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A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor TowlesBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan LethemMatterhorn by Karl Marlantes
ATY 2020 - Place in the Title
746 books — 83 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeAtonement by Ian McEwanThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleHHhH by Laurent Binet
Best World War Two Novels
267 books — 108 voters

Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Titus Books by Mervyn Peake
Size Doesn't Matter - The Long and Large Classics of Literature
304 books — 399 voters
Bleak House by Charles DickensThe Tree House by Glenn HaybittleMansfield Park by Jane Austen
Books With Castles, Palaces, or Houses on the Cover or in the Title
505 books — 56 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrA Place of Greater Safety by Hilary MantelEvie and Jack by Glenn HaybittleThe Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer
Historical Fiction - France
511 books — 322 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrHHhH by Laurent BinetEveryone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
World War II Fiction
1,274 books — 1,974 voters

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn WaughTitus Groan by Mervyn Peake
Best Books of the Decade: 1940s
835 books — 1,142 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrHHhH by Laurent BinetEveryone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris Cleave
Best WWII Historical Fiction
441 books — 597 voters

The Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleEveryone Brave Is Forgiven by Chris CleaveThe Night Watch by Sarah WatersA God in Ruins by Kate AtkinsonEvie and Jack by Glenn Haybittle
World War II England
384 books — 196 voters
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles DickensPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenLolita by Vladimir NabokovAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Best Opening Sentence
219 books — 151 voters

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeFirst Light by Geoffrey WellumA Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm
Best WWII Fiction and Biography
696 books — 580 voters
The Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn BeerThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleWinter in the Morning by Janina BaumanThe Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square by Joseph ZiemianA Surplus of Memory by Yitzhak ("Antek") Zuckerman
Honoring Jews From All Over Europe
114 books — 80 voters

The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeIf This Is a Man • The Truce by Primo LeviThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleBenevolence and Betrayal by Alexander StilleIn Love and War by Alex Preston
Italy in World War Two; fiction and non fiction.
50 books — 14 voters
Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto by Bernard Goldstein
AK Press Books
146 books — 22 voters

The Diary of Mary Berg by Mary BergAnd There Was Light by Jacques LusseyranThe Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn BeerBenevolence and Betrayal by Alexander StilleThe Warsaw Ghetto by Barbara Engelking
Essential Books on the Holocaust
197 books — 194 voters
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleWolf Hall by Hilary MantelThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Historical Fiction that GUYS like, too!
544 books — 241 voters

The Diary of Mary Berg by Mary BergWinter in the Morning by Janina Bauman
Holocaust Diaries
79 books — 21 voters
Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David MitchellA Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Best Historical Fiction of the 21st Century
1,416 books — 2,285 voters

Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelBring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Most Brilliant Historical Novels in the past 45 yrs
1,108 books — 1,122 voters
And There Was Light by Jacques LusseyranFirst Light by Geoffrey WellumA Higher Call by Adam MakosOutwitting the Gestapo by Lucie AubracThe Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith Hahn Beer
Best World War II History (nonfiction)
674 books — 492 voters

And There Was Light by Jacques LusseyranThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrHHhH by Laurent BinetA Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm
WW2: The Resistance - Fiction & Non-Fiction
302 books — 187 voters
The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeThe Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleThe Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon MawerIn Love and War by Alex Preston
World War II romance
173 books — 81 voters

The Way Back to Florence by Glenn HaybittleAnd There Was Light by Jacques LusseyranOutwitting the Gestapo by Lucie AubracAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrWinter in the Morning by Janina Bauman
Surviving German Occupation
159 books — 75 voters
Paris at War by David DrakeAnd There Was Light by Jacques LusseyranA Garden of Thorns by Roger De AnfrasioOutwitting the Gestapo by Lucie AubracOccupation by Ian Ousby
Domestic France in WWII
96 books — 50 voters

First Light by Geoffrey WellumLancaster Target by Jack CurrieA Higher Call by Adam MakosLast of the Ten Fighter Boys by Jimmy Corbin
Nonfiction Military Aviation
216 books — 78 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownFirst Light by Geoffrey WellumLancaster Target by Jack CurrieOutwitting the Gestapo by Lucie AubracA Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,098 books — 2,328 voters

A Life in Secrets by Sarah HelmThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeFirst Light by Geoffrey WellumAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrHHhH by Laurent Binet
WW2: Many Perspectives
518 books — 230 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBlack Elk Speaks by John G. NeihardtThe Heart of Everything That Is by Bob Drury
Best American History Books
2,104 books — 2,464 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryThe Street Sweeper by Elliot PerlmanBenevolence and Betrayal by Alexander StilleFirst Light by Geoffrey Wellum
Your Top 5 Reads in 2016
659 books — 234 voters
The Complete Works by William ShakespeareWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor DostoevskyMoby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman MelvilleCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,233 books — 118,053 voters