5 Top world war ii books like In The Full Light Of The Sun by Clare Clark

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In The Full Light Of The Sun

By: Clare Clark

3.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Based on a true story, this gorgeous new novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in…

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1. Girl in Hyacinth Blue

By: Susan Vreeland

3.74

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

A professor invites a colleague from the art department to his home to view a painting he has kept … read more

Similar categories in Susan Vreeland's Girl in Hyacinth Blue book and Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun

  • art
  • art history
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Work is love made plain, whether man’s work or woman’s work."

-Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue

"I came to see that knowing what love isn't might be just as valuable, though infinitely less satisfying, as knowing what it is."

-Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue

"No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work."

-Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue

"The only place Aletta and I could be together unseen was just under the rafters in the church tower, a circumstance that propelled us into an earlier intimacy than what we would have known had we bee…"

-Susan Vreeland, Girl in Hyacinth Blue

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2. The Dust That Falls from Dreams

By: Louis de Bernières

3.61

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In the brief golden years of King Edward VII’s reign, Rosie McCosh and her three sisters are growin… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

4.31

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

From Simon & Schuster, Elizabeth Jane Howard's Casting Off is the next chapter in the Cazalet Chron… read more

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  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It is extraordinarily difficult not to hate someone when one feels powerless with them."

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

"Ich meine, wenn uns etwas nicht gelingt, bleibt uns noch genügend Zeit, es noch mal zu versuchen."

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

"Wenn du das Schreiben zu deinem Beruf machen willst, dann musst du anfangen, dich auf dein eigenes Urteil zu verlassen. Du darfst dir ruhig anhören, was andere davon halten, aber letztlich ist richti…"

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

"The effort of trying to turn grief into regret, to live entirely on past nourishment, even to keep the sharper parts of nostalgia credible (he found himself beginning to doubt and struggle with the i…"

-Elizabeth Jane Howard, Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

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4. The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles, #1)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In 1937, the coming war is only a distant cloud on Britain's horizon. As the Cazalet households pre… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Jane Howard's The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles, #1) book and Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun

  • world war ii
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles #3)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.66

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

In the third novel of England's Cazalet family, Elizabeth Howard moves through the dark, middle day… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Jane Howard's Confusion (Cazalet Chronicles #3) book and Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun

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

6. Afterwards

By: Rachel Seiffert

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Seiffert's first book, The Dark Room, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, announced the arriva… read more

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7. An Instance of the Fingerpost

By: Iain Pears

5.00

Format: 224 pages,

An ingenious tour de force: an utterly compelling historical mystery with a plot that twists and tu… read more

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8. The Miracles of Prato

By: Laurie Lico Albanese , None

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Like Fra Filippo's paintings, this love story, set in one of the most intriguing historical period… read more

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9. Little Faith

By: Nickolas Butler

3.88

Format: 336 pages, ebook

In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with t… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"How can it all be random, chance, a beautiful cosmic accident? How?"

-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

"Part of being a parent is loving your child more than they'll ever love you," he said."

-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

"Lyle, part of being a Christian - hell, part of being a good person - is caring about everyone, all human life. And I love you, friend, I do. But there are times when I think you feel that a person f…"

-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

"I never understood organized religion," Otis said at length. "Be a good person. Don't hurt other folks. Don't cheat. Don't be greedy. That seems pretty straightforward to me. I don't need a goddamn g…"

-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

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10. Welcome Home, Stranger

By: Kate Christensen

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more

Similar categories in Kate Christensen's Welcome Home, Stranger book and Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun

  • adult
  • fiction
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11. The Only Story

By: Julian Barnes

3.61

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is… read more

Similar categories in Julian Barnes's The Only Story book and Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun

  • fiction
"If you're going to be a grown-up,"

-Julian Barnes, The Only Story

"And who does not want their love authenticated?"

-Julian Barnes, The Only Story

"You realize that tough love is also tough on the lover."

-Julian Barnes, The Only Story

"First love fixes a life for ever: this much I have discovered over the years."

-Julian Barnes, The Only Story

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12. Magpie Lane

By: Lucy Atkins

3.97

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, p… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Atkins's Magpie Lane book and Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun

  • mystery
  • fiction
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13. Daddy

By: Emma Cline

3.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The stories in Emma Cline’s stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience… read more

Similar categories in Emma Cline's Daddy book and Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun

  • adult
  • fiction
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14. A Marriage of Lions

By: Elizabeth Chadwick

4.26

Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition

England, 1238 Raised at the court of King Henry III as a chamber lady to the queen, young Joanna… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir

By: Emma Espiner

4.31

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more

Similar categories in Emma Espiner's There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir book and Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun

  • adult
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16. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Perry's Enlightenment book and Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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17. Tidelands (The Fairmile, #1)

By: Philippa Gregory

3.83

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different . . . Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, and Engl… read more

Similar categories in Philippa Gregory's Tidelands (The Fairmile, #1) book and Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Curse of the Flores Women

By: Angélica Lopes

4.01

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

In this haunting novel about the enduring bonds of womanhood, a young girl weaves together the trut… read more

Similar categories in Angélica Lopes's The Curse of the Flores Women book and Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The Glass Château

By: Stephen P. Kiernan

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Universe of Two and The Baker’s Secret, a novel of hope, he… read more

Similar categories in Stephen P. Kiernan's The Glass Château book and Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun

  • art
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
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20. Daughter of Fire

By: Sofia Robleda

3.97

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

For a young woman coming of age in sixteenth-century Guatemala, safeguarding her people’s legacy is… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. In The Full Light Of The Sun

By: Clare Clark

3.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Based on a true story, this gorgeous new novel follows the fortunes of three Berliners caught up in… read more

Similar categories in Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun book and Clare Clark's In The Full Light Of The Sun

  • art
  • art history
  • historical
  • war
  • germany
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult

17 Best fiction books like In The Full Light Of The Sun by Clare Clark

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Girl in Hyacinth Blue

Susan Vreeland

3.74

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The Dust That Falls from Dreams

Louis de Bernières

3.61

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Casting Off (Cazalet Chronicles, #4)

Elizabeth Jane Howard

4.31

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The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles, #1)

Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.83

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The Hand That First Held Mine

Maggie O'Farrell

4.04

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The Dress in the Window

Sofia Grant

3.35

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After You

Julie Buxbaum

3.50

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Jean Kwok

4.43

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