Best WWII Fiction and Biography

1.
The Book Thief
The Book Thief 4.39 avg rating — 2,802,391 ratings
2.
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Diary of a Young Girl 4.20 avg rating — 4,073,437 ratings
3.
Night
Night 4.38 avg rating — 1,334,273 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 — 793,995 ratings
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Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,367 ratings
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All the Light We Cannot See
All the Light We Cannot See 4.31 avg rating — 1,904,768 ratings
7.
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 — 989,225 ratings
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Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating — 164,325 ratings
9.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4.16 avg rating — 933,733 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 — 348,522 ratings
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Sarah's Key
Sarah's Key 4.18 avg rating — 489,791 ratings
12.
In Pursuit of Platinum: The Shocking Secret of World War II (Ben Peters WWII Thriller series #1)
In Pursuit of Platinum: The Shocking Secret of World War II (Ben Peters WWII Thriller series #1) 3.67 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima 4.04 avg rating — 86,442 ratings
14.
The Nightingale
The Nightingale 4.64 avg rating — 1,895,063 ratings
15.
Suite Française
Suite Française 3.86 avg rating — 77,018 ratings
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Number the Stars
Number the Stars 4.19 avg rating — 608,437 ratings
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest 4.44 avg rating — 136,020 ratings
18.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,365 ratings
19.
The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)
The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1) 4.38 avg rating — 58,927 ratings
20.
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie’s Choice 4.17 avg rating — 93,612 ratings
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The Longest Day: June 6, 1944
The Longest Day: June 6, 1944 4.34 avg rating — 25,785 ratings
22.
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet 4.05 avg rating — 311,649 ratings
23.
Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,534 ratings
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Atonement
Atonement 3.95 avg rating — 552,003 ratings
25.
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 — 19,531 ratings
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Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War 4.30 avg rating — 67,947 ratings
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War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2)
War and Remembrance (The Henry Family, #2) 4.43 avg rating — 38,937 ratings
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin 3.89 avg rating — 215,194 ratings
29.
Those Who Save Us
Those Who Save Us 4.11 avg rating — 102,912 ratings
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The Blood Red Sea
The Blood Red Sea 4.57 avg rating — 46 ratings
31.
A Town Like Alice
A Town Like Alice 4.15 avg rating — 60,767 ratings
32.
Eye of the Needle
Eye of the Needle 4.21 avg rating — 165,993 ratings
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Snow Falling on Cedars
Snow Falling on Cedars 3.86 avg rating — 192,462 ratings
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The Thin Red Line
The Thin Red Line really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14,270 ratings
35.
Savaged Lands
Savaged Lands 4.08 avg rating — 3,688 ratings
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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far 4.27 avg rating — 21,304 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany 4.22 avg rating — 144,584 ratings
38.
Mila 18
Mila 18
by: Leon Uris
4.32 avg rating — 26,365 ratings
39.
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
by: Miep Gies
4.30 avg rating — 66,126 ratings
40.
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 — 365,605 ratings
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The English Patient
The English Patient 3.86 avg rating — 137,386 ratings
42.
The Destruction of Dresden
The Destruction of Dresden 4.01 avg rating — 269 ratings
43.
HHhH
HHhH 4.07 avg rating — 27,468 ratings
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Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel
Knight's Cross: A Life of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel 4.13 avg rating — 2,107 ratings
45.
The Key to Rebecca
The Key to Rebecca 3.96 avg rating — 42,050 ratings
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Jackdaws
Jackdaws 4.08 avg rating — 42,381 ratings
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Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
Citizen Soldiers: The US Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany 4.24 avg rating — 24,326 ratings
48.
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story 3.49 avg rating — 90,819 ratings
49.
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa 4.49 avg rating — 45,841 ratings
50.
From Here to Eternity
From Here to Eternity 4.08 avg rating — 17,968 ratings
51.
Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II
Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II 4.24 avg rating — 4,921 ratings
52.
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust 4.17 avg rating — 48,562 ratings
53.
