Sign in with Facebook
100 books
—
12 voters
Post War Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,108
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 14,065 ratings — published 2005
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 823,433 ratings — published 2008
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,703 ratings — published 2012
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 375,092 ratings — published 1989
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,964,433 ratings — published 1951
The Little Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.57 — 60,601 ratings — published 2009
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 493,538 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,052,349 ratings — published 1925
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 94,930 ratings — published 1961
The Safekeep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 135,751 ratings — published 2024
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 304,982 ratings — published 2024
Bloomsbury Girls (Jane Austen Society, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 18,428 ratings — published 2022
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 658,940 ratings — published 2017
Year Zero: A History of 1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,315 ratings — published 2013
The Greatcoat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.16 — 3,423 ratings — published 2012
Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,075 ratings — published 1994
Excellent Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.91 — 21,719 ratings — published 1952
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,838 ratings — published 2023
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 274,023 ratings — published 1948
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,307 ratings — published 2019
A Bridge Across the Ocean (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 13,932 ratings — published 2017
A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,258,117 ratings — published 2018
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 350,057 ratings — published 2016
The Zig Zag Girl (The Brighton Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,592 ratings — published 2014
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,643,219 ratings — published 1948
The Reader (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.79 — 235,599 ratings — published 1995
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.79 — 504,058 ratings — published 1926
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,473,779 ratings — published 1942
An Artist of the Floating World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.77 — 47,617 ratings — published 1986
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 302,860 ratings — published 2025
Buckeye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 135,129 ratings — published 2025
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,256,788 ratings — published 2020
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,725,506 ratings — published 2024
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.77 — 367,542 ratings — published 1925
Small Pleasures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.75 — 71,414 ratings — published 2021
Breath Mints / Battle Scars (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 22,685 ratings — published
Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 6,101 ratings — published 2020
All the Wrong Things (Rights and Wrongs, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 13,233 ratings — published 2019
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 393,827 ratings — published 2021
The Feast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,257 ratings — published 1949
Mother Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 109,120 ratings — published 1961
The Huntress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 222,935 ratings — published 2019
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 663,751 ratings — published 2017
The Women in the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 66,846 ratings — published 2017
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 283,829 ratings — published 1973
The Great Silence 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,051 ratings — published 2009
1946: The Making of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 767 ratings — published 2014
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.91 — 309,272 ratings — published 1962
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.89 — 457 ratings — published 2008
Germany 1945: From War to Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 487 ratings — published 2009
“They were brought up in these ruins and no longer notice them.”
―
―
“Some nations desire power, some seek it, and others have it thrust upon them. By 1945, there was no doubt in Russian minds about the reality of American power in the world. But there remained a very large question as to how Americans would use that power, or even if they would use it at all.”
―
―
