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 Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Pearl
Death of an Officer by Mark   EllisThe Pale Horse by Agatha ChristieThe Zig Zag Girl by Elly GriffithsThe Secrets of Greystone House by Marcus AttwaterBrat Farrar by Josephine Tey
1950s British Mysteries
21 books — 19 voters
Towards Blue Skies by Adele MinnarBlackout by Connie WillisThe Raiders and the Cross by Patrick LarsimontAll Clear by Connie WillisThe English Agent by Clare  Harvey
The Blitz: Fiction & Non-Fiction
202 books — 103 voters

War Horse by Michael MorpurgoThe Winter of Red Snow by Kristiana GregoryIsabel by Carolyn MeyerThe Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow by Ann RinaldiNumber the Stars by Lois Lowry
Historical Fiction for Children
125 books — 30 voters
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
1,534 books — 1,661 voters

1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellNative Son by Richard WrightDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerA Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
A Century of Reading: 1940s
62 books — 11 voters
A Spy Among Friends by Ben MacintyreIron Curtain by Anne ApplebaumSaigon Warrior by Al McDonaldThe Triumph of Improvisation by James Graham WilsonThe Billion Dollar Spy by David E. Hoffman
The Cold War (nonfiction)
381 books — 134 voters

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