100 books
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12 voters
Post War Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,028
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.19 — 819,310 ratings — published 2008
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.38 — 13,952 ratings — published 2005
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 369,402 ratings — published 1989
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,939,298 ratings — published 1951
Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,675 ratings — published 2012
The Little Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.57 — 60,274 ratings — published 2009
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 484,077 ratings — published 2011
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,002,381 ratings — published 1925
Revolutionary Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 94,274 ratings — published 1961
The Safekeep (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 122,678 ratings — published 2024
The Briar Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.28 — 288,431 ratings — published 2024
Bloomsbury Girls (Jane Austen Society, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.85 — 18,197 ratings — published 2022
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.32 — 647,713 ratings — published 2017
Year Zero: A History of 1945 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,301 ratings — published 2013
The Greatcoat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.16 — 3,410 ratings — published 2012
Paris: After the Liberation 1944-1949 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,063 ratings — published 1994
Excellent Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.91 — 21,365 ratings — published 1952
Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,670 ratings — published 2023
A Bridge Across the Ocean (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 13,807 ratings — published 2017
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 347,242 ratings — published 2016
The Zig Zag Girl (The Brighton Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.64 — 17,312 ratings — published 2014
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,579,301 ratings — published 1948
The Sun Also Rises (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.79 — 500,203 ratings — published 1926
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,446,224 ratings — published 1942
An Artist of the Floating World (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.78 — 46,972 ratings — published 1986
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 258,949 ratings — published 2025
Buckeye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 111,687 ratings — published 2025
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,228,753 ratings — published 2020
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,671,774 ratings — published 2024
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.77 — 363,317 ratings — published 1925
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 266,498 ratings — published 1948
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,191 ratings — published 2019
Small Pleasures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.75 — 70,498 ratings — published 2021
Breath Mints / Battle Scars (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 22,402 ratings — published
Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,983 ratings — published 2020
All the Wrong Things (Rights and Wrongs, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.29 — 13,086 ratings — published 2019
The Rose Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 385,327 ratings — published 2021
The Feast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,970 ratings — published 1949
Mother Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 107,810 ratings — published 1961
The Huntress (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.30 — 219,117 ratings — published 2019
A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,211,314 ratings — published 2018
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 648,330 ratings — published 2017
The Women in the Castle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.84 — 66,595 ratings — published 2017
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 282,372 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 — 1,041 ratings — published 2009
1946: The Making of the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 759 ratings — published 2014
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.91 — 304,130 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 — 455 ratings — published 2008
Germany 1945: From War to Peace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 484 ratings — published 2009
The Aftermath (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as post-war)
avg rating 3.65 — 9,735 ratings — published 2013
“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.”
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“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.”
― ヴィヨンの妻 [Viyon No Tsuma]
― ヴィヨンの妻 [Viyon No Tsuma]










