Asking for Recs

[Alain]

Hello!
I would like you to recommend fantasy books for adults, young people or children but that are set in the World War II and the Nazi occupation.
I have a lot of historical fiction but I need FANTASY.
Thank you very much in advance!

[Carla]

I would try Six of Crows. It’s really good!!

[Amanda (has no self-control re: books)]

Have you read the Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick? It’s an alternate history - what if the US and the Allies lost WWII? I’m pretty sure it won the Hugo Award (and had an Amazon show adapted from it…)

[Alain]

Thank You Amanda and Carla, I bought Philip K Dick's book recently it will be in my 2024 TBR jjj

[Fall]

The Infernal Devices, Throne of Glass, An Ember in the Ashes

[Melliott]

This one is NOT WWII, but it is a sort of dystopian/historical/fantasy crossover series that I really enjoyed, by Charlaine Harris (she wrote the Sookie Stackhouse novels but there are no vamps here), called Gunnie Rose. The setting is the former United States, but one event—the assassination of Franklin Delano Roosevelt—has significantly altered the history of the country. Without Roosevelt’s guiding hand during the Great Depression, the crippled country fractures, and various states were either absorbed into surrounding countries, taken over by former rulers, or banded together to form small nations. The original 13 Colonies pledged fealty to the British Empire; a few of the “top” border states became part of Canada; the south-eastern states are now “Dixie” while Texas and Oklahoma and a few others formed “Texoma”; the “flyover” states remained “New” American territory; the rest of the southwest was annexed by Mexico; and the biggest surprise was California/the Pacific Northwest, which was taken over—by a combination of invitation, treaty, advantageous marriages, and magic—by the tsar Nicholas and the remains of the Holy Russian Empire, which is now its new name.

There are now five books (I've read the first three and plan to go back and grab the others), and they're really fun—kind of dark, some humor, interesting story lines.

Another author you might enjoy is Connie Willis, specifically her time travel books. She has three that are set in the future but in which the characters time-travel back to WW II. One is a fun French farce sort of story, while the others are deadly serious. The first is To Say Nothing of the Dog, and the others are Blackout and All Clear. If you want specifically WWII you should really check these out!