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Best books to read after The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale is the most-read recent WWII novel about French women under occupation. These recommendations continue the Hannah canon, explore the WWII women's fiction tradition, or offer companion reading in the tradition of the novel that takes seriously what women did in the wars and at what cost.
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Buy on AmazonThe Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
The companion Hannah novel — a family in 1970s Alaska, Leni Allbright growing up with a PTSD-afflicted Vietnam veteran father; Hannah's other most celebrated novel and the natural continuation for readers who want more of her emotionally intense style.
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Buy on AmazonThe Four Winds
by Kristin Hannah
The Dust Bowl Hannah companion — Elsa Martinelli in Texas during the Great Depression, Hannah's most historical novel after The Nightingale and equally concerned with what women sacrifice for their children.
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Buy on AmazonAll the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
The Pulitzer Prize literary companion — a blind French girl and a German soldier in occupied France, the more literary WWII novel covering the same occupied France that Isabelle walks through as the Nightingale.
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Buy on AmazonSuite Francaise
by Irene Nemirovsky
The literary French occupation companion — Némirovsky's posthumous novel of the occupation, more morally complex and less emotionally manipulative than The Nightingale, engaging the same world from inside the experience.
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Buy on AmazonThe Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
The dual-timeline women's spy companion — WWI occupied France and 1947 investigation, Quinn's novel sharing The Nightingale's interest in what women did in the wars and its structure of courage discovered belatedly.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
The warmest occupation companion — a book club formed under German occupation of Guernsey, the epistolary novel that shares The Nightingale's interest in the specific pleasures and survival strategies of women under occupation.
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Buy on AmazonThe Women
by Kristin Hannah
The Vietnam War Hannah companion — Frances 'Frankie' McGrath as an Army nurse in Vietnam, Hannah's expansion of The Nightingale's project into another war and another generation of women doing extraordinary things in terrible circumstances.
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Buy on AmazonThe Tattooist of Auschwitz
by Heather Morris
The Holocaust love-story companion — the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov in Auschwitz, Morris's novel sharing The Nightingale's formula of love and survival against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of Europe.
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