Book Recommendations

   The Golden Doves by Martha Hall Kelly

 Two former female spies, bound together by their past, risk everything to hunt down an infamous Nazi doctor in the aftermath of World War II—an extraordinary novel inspired by true events from the New York Times bestselling author of Lilac Girls.
--Penguin RandomHouse

There are so many fantastic novels about World War II that they deserve a special list. Here are some of our favorites, from the very popular ones to a few you might not have read yet....enjoy!

Historical Fiction about World War II

A Girl During the War (2022) by Anita Abriel

All the Lights Above Us by M.B. Henry

Angels of the Pacific (2022) by Elise Hooper

The Alice Network (2017) by Kate Quinn

The Beantown Girls (2019) by Jane Healey

Beneath a Scarlet Sky (2017) by Mark T. Sullivan

Blame the Dead (2020) by Ed Ruggero

The Book of Lost Names (2020) by Kristin Harmel

Code Name Helene (2020) by Ariel Lawhon 

Code Name Verity (2012) by Elizabeth Wein

Daughter of the Reich (2020) by Louise Fein

The Daughter's Tale (2020) by Armando Lucas Correa

The Forest of Vanishing Stars (2021) by Kristen Harmel

The French War Bride (2016) by Robin Wells

Grand Central: Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion (2014) by various authors

Hannah's War (2020) by Jan Eliasberg

The Italian Ballerina (2022) by Kristy Cambron

Liberation (2020) by Imogen Kealey

The Librarian of Saint. Malo (2022) by Mario Escobar, Gretchen Abernathy (translator)

The Lilac Girls (2016) and Lost Roses (2019) by Martha Hall Kelly

The Light After the War (2020) by Anita Abriel

The Light over London (2019) by Julia Kelly

Lost Girls of Paris (2019) by Pam Jenoff

The Lost Letter  (2017) by Jillian Cantor

The Nightingale (2015) by Kristin Hannah

Our Darkest Night (2021) by Jennifer Robson

The Paris Architect (2013) by Charles Belfoure

The Paris Children (2020) by Gloria Goldreich

The Paris Orphan (2019) by Natasha Lester

The Paris Seamstress (2018) by Natasha Lester

The Plum Tree (2013) by Ellen Marie Wiseman

The Pursuit of Pearls (2016) by Jane Thynne

Resistance Women (2019) by Jennifer Chiaverini

The Room on Rue Amelie (2018) by Kristin Harmel

The Saboteur by Andrew Gross (2017)

Sarah's Key (2007) by Tatiana de Rosnay

The Sisters of St. Croix (2017) by Diney Costeloe

Spitfire: A Livy Nash Mystery (2020) by M. L. Huie

Three Hours in Paris (2020) by Cara Black

The Winemaker's Wife (2019) by Kristin Harmel

The World that We Knew (2019) by Alice Hoffman

On the homefront ...

All the Little Hopes (2021) by Leah Weiss

Good Night from London (2017) by Jennifer Robson

I'll Be Seeing You (2013) by Suzanne Hayes & Loretta Nyhan

The Kitchen Front (2021) by Jennifer Ryan and The Wedding Dress Sewing Circle (2022) by Jennifer Ryan 

Electra McDonnell series by Ashley Weaver

A Peculiar Combination 
The first in the Electra McDonnell series from Edgar-nominated author Ashley Weaver, set in England during World War II, A Peculiar Combination is a delightful mystery filled with spies, murder, romance, and the author's signature wit. Electra McDonnell has always known that the way she and her family earn their living is slightly outside of the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but World War II is in full swing, Ellie's cousins Colm and Toby are off fighting against Hitler, and Uncle Mick's more honorable business as a locksmith can't pay the bills any more... 

A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery
Author James R. Benn's series started in 2006 with Billy Boyle: a World War II Mystery, and continues through 2018 with Solemn Graves. In September 2020, The Red Horse was published. His newest novel, Road of Bones: A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery, comes out in Sept. 2021.

Livy Nash Mystery

There are two books out in a new series by author M.L. Huie. The character Livy Nash solves mysteries in post-WWII Europe. Check out the first novel, Spitfire, and the second -- which came out in Sept. 2020 -- Nightshade.

A Maggie Hope Mystery
Spy and code-breaker extraordinaire Maggie Hope solves murders and mysteries in the acclaimed World War II series from New York Times bestselling author Susan Elia MacNeal. The series begins with His Majesty's Hope (2013) and the latest are The King's Justice (2020) and The Hollywood Spy (2021).

The Victory in Europe Series by Ed Ruggero

Blame the Dead and Comes the War

Set in April 1944, Ruggero’s taut sequel to 2020’s Blame the Dead finds Lt. Eddie Harkins, a former Philadelphia beat cop, reassigned to the London branch of the Office of Strategic Services after a stint as an MP. On Harkins’s first day on the new job, he’s dispatched to an alley to examine the corpse of Helen Batcheller, an economic analyst for the OSS...

 A Woman of WWII Mystery
Poppy Redfern and the Midnight Murders (2019) is the first book of an exciting new World War II historical mystery series featuring charming, quirky Air Raid Warden Poppy Redfern, written by Tessa Arlen. 

The second Poppy novel, Poppy Redfern and the Fatal Flyers, was published in December 2020.

And some more Non-Fiction....that reads like fiction!

A Woman of No Importance (2019) by Sonia Purnell

Bletchley Park and D-Day (2019) by David Kenyon

Code Name Lise (2019) by Larry Loftis

Code Name Madeleine (2020) by Arthur J. Magida

The Daughters of Yalta: the Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: a story of love and war (2020) by Catherine Grace Katz.

Doctor to the Resistance: the heroic true story of an American surgeon and his family in occupied Paris (2004)
by Hal Vaughan

Inge's War (2020) by Svenja O'Donnell

The Last Goodnight (2016) by Howard Blum

Love in the Time of the Blitz: The Long-Lost Letters of a Brilliant Young Woman to Her Beloved n the Front (2020)
by Alexander, Eileen, 1917-1986, McGowan, David (Novelist),, Crane, David (David R.)
The Saboteur  (2017) by Paul Kix