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Books Like The Bronze Horseman
Best books to read after The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
Paullina Simons's The Bronze Horseman is the epic WWII Russian romance of the Siege of Leningrad. These recommendations continue the Simons trilogy, explore the epic wartime romance tradition, or offer companion reading in the tradition of the novel in which love survives — or fails to survive — the worst that history can do to people.
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Tatiana and Alexander
by Paullina Simons
The essential continuation — Alexander's story and his survival after Leningrad; the second book in the trilogy and the direct continuation of The Bronze Horseman that readers must read immediately after.
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The Summer Garden
by Paullina Simons
The trilogy's conclusion — Tatiana and Alexander in postwar America; the emotionally devastating completion of the story begun in The Bronze Horseman.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis de Bernieres
The Mediterranean WWII epic romance companion — an Italian officer and a Greek doctor's daughter during the occupation of Cephalonia; shares The Bronze Horseman's scale, its sense of wartime catastrophe pressing on a love story, and its conviction that love between enemies (or across impossible circumstances) is the most interesting kind.
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Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
The foundational epic wartime romance — Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler through the Civil War and Reconstruction; the closest American equivalent to The Bronze Horseman in its epic scale, its willingness to let historical catastrophe reshape its characters utterly, and its unforgettable central couple.
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Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
The time-travel Scottish epic romance companion — Claire Randall thrown back to eighteenth-century Scotland and Jamie Fraser, the most popular romantic historical series of the last thirty years and the natural companion to The Bronze Horseman for readers who want more epic historical romance.
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Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
The Russian literary wartime romance companion — Yuri Zhivago and Lara Antipova through the Russian Revolution and Civil War, Pasternak's Nobel Prize-winning novel set in the same Russian landscape as The Bronze Horseman and equally concerned with what revolution does to the people caught in it.
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A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
The essential WWI wartime romance companion — Lieutenant Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley, Hemingway's novel of love and war in Italy sharing The Bronze Horseman's conviction that love found during wartime is the most real thing, and that war will try to destroy it.
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The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
The most popular recent WWII historical romance — two French sisters under occupation, Hannah's bestseller sharing The Bronze Horseman's focus on women's survival and courage in the most extreme wartime conditions and its large readership of people who love emotionally intense historical fiction.
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