Books like The Things They Carried
If you liked The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Because shares tags: short stories, classic.
The full Poe shelf in one volume: mad narrators, rotting houses, Dupin, and the Raven.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Because shares tags: war, historical fiction.
An American dynamiter joins Spanish guerrillas for three days to blow a mountain bridge, finding love and doomed courage.
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War and Peace
Because shares tags: historical fiction, war.
Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei search for meaning amid the Napoleonic wars.
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Fall of Giants
Because shares tags: historical fiction, war.
Five families from Wales to Russia live through World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the fight for women's votes.
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Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Because shares tags: historical fiction, war.
Pino Lella guides Jews over Alps then drives for Nazis in Milan.
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A Farewell to Arms
Because shares tags: war, historical fiction.
Frederic loves Catherine in Italy until desertion leads to Switzerland and stillbirth.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Because shares tags: war, historical 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 Nightingale
Because shares tags: historical fiction, war.
Nightingale retold: Vianne and Isabelle in occupied France, hide children, run routes, trials.
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All the Light We Cannot See
Because shares tags: historical fiction, war.
Doerr's All the Light We Cannot See retold: blind Marie-Laure, Werner the radio boy, and Saint-Malo.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Because shares tags: historical fiction, war.
Splendid Suns retold: Mariam and Laila share Kabul house, war, Rasheed, escape and return.
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Winter Garden
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
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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Voyager
Because shares tag: historical fiction.
Claire returns through the stones in 1968 after learning Jamie survived Culloden.
