18 books like Ceremony

What to read after Ceremony — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Le grand cahier Ágota Kristóf · 1986 · ★ 4.2 · 185p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Un premier roman à la charnière de deux imaginaires. "L'Ouest intimiste et l'Est politique" (G. Brisac, "Le Monde", 7 mars 1986, p. 22). Les héros sont des jumeaux qui, comme l'écrit J.-Folch-Ribas dans "La Presse" du 10 mai 1986, opposent la perversité au mal. Shares Guerre mondiale, World War II, World War, Romans

Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières · 1994 · ★ 4.0 · 534p · ≈ 17h · Moderate De dochter van een Griekse dokter wordt tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog gescheiden van haar geliefde, een kapitein in het Italiaanse leger. Shares Guerre mondiale, World War II, World War, Historical Fiction

The English Patient Michael Ondaatje · 1992 · ★ 3.9 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of… Shares Guerre mondiale, World War II, World War, Historical Fiction

The Machine Gunners Robert Westall · 1975 · ★ 3.5 · 187p · ≈ 6h · Moderate After an air raid, a group of English children find a German machine gun and hide it from adults who are looking for it. Shares World War II, World War, Historical Fiction

Hot Springs

Hot Springs Stephen Hunter · 2000 · 560p · ≈ 18h · Moderate "In the summer of 1946, the most wide-open town in America is Hot Springs, Arkansas, a city of ancient, legendary corruption. While the pilgirms take the cure in the mineral-rich 142-degree water that bubbles from the earth, the brothels and casinos are the true source of the town's prosperity. It is run by an English-born gangster named Owney Maddox, who represents the New York syndicate and… Shares Veterans, World War II, World War

City of gold Len Deighton · 1992 · ★ 3.7 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Shares World War II, World War with this book.

The Boy at the Top of the Mountain John Boyne · 2015 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate When Pierrot becomes an orphan, he must leave his home in Paris for a new life with his Aunt Beatrix, a servant in a wealthy household at the top of the German mountains. But this is no ordinary time, for it is 1935 and the Second World War is fast approaching; and this is no ordinary house, for this is the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Quickly, Pierrot is taken under Hitler's wing, and… Shares Guerre mondiale, World War II, World War, Romans

Lord of the Nutcracker men Iain Lawrence · 2001 · ★ 3.9 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Ten-year-old Johnny eagerly plays at war with the army of nutcracker soldiers his toymaker father whittles for him. He demolishes imaginary foes. But in 1914 Germany looms as the real enemy of Europe, and all too soon Johnny's father is swept up in the war to end all wars. He proudly enlists with his British countrymen to fight at the front in France. The war, though, is nothing like what any… Shares Guerre mondiale, World War, Historical Fiction, Romans

The Silence of Ghosts

The Silence of Ghosts Jonathan Aycliffe · 2013 · 202p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Dominic Lancaster hoped to prove himself to his family by excelling in the Navy during World War II. Instead he is wounded while serving as a gunner and loses his leg. Still recovering from his wounds and the trauma of his amputation when the Blitz begins, Dominic finds himself shuffled off to the countryside by his family, along with his partially deaf sister, Octavia. The crumbling family… Shares World War II, World War

The Statement Brian Moore · 1995 · ★ 3.5 · 217p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Guerre mondiale, World War II, World War, Romans with this book.

Hornet Flight

Hornet Flight Ken Follett · 2002 · ★ 4.5 · 518p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II...It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande an discovers an astonishing sight that will change the momentum of the war. He must get word to… Shares World War II, World War, Historical Fiction

The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk · 1951 · ★ 4.3 · 693p · ≈ 23h · Challenging Winner of the Pulitzer Prize this atmospheric novel tells the story in flashback of a mutiny aboard a United States minesweeper during WW2. The murky events of the mutiny emerge during a court-martial and it soon becomes clear that few people will emerge from the trial with any credit. Shares Guerre mondiale, World War II, World War, Romans

Another homecoming Janette Oke · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Guerre mondiale, World War II, World War, Romans with this book.

Autumn Lover Elizabeth Lowell · 1996 · ★ 3.8 · 504p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Returning to her Wyoming ranch at the Civil War's end, Elyssa Sutton finds it picked bare by scavengers and coveted by determined men. Yet the proud young woman vows never again to abandon her Ruby Mountain home-though it means enlisting the aid of a dark and dangerous stranger who lives for revenge alone. Hunter Maxwell has suffered from the savagery of outlaws and the faithlessness of a… Shares Westerns, Historical Fiction

Obasan Joy Kogawa · 1981 · ★ 3.9 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate 224 pages ; 21 cm Shares World War II, World War, Historical Fiction, Romans

The Winds of War Herman Wouk · 1971 · ★ 4.7 · 890p · ≈ 29h · Challenging Follows the various members of the Henry family as they become involved in the events preceeding America's involvement in World War II. Like no other masterpiece of historical fiction, Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II is the great novel of America's Greatest Generation. Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events, as well as all the drama, romance, heroism,… Shares World War II, World War, Historical Fiction

Last of the breed Louis L'Amour · 1986 · ★ 4.3 · 362p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A United States Air Force pilot is shot down over Siberia in the Soviet Union during the 1980s and held prisoner at a remote camp, but soon escapes into an even greater prison -- the vast, harsh landscape. However, because he is a native Sioux Indian with survival knowledge he learned as a boy, Major Joe Mack must use all his hunting, trapping and evasion skills to escape his pursuers,… Shares Native Americans, Westerns

Ordinary heroes Scott Turow · 2005 · ★ 3.9 · 371p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how he rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history and driven to… Shares Veterans, World War II, World War

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