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  • Cover of A Journal of the Plague Year
    A Journal of the Plague YearNovel

    Daniel Defoe · standalone novel · 1722

    About plague and pandemic, set in renaissance and early modern and big city.

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  • Cover of Dawn of Fear
    Dawn of FearNovel

    Susan Cooper · standalone novel · 1970

    About coming of age, set in europe and early 20th century.

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  • Cover of Resistance
    ResistanceNovel

    Owen Sheers · standalone novel · 2007

    Alternate history, about forbidden love and war, set in early 20th century.

    “The plot centers on the inhabitants of a valley near Abergavenny in Wales in 1944–45, shortly after the failure of Operation Overlord and a successful German counterinvasion of Great Britain.”

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  • Cover of Earth's Children
    Earth's ChildrenSeries

    series · 6 books · 1980

    About coming of age, set in prehistoric and europe.

    “Although Auel had previously mentioned in interviews that there would be a seventh novel, publicity announcements for the sixth confirmed that it would be the final book in the sequence.”

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  • Cover of Empire of the Sun
    Empire of the SunSeries

    series · 2 books · 1984

    completed

    About coming of age, set in east asia.

    “J. G. Ballard's Empire of the Sun draws on his own childhood to follow Jim, a British boy separated from his parents in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during World War II and interned in a civilian camp for the rest of the war.”

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  • Cover of Midnight Is a Place
    Midnight Is a PlaceNovel

    Joan Aiken · standalone novel · 1974

    Gothic, about coming of age, set in our world and 19th century.

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