Books like “A Train in Winter”

What to read after “A Train in Winter” by Caroline Moorehead: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
- War Fiction
- Survival
During the German occupation of France, a blind girl and her father flee Paris for the walled city of Saint-Malo, carrying a valuable jewel. In Germany, an orphan with a gift for radio repairs is drawn into the war machine. Their separate paths move slowly toward the same besieged town in August 1944.
2
Azincourt
Bernard Cornwell · 2008
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
- War Fiction
- Survival
Outlawed archer Nicholas Hook joins Henry V's army as it invades France. Mired in a brutal siege and heavily outnumbered at Azincourt, he and his comrades face a battle that will decide the fate of a kingdom.
3
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
- War Fiction
- Survival
In occupied France, two sisters take very different roads through the war. One keeps her daughters safe in the countryside while sheltering fugitives; the other joins the resistance, guiding downed airmen over the Pyrenees. Their choices strain their bond and put both of them in constant danger.
4
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2007
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
Mariam and Laila, born a generation apart in Afghanistan, are forced together by marriage to the same violent man. Through decades of war and loss, the two women become each other's only home and take great risks for the chance of a different life.
5
The Great Train Robbery
Michael Crichton · 1975
Similar setting: “Train Journey”
- Train Journey
In 1855 a polished thief plans to steal a shipment of gold being carried by train from London toward the Crimea. He gathers a crew, copies the four keys to the safes and studies the timetable, while a police informant threatens to expose the scheme.
6
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie · 1934
Similar setting: “Train Journey”
- Train Journey
A snowdrift halts the Orient Express, and by morning an American passenger is found stabbed in his locked compartment. With the train stranded, Hercule Poirot questions thirteen passengers whose accounts do not add up, and uncovers the threads of an old crime.
7
Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian · 1969
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
- War Fiction
- Found Family
In 1800, Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey takes command of a small brig and meets the ship's surgeon, Stephen Maturin, a naturalist and secret intelligence agent. Their friendship grows as the crew pursues a Spanish frigate across the Mediterranean and Atlantic.
8
The Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell · 2004
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
- War Fiction
- Found Family
Raised by Vikings after they kill his father, the Saxon boy Uhtred must choose between the people who love him and the kingdom of his birth. As Alfred of Wessex battles the Danes, Uhtred becomes a warrior torn between two worlds.
9
Schindler's Ark
Thomas Keneally · 1982
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
- War Fiction
- Survival
In German-occupied Poland, Oskar Schindler, a Czech businessman and opportunist, employs Jewish workers in his factory. As the war turns and deportations intensify, he uses his wealth and connections to shield them, at growing personal risk.
10
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · 1929
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
Paul Baumer and his classmates enlist in the German army straight from school, urged on by a patriotic teacher. Trench life strips away everything they were taught, and the friends cling to each other as the war grinds them down.
11
The Sunne in Splendour
Sharon Kay Penman · 1982
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
- War Fiction
A retelling of the life of Richard III, from his boyhood in a divided England to his brief reign. Set against the Wars of the Roses, it follows the Yorkist claim to the throne, the loyalties that bind Richard, and the rumour and betrayal that surround his name.
12
A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes · 2019
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
- War Fiction
The Trojan War told through its women: queens, captives, mothers and goddesses who wait, grieve and endure while the men fight and die. From the Greek camp to the burning city, their voices answer the old story that left them out.