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WWII Historic Fiction
A collection of historic fiction and historical romance set during WWII. Diversity is the name of the game folks. If you don't see it, feel free to add it. ;)
Please no memoirs, nonfictions, alternative histories, or paranormal crossovers (if it has a vampire, werewolf or zombie - it doesn't belong on this list).
Also, please refrain from spamming this list. All suspected sockpuppeting will be reported to GR adims and/or librarians for removal.
Note: I'll try my best to keep my eye on this list, but if you catch something I've missed and can't remove it yourself please feel free to shoot me a message.
Please no memoirs, nonfictions, alternative histories, or paranormal crossovers (if it has a vampire, werewolf or zombie - it doesn't belong on this list).
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Note: I'll try my best to keep my eye on this list, but if you catch something I've missed and can't remove it yourself please feel free to shoot me a message.
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The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
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Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (Goodreads Author)
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Morning Glory
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The Lavender Garden
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Garden of Beasts: A Novel of Berlin 1936
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Jeffery Deaver (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 7,185 ratings
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While We're Far Apart: (A World War I Homefront Novel Set in New York)
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Lynn Austin (Goodreads Author)
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Black Cross
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The Golden Hour
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Within These Walls of Sorrow: A Novel of World War II Poland
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Amanda Barratt (Goodreads Author)
4.68 avg rating — 713 ratings
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Hidden Among the Stars
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Melanie Dobson (Goodreads Author)
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Escape from Warsaw
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Life and Fate
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The Chilbury Ladies' Choir
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Jennifer Ryan (Goodreads Author)
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
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Lynn Sheene (Goodreads Author)
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In Farleigh Field
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Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author)
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Los Alamos
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Joseph Kanon (Goodreads Author)
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Devil's Deceit.
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Anthony Hulse (Goodreads Author)
4.82 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Wind Is Not a River
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The Prime Minister's Secret Agent (Maggie Hope Mystery, #4)
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Susan Elia MacNeal (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 11,672 ratings
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Good Night, Mr. Tom
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Spoils of Victory (Mason Collins, #2)
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John A. Connell (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 355 ratings
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The Tuscan Child
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Rhys Bowen (Goodreads Author)
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Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin
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Omamori
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Princess Elizabeth's Spy (Maggie Hope Mystery, #2)
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Susan Elia MacNeal (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 18,419 ratings
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A Man Without Breath (Bernie Gunther #9)
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Animal Farm
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The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1)
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The French Baker's War
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Michael Whatling (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 2,799 ratings
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Tigers in Red Weather
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Liza Klaussmann (Goodreads Author)
3.43 avg rating — 15,865 ratings
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Karolina's Twins (Liam Taggart & Catherine Lockhart, #3)
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Ronald H. Balson (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 15,407 ratings
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I'll Be Seeing You
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Spies
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Flight From Berlin
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Eternal
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Lisa Scottoline (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 43,477 ratings
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Girl in the Blue Coat
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Monica Hesse (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 45,335 ratings
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Night Over Water
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 29,595 ratings
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Tamar
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Prague Counterpoint (Zion Covenant, #2)
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Bodie Thoene (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 7,469 ratings
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Dark Voyage (Night Soldiers, #8)
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A Future Arrived (Passing Bells, #3)
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A Woman's Place
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Lynn Austin (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 8,175 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Day After Night
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Anita Diamant (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 15,484 ratings
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War Brides: A Novel
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The Complete Maus
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The Secret of Raven Point
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Jennifer Vanderbes (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 2,393 ratings
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Violins of Autumn
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Amy McAuley (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 901 ratings
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White Rose, Black Forest
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Eoin Dempsey (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 53,309 ratings
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Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family, #1)
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Chanel Cleeton (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 145,662 ratings
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria
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No Less Than Victory (World War II: 1939-1945, #3)
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4.33 avg rating — 5,937 ratings
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Prisoner B-3087
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Alan Gratz (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 43,137 ratings
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Daughters of the Night Sky
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Aimie K. Runyan (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 14,910 ratings
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The Last Year of the War
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Susan Meissner (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 22,037 ratings
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The Glittering Hour
