Your picks! Top World War 2 Books ...

A couple of weeks ago, I posted a link on our socials to my list of 10 inspiring books set in World War 2 ... I asked people to let me know their favourite WW2 books in the comments. I had no idea the the sheer amount of responses I would get but here it is - your list of must read World War 2 books, thank you to all the Literary Types around the world who contributed:

• A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson

• A Thread of Grace by Mary Doris Russell

• A Train In Winter by Caroline Moorehead

• A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in a Conquered City (Anonymous)

• All titles by Alan Furst

• All titles by Jorge Semprun

• All titles by Kathryn J. Atwood

• All titles by Primo Levi

• An interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941 -1943

• Anne Frank's diary

• Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan

• Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys

• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

• Black Forest, White Rose by Eoin Dempsey

• Blood and Banquets by Bella Fromme

• Born Survivors by Wendy Holden

• City of Women by David Gillham

• Early One Morning by Virginia Baily

• Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave

• Fall by Ken Follett

• From Sand and Ash by Amy Harmon

• Gone to Soldiers by Marge Piercy

• If This Is A Man/The Truce by Primo Levi

• In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson

• Jimmy Stewart Bomber Pilot by Starr Smith

• Killing the Rising Sun by Bill O’Reilly

• Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

• Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchey

• Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

• Love Stories of WWII by Larry King

• Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

• Mischling by Affinity Konar

• My Mother's Secret by J L Wittewick

• Night trilogy by Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (Translator)

• Once and Then by Morris Gleitzman

• Once we were Brothers by Ronald H. Balson

• PT109 by William Doyle

• Salt to the Sea by Rita Sepetys

• Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner

• Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian

• Sophie’s Choice by William Styron

• Stones from the River by Ursula Hegi

• The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

• The Arms Maker of Berlin by Dan Fesperman

• The Baker’s Secret by Stephen P. Kiernan

• The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning

• The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons

• The Century trilogy by Ken Follett

• The Chilbury Ladies Choir by Jennifer Ryan

• The enemy below by D.A. Rayner

• The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer

• The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer

• The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

• The Guernsery Literary Potato Peel Society by Mary Ann Shaffer

• The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom

• The Invisible Bridge by Julie Orringer

• The Invisible Thread by Julie Orringer

• The kindly ones by Jonathan Littell

• The Lost or Forgotten Voices series by Max Arthur

• The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman

• The Naked Island by Russell Braddon

• The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff

• The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure

• The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman

• The Taster by VS Alexander

• The Winds of War and War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk

• The Winged Watchmen by Hilda Van Stockum

• The Women in the Castle by Jessica Shattuck

• The Zookeepers Wife by Diane Ackerman

• Those Who Save Us by Jenna Blum

• Thread of Grace by Mary Doris Russell

• Try, For Such a Time by Kate Breslin

• Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand

• Under an English Heaven by Robert Radcliffe

• We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit by Judith Kerr

• White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht

• Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah

If your favourite isn't on the list, we'd love to add it! Contact us to let us know your picks!