21 Best fiction books like The Verdun Affair by Nick Dybek

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The Verdun Affair

By: Nick Dybek

3.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I an…

"I needed someone to talk to, but there was no one in particular I wanted to talk to. That's the best definition of loneliness I know."

-Nick Dybek, The Verdun Affair

"I needed someone to talk to, but there was no one in particular I wanted to talk to. That's the best definition of loneliness I know."

-Nick Dybek, The Verdun Affair

If you liked the fiction plot in The Verdun Affair by Nick Dybek , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

By: Greg Iles

4.17

Format: 791 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles returns with his most eagerly anticipated novel yet—… read more

Similar categories in Greg Iles's Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4) book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A man's biggest enemy is his mouth."

-Greg Iles, Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

"You can't build happiness on someone else's pain."

-Greg Iles, Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

"The past is never dead. It's not even past; if it were there would be no grief or sorrow."

-Greg Iles, Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

"Albert didn't know how that skinny school teacher could take what Willie gave her. But that was another thing he'd learned over the years; the size of the woman on the outside didn't mean nothing. It…"

-Greg Iles, Natchez Burning (Penn Cage, #4)

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2. Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I

By: Hazel Gaynor , Heather Webb

4.29

Format: 128 pages, ebook

New York Timesbestselling author Hazel Gaynor has joined with Heather Webb to create this unforgett… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Gaynor's Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

3. Girl Missing

By: Tess Gerritsen

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first body is a mystery. She's young. She's beautiful. And her corpse, laid out in the office o… read more

Similar categories in Tess Gerritsen's Girl Missing book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • romance
  • fiction
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4. The Peacock and the Sparrow

By: I.S. Berry

3.81

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN NPR BEST B… read more

Similar categories in I.S. Berry's The Peacock and the Sparrow book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Jimmy dealt in one of two limitless departments within the CIA - money and suspicion."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"I was free from the tangle of mistakes, promises, and defeats that grips a man's heels, taunts him with flashes of its sinewy strength."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"Nobody in espionage could justify sympathy. Right and wrong existed on paper, but in reality all that existed were the amorphous masses of in-between."

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

"At the end of the road, I've learned, espionage turns into a profession of ghosts. The culmination of actions taken or not taken, ends swallowed by means. A place where, even after you disappear, you…"

-I.S. Berry, The Peacock and the Sparrow

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5. Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.21

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Cork races against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthi… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's Fox Creek (Cork O’Connor, #19) book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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6. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

Similar categories in Adelle Waldman's Help Wanted book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
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7. The Little Flower Shop (Indiana Summers Series, #2)

By: Lori Foster

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

“Full of healing, hope and, most importantly, love.” —Maisey Yates,  New York Times  bestselling a… read more

Similar categories in Lori Foster's The Little Flower Shop (Indiana Summers Series, #2) book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
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8. The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson

By: Ellen Baker

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Orphan Train meets Before We Were Yours meets Water for Elephants in this compelling multigeneratio… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Baker's The Hidden Life of Cecily Larson book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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9. Sparrow

By: James Hynes

4.00

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

Told from the perspective of an enslaved boy being raised in a Roman brothel, a stunning literary h… read more

Similar categories in James Hynes's Sparrow book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
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10. The Little Village of Book Lovers

By: Nina George

3.41

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true lo… read more

Similar categories in Nina George's The Little Village of Book Lovers book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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11. The Librarian of Burned Books

By: Brianna Labuskes

3.93

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Rose Code and The Paris Library, The Librarian of Burned Books is a captivating WWI… read more

Similar categories in Brianna Labuskes's The Librarian of Burned Books book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people."

-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

"p. 364 Do you want to be the ones handing out the gasoline cans? Or the ones trying to put out the fire?"

-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

"The men who sough violence didn't understand that while swords could destroy bodies, a pen could destroy a nation."

-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

"The men who sought violence didn't understand that while swords could destroy bodies, a pen could destroy a nation."

-Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

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12. The Girl They Left Behind

By: Roxanne Veletzos

4.09

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping family saga and love story that offers a vivid and unique portrayal of life in war-torn … read more

Similar categories in Roxanne Veletzos's The Girl They Left Behind book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"To love is much easier than to despair, even when all of your hope has been burned to ashes."

-Roxanne Veletzos, The Girl They Left Behind

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13. The Beauty of Your Face

By: Sahar Mustafah

4.19

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face wit… read more

Similar categories in Sahar Mustafah's The Beauty of Your Face book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
"You do not laugh at someone who is trying; only at fools who do not give themselves a chance."

-Sahar Mustafah, The Beauty of Your Face

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14. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

Similar categories in Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

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15. The Guest Book

By: Sarah Blake

3.61

Format: 484 pages, Kindle Edition

An unforgettable love story, a novel about past mistakes and betrayals that ripple throughout gener… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Blake's The Guest Book book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
"And Evie was the grown-up now. She was in the line of grown-ups behind the child."

-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book

"The morning had started. Someone else was out there, threading the day into cloth."

-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book

"Ghost stories belong to the middle-aged, thought it's always the young who play the dramas."

-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book

"Wars, plagues, names upon tombs tell us only what happened. But history lies in the cracks between."

-Sarah Blake, The Guest Book

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16. Pete and Alice in Maine

By: Caitlin Shetterly

3.38

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold in New York Cit… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
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17. The Paper Wasp

By: Lauren Acampora

3.32

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from the acclaimed author of The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp is a riv… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Acampora's The Paper Wasp book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
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18. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

By: Helen Simonson

3.96

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about… read more

Similar categories in Helen Simonson's The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • world war i
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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19. Goodbye, Paris

By: Anstey Harris

3.75

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

Jojo Moyes meets Eleanor Oliphant in Goodbye, Paris, an utterly charming novel that proves that som… read more

Similar categories in Anstey Harris's Goodbye, Paris book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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20. The Edge of Lost

By: Kristina McMorris

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLER On a cold night in October 1937, searchlights cut through … read more

Similar categories in Kristina McMorris's The Edge of Lost book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"It’s fascinating, really, when you think about it. How a person can slip into a new life as one would a new pair of shoes. At first there’s a keen awareness of the fit: a stiffness at the heel, the b…"

-Kristina McMorris, The Edge of Lost

Cover of The Verdun Affair by Nick Dybek

21. The Verdun Affair

By: Nick Dybek

3.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I an… read more

Similar categories in Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair book and Nick Dybek's The Verdun Affair

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • italy
  • world war i
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
"I needed someone to talk to, but there was no one in particular I wanted to talk to. That's the best definition of loneliness I know."

-Nick Dybek, The Verdun Affair

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I.S. Berry

3.81

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Help Wanted

Adelle Waldman

3.62

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James Hynes

4.00

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Sahar Mustafah

4.19

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L.M. Montgomery , Rea Wilmshurst

3.69

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4.29

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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