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Historical Fiction: 1940s

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Authors & Titles

• Amick, Steve: Nothing But a Smile
  
• Atwood, Margaret: The Blind Assassin
  
• Baker, Calvin: Once Two Heroes
  
• Baldacci, David: Wish You Well
  
• Basu, Jay: The Stars Can Wait
  
• Baulenas, Lluis-Anton: For a Sack of Bones
  
• Boëtius, Henning: The Phoenix
  
• Bojanowski, Marc: The Dog Fighter
  
• Buckley, William F.: Nuremberg: the Reckoning
  
• Bullen, Fiona: To Catch the Sun
  
• Castellani, Christopher: A Kiss From Maddalena
  
• Christopher, Nicholas: Franklin Flyer
  
• Clavell, James: King Rat
  
• Collins, Max Allan: Road to Purgatory
  
• Courtenay, Bryce: The Power of One
  
• Covington, Vicki: Night Ride Home
  
• Creel, Ann Howard: The Magic of Ordinary Days
  
• Daley, Robert: The Innocents Within
  
• Darrell, Elizabeth: We Will Remember
  
• Davenport, Kiana: Song of the Exile
  
• Davis, J. Madison: And the Angels Sing
  
• Davis, Lisa E.: Under the Mink
  
• Deane, Seamus: Reading in the Dark
  
• Delbanco, Nicholas: What Remains
  
• De Loo, Tessa: The Twins
  
• Dexter, Pete: Paris Trout
  
• Diehl, William: Eureka
  
• Earley, Tony: The Blue Star
  (NOTE: This title is part of the Jim Glass series, listed under Coming of Age)
  
• Eden, Dorothy: Melbury Square
  
• Epstein, Leslie: Pandaemonium
  
• Fast, Howard: The Bridge Builder's Story
  
• Feldman, Ellen: Lucy
  
• Florence, Ronald: The Last Season
  
• Francis, Clare: Night Sky
  
• Friend, Dorie: Family Laundry
  
• Fuentes, Carlos: The Years with Laura Diaz
  
• Gardam, Jane: The Flight of the Maidens
  
• Haigh, Jennifer: Baker Towers
  
• Hazelgrove, William Elliott: Tobacco Sticks
  
• Hazzard, Shirley: The Great Fire
  
• Heller, Ted: Funnymen
  
• Higgins, Jack: Memoirs of a Dance-Hall Romeo
  
• Hijuelos, Oscar: A Simple Habana Melody
  
• Hodgson, Barbara: The Lives of Shadows
  
• Hunt, Samantha: The Invention of Everything Else
  
• Isaacs, Susan: Shining Through
  
• Johnston, Wayne: The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
  
• Kanon, Joseph: Los Alamos
  
• Kennedy, William: Albany Cycle
  (in order of publication)
  
  1. Legs (1930s)
     
  2. Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1930s)
     
  3. Ironweed (1930s)
     
  4. Quinn's Book (1800s)
     
  5. Very Old Bones (1950s)
     
  6. The Flaming Corsage (1890s-1900s)
     
  7. Roscoe (1940s)
     
• Landesman, Peter: The Raven
  
• Lindley, Maureen: The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
  
• Liu, Aimee: Flash Horse
  
• Llywelyn, Morgan: 1949
  (This title is part of the Irish Century series, listed under Historical Fiction: Twentieth Century)
  
• Lustiger, Gila: The Inventory
  
• Makine, Andrei: The Crime of Olga Arbyelina
  
• Makine, Andrei: Music of a Life
  
• Marshall, Paule: The Fisher King
  
• McGlothin, Victor: Ms. Etta's Fast House
  
• McPhee, Jenny: A Man of No Moon
  
• Morrissey, Donna: Downhill Chance
  
• Nebenzal, Harold: Cafe Berlin
  
• Neugeboren, Jay: 1940
  
• Otsuka, Julie: When the Emperor Was Divine
  
• Park, Frances & Ginger: To Swim Across the World
  
• Paker, Robert B.: Double Play
  
• Raucher, Herman: Summer of '42
  
• Reiner, Carl: Continue Laughing
  
• Riotta, Gianni: Prince of the Clouds
  
• Rosen, Charley: No Blood, No Foul
  
• Roers, Walter J.: The Pact
  
• Rolens, Sharon: Worthy's Town
  
• Rosenfarb, Chava: Of Lodz and Love
  
• Rosenfarb, Chava: The Cattle Cars Are Waiting
  (NOTE: The above two titles are part of the Tree of Life series, listed under Jewish Interest)
  
• Sams, Ferrol: Porter Osborne, Jr. series
  
  1. Run With the Horsemen
     
  2. The Whisper of the River
     
  3. When All the World Was Young
     
• Sasson, Jean: Ester's Child
  
• Schilling, Peter Jr.: The End of Baseball
  
• Singleton, Elyse: This Side of the Sky
  
• Smith, Mary Sanders: June
  
• Strick, Wesley: Out There in the Dark
  
• Talarigo, Jeff: The Pearl Diver
  
• Tryon, Thomas: Lady
  
• Turner, Nancy E.: The Water and the Blood
  
• Uris, Leon: Armageddon
  
• Vidal, Gore: The Golden Age
  (This title is part of Vidal's American Empire series, listed under Great American Novels)
  
• Vidal, Gore: Washington, DC
  (This title is part of Vidal's American Empire series, listed under Great American Novels)
  
• Watson, Larry: Montana 1948
  
• Wiggins, Marianne: Evidence of Things Unseen
  
• Wood, Jane Roberts: Grace
  
• Zafon, Carlos Ruiz: The Shadow of the Wind
  
• Zelitch, Simone: Louisa