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Iona Grey (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 10,801 ratings
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Nora & Kettle (Paper Stars, #1)
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Lauren Nicolle Taylor (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 1,715 ratings
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The Memory Keeper
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4.37 avg rating — 559 ratings
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Surviving The Forest
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Adiva Geffen (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 5,338 ratings
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The German Midwife
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Mandy Robotham (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 36,107 ratings
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The Medallion
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Cathy Gohlke (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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Mister Roberts
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An Artist of the Floating World
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 44,273 ratings
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The Dressmaker of Dachau
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Mary Chamberlain (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 6,997 ratings
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Merlin at War (DCI Frank Merlin, #3)
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Mark Ellis (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 197 ratings
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The Foreign Correspondent (Night Soldiers, #9)
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The Yellow Bird Sings
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4.08 avg rating — 15,347 ratings
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The Only Woman in the Room
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Marie Benedict (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 104,434 ratings
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The Elephant of Belfast: A Novel
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S. Kirk Walsh (Goodreads Author)
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Milkweed
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A Trace of Smoke (Hannah Vogel, #1)
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Love & Treasure
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Ayelet Waldman (Goodreads Author)
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The Memory of Us
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Camille Di Maio (Goodreads Author)
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Semper Fi (The Corps, #1)
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Billy Boyle (Billy Boyle World War II, #1)
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My Dear, I Wanted To Tell You
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Louisa Young (Goodreads Author)
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Flygirl
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Saving Amelie
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The Beekeeper's Promise
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Lady Clementine
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Marie Benedict (Goodreads Author)
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The Taster
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The Balkan Trilogy
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Medallions
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You Are My Sunshine (All My Love, Detrick, #2)
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When the Elephants Dance
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The Time in Between
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The Man From Berlin (Gregor Reinhardt, #1)
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Luke McCallin (Goodreads Author)
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Battleground (The Corps, #4)
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Daughter of the Reich
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Louise Fein (Goodreads Author)
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Bluebirds
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Resistance Women
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Jennifer Chiaverini (Goodreads Author)
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Munich Signature (Zion Covenant, #3)
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Bodie Thoene (Goodreads Author)
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On Wings of the Morning
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Marie Bostwick (Goodreads Author)
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Kingdom of Shadows (Night Soldiers, #6)
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De donkere kamer van Damokles
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Next to Love
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Tanamera
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Blood of Victory (Night Soldiers, #7)
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Go figure. I get ninety percent of the way through my bookshelves and Goodreads says I can't vote anymore!
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I've already removed five titles that were not applicable to this list. If you see anything please comment to have it removed. This list is meant to be strictly WWII fiction. No memoirs, no nonfictional accounts, no alternative histories and nothing unrelated to WWII.
Erin wrote: "I've already removed five titles were not applicable to this list. If you see anything please comment to have it removed. This list is meant to be strictly WWII fiction. No memoirs, no nonfictional..."I went in as a librarian and overwrote the WWII. I see both Ws now. Do you?
Misfit wrote: "Erin wrote: "I've already removed five titles were not applicable to this list. If you see anything please comment to have it removed. This list is meant to be strictly WWII fiction. No memoirs, n..."I think it was upset because there was already a list called "fiction set during WWII"
I changed it to WWII Historic Fiction and went through.
Thanks for looking into it Misfit :)
Couple more I can't add as my votes have been used up: The Spies of Warsaw
Resistance
The Gates of Zion (Zion Chronicles #1)
Vienna Prelude
Evensong
A Distant Melody
A Memory Between Us
The Bronze Horseman
Erin wrote: "Couple more I can't add as my votes have been used up: The Spies of Warsaw
Resistance
The Gates of Zion (Zion Chronicles #1)
Vienna Prelude
Evensong
A Distant Melody
A Memory Between Us
The Bron..."
Odd. I didn't know there was a cap on books you could add to any particular list.
100 apparently. I'm really sort of disappointed that they would cap it at all.
Yes, the limit is 100. I also would welcome more on some lists!
Erin wrote: "Couple more I can't add as my votes have been used up: The Spies of Warsaw
Resistance
The Gates of Zion (Zion Chronicles #1)
Vienna Prelude
Evensong
A Distant Melody
A Memory Between Us
The Bron..."
Thanks for posting these Misfit. :)
In case anyone is wondering why books keep jumping around on this list, know that I am changing my votes to increase the diversity of the list since GR caps our voting rights.
I appreciate all the work you're putting into this. A nice resource to have.
Thanks Misfit. I know it isn't an original idea as far as lists go but I got frustrated browsing the ones I was seeing. Same titles every time, not a lot of new things and several that people weren't monitoring to weed out mislabeled additions.Hoping we can create something here that is more of a comprehensive resource.
I'm trying to put one together for Africa. My mind's a blank though and only have three books so far.
I added some. Schlinder's List is technically fiction, so I put it up - but if it doesn't fit, I'm sorry.Misfit what books for Africa? Want some help?
Chris wrote: "I added some. Schlinder's List is technically fiction, so I put it up - but if it doesn't fit, I'm sorry.Misfit what books for Africa? Want some help?"
Here's the fledgling list I started. I'm just drawing a blank.
This might sound like a stupid question, but here it goes - Are you including Egypt?
Chris wrote: "This might sound like a stupid question, but here it goes - Are you including Egypt?"I would. It's on the same continent after all :)
Unless you ask certain Egyptians. Going to add some now.
Chris wrote: "I added some. Schlinder's List is technically fiction, so I put it up - but if it doesn't fit, I'm sorry.Misfit what books for Africa? Want some help?"
