Books like The Kite Runner
If you liked The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Because also by Khaled Hosseini; shares tags: historical fiction, friendship, literary fiction.
Splendid Suns retold: Mariam and Laila share Kabul house, war, Rasheed, escape and return.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Because shares tags: historical fiction, friendship, literary fiction.
Footbound Lily and Snow Flower share laotong bond through 19th century Hunan hardship.
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My Brilliant Friend
Because shares tags: literary fiction, friendship, historical fiction.
Elena and Lila grow up in 1950s Naples bound by rivalry and love.
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Firefly Lane
Because shares tags: friendship, drama, coming of age.
Best friends Tully and Kate grow from teens to adults through careers, love, and loss.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Because shares tags: historical fiction, coming of age, literary fiction.
Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Because shares tags: coming of age, friendship, literary fiction.
Chbosky's Perks retold: Charlie's letters, Sam and Patrick, first year of high school in Pittsburgh.
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The Help
Because shares tags: historical fiction, drama, friendship.
Kathryn Stockett's The Help retold: Aibileen, Minny and Skeeter in 1962 Jackson, the interviews, and the book that breaks the town open.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Because shares tags: historical fiction, coming of age, drama.
Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha retold: Chiyo to Sayuri in Gion, Mameha, Hatsumomo, and the Chairman.
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All the Light We Cannot See
Because shares tags: historical fiction, literary fiction, coming of age.
Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See retold: blind Marie-Laure, Werner the radio boy, and Saint-Malo.
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And the Mountains Echoed
Because also by Khaled Hosseini; shares tags: literary fiction, drama.
When Abdullah and Pari are split in 1952 Afghanistan, their parting echoes across decades from Kabul to Paris to California in linked…
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White Oleander
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Astrid cycles foster homes after mother Ingrid murders boyfriend.
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Things Fall Apart
Because shares tags: historical fiction, literary fiction.
Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries…
