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Historical Fiction: Depression, Pre-WWII & WWII
(late 1920s to Mid 1940s)
| AUTHORS | TITLES | |
| BALLARD, JG. | Empire of the Sun | |
| BAT-AMI, Miriam | Two Suns in the Sky (WWII refugee camp) | |
| BEACH, Edward | Run Silent, Run Deep | |
| Dust on the Sea | ||
| BENNETT, Cherie | Anne Frank and Me | |
| BERNSTEIN, Sara Tuvel | Seamstress | |
| BLIGHT, Edward | A Time to Choose (Japanese American families, WWII) | |
| BONHAM, Frank | Burma Rifles | |
| Ghost Front | ||
| BRADBURY, Ray | Dandelion Wine | |
| BUCHHEIM, Lothar-Gunther | The Boat | |
| BUCK, Pearl | Dragon Seed | |
| BURNFORD, Sheila | Bel Ria | |
| CAEDDERT, Luann | Friends and Enemies | |
| CAREY, Janet Lee | Molly's Fire | |
| CLARKE, John | Black Soldier | |
| CLAVELL, James | King Rat | |
| CORMIER, Robert | Heroes: A Novel | |
| DE BERNIERES, Louis | Corelli's Mandolin | |
| DEIGHTON, Len | Winter | |
| DELDERFIELD, R. F. | To Serve Them All My Days | |
| DENENBERG, Barry | One Eye Laughing: The Diary of Julie Weiss (1938) | |
| DOWELL, Frances O'Roark | Dovey Coe | |
| DU MAURIER, Daphne | Rebecca | |
| EARLY, Tony | Jim the Boy (Depression) | |
| ERICKSON, John R. | Moonshiner's Gold (Texas, Prohibition) | |
| FITZGERALD, F. Scott | Great Gatsby | |
| Beautiful and the Damned | ||
| Tender is the Night | ||
| Last Tycoon | ||
| FOLLETT, Ken | Eye of the Needle | |
| Key to Rebecca | ||
| FORBES, Colin | Palermo Affair | |
| FORMAN, James | Skies of Crete | |
| FUKEI, Arlene | Skies of Crete | |
| GABRIEL, Marion | Seventh Moon | |
| GARDNER, John | Secret Generations | |
| Secret Houses | ||
| GARTH, David | Watch on the Bridge | |
| GREENE, Bette | Summer of My German Soldier | |
| GRIFFIN, W. E. B | Soldier Spies | |
| GUTERSON, David | Snow Falling on Cedars | |
| HAAS, Ben | House of Christina | |
| HAMMETT, Dashiell | Maltese Falcon | |
| HANSEN, Ron | Hitler’s Niece | |
| HELLER, Joseph | Catch – 22 | |
| HESSE, Karen | Out of the Dust | |
| Time of Angels | ||
| Witness (Vermont, 1922, Ku Klux Klan) | ||
| HEMINGWAY, Ernest | For Whom the Bells Toll | |
| Islands in the Stream | ||
| HERSEY, John | The Wall | |
| HIGGINS, Jack | Eagle Has Landed | |
| Eagle Has Flown | ||
| Where Eagles Dare | ||
| HIJUELOS, Oscar | A Simple Havana Melody (Cuba and Paris) | |
| HOUSEHOLD, Geoffrey | Doom's Cavern | |
| HULME, Kathryn | Nun’s Story | |
| JACKSON, Mick | Five Boys (England, WWII) | |
| KENEALLY, Thomas | Schindler’s List | |
| KESSLER, Brad | Lick Creek (1920s Virginia) | |
| KENNEDY, William | Ironweed | |
| KINSEY-WARNOCK, NATALIE | If Wishes Were Horses | |
| KNAUSS, Sibylle | Eva's Cousin (Germany 1933-1945) | |
| KNOWLES, John | A Separate Peace | |
| KOZINSKY, Jerzy | Painted Bird | |
| LANSDALE, Joe R. | Bottoms (Depression Texas) | |
| LEE, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird | |
| LEE, John | Ninth Man | |
| LEWIS, Sinclair | Babbit | |
| LISLE, Janet Taylor | Art of Keeping Cool (1942 Rhode Island, German spy?) | |
| MACLEAN, Alistair | Guns of Navarone | |
| MARSHALL, Catherine | Julie | |
| MATAS, Carol | After the War | |
| MAZER, Harry | A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor | |
| MCCULLOUGH, Colleen | An Indecent Obsession | |
| McNICHOLS, ann | Falling From Grace (1930s Arkansas) | |
| MEYERS, Annette | Murder Me Now (Prohibition Era mystery) | |
| MORRISON, Toni | Bluest Eye | |
| MOWAT, Farley | Black Joke | |
| NATHANSON, E. M. | Dirty Dozen | |
| PECK, Robert Newton | A Day No Pigs Would Die | |
| PLATT, Randall Beth | Likes of Me (Seattle, 1918) | |
| POTOK, Chaim | Chosen | |
| POUPENEY, Mollie | Her Father's Daughter (Oregon, 1930s) | |
| PUZO, Mario | Godfather | |
| PRESSFIELD, Steven | Legend of Bagger Vance | |
| REMARQUE, Erich Maria | Arch of Triumph | |
| RYAN, Pam Munoz | Esperanza Rising (Depression, Mexican farm workers) | |
| RYLANT, Cynthia | I Had Seen Castles | |
| SAROYAN, William | Human Comedy | |
| SEIFFERT, Rachel | The Dark Room (Germany 1930s) | |
| SHAW, Irwin | Young Lions | |
| SIMONS, Paullina | Bronze Horseman | |
| SNEIDER, Vern | Tea House of the August Moon | |
| SPARK, Muriel | Prime of Miss Jean Brodie | |
| STEINBECK, John | Grapes of Wrath | |
| Moon is Down | ||
| TAN, Amy | Kitchen God’s Wife | |
| TAYLOR, Mildred | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry | |
| THURBER, James | Secret Life of Walter Mitty | |
| TUNNELL, Michael O. | Brothers in Valor: A Story of the Resistance (Germany, WWII) | |
| URIS, Leon | QB VII | |
| Mila 18 | ||
| VONNEGUT, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five | |
| WALLACE, Randall | Pearl Harbor | |
| WALTERS, Eric | Caged Eagles (Japanese internment) | |
| WAUGH, Evelyn | Brideshead Revisited | |
| WEST, Morris | Devil's Advocate | |
| WESTHEIMER, David | Von Ryan’s Express | |
| WHITE, Robb | Up Periscope | |
| WIESEL, Elie | Dawn | |
| Fifth Son | ||
| Night | ||
| WOOLF, Virginia | A Room of One’s Own | |
| WOUK, Herman | Winds of War | |
| War and Remembrance | ||
| Caine Mutiny | ||
| WILLIS, Patricia | Barn Burner (Depression, 14-year-old runaway) | |
| WRIGHT, Richard | Native Son | |
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--from the Springfield Township High School Virtual Library