Books like All Other Nights by Dara Horn

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

A 1930s wartime tale of a blind French girl and a German boy whose lives intersect in occupied France, weaving themes of survival, friendship, and the moral choices people make amid World War II.

Candide: A Tale of Conviviality and Optimism in a Wretched World

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay follows 19‑year‑old Josef Kavalier, a Prague refugee who arrives in 1939 New York and partners with his cousin Sammy to create a comic‑book hero, the Escapist, while fighting fascism, navigating family, identity and the rapidly changing world of 20th‑century mass media.

A Pulitzer‑winning historical novel that dramatizes the four‑day Battle of Gettysburg from the viewpoints of Union and Confederate leaders.

Twelve-year‑old Nao in Tokyo wrestles with loneliness and bullying and, before she ends it all, writes a diary about her great‑grandmother, a Buddhist nun who has lived a century. Across the Pacific a novelist on a remote island discovers objects from Nao’s life and is drawn into her mystery.

Alma Singer, a fourteen‑year‑old New Yorker, searches for a book that might cure her mother’s loneliness, while Leo Gursky, an immigrant in the city, hunts the hidden author of a novel that once inspired his love in Polish exile.

Genuine accounts of a Jewish Haggadah’s journey from its origins to a 1990s discovery in Sarajevo, blending history and the preservation of manuscripts, as told by Geraldine Brooks.

When a ten‑year‑old Sarah is seized in the 1942 Vel' d'Hiv’ roundup, her friend Julia, a journalist two decades later, discovers that the past still haunts their families and forces her to confront her own identity in post‑war France.

Set in Mississippi during the Civil War and Reconstruction, The Unvanquished follows the Sartoris family, whose code of personal responsibility and courage embodies the best of Old South traditions.

"In 1945, Jewish refugees by the thousands set out for Palestine. Those who made it relied on the underground to shelter them; taking false names, they blended with the population, joining the wildly different factions fighting for independence. "City of Secrets" follows one survivor, Brand, as he tries to regain himself after losing everyone he's ever loved. Now driving a taxi provided--like his new identity--by the underground, he navigates the twisting streets of Jerusalem as well as the overlapping, sometimes deadly loyalties of the resistance. Alone, haunted by memories, Brand tries to become again the man he was before the war--honest, strong, capable of moral choice. He falls in love with Eva, a fellow survivor and member of his cell, and commits himself to the revolution, accepting missions that grow more and more dangerous even as he suspects he's being used by his cell's dashing leader, Asher. By the time Brand understands the truth, it's too late." -- jacket.

A thrilling historical spy novel set during the American Revolution, inspired by accusations of venality and featuring a common man wrongly suspected as a spy for the British, who refuses to accept payment for information vital to the Patriot's cause.

In a period of Jewish exile, Lilah vows to forsake a Persian marriage for her faith; when her brother demands Jewish men abandon foreign wives, she defies the law to protect her culture.

A spy thriller set against the backdrop of World War II Paris, focusing on Jean Casson's tumultuous romance and moral compromises during the occupation.

In eighteenth‑century London, Jewish ex‑boxer Benjamin Weaver is hired to track debtors and thieves. When his estranged father's mysterious death links him to the nascent stock market, Weaver confronts a cabal of financiers, a desperate prostitute, and his own heritage.

Jeff Shaara closes his Civil War trilogy by charting the last two years of the conflict, from Gettysburg’s aftermath to the final surrender at Appomattox, focusing on commanders Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, and Joshua Chamberlain.

A thrilling spy novel set against the backdrop of World War II, following a cargo ship captain's dangerous mission to help Britain's allies fight Nazi Germany's submarines and ships, as well as smuggle equipment to a Swedish coast operation to aid the war effort.

A sweeping love story that spans Budapest and Paris, following three Jewish brothers whose lives are reshaped by World War II and the desperate strife of family.

Adam Miller's love affair with a Jewish woman in post-war Venice is threatened by the dark underbelly of the Occupation and the murky past of the city itself.

Anna Friedman's bold tale of Jewish immigrants' struggle in New York City.

Two unlikely friends—a Jewish golem and a fiery jinn—navigate 19th‑century New York, confronting destiny and the limits of their powers.