10 must-read historical books like The Winter Station by Jody Shields

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The Winter Station

By: Jody Shields

2.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria - b…

"We need all types of knowledge. Why not expand our circle of information?"

-Jody Shields, The Winter Station

"We need all types of knowledge. Why not expand our circle of information?"

-Jody Shields, The Winter Station

"We need all types of knowledge. Why not expand our circle of information?"

-Jody Shields, The Winter Station

"People can be reassured by a tone of voice. By a touch. A gesture. Even if the voice and gestures are false, the innocent person meets the liar halfway to complete the lie. It's a partnership."

-Jody Shields, The Winter Station

If you liked the historical plot in The Winter Station by Jody Shields , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North by Blair Braverman

1. Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North

By: Blair Braverman

3.80

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

By the time Blair Braverman was eighteen, she had left her home in California, moved to arctic Norw… read more

Similar categories in Blair Braverman's Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube: Chasing Fear and Finding Home in the Great White North book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • audiobook
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2. The Shape of Mercy

By: Susan Meissner

5.00

Format: 64 pages,

"We understand what we want to understand." Leaving a life of privilege to strike out on her own, L… read more

Similar categories in Susan Meissner's The Shape of Mercy book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. The Child Finder

By: Rene Denfeld

4.20

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Three years ago, Madison Culver disappeared when her family was choosing a Christmas tree in Oregon… read more

Similar categories in Rene Denfeld's The Child Finder book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • mystery
  • fiction

4. March: Book Two (March, #2)

By: Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues! Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and on… read more

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5. China Dolls

By: Lisa See

4.04

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

An exciting new novel set in the "Chop Suey Circuit" of San Francisco right before World War II, fr… read more

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6. Uniform Justice (Commissario Brunetti, #12)

By: Donna Leon

3.94

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

A riveting, pitch-perfect murder mystery--the work of a truly masterful storyteller. Conjuring cont… read more

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7. A Spell of Good Things

By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more

Similar categories in Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀'s A Spell of Good Things book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."

-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things

"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"

-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things

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8. Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

By: Sonali Dev

3.68

Format: 481 pages, Paperback

Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family d… read more

Similar categories in Sonali Dev's Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1) book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"her bottle cap popping vagina"

-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

"Funny how photographs become the form your memories take."

-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

"No one is so special that they can’t exert themselves a bit for others."

-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

"There was something about Paris that made you feel you could forget who you were."

-Sonali Dev, Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

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9. 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

Similar categories in Anne Youngson's Meet Me at the Museum book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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10. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. The Teacher of Warsaw

By: Mario Escobar

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Warsaw Orphan and The Tattooist of Auschwitz: the start of WWII changed everything … read more

Similar categories in Mario Escobar's The Teacher of Warsaw book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Why do they hate us so much?" I was thoughtful and took my time answering. It was a question I often asked myself. "I think it's because they don't know us. At their core, racists and anti-Semites ar…"

-Mario Escobar, The Teacher of Warsaw

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12. Inland

By: Téa Obreht

3.43

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfo… read more

Similar categories in Téa Obreht's Inland book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"There are wounds of time and there are wounds of person, Misafir. Sometimes people come through their wounds, but time does not. Sometimes it's the other way around. Sometimes the wounds are so griev…"

-Téa Obreht, Inland

"He lived in a state of agitation, at odds with everything: the heat, the weather, the gold or lack thereof; the density of the crowds and the absence of quality people; his neighbors and their procli…"

-Téa Obreht, Inland

"Whoever had thought to instate a watering hole in this spot could not have been a woman. It was impossible to linger here without feeling observed. The goblin barrens rose up on either side of the pa…"

-Téa Obreht, Inland

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13. The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club

By: Julia Bryan Thomas

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For readers of Martha Hall Kelly and Beatriz Williams comes poignant historical fiction that remind… read more

Similar categories in Julia Bryan Thomas's The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

By: Loren Grush

4.36

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and Code Girls, the remarkable true story of America… read more

Similar categories in Loren Grush's The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • historical
  • audiobook
Cover of After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War by Helen Rappaport

15. After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

By: Helen Rappaport

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the … read more

Similar categories in Helen Rappaport's After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • historical
  • russia
  • audiobook
"His wife, "who only demanded of life that it should amuse her"."

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"(B)ut behind it all-- nothing: just vodka and the void. (Coco Chanel)"

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)"

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

"(H)is action was merely "galvanizing the corpse" of an army that was already in retreat and heading for defeat."

-Helen Rappaport, After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War

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16. Blood Sisters

By: Vanessa Lillie

3.85

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

A visceral and compelling mystery about a Cherokee archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs wh… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Lillie's Blood Sisters book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Rust in the Root

By: Justina Ireland

4.09

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The author of the visionary New York Times bestseller Dread Nation returns with another spellbindin… read more

Similar categories in Justina Ireland's Rust in the Root book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Winterland

By: Rae Meadows

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Perfection has a cost . . . Reminiscent of Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me and Julia Phillips’s Disa… read more

Similar categories in Rae Meadows's Winterland book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • adult fiction
  • russia
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Last Woman in the Forest

By: Diane Les Becquets

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the national bestselling author of Breaking Wild, here is a riveting and powerful thriller abo… read more

Similar categories in Diane Les Becquets's The Last Woman in the Forest book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • mystery
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Every Other Weekend

By: Zulema Renee Summerfield

3.49

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about an imaginative girl in the year following her parents' divorce, and what happen… read more

Similar categories in Zulema Renee Summerfield's Every Other Weekend book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
"The thing about fear that no one tells you is that it's like the cup in the myth of Thor: you can drink and drink and you will never be done. Fastidiously, steadily, without consciousness, you can de…"

-Zulema Renee Summerfield, Every Other Weekend

Cover of The Winter Station by Jody Shields

21. The Winter Station

By: Jody Shields

2.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria - b… read more

Similar categories in Jody Shields's The Winter Station book and Jody Shields's The Winter Station

  • adult fiction
  • russia
  • novels
  • asia
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • china
  • audiobook
"We need all types of knowledge. Why not expand our circle of information?"

-Jody Shields, The Winter Station

"People can be reassured by a tone of voice. By a touch. A gesture. Even if the voice and gestures are false, the innocent person meets the liar halfway to complete the lie. It's a partnership."

-Jody Shields, The Winter Station

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Susan Meissner

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Rene Denfeld

4.20

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A Spell of Good Things

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

3.79

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Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors (The Rajes, #1)

Sonali Dev

3.68

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Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

Marcia Muller

3.57

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Ausma Zehanat Khan

4.01

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Leonie Swann

3.51

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Tana French

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