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal
Agent Zigzag: A True Story of Nazi Espionage, Love, and Betrayal 4.14 avg rating — 19,738 ratings
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The Reader
The Reader 3.78 avg rating — 226,243 ratings
55.
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion 4.03 avg rating — 55,880 ratings
56.
The Guns of August
The Guns of August 4.18 avg rating — 82,604 ratings
57.
Salt to the Sea
Salt to the Sea 4.35 avg rating — 244,799 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 — 17,900 ratings
59.
Survival in Auschwitz
Survival in Auschwitz 4.34 avg rating — 83,608 ratings
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King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong
King Hui: The Man Who Owned All the Opium in Hong Kong 3.84 avg rating — 55 ratings
61.
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II 4.24 avg rating — 50,749 ratings
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Winter Garden
Winter Garden 4.28 avg rating — 385,725 ratings
63.
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1)
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #1) 4.29 avg rating — 22,179 ratings
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The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-45 4.30 avg rating — 5,936 ratings
65.
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters 4.33 avg rating — 19,677 ratings
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The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3)
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945 (World War II Liberation Trilogy, #3) 4.48 avg rating — 10,573 ratings
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D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Battle for the Normandy Beaches 4.31 avg rating — 30,949 ratings
68.
The Devil's Arithmetic
The Devil's Arithmetic 4.03 avg rating — 61,491 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 — 156,034 ratings
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Flags of Our Fathers
Flags of Our Fathers 4.22 avg rating — 62,882 ratings
71.
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia
The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia 4.04 avg rating — 7,107 ratings
72.
Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth
Through Innocent Eyes: The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth 4.38 avg rating — 45 ratings
73.
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II 3.92 avg rating — 8,412 ratings
74.
Gone to Soldiers
Gone to Soldiers 4.27 avg rating — 5,096 ratings
75.
City of Thieves
City of Thieves 4.30 avg rating — 162,021 ratings
76.
A Train in Winter (The Resistance #1)
A Train in Winter (The Resistance #1) 3.85 avg rating — 8,706 ratings
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 4.39 avg rating — 352,800 ratings
78.
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 125,858 ratings
79.
The Forgotten Soldier
The Forgotten Soldier
by: Guy Sajer
4.39 avg rating — 11,839 ratings
80.
The Invisible Bridge
The Invisible Bridge 4.18 avg rating — 53,715 ratings
81.
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
Beneath a Scarlet Sky 4.43 avg rating — 374,079 ratings
82.
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy 4.22 avg rating — 80,461 ratings
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Crabwalk
Crabwalk 3.47 avg rating — 4,041 ratings
84.
Day After Night
Day After Night 3.69 avg rating — 15,445 ratings
85.
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941
Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941 4.34 avg rating — 6,315 ratings
86.
The Night Watch
The Night Watch 3.71 avg rating — 32,761 ratings
87.
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific 4.23 avg rating — 24,388 ratings
88.
Patton: A Genius for War
Patton: A Genius for War 4.25 avg rating — 4,271 ratings
89.
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1)
Life After Life (Todd Family, #1) 3.78 avg rating — 237,989 ratings
90.
Corelli’s Mandolin
Corelli’s Mandolin 4.03 avg rating — 91,616 ratings
91.
The Second World War
The Second World War 4.39 avg rating — 10,406 ratings
92.
Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray 3.83 avg rating — 12,637 ratings
93.
Battle Cry
Battle Cry
by: Leon Uris
4.17 avg rating — 10,232 ratings
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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese 4.28 avg rating — 4,732 ratings
95.
One Man's Justice
One Man's Justice 3.94 avg rating — 362 ratings
96.
Hiroshima in America
Hiroshima in America 4.15 avg rating — 120 ratings
97.
The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead 3.94 avg rating — 26,164 ratings
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Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan
Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan 4.35 avg rating — 21,289 ratings
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The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II 4.08 avg rating — 2,433 ratings
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The Young Lions
The Young Lions 4.24 avg rating — 4,488 ratings
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