Books like The war that Saved my Life

The war that Saved my Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley reads as hopeful, poignant. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

The Breadwinner

Deborah Ellis · 2000

Shares the escape + history thread

79% genome match

Searching for Shona

Margaret Jean Anderson · 1978

Shares the escape + history thread

73% genome match

Inside Out & Back Again

Thanhha Lai · 2011

Shares the escape + history thread

71% genome match

Under the blood-red sun

Graham Salisbury · 1994

Shares the escape + vspare thread

73% genome match

The breadwinner

Nora Twomey · 2001

Shares the escape + history thread

77% genome match

Woods Runner

Gary Paulsen · 2010

Shares the escape + history thread

74% genome match

Good-bye Marianne

Irene N. Watts · 1995

Shares the escape + history thread

76% genome match

Addy's Surprise

Connie Rose Porter · 1993

Shares the escape + history thread

70% genome match

Under the Broken Sky

Mariko Nagai · 2019

Shares the escape + history thread

73% genome match

The War I Finally Won

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley · 2017

Shares the escape thread

84% genome match

Tree by leaf

Cynthia Voigt · 1988

Shares the escape + history thread

69% genome match

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

Eleanor Coerr · 1977

Shares the history + vspare thread

69% genome match