10 best-selling world war ii books like The Boy with the Star Tattoo by Talia Carner

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The Boy with the Star Tattoo

By: Talia Carner

4.15

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage…

If you liked the world war ii plot in The Boy with the Star Tattoo by Talia Carner , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Underground Library by Jennifer    Ryan

1. The Underground Library

By: Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ryan's The Underground Library book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The Little Liar

By: Mitch Albom

4.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Beloved bestselling author Mitch Albom returns with a powerful novel that moves from a coastal Gree… read more

Similar categories in Mitch Albom's The Little Liar book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust
"Dead men tell no lies, but their truths must be unearthed."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"But the lies you tell by daylight leave you lonesome in the dark."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"The sad thing is, by the time you share what a loved one wants to hear, they no longer want to hear it."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

"...a lie told once is easy to expose, but a lie told a thousand times can look like the truth. And destroy the world."

-Mitch Albom, The Little Liar

Cover of Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

3. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more

Similar categories in Janet Skeslien Charles's Miss Morgan's Book Brigade book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical
  • war
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Finding Margaret Fuller

By: Allison Pataki

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An epic reimagining of the life of Margaret Fuller—America’s forgotten leading lady and the central… read more

Similar categories in Allison Pataki's Finding Margaret Fuller book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. The Lost Book of Bonn

By: Brianna Labuskes

3.95

Format: 374 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Rose Code and The Librarian Spy comes another literary themed historical novel from… read more

Similar categories in Brianna Labuskes's The Lost Book of Bonn book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Boy with the Star Tattoo by Talia Carner

6. The Boy with the Star Tattoo

By: Talia Carner

4.15

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage… read more

Similar categories in Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • israel
  • jewish
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Woman with No Name by Audrey  Blake

7. The Woman with No Name

By: Audrey Blake

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

She'll light the fire of resistance—but she may get burned… 1942. Though she survived the bomb t… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Blake's The Woman with No Name book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Kantika

By: Elizabeth Graver

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Graver's Kantika book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • jewish
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

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9. The Hebrew Teacher

By: Maya Arad

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome cris… read more

Similar categories in Maya Arad's The Hebrew Teacher book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • israel
  • jewish
"״ילד לא צריך בכלל מסיבה גדולה עד גיל ארבע,״ פוסקת רוית. ״מה, בארץ עושים רק עם הסבתות, הדודים...״ ״אבל זו הבעיה, אין פה סבתות,״ היא מחווה את דעתה. ״איי,״ מלכה מסכימה, ״זאת בדיוק הבעיה. אין פה סבתות.״"

-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher

"יועד לוגם מהכוס ומעווה את פניו. ״חרא קפה.״ ״בפעם הבאה תלך לקפה מול הספרייה,״ היא מציעה לו טיפ של מקומיים. רק לפני שנה פתחו אותו, וכל הקמפוס מדבר עליו: כמו בניו יורק, כמו בסן פרנסיסקו, בסיאטל: קלייה ע…"

-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher

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10. We Must Not Think of Ourselves

By: Lauren Grodstein

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Grodstein's We Must Not Think of Ourselves book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • jewish
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust
"We had never practiced Judaism before, and I thought myself too old to try believing something new, or to take advantage of an accident of birth to claim some brown patch of desert as my home."

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

"Our task is to pay attention... To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about the…"

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

"There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which ne…"

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

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11. The Phoenix Crown

By: Kate Quinn

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about … read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Phoenix Crown book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Trouble with You by Ellen Feldman

12. The Trouble with You

By: Ellen Feldman

3.89

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In an exuberant post WWII New York City, a young woman is forced to reinvent her life and choose be… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Feldman's The Trouble with You book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • world war ii
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Goddess of Warsaw by Lisa Barr

13. The Goddess of Warsaw

By: Lisa Barr

4.45

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphan… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Barr's The Goddess of Warsaw book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • jewish
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate

14. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Wingate's Shelterwood book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

Cover of The Enemy Beside Me by Naomi Ragen

15. The Enemy Beside Me

By: Naomi Ragen

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Inspired by true events, Naomi Ragen's The Enemy Beside Me is a powerful, provocative novel about t… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Ragen's The Enemy Beside Me book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • jewish
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust
Cover of Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel by Matthew Daub

16. Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel

By: Matthew Daub

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Brooklyn’s Hasidic community of Lubavitchers is turned upside down when family tragedy strikes and … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Daub's Leaving Eastern Parkway a novel book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • fiction
  • jewish
Cover of Daughters of Warsaw by Maria Frances

17. Daughters of Warsaw

By: Maria Frances

4.37

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotional World War Two time-slip of one woman’s inspiring, dangerous and courageous undertaking… read more

Similar categories in Maria Frances's Daughters of Warsaw book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • holocaust
Cover of The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali

18. The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali

4.50

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more

Similar categories in Marjan Kamali's The Lion Women of Tehran book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

Cover of How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard

19. How the Light Gets In

By: Joyce Maynard

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Maynard's How the Light Gets In book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of On Her Own by Lihi Lapid

20. On Her Own

By: Lihi Lapid

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A moving, page-turning story of two families in crisis that melds the clock-ticking tension of Laur… read more

Similar categories in Lihi Lapid's On Her Own book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • fiction
  • israel
  • jewish
Cover of In the Hands of Women (A Gilded City Series Book 1) by Jane Loeb Rubin

21. In the Hands of Women (A Gilded City Series Book 1)

By: Jane Loeb Rubin

4.22

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

In the Hands of Women is a suspenseful historical novel centered on the life of Hannah Isaacson, an… read more

Similar categories in Jane Loeb Rubin's In the Hands of Women (A Gilded City Series Book 1) book and Talia Carner's The Boy with the Star Tattoo

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

21 must-read fiction books like The Boy with the Star Tattoo by Talia Carner

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The Underground Library

Jennifer Ryan

4.14

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The Little Liar

Mitch Albom

4.59

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Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

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Finding Margaret Fuller

Allison Pataki

4.11

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21 must-read fiction books like The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan

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The Underground Library

Jennifer Ryan

4.14

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The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)

Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

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Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

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Finding Margaret Fuller

Allison Pataki

4.11

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