6 Best war books like The Kinship Of Secrets by Eugenia Kim

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The Kinship Of Secrets

By: Eugenia Kim

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Calligrapher’s Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised …

If you liked the war plot in The Kinship Of Secrets by Eugenia Kim , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Possessions

By: Sara Flannery Murphy

3.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In an unnamed city, the Elysian Society allows paying clients to reconnect with their lost loved on… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of A Killing in the Hills  (Bell Elkins, #1) by Julia  Keller

2. A Killing in the Hills (Bell Elkins, #1)

By: Julia Keller

3.54

Format: 230 pages,

In A Killing in the Hills, a powerful, intricate debut from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Julia… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

By: Sungju Lee , Susan Elizabeth McClelland

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the … read more

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  • historical
  • asia
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4. Songs of Willow Frost

By: Jamie Ford

4.00

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage … read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

5. Evening Is the Whole Day

By: Preeta Samarasan

4.03

Format: 606 pages, Hardcover

Set in Malaysia, this spellbinding and already internationally acclaimed debut introduces us to the… read more

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6. Summer of the Dead (Bell Elkins, #3)

By: Julia Keller

4.26

Format: None pages, ebook

High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia--but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not … read more

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7. Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule

By: Jennifer Chiaverini

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln's Rival imagines… read more

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8. Eight Days To Live (Eve Duncan, #10)

By: Iris Johansen

3.97

Format: 12 pages,

Eve Duncan and her adopted daughter, Jane Macguire, are pitted against the members of a secretive c… read more

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9. Night of Many Dreams

By: Gail Tsukiyama

3.88

Format: 96 pages,

The bestselling author of Women of the Silkand The Samurai's Gardenoffers a powerful, coming-of-age… read more

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10. Home to Big Stone Gap (Big Stone Gap, #4)

By: Adriana Trigiani , Angelika Felenda

1.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Millions of readers around the world have fallen in love with the novels of the New York Times best… read more

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11. Together Tea

By: Marjan Kamali

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Together Tea, Marjan Kamali's delightful and heartwarming debut novel, Darya has discovered the … read more

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12. Freckles (Limberlost #1)

By: Gene Stratton-Porter

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

FRECKLES "This tender love story is set in the wild swampland of Limberlost, the most frightening p… read more

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13. Last House

By: Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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14. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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15. The Woman in the White Kimono: A Novel

By: Ana Johns

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them. Japan, 1… read more

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  • cultural
  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
"Worry gives a small thing big shadows."

-Ana Johns, The Woman in the White Kimono: A Novel

"What is truth but a story we tell ourselves?"

-Ana Johns, The Woman in the White Kimono: A Novel

"A mind conscious of guilt is its own accuser."

-Ana Johns, The Woman in the White Kimono: A Novel

"Anger rips free from a tongue too often silenced."

-Ana Johns, The Woman in the White Kimono: A Novel

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16. Dust Child

By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • asia
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • adult
"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."

-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child

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17. Butterfly Yellow

By: Thanhhà Lại

3.84

Format: 320 pages, ebook

In the final days of the Việt Nam War, Hằng takes her little brother, Linh, to the airport, determi… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
"The gray guilt had grown heavy, refusing to pause its relentless infusion into her joints and marrow. After all, it was her fault her brother was taken."

-Thanhhà Lại, Butterfly Yellow

"Should 'sleep' be plural? No, sleep is an idea, like love, no s. So many decisions in a single simple sentence. Exhausting, this elaborate dance of words."

-Thanhhà Lại, Butterfly Yellow

"Y'all have a song?' H nods. 'Bất-tơ-phơ-lai de-lồ.' 'Butterfly yellow? You mean yellow butterfly.' H starts to explain but pulls out her notebook. The most prepared notetaker on earth. Bướm = butterf…"

-Thanhhà Lại, Butterfly Yellow

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18. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War

By: Zhuqing Li

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, … read more

Similar categories in Zhuqing Li's Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War book and Eugenia Kim's The Kinship Of Secrets

  • historical
  • asia
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19. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • novels
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20. The Mermaid from Jeju

By: Sumi Hahn

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Yangsze Choo's Night Tiger and Min Jin Lee's Pachinko comes a magical saga that… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • asia
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • adult
"Tendrils of vine and fern fell from both sides of the gully, like green waterfalls spilling from rocks. Sunlight beamed through the trees, illuminating every tiny insect and mote in the air..."

