Books like…

Books Like Sarah's Key

by Tatiana de Rosnay · about this book

Loved Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay? If its dual timeline, multiple timelines and holocaust hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with All the Broken Places, The Nightingale and Hamnet. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Sarah's Key: Dual Timeline · Multiple Timelines · Holocaust · Family Secrets · Historical Fiction

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   All the Broken Places

   John Boyne

   Survivor's Guilt · World War II · Secret Past · Dual Timeline · Genocide Depicted

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   The Nightingale

   Kristin Hannah

   War Atrocities · World War II · Tearjerker · Tragic · Dual Timeline

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   Hamnet

   Maggie O'Farrell

   Death of a Child · Tearjerker · Child Death Depicted · Tragic · Haunting

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4. 

   The Things We Cannot Say

   Kelly Rimmer

   Holocaust · World War II · Dual Timeline · War Atrocities · Tearjerker

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5. 

   The Book Thief

   Markus Zusak

   World War II · Tearjerker · Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Grief and Mourning

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6. 

   A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

   Anthony Marra

   War Atrocities · Haunting · Tragic · Survivor's Guilt · Grief and Mourning

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7. 

   All the Light We Cannot See

   Anthony Doerr

   World War II · Loss of Innocence · Haunting · Tragic · Paris

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8. 

   Human Acts

   Han Kang

   War Atrocities · Survivor's Guilt · Death of a Child · Tragic · Haunting

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9. 

   The Room on Rue Amelie

   Kristin Harmel

   Paris · World War II · Tearjerker · Genocide Depicted · Historical Fiction

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10. 

    The Lovely Bones

    Alice Sebold

    Death of a Child · Haunting · Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Child Death Depicted

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11. 

    The Sword of Kaigen

    M.L. Wang

    Death of a Child · War Atrocities · Tearjerker · Child Death Depicted · Marriage in Trouble

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12. 

    The Last Lifeboat

    Hazel Gaynor

    World War II · Child Death Depicted · Tearjerker · Kids in Danger · Survivor's Guilt

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13. 

    The Complete Maus

    Art Spiegelman

    War Atrocities · World War II · Genocide Depicted · Survivor's Guilt · Tragic

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14. 

    Refugee

    Alan Gratz

    Multiple Timelines · World War II · Loss of Innocence · Kids in Danger · Tearjerker

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15. 

    How High We Go in the Dark

    Sequoia Nagamatsu

    Death of a Child · Tearjerker · Haunting · Child Death Depicted · Grief and Mourning

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16. 

    The God of Endings

    Jacqueline Holland

    Multiple Timelines · Secret Past · Haunting · Grief and Mourning · Historical Fiction

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17. 

    Broken Country

    Clare Leslie Hall

    Death of a Child · Tearjerker · Dual Timeline · Marriage in Trouble · Historical Fiction

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18. 

    Life After Life

    Kate Atkinson

    Multiple Timelines · World War II · Historical Fiction · Bittersweet · Nonlinear Narrative

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19. 

    Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Loss of Innocence · Haunting · Tragic · Nonlinear Narrative · Emotional

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20. 

    The Diary of a Young Girl

    Anne Frank

    World War II · Tragic · Haunting · Genocide Depicted · Emotional

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