Books like the Bernie Gunther series
What it is about
- Bernhard Gunther
- Private investigators
- Nazis
- International relations
- Undercover operations
- Girls
Where it happens
- Germany
- Berlin (Germany)
- Berlin
- Munich (Germany)
- Vienna (Austria)
- Argentina
Ages
- Adult
Series like this
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Why: Both series are historical fiction books.
Closest books: March Violets and The Stranger from the Sea
What both books share
- historical fiction
March Violets: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
The Stranger from the Sea: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
See the Poldark books in order · Books like the Poldark series
- historical fiction
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Why: Both series are historical fiction books.
Closest books: March Violets and Lord John and the Private Matter
What both books share
- historical fiction
March Violets: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
Lord John and the Private Matter: "Historical Fiction" (OL subject); "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
- historical fiction
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Why: Both series are historical fiction books.
Closest books: March Violets and The Clan of the Cave Bear
What both books share
- historical fiction
March Violets: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
The Clan of the Cave Bear: "historical fiction" (OL subject); "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction" (LoC 655)
See the Earth's Children books in order · Books like the Earth's Children series
- historical fiction
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Why: Both series are detective books.
Closest books: A Quiet Flame and The Da Vinci Code
What both books share
- detective
A Quiet Flame: "Fiction, mystery & detective, general" (OL subject); "Fiction, mystery & detective, historical" (OL subject); "detective fiction" (WD genre)
The Da Vinci Code: "Historical Mystery & Detective Fiction" (OL subject); "Fiction, mystery & detective, general" (OL subject); "detective fiction" (WD genre)
See the Robert Langdon books in order · Books like the Robert Langdon series
- detective
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Why: Both series are detective books.
Closest books: A Quiet Flame and Still Life
What both books share
- detective
A Quiet Flame: "Fiction, mystery & detective, general" (OL subject); "Fiction, mystery & detective, historical" (OL subject); "detective fiction" (WD genre)
Still Life: "Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural" (OL subject); "detective fiction" (WD genre)
See the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache books in order · Books like the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series
- detective
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Why: Both series are crime books.
Closest books: A Quiet Flame and Faceless Killers
What both books share
- crime
A Quiet Flame: "Crime, fiction" (OL subject); "crime literature" (WD genre)
Faceless Killers: "Fiction, crime" (OL subject); "Crime & mystery" (OL subject); "FICTION / Crime" (OL subject); "crime literature" (WD genre)
See the Kurt Wallander books in order · Books like the Kurt Wallander series
- crime
Books like the books in this series
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Why: Both March Violets and All the Light We Cannot See are historical fiction books, set in Germany.
- Historical fiction
- Germany
What both books share
- historical fiction
March Violets: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
All the Light We Cannot See: "Historical fiction" (OL subject); "historical fiction" (WD genre) - Germany
March Violets: "Germany, fiction" (OL subject); "Germany" (OL place); "Germany" (WD narrative location)
All the Light We Cannot See: "Germany, fiction" (OL subject); "Germany" (OL place); "Germany" (WD narrative location)
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Why: Both March Violets and The Stranger from the Sea are historical fiction books.
What both books share
- historical fiction
March Violets: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
The Stranger from the Sea: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
- historical fiction
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Why: Both March Violets and Water for Elephants are historical fiction books.
What both books share
- historical fiction
March Violets: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
Water for Elephants: "Historical fiction" (OL subject); "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction" (LoC 655)
- historical fiction
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Lord John and the Private Matter
Diana Gabaldon · 2003 · Adult
about 300 pages
Cover from Google BooksWhy: Both March Violets and Lord John and the Private Matter are historical fiction books.
What both books share
- historical fiction
March Violets: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
Lord John and the Private Matter: "Historical Fiction" (OL subject); "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
- historical fiction
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Why: Both March Violets and Memoirs of a Geisha are historical fiction books.
What both books share
- historical fiction
March Violets: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
Memoirs of a Geisha: "Historical fiction" (OL subject); "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction" (LoC 655)
- historical fiction
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Why: Both March Violets and The Clan of the Cave Bear are historical fiction books.
What both books share
- historical fiction
March Violets: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
The Clan of the Cave Bear: "historical fiction" (OL subject); "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction" (LoC 655)
- historical fiction
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Why: Both March Violets and Outlander are historical fiction books.
What both books share
- historical fiction
March Violets: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
Outlander: "Historical fiction" (OL subject); "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction" (LoC 655)
- historical fiction
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Why: Both March Violets and The Loving Cup are historical fiction books.
What both books share
- historical fiction
March Violets: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
The Loving Cup: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
- historical fiction
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Why: Both March Violets and The Book Thief are historical fiction books, set in Germany.
- Historical fiction
- Germany
What both books share
- historical fiction
March Violets: "historical fiction" (WD genre); "Historical fiction." (LoC 655)
The Book Thief: "Historical fiction" (OL subject); "historical fiction" (WD genre) - Germany
March Violets: "Germany, fiction" (OL subject); "Germany" (OL place); "Germany" (WD narrative location)
The Book Thief: "Germany, history, fiction" (OL subject); "Germany" (OL subject); "Germany" (OL place); "Germany" (WD narrative location)
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Why: Both A Quiet Flame and Mr. Mercedes are crime books.
What both books share
- crime
A Quiet Flame: "Crime, fiction" (OL subject); "crime literature" (WD genre)
Mr. Mercedes: "crime" (OL subject); "crime fiction" (WD genre)
- crime
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The Bernie Gunther books on this site
- Book 1: March Violets
- Book 2: The Pale Criminal
- Book 4: The One from the Other
- Book 5: A Quiet Flame
- Book 6: If the Dead Rise Not
- Book 7: Field Gray
- Book 8: Prague Fatale
- Book 10: The Lady from Zagreb
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