YA Holocaust & WWII Novels

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The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating β€” 2,802,048 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4.16 avg rating β€” 933,517 ratings
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Number the Stars
Number the Stars 4.19 avg rating β€” 608,382 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
Between Shades of Gray 4.37 avg rating β€” 268,379 ratings
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Operation Einstein (Edelweiss Pirates #1)
Operation Einstein (Edelweiss Pirates #1) 4.04 avg rating β€” 342 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating β€” 4,072,853 ratings
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The Edelweiss Express (Edelweiss Pirates #2)
The Edelweiss Express (Edelweiss Pirates #2) 4.40 avg rating β€” 225 ratings
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Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 125,844 ratings
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Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key 4.18 avg rating β€” 489,766 ratings
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom 4.47 avg rating β€” 348,491 ratings
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The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus 4.58 avg rating β€” 245,648 ratings
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Salt to the Sea
Salt to the Sea 4.35 avg rating β€” 244,752 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating β€” 1,904,451 ratings
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Once
Once 4.24 avg rating β€” 27,369 ratings
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 4.19 avg rating β€” 793,939 ratings
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The Devil's Arithmetic
The Devil's Arithmetic 4.03 avg rating β€” 61,486 ratings
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Night
Night 4.38 avg rating β€” 1,334,132 ratings
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I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust
I Have Lived A Thousand Years: Growing Up In The Holocaust 4.19 avg rating β€” 23,341 ratings
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Summer of My German Soldier (Summer of My German Soldier, #1)
Summer of My German Soldier (Summer of My German Soldier, #1) 3.70 avg rating β€” 17,690 ratings
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) 4.39 avg rating β€” 365,559 ratings
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Milkweed
Milkweed 4.02 avg rating β€” 31,285 ratings
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Yellow Star
Yellow Star 4.25 avg rating β€” 16,224 ratings
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 3.97 avg rating β€” 431,584 ratings
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Then
Then 4.40 avg rating β€” 13,536 ratings
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Those Who Save Us
Those Who Save Us 4.11 avg rating β€” 102,912 ratings
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If I Should Die Before I Wake
If I Should Die Before I Wake
by: Han Nolan
4.06 avg rating β€” 4,684 ratings
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1) 3.92 avg rating β€” 1,336,794 ratings
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The Boy Who Dared
The Boy Who Dared 4.02 avg rating β€” 15,856 ratings
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The Upstairs Room
The Upstairs Room 3.84 avg rating β€” 12,069 ratings
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Rose Under Fire (Code Name Verity, #2)
Rose Under Fire (Code Name Verity, #2) 4.12 avg rating β€” 23,854 ratings
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Tamar
Tamar
by: Mal Peet
3.91 avg rating β€” 5,816 ratings
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Briar Rose
Briar Rose 3.80 avg rating β€” 14,984 ratings
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After
After 4.39 avg rating β€” 6,547 ratings
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Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 3.92 avg rating β€” 17,898 ratings
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Now
Now 4.06 avg rating β€” 9,367 ratings
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When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time, #1)
When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit (Out of the Hitler Time, #1) 3.99 avg rating β€” 23,722 ratings
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Girl in the Blue Coat
Girl in the Blue Coat 4.03 avg rating β€” 44,909 ratings
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The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1) 4.49 avg rating β€” 111,803 ratings
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The Winged Watchman
The Winged Watchman 4.28 avg rating β€” 2,995 ratings
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The Cage
The Cage 4.10 avg rating β€” 6,421 ratings
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Someone Named Eva
Someone Named Eva 4.16 avg rating β€” 10,070 ratings
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The Borrowed House
The Borrowed House 4.20 avg rating β€” 811 ratings
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Flygirl
Flygirl 3.96 avg rating β€” 9,016 ratings
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The Nightingale
The Nightingale 4.64 avg rating β€” 1,894,109 ratings
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River in the Sea
River in the Sea 3.74 avg rating β€” 247 ratings
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Soon
Soon 4.36 avg rating β€” 3,885 ratings
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The Escape (Henderson's Boys, #1)
The Escape (Henderson's Boys, #1) 4.12 avg rating β€” 6,327 ratings
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Hana's Suitcase
Hana's Suitcase 4.20 avg rating β€” 9,968 ratings
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2)
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus, #2) 4.42 avg rating β€” 156,017 ratings
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 4.25 avg rating β€” 79,656 ratings
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The Postmistress
The Postmistress 3.36 avg rating β€” 45,251 ratings
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The Boy on the Wooden Box
The Boy on the Wooden Box 4.38 avg rating β€” 29,037 ratings
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Prisoner of Night and Fog (Prisoner of Night and Fog, #1)
Prisoner of Night and Fog (Prisoner of Night and Fog, #1) 4.04 avg rating β€” 10,475 ratings
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Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust
Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust 4.25 avg rating β€” 6,197 ratings
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What I Saw and How I Lied
What I Saw and How I Lied 3.53 avg rating β€” 15,029 ratings
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The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust
The Hidden Girl: A True Story of the Holocaust 4.04 avg rating β€” 2,199 ratings
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Annexed
Annexed 3.78 avg rating β€” 5,262 ratings
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption 4.39 avg rating β€” 989,156 ratings
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Blitzball
Blitzball 4.18 avg rating β€” 109 ratings
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Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival
Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival 4.20 avg rating β€” 9,270 ratings
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating β€” 164,324 ratings
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Maybe
Maybe 4.30 avg rating β€” 2,424 ratings
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Prisoner B-3087
Prisoner B-3087 4.44 avg rating β€” 42,699 ratings
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Comrades of Deceit
Comrades of Deceit 4.25 avg rating β€” 102 ratings
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The Berlin Boxing Club
The Berlin Boxing Club 4.19 avg rating β€” 5,857 ratings
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The Librarian of Auschwitz
The Librarian of Auschwitz 4.15 avg rating β€” 61,964 ratings
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The Zookeeper's Wife
The Zookeeper's Wife 3.49 avg rating β€” 90,813 ratings
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Good Night, Mr. Tom
Good Night, Mr. Tom 4.32 avg rating β€” 52,249 ratings
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Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1)
Mr. Churchill's Secretary (Maggie Hope Mystery, #1) 3.75 avg rating β€” 33,753 ratings
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For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy
For Freedom: The Story of a French Spy 4.14 avg rating β€” 2,074 ratings
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The Reader
The Reader 3.78 avg rating β€” 226,218 ratings
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Torn Thread
Torn Thread 4.10 avg rating β€” 2,163 ratings
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The Prisoner (Henderson's Boys, #5)
The Prisoner (Henderson's Boys, #5) 4.36 avg rating β€” 2,448 ratings
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In My Enemy's House
In My Enemy's House 3.96 avg rating β€” 611 ratings
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The Rising Tide (World War II: 1939-1945, #1)
The Rising Tide (World War II: 1939-1945, #1) 4.17 avg rating β€” 9,854 ratings
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Hiding Abigail. The Girl with the Yellow Star. : An absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel
Hiding Abigail. The Girl with the Yellow Star. : An absolutely beautiful and heartbreaking WW2 historical novel 3.92 avg rating β€” 105 ratings
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The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel 4.03 avg rating β€” 14,475 ratings
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Farewell to Manzanar: A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment.
Farewell to Manzanar: A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War II internment. 3.71 avg rating β€” 19,529 ratings
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Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2)
Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2) 4.06 avg rating β€” 32,612 ratings
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Once & Then
Once & Then 4.43 avg rating β€” 1,163 ratings
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Everything is Illuminated
Everything is Illuminated 3.89 avg rating β€” 182,761 ratings
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Stones in Water (Stones in Water, #1)
Stones in Water (Stones in Water, #1) 3.86 avg rating β€” 2,564 ratings
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Under a War-Torn Sky
Under a War-Torn Sky 4.09 avg rating β€” 3,269 ratings
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Soldier Boys
Soldier Boys 4.06 avg rating β€” 2,676 ratings
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Escape from Warsaw
Escape from Warsaw 4.02 avg rating β€” 9,178 ratings
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Journey to America (Journey to America, #1)
Journey to America (Journey to America, #1) 3.91 avg rating β€” 785 ratings
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Paper Hearts
Paper Hearts 4.22 avg rating β€” 2,680 ratings
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Anne Frank and Me
Anne Frank and Me 4.04 avg rating β€” 3,015 ratings
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Skeletons at the Feast
Skeletons at the Feast really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 26,799 ratings
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All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, #2)
All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, #2) 4.49 avg rating β€” 86,285 ratings
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Parallel Journeys
Parallel Journeys 4.03 avg rating β€” 3,057 ratings
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Run, Boy, Run
Run, Boy, Run
by: Uri Orlev
4.04 avg rating β€” 2,114 ratings
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The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow
The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow 4.22 avg rating β€” 6,844 ratings
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My Real Name Is Hanna
My Real Name Is Hanna 4.17 avg rating β€” 1,943 ratings
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Enemy Brothers
Enemy Brothers 4.49 avg rating β€” 559 ratings
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The Devil in Vienna
The Devil in Vienna 3.89 avg rating β€” 358 ratings
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The Dog in the Wood
The Dog in the Wood 3.71 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
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Postcards from No Man's Land
Postcards from No Man's Land 3.66 avg rating β€” 2,682 ratings
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Surviving The Forest
Surviving The Forest 4.22 avg rating β€” 5,293 ratings
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Drawn from Memory
Drawn from Memory 4.56 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
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