Post War


Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Safekeep
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
The Remains of the Day
The Catcher in the Rye
The Little Stranger
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
The Great Gatsby
Revolutionary Road
The Briar Club
Bloomsbury Girls (Jane Austen Society, #2)
The Alice Network
Year Zero: A History of 1945
The Greatcoat
Sophie’s Choice by William StyronThe Last Secret of The Soul by Stephen P.   SmithMy Bridges of Hope by Livia Bitton-JacksonThe Aftermath by Rhidian BrookThe Story Keeper by Fred   Feldman
Post-Holocaust
39 books — 21 voters
Charlotte's Web by E.B. WhiteThe Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. TolkienThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyOn the Beach by Nevil ShuteEast of Eden by John Steinbeck
NOVELS of the 1950's
169 books — 14 voters

Ruins of War by John A. ConnellThe Reader by Bernhard SchlinkThe Second-Last Woman in England by Maggie JoelThe English Patient by Michael OndaatjeTestament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Best Post-War Novels
20 books — 21 voters
We Fight Fascists by Daniel SonabendA Murder Is Announced by Agatha ChristieA 1940s Childhood by James  MarshBrutal London by Simon PhippsLondon 1945 by Maureen  Waller
Living in Post-Second World War Britain
100 books — 12 voters

Out of The Box Regifted by Jennifer TheriotSummer of '69 by Todd StrasserOut of the Box Awakening by Jennifer TheriotSecrets of the Realm by Bev StoutMay Day by Thom  Stark
Best Books By Baby Boomers
112 books — 105 voters

Wolfgang Borchert
Wir sind die Generation ohne Bindung und ohne Tiefe. Unsere Tiefe ist der Abgrund.
Wolfgang Borchert, Selected Stories

Osamu Dazai
He would show up not with women but with two or three newspaper or magazine reporters. According to some of these fellows, now that the military had fallen, the impoverished poets and artists were going to be the new public heroes.
Osamu Dazai, ヴィヨンの妻 [Viyon No Tsuma]

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