I'm all for leaving Schlinder's List. :)
Misfit wrote: "I'm trying to put one together for Africa. My mind's a blank though and only have three books so far."I'll browse my shelves and see if I have anything to add as soon as my kids are down for the night! :D
More than ten people have voted for Against the Tide without issuing a single vote for any other title on this list in the last few days.Just an observation.
Erin wrote: "More than ten people have voted for Against the Tide without issuing a single vote for any other title on this list in the last few days.Just an observation."
It seems the book is is on quite a few lists. I haven't clicked on them all (must work at work), but it see a few familiar voters. Just sayin'.
Interesting note Misfit. Very interesting.
If most of the voters smell like socks (just joined, no books or friends, etc.), I'd consider reporting them. But yes, it is curious. Susanna is good at sorting out this kind of voting activity.
Should we contact her? I didn't even realize GR had a policy regarding voting on lists.
Erin wrote: "Should we contact her? I didn't even realize GR had a policy regarding voting on lists."She will likely spot our conversation on the feeds and hopefully pop in. I know list spamming has happened elsewhere, not sure what they'll do, but they have been known to zap sock accounts.
I'm not sure how to report suspected sock-puppetry (someone else chime in if they know).What I do (assuming the book legitimately qualifies for the list - if it doesn't, I remove it), is put the books on my "author-spams-listopia" bookshelf, which probably doesn't accomplish anything, but I guess is a warning label, and makes me feel better.
Golly, what a sea of "1 out of 1"s that is!
Susanna wrote: "Golly, what a sea of "1 out of 1"s that is!"Yes. It. Is.
I clicked on about 40% of the voters in questions. With one exception they are all authors. You think if I went to their books I'd find a similar voting pattern?
Yeah, I have a shelf for that, too. "Authors-helping-authors."Bet you would. I've learned to recognize a whole chain of faces and names that I know are authors scratching each other's backs, trying to game the system.
And the thing is, I read a lot of historical fiction, and might have been tempted to read this one, as I find the setting intriguing - but this is a real turnoff. Probably never will read it.
Most likely Misfit. The book qualifies for the list so far as I can tell Susanna, but there is obviously something going on there to swing the votes to a relatively unknown self pub. The rest of the top ten have thousands of ratings where Against the Tides is sitting at 24. It just doesn't make sense.
Really don't think there is much we can do about it though. Beyond waiting for voters to even things out that is. :(
Yeah, it does seem to fit the general parameters of the list description, so I won't remove it.
I'm willing to bet people read through the comments as often as they do the the list descriptions, but just so I have the bases covered...This list is for fictional pieces that take place during or are in some way related to WWII. No memoirs, biographies, autobiographies, or nonfiction war material.
This is list is also limited to historic fiction. Historical romance is fine, but no paranormal stories of werewolves, zombies or vampires.
I'm sure books like Bloody Good are wonderful, but they do not fit the parameters of this list and will be removed.
Thank you! :)
I'd like to draw attention to Travis Luedke and his work, The Nightlife: Paris. I removed the book because it is a paranormal piece and as such does not fall within the scope of this list.The description EXPLICITLY states no vampire novels, but that being said I wanted to post this title here in the comments for anyone who might find it interesting.
It really is amazing to me. I'd never heard of John F. Hanley before starting this list and now not just one, but two of his books are in the top five. The Last Boat was added to this list yesterday and overnight jumped to the number three position.
Erin wrote: "It really is amazing to me. I'd never heard of John F. Hanley before starting this list and now not just one, but two of his books are in the top five. The Last Boat was added to this list yester..."
I see some familiar profiles there, but IIRC, it's fellow authors and not sock-puppetry going on. In poor taste voting each other up, but not sure if it's actionable. Susanna?
I caught that too Misfit. Also found three other authors who have voted their own work to the list. No violation in that, just funny to see since their votes are completely open to public scrutiny.
What I don't understand is why the writer community continues this back-patting behavior. I guess I would feel differently if their voting patterns suggested a genuine interest in WWII literature, but they don't. :/Most of them seem to be primarily interested in the paranormal and only four of the voters for Against the Tides voted for anything outside Hanley's work. It should be noted though that while two of those four, Travis Luedke and Christoph Fischer, each nominated a third title, the books they added to the list were books they themselves had written.
Just like with blurbing each other, I wish they wouldn't do it or think the readers won't notice.
They don't call us readers for nothing! Devil is in the details. Everyone knows that.
I was just looking, that book is on a lot of lists. Just sayin...
Unfortunately that doesn't surprise me. :(
5 people who've read it, and 15 voters? Yeah, that's convincing; not.
I know, but unless they're socks like that other author with 25 pages of lists, I doubt there's much that can be done.
Beyond pointing it out as we've done here in the comments, no, nothing that can be done.
And I doubt they'd ever bother to come back and look at them. Sigh.
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