My Favourite World War II Fiction Books

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  • Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel (Modern Library 100 Best Novels)

    • ASIN: 0385333846
    • ISBN: 0812988523
    • Brand: Delta
    • Manufacturer: Dial Press Trade Paperback

    Slaughterhouse-Five, an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous firebombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim’s odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we fear most.

  • WAR

    • ASIN: B0035II95C
    • Manufacturer: Twelve

  • Next Year in Havana

    • ASIN: B072BLV8Y9
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB PICK"A beautiful novel that's full of forbidden passions, family secrets and a lot of courage and sacrifice."--Reese WitherspoonAfter the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution...... [Read More]

  • Refugee

    • ASIN: 0545880831
    • ISBN: 9780545880831
    • Manufacturer: Scholastic Press

    A New York Times bestseller!JOSEF is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world . . .ISABEL is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America .... [Read More]

  • Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

    • UPC: 884729379209
    • ASIN: 0307476413
    • ISBN: 9780307476418
    • Brand: Anchor Books
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

    Finalist for the 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyOne of the Best Books of the Year:The Christian Science MonitorNPRThe Seattle Times St. Louis Post-Dispatch Chicago TribuneA New York Times Notable BookThe Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War I was, in the words of T. E. Lawrence, “a sideshow of a sideshow.” As a resu... [Read More]

  • Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

    • ASIN: B0054LJGWS
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.) (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

    • ASIN: 0060883286
    • ISBN: 9780060883287
    • Brand: Gabriel Garc 237 a M 225 rquez
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    One Hundred Years of Solitude tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming with truth, compassion, and a lyrical magic that strikes the soul -- this novel is a masterpiece... [Read More]

  • CIRCE

    • ASIN: B074M5TLLJ
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

  • These Truths: A History of the United States

    • ASIN: 0393635244
    • ISBN: 0393635244
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

  • 1984

    • ASIN: B003JTHWKU
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • Alexander Hamilton

    • ASIN: 0143034758
    • ISBN: 0143034758
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

    A New York Times Bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, Ron Ch... [Read More]

  • The Kite Runner

    • ASIN: 159463193X
    • ISBN: 9781594631931
    • Brand: Riverhead Books
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    The #1 New York Times bestselling debut novel that introduced Khaled Hosseini to millions of readers the world over.   The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father’s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense... [Read More]

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    • ASIN: 0061120065
    • ISBN: 0061120065
    • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Wa... [Read More]

  • This Scorched Earth: A Novel of the Civil War and the American West

    • ASIN: B071NRPBZV
    • Manufacturer: Forge Books

    An amazing tour de force depicting a family’s journey from devastation to rebirth following the American Civil War, from New York Times bestselling author William Gear.The Hancocks of Arkansas were true American pioneers: tough, enterprising, eager to make their own destinies.Then came the Civil War, the deadly, murderous conflict that sundered t... [Read More]

  • My Ishmael (Ishmael Series Book 3)

    • ASIN: B002PXFYHY
    • Manufacturer: Bantam

  • The Song of Achilles: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0062060627
    • ISBN: 0062060627
    • Brand: Ecco Press
    • Manufacturer: Ecco

    “At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller’s thrilling, profoundly moving, and utterly unique rete... [Read More]

  • Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (An Hbj Modern Classic)

    • ASIN: B003K16PUU
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • A Separate Peace

    • ASIN: 0743253973
    • ISBN: 0743253973
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the... [Read More]

  • Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

    • ASIN: B00LD1ORX6
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    New York Times bestseller THE BOOK THAT EXPLAINS WHY RUSSIANS WANTED TO MEET WITH THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN “Part John Grisham-like thriller, part business and political memoir.” —The New York Times “[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar’s Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street,... [Read More]

  • A Thousand Splendid Suns

    • ASIN: 159448385X
    • ISBN: 159448385X
    • Brand: Hosseini, Khaled
    • Manufacturer: Riverhead Books

    Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. After 103 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list an... [Read More]

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