5 Best historical books like I Am Sasha by Anita Selzer

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I Am Sasha

By: Anita Selzer

4.08

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

One boy’s extraordinary experience of wartime survival. One mother’s incredible courage. Based on a…

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1. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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2. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

By: Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster book and Anita Selzer's I Am Sasha

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

3. Asylum (Asylum, #1)

By: Madeleine Roux

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Asylumis a thrilling and creepy photo-novel perfect for fans of the New York TimesbestsellerMiss Pe… read more

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4. The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more

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5. Dry

By: Neal Shusterman

4.02

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life … read more

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"This isn't the same world it was yesterday."

-Neal Shusterman, Dry

"Mieux vaut avoir tort qu’être mort. — père de Kelton"

-Neal Shusterman, Dry

"I imagine her to already be animal, without needing three days to get there."

-Neal Shusterman, Dry

"Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while. Yesterday too."

-Neal Shusterman, Dry

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6. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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7. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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  • historical
  • war
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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8. Bodies of Light

By: Jennifer Down

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more

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"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"

-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light

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9. Limberlost

By: Robbie Arnott

4.25

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the heat of a long summer Ned hunts rabbits in a river valley, hoping the pelts will earn him en… read more

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  • historical
"After an hour of sodden stomping they saw ghostly figures beckoning them through the dense cloud. Highland snow gums, colour-swirled and hardy, and alpine yellow gums, splashed with shades of lemon a…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He told her the story of it, his words coming faster than with the others, without artifice or caution. Told her how he'd known there was something wonderful under the old paint from the moment he sa…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"He'd stare at that field of water until all the things he could not handle were rinsed out of him, and all that remained within him was the memory of that night: the whale, the warmth of the coat, hi…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

"Three days after their wedding they were standing at the base of Liffey Falls, at the brisk death of winter, watching an airborne river thrash its way earthward. The water tumbled through high ridges…"

-Robbie Arnott, Limberlost

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10. Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

By: Lana Del Rey

3.98

Format: 1 pages, Audible Audio

The highly anticipated spoken word poetry collection from Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards over … read more

Similar categories in Lana Del Rey's Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass book and Anita Selzer's I Am Sasha

  • nonfiction
"Live your life like no one’s listening"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"You don't want to be forgotten You just want to disappear"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

"Stay on your path Sylvia Plath don't fall away like all the others"

-Lana Del Rey, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

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11. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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12. Outback (DS Walker, #1)

By: Patricia Wolf

4.18

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Two missing backpackers. One vast outback. DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie… read more

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13. The Other Side of Beautiful

By: Kim Lock

3.94

Format: 368 pages, ebook

What happens when fate says 'go'? Lost & Found meets The Rosie Project in a stunning break-out nove… read more

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"No matter how people fought it, or denied it, or outraged about it. Death happened. Birth happened. Life happened. It was a devastating, as transformative, and a simple as that."

-Kim Lock, The Other Side of Beautiful

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14. The Warsaw Orphan

By: Kelly Rimmer

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond t… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Rimmer's The Warsaw Orphan book and Anita Selzer's I Am Sasha

  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
  • holocaust
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15. Badness

By: Gary Jubelin

4.08

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

The sequel to the #1 Bestseller I Catch Killers As a cop, I used to sit on one side of the inte… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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16. I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

By: Gary Jubelin

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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17. The Hiding Place

By: C.J. Tudor

3.60

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man comes an unputdownable psychological thriller about a ma… read more

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"Nunca voltes atrás. É o que nos estão sempre a dizer. As coisas terão mudado. Não serão como te recordas. Deixa o passado no passado. É claro que esta última é mais fácil de dizer que de fazer. O pas…"

-C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place

"We romanticize the past with our period dramas and glossy film adaptations. A bit like we do with nature. Nature is violent, unpredictable and unforgiving. Eat or be eaten. That's nature. However muc…"

-C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place

"And after all, kids will be kids. The problem is, if you let kids be kids, then before you know it they're smearing their faces in pigs' blood, pushing each other off the edge of cliffs and smashing …"

-C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place

"Grief is personal. It isn't something you can share like a box of chocolates. It's yours and yours alone, a spiked steel ball chained to your ankle, a coat of nails around your shoulders, a crown of …"

-C.J. Tudor, The Hiding Place

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18. With the Fire on High

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

4.18

Format: 400 pages, ebook

With her daughter to care for and her abuela to help support, high school senior Emoni Santiago has… read more

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"You're the author on your own life story."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

"Everything changes. I'll learn to be fine."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

"The whole of me is black. The whole of me is whole."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

"It's wild to miss someone so much, and yet in order to care for them you have to constantly say goodbye."

-Elizabeth Acevedo, With the Fire on High

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19. At the Foot of the Cherry Tree

By: Alli Parker

4.28

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese… read more

Similar categories in Alli Parker's At the Foot of the Cherry Tree book and Anita Selzer's I Am Sasha

  • world war ii
  • historical
  • war
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20. I Am Sasha

By: Anita Selzer

4.08

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

One boy’s extraordinary experience of wartime survival. One mother’s incredible courage. Based on a… read more

Similar categories in Anita Selzer's I Am Sasha book and Anita Selzer's I Am Sasha

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust

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3.98

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Gary Jubelin

4.08

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M.J. Arlidge

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Michael Parker

4.26

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