16 Best historical fiction books like Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark T. Sullivan

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Beneath a Scarlet Sky

By: Mark T. Sullivan

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager--obsessed …

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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

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"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. Beneath a Scarlet Sky

By: Mark T. Sullivan

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Pino Lella wants nothing to do with the war or the Nazis. He's a normal Italian teenager--obsessed … read more

Similar categories in Mark T. Sullivan's Beneath a Scarlet Sky book and Mark T. Sullivan's Beneath a Scarlet Sky

  • italy
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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3. 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

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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4. The Great Alone

By: Kristin Hannah

3.28

Format: 437 pages,

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. 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

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

6. We Were the Lucky Ones

By: Georgia Hunter

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, propulsive novel based on the true story of a family of Polish Jews who are separ… read more

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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. 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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9. Winter Garden

By: Kristin Hannah

4.11

Format: 40 pages,

From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes a powerful, heartbre… read more

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10. 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

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  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"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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11. 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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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Go as a River

By: Shelley Read

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Women endure. That’s what we do."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

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13. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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14. 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

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"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)

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15. Where the Lost Wander

By: Amy Harmon

4.41

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

In this epic and haunting love story set on the Oregon Trail, a family and their unlikely protector… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The pain. It's worth it. The more you love, the more it hurts. It's the only thing that is."

-Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander

"We spend our lives complicating what we would do better to accept. Because in acceptance, we put our energies into transcendence."

-Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander

"I don’t cry either; I can’t...grief is draining. I am hoarding my strength and my stamina for life, and I will not spend it on death"

-Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander

"I spent the first fifteen years of my life fighting everything and everyone. But . . . endurance . . . is a whole different kind of battle. It’s a hell of a lot harder."

-Amy Harmon, Where the Lost Wander

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16. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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17. West With Giraffes

By: Lynda Rutledge

4.36

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headline… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Destiny is a mobile thing — that every choice you make, along with every choice made around you, can cause it to spin this way and that, offering destinies galore."

-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

"Problem was, whenever I locked eyes with an animal I felt something more soulful than I ever felt from the humans I knew, and what I saw in that sprawled giraffe’s eye made me ache to the bone."

-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

"People look at you peculiar if you talk about the feeling you got for animals, saying animals have no souls, no sense of good or bad, no value up next to humans," he said. "I don't know about that. S…"

-Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

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18. The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

By: Robert Dugoni

4.43

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Sam Hill always saw the world through different eyes. Born with red pupils, he was called “Devil Bo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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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

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"...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

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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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

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"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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