5 best-selling world war ii books like The Sound of the Hours by Karen Campbell

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The Sound of the Hours

By: Karen Campbell

3.49

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and romantic novel about love, loss, and conflict in an occupied Italian town during Wor…

If you liked the world war ii plot in The Sound of the Hours by Karen Campbell , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The House of Special Purpose

By: John Boyne

4.18

Format: 469 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Absolutist, a propulsive novel of the Russian Revolution and the fate of the… read more

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  • romance
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A man was standing at the end of the hallway, just outside an open door, from where a great light shone, illuminating him almost as a god."

-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

"It has always astonished me, Georgy Daniilovich, that those who are most repulsed by autocratic or dictatorial rule are among the first to eliminate their enemies once they take on the mantle of powe…"

-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

"It's enough to make me laugh. I close the door behind me and sit down again, considering this, and truly, I find it so funny that I laugh until I cry. And when the tears come I think aah... So this i…"

-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

"It occurs to me that even though Zoya and I are both still alive, my life is already over. She will be taken from me soon and there will be no reason for me to continue without her. We are one person…"

-John Boyne, The House of Special Purpose

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2. A Place Called Here

By: Cecelia Ahern

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ever wondered where lost things go? Ever since the day her classmate vanished, Sandy Shortt has bee… read more

Similar categories in Cecelia Ahern's A Place Called Here book and Karen Campbell's The Sound of the Hours

  • romance
  • fiction
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3. Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945

By: Michihiko Hachiya , John W. Dower , None

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

The late Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital when the world… read more

Similar categories in Michihiko Hachiya's Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945 book and Karen Campbell's The Sound of the Hours

  • world war ii
  • war
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4. This Is Where I Am

By: Karen Campbell

3.63

Format: None pages, Paperback

Heartbreaking, uplifting and unforgettable, This is Where I Am is a tender and eye-opening novel ab… read more

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  • fiction
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5. September

By: Rosamunde Pilcher

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

As spring comes to Scotland and the hills burst into life, a dance is planned for September. The in… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

6. The Twilight Time

By: Karen Campbell

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Anna Cameron is a new Sergeant in the Flexi Unit. On her first day in the new job she discovers she… read more

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7. Proof of Life

By: Karen Campbell

3.68

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Chief Inspector Anna Cameron is a woman with everything to lose. Her life is finally back on track,… read more

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8. Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey

By: Jackie Kay

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that … read more

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9. The Cleaner of Chartres

By: Salley Vickers

4.18

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of Miss Garnet's Angel, a story of the redemptive power of love and community in th… read more

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10. City of Scars (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, #14)

By: J.D. Kirk

4.55

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Some scars never truly heal. Life has been slowly improving for DCI Jack Logan lately. Happily s… read more

Similar categories in J.D. Kirk's City of Scars (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers, #14) book and Karen Campbell's The Sound of the Hours

  • fiction
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11. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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  • fiction
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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12. 1979

By: Val McDermid

3.78

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

Hailed as Britain's Queen of Crime, Val McDermid's award-winning, internationally bestselling novel… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. The Romantic

By: William Boyd

4.15

Format: 451 pages, Paperback

Set in the 19th century, The Romantic is the story of life itself. Following the roller-coaster for… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. A Terrible Kindness

By: Jo Browning Wroe

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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16. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • fiction
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17. The Pavilion in the Clouds

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

It is 1938 and the final days of the British Empire. In a bungalow high up in the green hills above… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Haven

By: Emma Donoghue

3.42

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Fog makes an island of every man."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"

-Emma Donoghue, Haven

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19. The Whalebone Theatre

By: Joanna Quinn

4.06

Format: 558 pages, Hardcover

A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Quinn's The Whalebone Theatre book and Karen Campbell's The Sound of the Hours

  • adult fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Without passion we are only machines."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

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20. The Last Word

By: Elly Griffiths

3.92

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Natalka and Edwin, whom we met in The Postscript Murders, are running a detective agency in Shoreha… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Meet Me at the Museum

By: Anne Youngson

3.93

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Please be aware I am writing to you to make sense of myself ... When the curator of a Danish mus… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
"Our letters have meant so much to us because we have both arrived at the same point in our lives. More behind us than ahead of us."

-Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum

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22. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. Wavewalker: Breaking Free

By: Suzanne Heywood

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more

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"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"

-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free

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24. 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 Karen Campbell's The Sound of the Hours

  • adult fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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25. When We Were Young & Brave

By: Hazel Gaynor

4.19

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. . . The New York Times b… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Wild Coast (Rhona MacLeod #17) by Lin Anderson

26. The Wild Coast (Rhona MacLeod #17)

By: Lin Anderson

4.26

Format: 458 pages, Kindle Edition

A remote shoreline. A lethal killer.The height of summer in Scotland. Small west-coast campsites ar… read more

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  • fiction
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27. The Stranding

By: Kate Sawyer

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid an… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Very Private School: A Memoir by Charles     Spencer

28. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

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Cover of Call of the Penguins (Veronica McCreedy, #2) by Hazel Prior

29. Call of the Penguins (Veronica McCreedy, #2)

By: Hazel Prior

4.10

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Veronica McCreedy can't resist the promise of adventure . . . Nine-year-old Daisy and nearly nin… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Bridges to Burn (Detective Clare Mackay #8) by Marion Todd

30. Bridges to Burn (Detective Clare Mackay #8)

By: Marion Todd

4.34

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

DI Clare Mackay is called to Albany High, where the body of a girl has been found. A suspected suic… read more

Similar categories in Marion Todd's Bridges to Burn (Detective Clare Mackay #8) book and Karen Campbell's The Sound of the Hours

  • fiction
Cover of The Sound of the Hours by Karen Campbell

31. The Sound of the Hours

By: Karen Campbell

3.49

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and romantic novel about love, loss, and conflict in an occupied Italian town during Wor… read more

Similar categories in Karen Campbell's The Sound of the Hours book and Karen Campbell's The Sound of the Hours

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • italy
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

24 Best fiction books like The Sound of the Hours by Karen Campbell

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The House of Special Purpose

John Boyne

4.18

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A Place Called Here

Cecelia Ahern

3.72

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This Is Where I Am

Karen Campbell

3.63

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September

Rosamunde Pilcher

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Death Rocks (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #21)

L.J. Ross

4.64

Transform Your Habits

The Two Deaths of Ruth Lyle (Detective Jan Talantire #1)

Nick Louth

3.94

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Guilty Mothers (DI Kim Stone, #20)

Angela Marsons

4.54

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Neil Lancaster

4.54

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