Books like The Rose Code
If you liked The Rose Code by Kate Quinn, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Alice Network
Because also by Kate Quinn; shares tags: historical fiction, world war ii, spies.
Two women, two wars: Eve spied for the Alice Network in 1915 France, Charlie searches for her cousin in 1947, and their road trip pulls…
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Lilac Girls
Because shares tags: historical fiction, world war ii, friendship.
Three women meet across World War II: a New York volunteer, a Polish courier turned prisoner, and a German camp doctor.
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Winter Garden
Because shares tags: historical fiction, world war ii.
Two sisters keep a deathbed promise: hear their cold mother's Russian fairy tale to the end, and find besieged Leningrad inside it.
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Because shares tags: historical fiction, mystery.
An unemployed Tokyo man hunts a lost cat, then his missing wife, and slips from quiet suburbs into wells and wartime memory.
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The Historian
Because shares tags: historical fiction, mystery.
A daughter traces her father's search for Dracula through letters and archives across Europe.
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If We Were Villains
Because shares tags: mystery, friendship.
Seven Shakespeare students at a cutthroat conservatory close ranks after a death by the lake, and one serves ten years for it.
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Because shares tags: historical fiction, world war ii.
A Chinese American boy befriends a Japanese American girl in wartime Seattle, then loses her to the internment camps.
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Because shares tags: friendship, historical fiction.
Evelyn meets Ninny in a nursing home and hears the story of Idgie and Ruth and their Alabama cafe.
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City of Girls
Because shares tags: historical fiction, friendship.
City of Girls retold: a Vassar dropout, a shabby theater, one scandal, and a love like no other.
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The Three Musketeers
Because shares tags: historical fiction, friendship.
Young dArtagnan joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis to recover the queens diamonds and face Milady.
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The Raven Boys
Because shares tags: mystery, friendship.
Blue Sargent joins four Aglionby boys hunting a Welsh king on a Virginia ley line.
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The Name of the Rose
Because shares tags: mystery, historical fiction.
Friar William and Adso investigate 1327 abbey deaths amid library labyrinth.
