Books like “The Bronze Horseman”

What to read after “The Bronze Horseman” by Paullina Simons: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Outlander
Diana Gabaldon · 1991
Same genre: “Historical romance”
In 1945, former combat nurse Claire Randall touches a standing stone in Scotland and wakes in 1743, in a country on the edge of rebellion. Unsure of her own time, she is forced to marry a young Highland warrior to survive, and finds herself torn between two lives and two men.
2
Katherine
Anya Seton · 1954
Shared in the plot: forbids, survive
In fourteenth-century England, Katherine Swynford becomes a lady-in-waiting and falls in love with John of Gaunt, a royal duke bound by marriage and politics. Their long, often forbidden attachment survives plague, war and the disapproval of a court that cannot forgive a scandal.
3
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2011
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
Patroclus, a prince in disgrace, is sent to train under Achilles, the golden boy destined for glory. Their friendship deepens into love as the Trojan War calls them both toward a fate only one of them will regret.
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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.
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The Thorn Birds
Colleen McCullough · 1977
Same genre: “Historical romance”
On a sheep station in the Australian outback, Meggie Cleary grows up in the shadow of a family curse. She falls in love with Ralph de Bricassart, a priest whose ambition pulls him towards Rome, and the two stay bound to each other for decades by a love they can never openly have.
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Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 1936
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
Spoiled Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara sees her world torn apart by the American Civil War. Determined to rebuild her family's plantation and her fortune, she schemes and marries her way through the ruins of the Old South, chasing a man she cannot have.
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The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
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.
8
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2017
Similar plot moves: “Star-Crossed Lovers” and “Forbidden Love”
A young magazine reporter is chosen to write the life story of a fading film star, Evelyn Hugo. Over days of interviews Evelyn reveals seven marriages, a long-hidden love and the cost of the fame she built.
9
Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross · 2023
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
With the gods at war, two young journalists compete for the same columnist post at a dying newspaper. Iris hides her family's troubles, and Roman, her rival, seems to have everything. When anonymous letters begin to pass between them, neither suspects who is writing on the other side.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows · 2008
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
- War Fiction
Writer Juliet Ashton begins a friendship in letters with the people of Guernsey, an island still marked by the German occupation. Through their stories of a secret reading group, she finds a community, a purpose and a reason to cross the sea herself.
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Seduce Me at Sunrise
Lisa Kleypas · 2008
Same genre: “Historical romance”
- Forbidden Love
- Slow Burn
Win Hathaway has loved Kev Merripen, the brooding Romany boy taken in by her family, since childhood, and has spent years recovering from illness for his sake. Kev believes he is too dangerous to deserve her, and keeps his distance even as she decides to make him hers.
12
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje · 1992
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
In a bombed Italian villa at the end of the Second World War, a nurse tends a badly burned patient who can no longer remember his name. As the others in the house circle him, fragments of his past as a desert explorer and his affair with a married woman resurface.