18 books like The Ship With No Name

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The thunder and the shouting Christopher Nicole · 1969 · ★ 4.0 · 289p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A Novel of War-Ravaged Poland. Shares: War Fiction

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

Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies C.S. Forester · 1956 · ★ 4.2 · 283p · ≈ 9h · Moderate As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. Shares: War Fiction, Historical Fiction

Die Analphabetin Hanna Johansen · 1982 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Die Analphabetin ist ein fünfjähriges Mädchen, von dessen Leben im Sommer 1944 berichtet wird, von seinem Alltag am Rande des Krieges, in einer Zeit der Angst, in der die Erwachsenen Mühe haben, die Fragen des Kindes zu beantworten. Shares: War Fiction

Hornblower in the West Indies C. S. Forester · 1958 · 326p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Horatio Hornblower, now Admiral, sails over seas as challenging as any in his victorious career. As admiral in charge of His Britannic Majesty's West Indies Station he is as gallant, daring, implosive as ever. In this tense time after Napoleon's defeat, all kinds of vagabonds, revolutionaries, Imperial Guards. and pirates come sailing into the waters where Hornblower is working his small… Shares: War Fiction, Historical Fiction

Pearl Harbor Randall Wallace · 2000 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Pearl Harbor is a beautifully written and suspenseful epic saga of love and war. Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker are two daring young pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps who have grown up like brothers and first learned to fly in crop-dusting planes. Rafe has fallen in love with Evelyn Stewart, a beautiful and courageous nurse serving in the U.S. Navy. But they are soon separated by war when Rafe… Shares: War Fiction, Historical Fiction

Blue Yonder Alan Savage · 2005 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A family drama encompassing both world wars. Having earned a medal at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, Sergeant Mark Bayley, 4th Hussars, is posted back to England and volunteers for the Royal Flying Corps, becoming an ace with 23 'kills' to his credit, before being shot down over the German lines in March 1918. While in a prison hospital he falls in love with German nurse Karolina von Bitterman.… Shares: War Fiction, Historical Fiction

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

St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald · 1876 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Challenging It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass added rain and gloom to the landscape beyond, whither the eye passed, as if vaguely seeking that help in the distance, which the dripping hollyhocks and sodden sunflowers… Shares: Historical Fiction

A Bitter Cut Anna Lee Huber · 2026 Lady Kiera Darby plans to spend the summer reconnecting with friends and family in anticipation of the betrothal of her beloved brother. But when a future in-law is implicated in a murder, the party takes a deadly turn. . . .July 1833. Lady Darby and her dashing husband, Sebastian Gage, are settling into their newly renovated home at Bevington Park in Warkwickshire with their young daughter. With… Shares: Historical Fiction

In Memoriam Alice Winn · 2023 · ★ 4.5 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate GMA BUZZ PICK • INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER AND AWARD WINNER • A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during World War I • “Will live in your mind long after you’ve closed the final pages.” —Maggie O’Farrell, best-selling author of Hamnet and The Marriage PortraitA Best Book of the Year: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR“In Memoriam is the story of a… Shares: War Fiction, Historical Fiction

City of thieves David Benioff · 2008 · ★ 4.3 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime. During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by… Shares: War Fiction, Historical Fiction

Take Back the Night Dennis Foley · 1996 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Captain Jim Hollister returns for his third and final tour in Vietnam in the thrilling trilogy finale from the author of Long Range Patrol and Night Work. In the increasingly divided Juliet Company, racial tensions are running high and morale is at an all-time low. Combat readiness seems tenuous. Captain Jim Hollister's first order of business is to bring his company back into fighting shape. To… Shares: War Fiction

Annette, the Metis Spy Joseph Edmund Collins · 1886 · 132p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This is a adventure book. The sun was hanging low in the clear blue over the prairie, as two riders hurried their ponies along a blind trail toward a distant range of purple hills that lay like sleepy watchers along the banks of the Red River. The beasts must have ridden far, for their flanks were white with foam, and their riders were splashed with froth and mud, 'The day is nearly done, mon… Shares: Historical Fiction

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge M. T. Anderson · 2018 · ★ 4.1 · 538p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom. Shares: War Fiction

London Edward Rutherfurd · 1997 · ★ 4.0 · 829p · ≈ 27h · Moderate | image = Shares: Historical Fiction

Between Two Fires Christopher Buehlman · 2012 · ★ 4.3 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie BestsellerEnter a darker age with New York Times bestselling author Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires, a medieval horror adventure unlike anything on the shelf.And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…”The year is 1348.Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a… Shares: Historical Fiction

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