Read-alikes and related books

Books like Going Solo

Readers who finished Going Solo by Roald Dahl and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Military & Wars, Africa, Literary Figures, and World War II.

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Top related books to Going Solo

Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Going Solo.

Moe Berg The Spy Behind Home Plate

Vivian Grey

Themes: Military & Wars • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Father and Son: a Memoir about Family, the Past and Mortality

Jonathan Raban

Themes: Africa • Literary Figures • World War II

Waugh in Abyssinia

Evelyn Waugh

Themes: Africa • Literary Figures • World War II

Women Heroes of World War II The Pacific Theater : 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival

Kathryn J. Atwood

Themes: Military & Wars • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Churchill His Finest Hours

Alan MacDonald

Themes: Military & Wars • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Code Talkers and Warriors Native Americans and World War II

Tom Holm

Themes: Military & Wars • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Pittsburgh Remembers World War II

Joseph Francis Rishel

Themes: Military & Wars • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Flight to Arras

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Themes: Literary Figures • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Sky A True Story of Resistance During World War II : Illustrated with Photographs, Documents, and Letters from the Author’s Collection

Hanneke Ippisch

Themes: Military & Wars • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#10

Unknown Soldiers Reliving World War II in Europe

Joseph E. Garland

Themes: Military & Wars • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#11

Tuskegee Airmen American Heroes

Lynn M. Homan

Themes: Military & Wars • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#12

Child Soldier When Boys and Girls Are Used in War

Michel Chikwanine

Themes: Military & Wars • Africa • People & Places

#13

Boy and Going Solo

Roald Dahl

Themes: Military & Wars • People & Places • Literary

#14

Ian Fleming’s War The Inspiration for 007

Mark Simmons

Themes: Literary Figures • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#15

The Phantom Major The Story of David Stirling and the SAS Regiment

Virginia Cowles

Themes: Africa • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#16

Children During Wartime

Brenda Williams

Themes: Military & Wars • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#17

Farewell to Manzanar A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Themes: World War II • Wars & Conflicts • People & Places

#18

Codename Rygor The Spy Behind the Allied Victory in North Africa

Mieczysław Zygfryd Słowikowski

Themes: Africa • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#19

World War II History for Kids 500 Facts

Kelly Milner Halls

Themes: Military & Wars • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#20

My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albright My History of the Second World War 1939-1945

Marcia Williams

Themes: Military & Wars • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#21

Monty His Part in My Victory

Spike Milligan

Themes: Literary Figures • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#22

War Diaries, 1939-1945

Astrid Lindgren

Themes: Literary Figures • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#23

Poems from the Second World War

Gaby Morgan

Themes: Military & Wars • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

#24

Where Shall We Run To? A Memoir

Alan Garner

Themes: Literary Figures • World War II • Wars & Conflicts

Fans of Going Solo by Roald Dahl will find 24 titles here, all united by Military & Wars, Africa, Literary Figures. Authors represented include Vivian Grey, Jonathan Raban, Evelyn Waugh, Kathryn J. Atwood, and others.