9 Best fiction books like The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee

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The Piano Teacher

By: Janice Y.K. Lee

3.80

Format: 245 pages,

Exotic Hong Kong takes center stage in this sumptuous novel, set in the 1940s and '50s. It's a city…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Masque of the Black Tulip (Pink Carnation, #2)

By: Lauren Willig

3.92

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Modern-day graduate student Eloise achieved the academic coup of the century when she unmasked one … read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for."

-Lauren Willig, The Masque of the Black Tulip (Pink Carnation, #2)

"Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign saying GET YOUR BLACK TULIPS HERE. Every nerve in my body was on man-alert, screamin…"

-Lauren Willig, The Masque of the Black Tulip (Pink Carnation, #2)

"Miles was still mourning the loss of his Romantic Plan. 'There was going to be champagne, and oysters, and you' -- he held out both hands as though shifting a piece of furniture -- 'were going to be …"

-Lauren Willig, The Masque of the Black Tulip (Pink Carnation, #2)

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2. Pirates!

By: Celia Rees

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Nancy Kington, daughter of a rich merchant, suddenly orphaned when her father dies, is sent to live… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar

By: Robert Alexander

4.12

Format: None pages,

Drawing from decades of work, travel, and research in Russia, Robert Alexander re-creates the tragi… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. I Shall Be Near to You

By: Erin Lindsay McCabe

3.33

Format: None pages,

An extraordinary novel about a strong-willed woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee

5. The Piano Teacher

By: Janice Y.K. Lee

3.80

Format: 245 pages,

Exotic Hong Kong takes center stage in this sumptuous novel, set in the 1940s and '50s. It's a city… read more

Similar categories in Janice Y.K. Lee's The Piano Teacher book and Janice Y.K. Lee's The Piano Teacher

  • romance
  • historical
  • asia
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • china
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6. The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad

By: Harrison E. Salisbury

3.88

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1944 was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II… read more

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  • world war ii
Cover of Falls the Shadow  (Welsh Princes, #2) by Sharon Kay Penman

7. Falls the Shadow (Welsh Princes, #2)

By: Sharon Kay Penman

4.55

Format: 160 pages,

This is Simon de Montfort's story--and the story of King Henry III, as weak and changeable as Montf… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

8. Falling Angels

By: Tracy Chevalier

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In her New York Timesbestselling follow-up, Tracy Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a … read more

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9. Countdown (The Sixties Trilogy, #1)

By: Deborah Wiles

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Franny Chapman just wants some peace. But that's hard to get when her best friend is feuding with h… read more

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10. Lionheart (Plantagenets #4)

By: Sharon Kay Penman

3.30

Format: None pages, Hardcover

They were called "The Devil's Brood," though never to their faces. They were the four surviving son… read more

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11. People Like Us

By: Dominick Dunne

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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12. Isabel: Jewel of Castilla, Spain, 1466 (Royal Diaries #3)

By: Carolyn Meyer

3.90

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

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13. Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

By: P.W. Singer

4.15

Format: None pages,

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14. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

By: Yvonne Korshak

4.29

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Temples are for the gods,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

"But  Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"

-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

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15. Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

By: K. Ritz

4.33

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Synopsis: For five years Me’acca Mysuth Sheever has lived among his “sworn enemies,” pretending to … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"At what point does faith become insanity?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?"

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"Mead. O sweet elixir, Ye bless the lips and steal the wits. "

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

"This world would be a pleasant place if people didn’t inhabit it."

-K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

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16. A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.29

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

This book covers the things I was forced to leave out of "A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume O… read more

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17. Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

By: Dale A. Jenkins

4.30

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

WAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE? It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are te… read more

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  • world war ii
"During the Fireside Chats, half the country tuned in on their radios, and it was said that on hot summer nights when people had their windows open, one could walk through the residential downtown of …"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Roosevelt was a genius at mass communications, and his speechwriters deferred to his reviews of their drafts, not so much because he was the president, but because when a text required the perfect wo…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"In 1941, as the United States faced the threat of another horrific war, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was leading the nation from a wheelchair. Struck down by polio at age thirty-nine, he rehabilit…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

"Back in Washington, alone in the late afternoon of December 7, a chastened Franklin Roosevelt considered the situation.  He may have wondered how things had gone so terribly wrong.  But what might ha…"

-Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

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18. Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

By: K.G.E. Konkel

4.32

Format: 440 pages, Kindle Edition

The Second World War was fought not only on the front lines but also in secrets, some of which have… read more

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"The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull bu…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Outside, beyond the vast red bricked labyrinth of Kremlin walls, a humid night ensnarled the Soviet capital in its spell. Yet here in the womb-like private cinema Josef Stalin sat, eyes transfixed on…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"Fedin laughed outright, a grim, calculating gesture as hard and unfeeling as cold steel. “Twenty million Russians have been slaughtered by the Fascists in the last six years..... Always remember this…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

"They came for him near midnight, seven hard-faced men arriving simultaneously in a matching set of Zis 101s, the black-lacquered saloon car so shamelessly modeled on the American Buick Roadmaster, an…"

-K.G.E. Konkel, Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two

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19. Isabella Warrior Queen

By: Michael G. Kramer

4.30

Format: None pages, ebook

The complete story of Isabella, her husband King Edward II, their son who was King Edward III and t… read more

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  • historical
"Eliza answered, “My Lady, that was Sir Roger Mortimer!"

-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

"Cynthia said, “How are things going for you with this birth?"

-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

"When speaking to her husband, Isabella replied, Mon tresdoutz coer, (My very sweet heart) please do that and perhaps I shall be able to continue to perform official functions on your behalf!"

-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

"On the 16th of Febuary 1312, when Isabella was aged sixteen years, the couple were at their hunting lodge when Edward suddenly took Isabella into his arms and began to kiss her and pay her a lot of a…"

-Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

Cover of Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series) by Carolyn M. Bowen

20. Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series)

By: Carolyn M. Bowen

4.36

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

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"He wanted a stiff drink to get through the evening, for he knew they’d be wailing, and her family coming unglued."

-Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series)

"Elpidio sensed that David had more to say but was holding back due to their friendship. He wondered why David had gone along with Emiliana's seemingly impulsive ideas."

-Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series)

"He didn't want to give the cartel any time to persuade Emiliana into accepting a more enticing offer. He had reservations about her loyalty and feared she might make a deal without Elpidio's consent."

-Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series)

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21. Victor's Blessing

By: Barbara Sontheimer

4.34

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Victor Gant, a 6'5" half-Osage blacksmith is an unusual hero for a Civil War love story. But Victor… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Then wake up my sweet,  wake up knowing that your future is to be happy, and that your heart will heal."

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"Victor's tortured eyes blazed down at her, and for a moment she was afraid.  Then he leaned down and dissolved into tears in the arms of Celena who was only six."

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"He turned and smiled resolvedly at her.  He knew no one else would ever understand that for Arvellen, sex only had to do with friendship and of pleasing one another, and nothing at all to do with wha…"

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

"I'm afraid!" She cried breaking free from his embrace. But this time, he refused to let her go.  "No, no, no, you're not afraid of me!  What am I...a foot and half taller than you and out weigh you b…"

-Barbara Sontheimer, Victor's Blessing

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