Books like “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”

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1
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- War Fiction
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
The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons · 2000
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
- War Fiction
In Leningrad in 1941, as the German army tightens its siege, Tatiana meets Alexander, a young officer with a secret. Their love is forbidden by her family and by the war, but through hunger, loss and the frozen winter they hold on to each other and to the hope of survival.
3
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read”
- Comfort Read
- Found Family
Tova Sullivan cleans the local aquarium at night and talks to Marcellus, a clever giant Pacific octopus. When Marcellus works out the answer to a loss that has haunted her for years, a drifting young man arrives in town, and three quiet lives slowly knit together.
4
Beauty
Robin McKinley · 1978
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read”
- Comfort Read
A plain, bookish youngest daughter takes her father's place as a prisoner in an enchanted castle. As she comes to know the beast who lives there, she slowly learns that beauty and love are not what she was taught to expect.
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott · 1868
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read”
- Comfort Read
Four sisters grow up in a modest New England home while their father is away at war. They argue, make art, fall in love and learn to support one another through loss and change. A warm coming-of-age story about family, ambition and becoming yourself.
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Legends & Lattes
Travis Baldree · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read”
- Comfort Read
- Found Family
Viv, a battle-weary orc, trades her sword for an espresso machine and opens the first coffee shop in the city of Thune. With a hobgoblin carpenter, a reformed succubus and a skeletal latte artist, she builds a warm new life -- but her old mercenary crew has not finished with her yet.
7
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers · 2014
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read”
- Comfort Read
- Found Family
A young woman joins the crew of a tunnelling ship that builds wormholes between distant worlds. The long haul to a new client planet is told through its mismatched crew, a pilot, a doctor, an engineer and an AI, all looking for somewhere to belong.
8
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2011
Similar setting: “War Fiction”
- 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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The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith · 1998
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read”
- Comfort Read
- Found Family
Precious Ramotswe opens Botswana's first detective agency for ladies, working from a small office in Gaborone. With patience and common sense she takes on a cheating husband, a missing father and a con man, and begins to find her own place in the world.
10
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2007
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- War Fiction
- Found Family
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.
11
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- 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.
12
I Capture the Castle
Dodie Smith · 1948
Similar atmosphere: “Comfort Read”
- Comfort Read
Seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain writes her diary in a crumbling English castle where her family lives on almost nothing. When two wealthy American brothers arrive to claim the estate, love and money unsettle the household, and Cassandra grows up fast.