-Sumi Hahn, The Mermaid from Jeju

"The half moon disappeared behind a cloud, casting the scene into darkness. The silence between the boy and girl expanded. It filled with memories of promises made, words that the world had broken"."

-Sumi Hahn, The Mermaid from Jeju

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21. The Apology

By: Jimin Han

3.47

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This sweeping intergenerational saga tells the story of a pampered and defiant South Korean matriar… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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22. The Second Ending

By: Michelle Hoffman

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A former prodigy who refuses to believe her best years are behind her and a young virtuoso searchin… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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23. The Picture Bride

By: Lee Geum-yi

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Your husband is a landowner,” they told her. “Food and clothing is so plentiful, it grows on tr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • adult
Cover of The Girl in the Painting by Renita D'Silva

24. The Girl in the Painting

By: Renita D'Silva

4.26

Format: 524 pages, Kindle Edition

Before she goes, there’s something she must do. She fingers the letter in her pocket. She thinks of… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson

25. Ædnan

By: Linnea Axelsson

4.23

Format: 762 pages, Hardcover

Ædnan är ett mäktigt epos som på en ordknapp vers berättar om två samiska familjer. I deras öden sp… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
Cover of The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea by Jihyun Park

26. The Hard Road Out: One Woman’s Escape From North Korea

By: Jihyun Park

4.25

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. … read more

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  • asia
  • adult
Cover of First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story by Huda  Al-Marashi

27. First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story

By: Huda Al-Marashi

3.64

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A candid, heartfelt love story set in contemporary California that challenges the idea of what it m… read more

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"Our Iraq was the one that lived on in our parents’ memories, frozen at the moment of their 1970s departure, immune to time."

-Huda Al-Marashi, First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story

"Maybe Mama was right, and you could learn to love someone. Maybe knowing a guy loved you was enough to flip the switch in your heart that made you love him back."

-Huda Al-Marashi, First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story

Cover of The Kinship Of Secrets by Eugenia Kim

28. The Kinship Of Secrets

By: Eugenia Kim

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Calligrapher’s Daughter comes the riveting story of two sisters, one raised … read more

Similar categories in Eugenia Kim's The Kinship Of Secrets book and Eugenia Kim's The Kinship Of Secrets

  • cultural
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • asia
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim

29. If You Leave Me

By: Crystal Hana Kim

3.69

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love—the unforgettable saga of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • asia
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • asian literature
  • adult
"I realized we were lurching toward a new world—one where women would disappear with foreigners, where Americans would never leave us alone, where they didn't simply provide us with money but with the…"

-Crystal Hana Kim, If You Leave Me

Cover of When We Fell Apart by Soon Wiley

30. When We Fell Apart

By: Soon Wiley

3.77

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A drama that untangles the complicated ties that bind families together--or break them apart--as a … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • asia
  • fiction
  • asian literature
  • adult
"The more I got to know here, the more impressed I was with her imperishable desire for something else. Never satisfied with how things were or how others thought they should be, she was always intere…"

-Soon Wiley, When We Fell Apart

"The more I got to know her, the more impressed I was with her imperishable desire for something else. Never satisfied with how things were or how others thought they should be, she was always interes…"

-Soon Wiley, When We Fell Apart

Cover of Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life by Helen   Fisher

31. Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life

By: Helen Fisher

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A thoroughly uplifting novel about a neurodivergent young man who unexpectedly builds a community a… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"Instead of fearing a thing, try to understand it. Because understanding can change everything about the way that you feel."

-Helen Fisher, Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life

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