None

3.74

Format: 296 pages,

Mary J. Macleod and her husband left the London area for an idyllic place to raise their young chil… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Of Human Bondage

By: W. Somerset Maugham , Maeve Binchy , Benjamin DeMott

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

The first and most autobiographical of Maugham's masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an … read more

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6. I Am Mary Dunne

By: Brian Moore

3.75

Format: 160 pages,

A beautitul woman in her early thirties, Mary Lavery, nee Dunne lives in New York and is happily ma… read more

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7. Cowboy and His Elephant

By: Malcolm MacPherson

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the late 1980s, a female baby elephant was born on the plains of Southern Africa. In a "cull," h… read more

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8. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

By: Erik Larson

4.30

Format: 546 pages, ebook

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a f… read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. How Lucky

By: Will Leitch

3.77

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

For readers of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Nothing to See Here, a first n… read more

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10. Call the Canaries Home

By: Laura Barrow

4.03

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

Three estranged sisters reconnect in their Louisiana hometown to face an unresolved past in a heart… read more

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"Men were always there for the fun parts, she thought. Women were always left to pick up the pieces."

-Laura Barrow, Call the Canaries Home

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11. The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened

By: Bill McKibben

4.19

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben―award-winning author, activist, educat… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. My Longest Night: A Twelve-Year-Old Heroine's Stirring Account of D-Day and After

By: Genevieve Duboscq

4.26

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Writing from the perspective of herself as a young girl, Duboscqthe daughter of a railway guard on … read more

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  • world war ii
  • history
  • nonfiction

12 Best fiction books like Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, Maeve Binchy, Benjamin DeMott

Transform Your Habits

A Passage to India

E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Main Street

Sinclair Lewis

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Vanity Fair

William Makepeace Thackeray , John Carey

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Somerset Maugham - Of Human Bondage, & The Moon and Sixpence

W. Somerset Maugham , Somerset Maugham

3.77

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