Books like Salt to the Sea
In the winter of 1945, as the Soviet army closes in on East Prussia, four young people, a Lithuanian nurse, a Prussian forger, a Polish teenager and a German sailor with delusions of grandeur, converge on the port where the Wilhelm Gustloff waits to carry refugees west.
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All the Light We Cannot See
Marie-Laure, a blind French girl, and Werner, a German orphan with a gift for radios, grow up on opposite sides of World War II until their paths converge in occupied Saint-Malo in 1944.
The Siege
In Leningrad in the autumn of 1941, as the German army closes its ring around the city, Anna Levin, a young artist, keeps her widowed father and her small brother alive through the first winter of the siege.
Lilac Girls
Three women's lives converge on the Ravensbrück concentration camp: Caroline Ferriday, a New York socialite volunteering at the French consulate; Kasia Kuzmerick, a Polish teenager sent there for her part in the resistance; and Herta Oberheuser, a young German doctor who takes a post there.
The Nightingale
In occupied France, two sisters fight the war in different ways: Vianne, forced to billet a German officer in her home, and the younger Isabelle, who joins the Resistance, both at devastating cost.
A Town Like Alice
Jean Paget, who survived a forced march across Malaya as a prisoner of the Japanese, uses an unexpected inheritance to repay the village that took her group in, and to learn the fate of the Australian soldier who helped them.
Wandering Star
Esther, a Jewish girl hiding with her mother in a mountain village in the south of France in 1943, sets out after the war for Palestine, where her path briefly crosses that of Nejma, a Palestinian girl bound for a refugee camp.
A God in Ruins
The companion to Life After Life follows a bomber pilot through World War II, exploring the heroism and trauma of the men who flew and the families who waited.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
A novel based on the account of Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew made to tattoo identification numbers on prisoners at Auschwitz, who falls in love with one of them, Gita.
Schindler's Ark
The true story of Oskar Schindler, the Nazi industrialist who saved over a thousand Jews by employing them in his factories.
The Book Thief
Liesel Meminger, a foster girl in a small town in Nazi Germany, steals books and shares them with her neighbours in bomb shelters, while her family hides a Jewish man in the basement, in a story narrated by Death.
The Book of Lost Names
Eva Abrams, a semi-retired Florida librarian, sees a newspaper photograph of a book stolen by the Nazis that she has not seen in sixty years, the book that holds the key to the papers she and a forger named Rémy made for Jewish children in occupied France.
Dragon Seed
Ling Tan, a farmer in a village outside Nanking, and his family see the Japanese army arrive in 1937 and have to decide how to live, and resist, under occupation.