Books like Underground Man by Milton Meltzer

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.

Cora, a woman enslaved on a Georgia cotton plantation, partners with a new slave named Caesar to flee the South. Their daring escape follows a literal underground network of tunnels that mirrors the perilous journey of countless fugitive slaves toward freedom.

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.

William E. Dodd, America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany, arrives in Berlin in 1933 to chronicle the early rise of Hitler—and the diplomatic tightrope his nation must navigate.

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.

The Orphan Master's Son follows a man's journey through propaganda, identity, and state power in North Korea.

In 1849, Virginia slave Henry “Box” Brown seizes a daring escape by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia, illustrating the perilous ingenuity of the Underground Railroad.

When a fellow slave is murdered, Sadie and her family flee the plantation and seek freedom through the Underground Railroad for a chance at a safer future.

When a dark night in 1859 shatters his Kentucky farm life, eleven‑year‑old Samuel and his fellow slave, Harrison, flee the South; their perilous journey north reveals secrets of past and future, culminating in a hopeful reunion in Canada.

A brave group of runaway slaves follows the clues of the song "The Drinking Gourd" taught by Peg Leg Joe, charting a perilous northward route along the Underground Railroad toward freedom in Canada.

Teenage Kansan farm boy Lije Tulley joins abolitionist raiders known as Jayhawkers, freeing slaves in Missouri before infiltrating the state as a covert spy during the Civil War.

""Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction, and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly withdrawn into an underground existence. In full retreat from society, he scrawls a passionate, obsessive, self-contradictory narrative that serves as a devastating attack on social utopianism and an assertion of man's essentially irrational nature." Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, whose Dostoevsky translations have become the standard, give us a brilliantly faithful edition of this classic novel, conveying all the tragedy and tormented comedy of the original. Written in 1864, this novel is the first and strangest of Dostoevsky's masterpieces--and the source of those that followed. Violating literary conventions in ways never before attempted, this classic tells of a mid-19th-century Russian official's breakaway from society and descent "underground." " -- Barnes & Noble website.

Harriet Tubman and Susan B. Anthony share tea in 1904, reflecting on their lifelong fight for freedom and women’s rights, offering a brief but vivid glimpse into the lives of two pioneering African‑American activists.

A touching tale of a young slave girl, Great Aunt Lucy, who learns the secret quilt code to guide herself, her brother Albert, and other enslaved people toward freedom on the Underground Railroad.

A Jewish girl’s heart‑warming escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad, narrated by her treasured rag doll.

A harrowing portrait of life amid the siege of Sarajevo where everyday survival becomes a moral crucible and the human spirit is tested by war’s relentless cruelty.

Set in Kansas during the late 1850s, this novel follows a Quaker family’s Underground Railroad station while a 21st‑century teenager discovers the legacy of a sheltering slavewoman hidden in the same home.

A twelve‑year‑old slave, Ann Maria Weems, escapes from her Maryland plantation with the help of a daring white man and travels the Underground Railroad to Canada, discovering independence and love along the way.