1940s


Animal Farm
1984
The Stranger
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Little Prince
The Plague
The Book Thief
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
Death of a Salesman
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Pearl
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferSarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
WWII Historic Fiction
1,541 books — 1,677 voters
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise BrownMadeline by Ludwig BemelmansMake Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskeyThe Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix PotterThe Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper
Picture Books of the 1940s and Before
300 books — 44 voters

1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinLife In Instalments by Danielle SartorelliBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonJohn Adams by David McCullough
U.S. History Reading List
498 books — 225 voters

Towards Blue Skies by Adele Minnar Towards Blue S...Blackout by Connie WillisThe Raiders and the Cross by Patrick LarsimontAll Clear by Connie WillisThe English Agent by Clare  Harvey
The Blitz: Fiction & Non-Fiction
198 books — 102 voters

Lucy Ashe
“ Once war was over, everyone wanted to find some normality, to settle and fix their disordered homes. The reality, of course, was that it was impossible. Not with rationing and homes bombed and fathers not yet returned. ”
― Lucy Ashe, The Sleeping Beauties

“ There was only so much he could stand being mad at her for. She was being a pain but he still liked her. ”
― Rose Andrews, The Widow's Second Chance

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