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Books set in Poland:


Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival by Władysław Szpilman
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman
The Kommandant's Girl by Pam Jenoff
Night by Elie Wiesel
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel by Louise Murphy
Briar Rose by Jane Yolen
Poland by James A. Michener
Once by Morris Gleitzman (1st book in series)
22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson
With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1st book in trilogy)
The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
The Doll by Bolesław Prus
Mila 18 by Leon Uris
Push Not the River by James Conroyd Martin
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka
Anya by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
The Trumpeter of Krakow by Eric P. Kelly
The Sanatorium under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz
Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw by Norman Davies
Warsaw Rising by Gunther Deschner
A World Apart by Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenman by Andrzej Szczypiorski
The Emperor of Lies: A Novel by Steve Sem-Sandberg
Madame by Antoni Libera
Insatiability by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz
Kamienie na szaniec by Aleksander Kamiński
All But My Life: A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass (1st book in trilogy)
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 by Christopher R. Browning
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi
Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian
The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age by Stanisław Lem
Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy
In My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst
Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz
The Slave by Isaac Bashevis Singer
In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Opdyke
Shosha: A Novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Forefathers' Eve by Adam Mickiewicz
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuściński
The Polish Officer by Alan Furst
The Cap: The Price of a Life byRoman Frister
The Auschwitz Kommandant: A Daughter's Search for the Father She Never Knew
The Bronski House by Philip Marsden
Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood by Nechama Tec
Gertruda's Oath: A Child, a Promise, and a Heroic Escape During World War II by Ram Oren
The Girl in the Red Coat by Roma Ligocka
If This Is a Man / The Truce by Primo Levi
Girl Nobody by Tomek Tryzna (AKA "Miss Nobody")
My Two Polish Grandfathers And Other Essays by Witold Rybczynski
Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations by Diane Armstrong
Malenka by Irina Korschunow
Death in Breslau by Marek Krajewski
Breslau Forever by Andrzej Ziemiański
Phantoms of Breslau by Marek Krajewski
The Polski Affair by Leon H Gildin
God's Playground: A History of Poland by Norman Davies
Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story by Ann Kirschner
Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski
Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust by Michael Korenblit

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What about some Stefan Grabiński

some fantasy books set in poland:
a bit of romance:
and:

With Fire and Sword by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Loneliness on the Net by Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

Szósta klepka by Małgorzata Musierowicz

Trędowata by Helena Mniszkówna

Dzikuska: Historia miłości by Irena Zarzycka

Once We Were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson

Death in Danzig by Stefan Chwin

(although I am still griping that they used the German version of the city name in the translation, and not the Polish Gdansk)

Alicja wrote: "Death in Danzig by Stefan Chwin

(although I am still griping that they used the German version of the city name in the translation, and not the Polish Gdansk)"

I haven't read the book but could it be that the book is set in the era of when it was known as Danzig?

Fliss wrote: "Alicja wrote: "Death in Danzig by Stefan Chwin

(although I am still griping that they used the German version of the city name in the translation, and not the Polish Gdansk)"

I haven't read the b..."

Set in 1945, right after WWII after the war and defeat of Nazi Germany. It is just a pet peeve of mine... My American co-worker came to me showing off that they were reading a book about Poland, it was this book. Then he asked me how far Danzig was from my hometown. *facepalm* It is the same city, Gdańsk and Danzig, just two different names. Plus, I think Gdańsk is prettier and that is how she should be known. :)

Ok fair enough.

The Crooked Mirror: A Memoir of Polish-Jewish Reconciliation by Louise Steinman

Who Was David Weiser? by Paweł Huelle

Michelle Granas "Zaremba..."

The Commandant of Lubizec: A Novel of The Holocaust and Operation Reinhard by Patrick Hicks

The Death's Head Chess Club by John Donoghue

Girl From Krakow, The by Alex Rosenberg

Wartime Lies by Louis Begley

Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg.

A Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miłoszewski

Entanglement by Zygmunt Miłoszewski

So many wonderful choices here. Where to begin?

The Ice Saints by Frank Tuohy

Judy wrote: " The Ice Saints by Frank Tuohy"

The author creates a very realistic atmosphere in this book.

So many wonderful books set in Poland the country my family emigrated from. Thank you all so very much for the suggestions!

My Mother's Secret by J.L. Witterick

More books set in Poland:


Aaron's Leap by Magdaléna Platzová
The Adventures of Mr. Nicholas Wisdom by Ignacy Krasicki
All Backs Were Turned by Marek Hłasko
Alone in the forest by Mala Kacenberg
The Amber Heart by Catherine Czerkawska
Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit
Another Beauty by Adam Zagajewski
The Anthropos-Spectre-Beast
Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski
Bacacay by Witold Gombrowicz
Balladyna by Juliusz Słowacki
Beautiful Twentysomethings by Marek Hłasko
Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir by Leslie Gilbert-Lurie
The Birch Grove and Other Stories by Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
The Black Madonna of Derby by Joanna Czechowska
The Black Seasons by Michał Głowiński
A Blessing on the Moon by Joseph Skibell
Bohin Manor by Tadeusz Konwicki
A Book that Was Lost: and Other Stories by S.Y. Agnon
The Boy Who Wanted Wings by James Conroyd Martin
Building The Barricade and Other Poems by Anna Świrszczyńska
Burning Girls by Veronica Schanoes
The Butterfly and the Violin by Kristy Cambron (1st book in Hidden Masterpiece series)

More books set in Poland:


Canvas: Poems by Adam Zagajewski
The Card Index & Other Plays by Tadeusz Różewicz
Carnivorous Boy Carnivorous Bird by Marcin Xanas Baran
Castorp by Paweł Huelle
Chasing the King of Hearts by Hanna Krall
The Chosen Child by Graham Masterton
Clara's War by Clara Kramer
Close to Jedenew by Kevin Vennemann
Cold Sea Stories by Paweł Huelle
The Collected Poems, 1956-1998 by Zbigniew Herbert
The Collected Prose, 1948-1998 by Zbigniew Herbert
The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore
The Comedienne by Wladysław Stanisław Reymont
The Coming Spring by Stefan Żeromski
The Complete Fiction of Bruno Schulz by Bruno Schulz
The Constant Soldier by William Ryan
The Cross-Time Engineer by Leo Frankowski (1st book of Conrad Stargard series)
Conversations with an Executioner by Kazimierz Moczarski
Copyright by Michał Witkowski
Country House: Polish Theatre Archive by Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
A Country in the Moon: Travels in Search of the Heart of Poland by Michael Moran
A Couple of Poor Polish-Speaking Romanians by Dorota Masłowska
The Cracow Ghetto Pharmacy by Tadeusz Pankiewicz
A Crown of Feathers by Isaac Bashevis Singer
A Curable Romantic by Joseph Skibell
The Dance of the Demons by Esther Singer Kreitman
The Danzig Trilogy by Günter Grass
The Dark Domain by Stefan Grabiński
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw by Isaac Bashevis Singer
A Day of Small Beginnings by Lisa Pearl Rosenbaum
A Defense of Ardor: Essays by Adam Zagajewski
Diary by Witold Gombrowicz
The Diary of Mary Berg: Growing up in the Warsaw Ghetto by Mary Berg
Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska by Maria Faustina Kowalska
The Dismissal of the Grecian Envoys by Jan Kochanowski
A Dreambook for Our Time by Tadeusz Konwicki
Dreams and Stones by Magdalena Tulli
The Drowned and the Saved by Primo Levi
Dukla by Andrzej Stasiuk

Swimming in the Dark

Poland, a Green Land

Voracious

The Extinction of Irena Rey