18 books like The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

What to read after The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl · 1964 · ★ 4.2 · 178p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's novel by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of eccentric chocolatier Willy Wonka. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1964 and in the United Kingdom by George Allen & Unwin 11 months later. In… Shares: Drama, Young Adult

The BFG Roald Dahl · 1980 · ★ 4.2 · 207p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This book is a great book for all ages. It is a fantasy/adventure book.The BFG stands for 'Big Friendly Giant'. He isn't like other giants, instead of going out to different countries to eat children he catches dreams. When he find's a little orphan girl watching him, he kidnaps her because he doesn't want anyone to find out that he was there, but when they arrive at giant's land they become… Shares: Young Adult, Adventure

Matilda Roald Dahl · 1988 · ★ 4.3 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Matilda applies her untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security. Shares: Community pick

Obasan Joy Kogawa · 1981 · ★ 3.8 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate 224 pages; 21 cm Shares: Concentration Camps, Young Adult, Historical Fiction

The Odessa file Frederick Forsyth · 1842 · ★ 4.2 · 351p · ≈ 11h · Challenging The life-and-death hunt for a notorious Nazi criminal unfolds against a background of international arms deals. As the story leads to its final dramatic confrontation on a bleak winter's hill-top, the question every reader asked at the end of The Day of the Jackal will inevitably be asked again: Can this be fiction? Shares: Concentration Camps, Adventure

... Trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen Viktor E. Frankl · 1946 · ★ 4.3 · 158p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose. At the heart of his theory, known… Shares: Concentration Camps, Drama

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1897 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.… Shares: Drama

Home as found James Fenimore Cooper · 1800 · ★ 5.0 · 432p · ≈ 14h · Challenging "No society, dear!--Why you were at the Henderson's, and the Morgan's, and the Drewett's; three of the greatest _réunions_ that we have had in two winters!"' "I did not know that you meant those unpleasant crowds, by society". "Unpleasant crowds! Why, child, that is society, is it not?' "Not what I have been taught to consider such; I rather think it would be better to call it company". "And is… Shares: Historical Fiction

The Border Empire Ralph Compton · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Wes Stone was a lawman—until the Sandlin gang gunned down his legendary father. Now, he's giving up his badge for vengeance... Shares: Historical Fiction

El Honor del Silencio Danielle Steel · 1996 · ★ 4.1 · 319p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The drama of a young Japanese woman, Hiroko, who comes to the U.S. to attend college and falls in love with a white American, Peter. Their romance is shattered by Pearl Harbor. He goes off to war, she to a concentration camp. Life will reunite them, but will it be the same? Shares: Concentration Camps, Historical Fiction

Fatta Eld Suzanne Collins · 2009 · ★ 4.1 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate En cynisk teve-värld där deltagarna tävlar med livet som insats. Detta kan vara verklighetens underhållning i framtiden...Katniss trodde att en vinst i Hungerspelen var lika med framgång, lycka och berömmelse, men istället skulle det bara leda till fruktan och att hon blev ökänd. Huvudstaden är inte nöjd med henne. Hennes prestationer på arenan har gjutit mod i rebellstyrkorna – och i takt med… Shares: Juvenile works, Young Adult, Adventure

Novels (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Adventures of Tom Sawyer) Mark Twain · 1922 · ★ 4.0 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Challenging THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a very special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a dreamlike summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and first love, filled with memorable characters. Adults and young readers alike continue to enjoy this delightful classic of the promise and dreams of youth… Shares: Juvenile works, Young Adult, Adventure

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban J. K. Rowling · 1999 · ★ 4.6 · 447p · ≈ 14h · Moderate For Harry Potter, it’s the start of another far-from-ordinary year at Hogwarts when the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and comes to an abrupt halt in front of him. It turns out that Sirius Black, mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, has escaped – and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry’s tea… Shares: Juvenile works, Adventure

A Darker Shade of Magic V. E. Schwab · 2015 · ★ 4.1 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate STEP INTO A UNIVERSE OF DARING ADVENTURE, THRILLING POWER, AND MULTIPLE LONDONS. Kell is one of the last travelers--magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes connected by one magic city. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, and with one mad king--George III. Red London, where life and magic are revered--and where Kell was raised alongside… Shares: Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Adventure

Six of Crows Leigh Bardugo · 2015 · ★ 4.4 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Moderate BOOK ONE of the Six of Crows Duology Six of Crows is a fantasy novel written by the Israeli-American author Leigh Bardugo published by Henry Holt and Co. in 2015. The story follows a thieving crew and is primarily set in the city of Ketterdam, loosely inspired by Dutch Republic–era Amsterdam. The plot is told from third-person viewpoints of seven different characters. The novel is followed by… Shares: Juvenile works, Young Adult

The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins · 2008 · ★ 4.4 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged… Shares: Juvenile works, Young Adult

The Boxcar Children Gertrude Chandler Warner · 1924 · ★ 4.0 · 173p · ≈ 5h · Challenging Orphaned siblings Henry, Jessie, Benny, and Violet are determined not to be separated after the deaths of their parents. Fearing being sent away to live with their cruel, frightening grandfather, they run away and discover an abandoned boxcar in the woods. They convert the boxcar into a safe, comfortable home and learn to take care of themselves. But when Violet becomes deathly ill, the children… Shares: Juvenile works, Drama, Adventure

Pan Michael An historical novel Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1893 · ★ 4.2 · 542p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The third and final book of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy takes a closer and more intimate look at one of the series’ protagonists: Pan Michael Volodyovski. The Polish Commonwealth has been through intense periods of war, and the peace that follows leaves one of its greatest heroes, Pan Michael, finally free to marry his beloved Panna Anusia. But in a twist of fate, she falls ill and dies, leaving… Shares: Historical Fiction

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