Post War


Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Safekeep
The Remains of the Day
The Catcher in the Rye
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II
The Little Stranger
A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
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
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
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

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
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
38 books — 20 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

E.B. White
“ I think a good many people, here and everywhere, have a feeling in their bones that some sort of large-scale reawakening is in the cards for humanity. ”
― E.B. White, On Democracy

John Clellon Holmes
“ They were brought up in these ruins and no longer notice them. ”
― John Clellon Holmes

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