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What to read after “The Wolf Den” by Elodie Harper: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes · 2019
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- Ancient World
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.
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I, Claudius
Robert Graves · 1934
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
The emperor Claudius, dismissed by his family as a stammering fool, writes the hidden history of the Julio-Claudian house. From Augustus to the reign of Caligula he records the poisonings, exiles and betrayals that shaped Rome, and how he survived them by being thought harmless.
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Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin · 2008
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- Ancient World
Lavinia grows up in Latium, a king's daughter who has no voice in her own story. A prophecy names a stranger from Troy as her husband, and when Aeneas arrives their union sets off a war. Years later she tells her own version of the life the epic left unspoken.
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World Without End
Ken Follett · 2007
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- Survival
Two centuries after The Pillars of the Earth, four children in Kingsbridge witness a killing that binds their fates together. As plague sweeps the land, they struggle with love, ambition and the harsh rules of their age.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2007
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- Found Family
- Survival
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.
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The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Same genre: “Historical 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.
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Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus · 2022
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- Found Family
In early 1960s California, chemist Elizabeth Zott is pushed out of science by a laboratory that cannot take a woman seriously. She becomes the unlikely host of a cooking show, and quietly teaches its housewife audience something closer to chemistry and self-respect.
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A Train in Winter
Caroline Moorehead · 2011
Similar plot moves: “Found Family” and “Survival”
- Found Family
- Survival
Between 1941 and 1943 the German and French police arrested hundreds of women who had worked for the Resistance. Drawn from interviews and archives, this book follows 230 of them from prison in France onto the trains to Auschwitz, and the friendships that sustained them.
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Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys · 2016
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
- Found Family
- Survival
Four young refugees cross a frozen East Prussia in the winter of 1945, each hiding a secret and hoping to reach a ship that will carry them west. Their paths merge among the crowds fleeing the advancing Soviet army, bound for a vessel whose fate none of them suspect.
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The Pillars of the Earth
Ken Follett · 1989
Same genre: “Historical fiction”
In twelfth-century England a stonemason named Tom Builder dreams of raising a great cathedral. Around its construction gather a cunning prior, a noblewoman and a ruthless lord whose ambitions and feuds shape the lives of an entire town.
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Azincourt
Bernard Cornwell · 2008
Same genre: “Historical 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.
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All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
Same genre: “Historical 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.