World War II Book Recommendations

Love reading books set up during or in World War II? Well, we got you covered. Here are 72 books you can read to tickle your fancy.

Fiction and Non-Fiction

1. The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer
2. The Century trilogy – Ken Follet
3. Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
4. Man’s Search for Meaning –
5. From here to eternity – James Jones
6. The story of Danni Dunn – Bryce Courtney
7. Life After Life – Kate Atkinson
8. Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
9. The Bronze Horseman – Paulina Simons
10. The Things We Cannot Say – Kelly Rimmer
11. The Book of Lost Names – Kristin Harmel
12. The Choice – Edie Egar
13. Finest Hour – Tim Clayton
14. Letters from Iwo Jima –
15. Flags of Our Fathers –
16. Conversations with an executioner – Kazimierz Moczarski
17. In Farleigh Field –
18. Lilac Girls –
19. The Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris
20. Night –
21. All the light you cannot see – Anthony Doerr
22. The Nightingale – Kristin Hannah
23. Sarah’s Key –
24. Beneath a Scarlett Sky – Mark Sullivan
25. Huntress –
26. Two Brothers – Ben Elton
27. To See You Again: The Betty Schimmel Story –
28. Unknown Soldier – Vaino Linna
29. Dragonfly – Leila Meacham
30. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
31. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
32. Between Shades of Grey – Ruta Sepetys
33. Salt to the Sea – Ruta Sepetys
34. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William Shirer
35. Enemy at the Gates – William Graig
36. To Wake the Giant – Jeff Shaara
37. The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz –
38. The Librarian of Auschwitz – Henry Holt
39. The Winds of War – Herman Wouk
40. Khaki Town – Judy Nunn
41. City of Thieves – David Benioff
42. Unbroken – Lauren Hillenbrand
43. Hotel on the corner of bitter and sweet – Jamie Ford
44. Liberation – Imogen Kealey
45. The Last Plane – Robert Hirzer
46. The Spitfire Girls
47. Berlin Finale – Heinz
48. The Commandant’s Girl – Pam Jenoff
49. The Alice Network – Kate Quinn
50. Splendid and the vile – Erik Larsen
51. The Dressmaker’s Gift – Fiona Valpy
52. Song of the Jade Lily – Kirsty Manning
53. Catch-22 –
54. The Last Train to London – Meg White Clayton
55. Code Name Helene – Ariel Lawhon
56. Savage Continent –
57. The Paris Architect –
58. We Must Be Brave – Frances Liardet
59. We Were the Lucky Ones
60. Band of Brothers – Stephen E. Ambrose
61. Empire of the Sun – J. G. Ballard
62. Hitler’s Children –
63. The Nazi Officer’s Wife –
64. D-Day Survivor – Harold Baumgarten
65. The Beantown Girls
66. Karolina’s Twin –
67. Once We Were Brothers –
68. In the Garden of Beasts –
69. The Storyteller – Jodi Picoult
70. Maus – Art Spiegelman
71. Schindler’s List –
72. When Courage was Stronger than Fear – Peter Hellman

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