World War II

The global conflict that took place between 1939 and 1945, although related conflicts began earlier. World War II is also known as the Second World War. It involved the majority of the world's nations, eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries.

This category includes non-fiction books as well as historical novels that are set during World War II.
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The Restoration Garden
Family of Spies
Midnight Flyboys: The American Bomber Crews and Allied Secret Agents Who Aided the French Resistance in World War II
The War for Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933–1945
Crash of the Heavens: The Remarkable Story of Hannah Senesh and the Only Military Mission to Rescue Europe's Jews During World War II
Pearl Harbor: Japan's Greatest Disaster
The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933-1945
Defenders of the Reich: The Luftwaffe’s War against America’s Bombers
Shadow Ticket
The Girl Bandits of the Warsaw Ghetto: The True Story of Five Courageous Young Women Who Sparked an Uprising
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
The Christmas Book Flood
The Nanny Outside the Gates
Wolfpack: Inside Hitler’s U-Boat War
World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews
The Rose Code
The Book of Lost Names
The Restoration Garden
Strangers in Time
Mrs. Endicott's Splendid Adventure
The Women of Arlington Hall
Family of Spies
Code Name Hélène
The Director
The Christmas Book Flood
The Sunflower House
Last Twilight in Paris
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War
The Hidden Girl
The Paris Daughter
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneNumber the Stars by Lois LowryBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysOperation Einstein by Mark A. Cooper
YA Holocaust & WWII Novels
494 books — 789 voters

The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankNight by Elie WieselThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferCatch-22 by Joseph Heller
Best WWII Fiction and Biography
697 books — 579 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferTatiana and Alexander by Paullina SimonsThe Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Amazing WWII fiction (some with romance)
407 books — 627 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueCatch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Best War Novels
1,671 books — 1,389 voters

All the Light We Cannot See
The Book Thief
The Nightingale
The Diary of a Young Girl
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Night
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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Elizabeth Berg
Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree. ...more
Elizabeth Berg, Dream When You're Feeling Blue

Iris Chang
As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
Iris Chang, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

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