Books like The Other Boleyn Girl
If you liked The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Thorn Birds
Because shares tags: historical fiction, drama.
Meggie loves priest Ralph across decades on Drogheda sheep station.
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The Light Between Oceans
Because shares tags: historical fiction, drama.
Lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and Isabel raise a boat baby on Janus Rock and face her true mother on shore.
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Before We Were Yours
Because shares tags: historical fiction, sisters.
Avery uncovers her family's link to stolen orphans while Rill fights to keep her siblings together in 1939.
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Water for Elephants
Because shares tags: historical fiction, drama.
Water for Elephants retold: Jacob on a circus train, Marlena and Rosie, Prohibition era dust.
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The Nightingale
Because shares tags: historical fiction, sisters.
Nightingale retold: Vianne and Isabelle in occupied France, hide children, run routes, trials.
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The Kite Runner
Because shares tags: historical fiction, drama.
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner retold: Amir and Hassan in Kabul, the alley, the escape to America, and the return to find Sohrab.
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The Help
Because shares tags: historical fiction, drama.
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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The Book Thief
Because shares tags: historical fiction, drama.
Markus Zusak's The Book Thief retold: Liesel in Molching, Hans and Rosa, Max in the basement, and Death as narrator.
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Memoirs of a Geisha
Because shares tags: historical fiction, drama.
Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha retold: Chiyo to Sayuri in Gion, Mameha, Hatsumomo, and the Chairman.
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Daisy Jones & The Six
Because shares tags: historical fiction, drama.
Daisy Jones and The Six retold: band oral history, fame, songs, breakup after final show.
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War and Peace
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
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Things Fall Apart
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries…
