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World War II/Holocaust Fiction & Non-fiction
A list of books centering on World War II and the Holocaust. Includes historical fiction and memoirs.
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Night
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Schindler’s List
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Number the Stars
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
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Sarah's Key
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Tatiana de Rosnay (Goodreads Author)
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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John Boyne (Goodreads Author)
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Catch-22
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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The Complete Maus
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
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Sophie’s Choice
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4.17 avg rating — 93,846 ratings
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The Reader
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All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 1,922,592 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
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Suite Française
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3.86 avg rating — 77,330 ratings
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Atonement
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 555,327 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 993,369 ratings
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Man's Search for Meaning
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4.37 avg rating — 843,306 ratings
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Survival in Auschwitz
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4.34 avg rating — 84,549 ratings
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The Bronze Horseman (The Bronze Horseman, #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 93,062 ratings
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
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Between Shades of Gray
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Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 270,536 ratings
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
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4.17 avg rating — 48,729 ratings
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The Kommandant's Girl (The Kommandant's Girl, #1)
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Pam Jenoff (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 31,062 ratings
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
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City of Thieves
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4.30 avg rating — 163,212 ratings
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Crabwalk
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
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Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 216,454 ratings
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Those Who Save Us
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Jenna Blum (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 103,096 ratings
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Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
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Elizabeth Wein (Goodreads Author)
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
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Diane Ackerman (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 91,111 ratings
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The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)
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The Devil's Arithmetic
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Jane Yolen (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 61,647 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,262,192 ratings
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
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4.44 avg rating — 136,764 ratings
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The Remains of the Day
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 348,257 ratings
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Mila 18
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Hana's Suitcase
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Karen Levine (Goodreads Author)
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Hiroshima
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I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust
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Eye of the Needle
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 166,978 ratings
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The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 1,951,290 ratings
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time, #1)
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Tatiana and Alexander (The Bronze Horseman, #2)
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All But My Life
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4.33 avg rating — 22,115 ratings
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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer
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4.26 avg rating — 15,229 ratings
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War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
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Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
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4.34 avg rating — 25,886 ratings
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The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide
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Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
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A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary
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Skeletons at the Feast
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Chris Bohjalian (Goodreads Author)
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A Bridge Too Far
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4.27 avg rating — 21,361 ratings
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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
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The Tin Drum
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A Separate Peace
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Mother Night
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4.23 avg rating — 103,112 ratings
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The Second World War
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The Diplomat's Wife (The Kommandant's Girl, #2)
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Pam Jenoff (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 19,461 ratings
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors
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4.33 avg rating — 23,318 ratings
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Everything is Illuminated
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 183,116 ratings
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HHhH
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4.07 avg rating — 27,682 ratings
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Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
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4.23 avg rating — 24,604 ratings
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Das Boot: The Boat
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Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
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Blitzball
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Austerlitz
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The Lost Wife
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Alyson Richman (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 63,649 ratings
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Der totale Rausch: Drogen im Dritten Reich
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King Rat (Asian Saga, #4)
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Storm of Steel
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
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Bill O'Reilly (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 21,405 ratings
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Yellow Star
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Patton: A Genius for War
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QB VII
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The Kindly Ones
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Together: A Journey for Survival
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Ann Arnold (Goodreads Author)
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The Third Reich at War (The History of the Third Reich, #3)
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The Guns of August
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The Forgotten Soldier
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The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice
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Every Man Dies Alone
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The Invisible Bridge
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The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
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The Painted Bird
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Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
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Eric Metaxas (Goodreads Author)
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One Man's Justice
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A Thread of Grace this was a wonderful story set in Italy during WW2. I liked it because it told the same stories from a different perspective. the book also had some of the most wonderful character contained in fiction- you root for all of them to the very end- even the bad guys! Worth every minute!
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I love the Book Thief, but number 1? Really?And Gravity's Rainbow is so low. :(
Did I miss Erik Larson's incredible "The Garden of Beasts"? It's pretty close to perfect.
Jack wrote: "I love the Book Thief, but number 1? Really?
And Gravity's Rainbow is so low. :("
My honest opinion would be The Book Thief is seriously overrated, not only in this list.
And Gravity's Rainbow is so low. :("
My honest opinion would be The Book Thief is seriously overrated, not only in this list.
Kinda confused. Why is 1984 in this list? Such a far stretch...
Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman. Unspeakably brilliant.
Removed 1984 and Lord of the Flies - can't see any connections there to WWII.
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