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Best WW2 Books You Haven’t Read Yet

I love to recommend books to people. But not books that I just read and now I’m telling everyone that they should read it. I like figuring out what books people have enjoyed in the past, what genres they like and what they’re looking for in their next read before I suggest a book.

For that reason, I really utilize the ‘shelf’ feature on Goodreads. I like to tag each book I read with plenty of indi

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We Dream of Space

by Erin Entrada Kelly (Goodreads Author)

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Jane Austen at Home: A Biography

by Lucy Worsley

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

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“True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year

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