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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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