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1. booktrib.com › 2021/05/06 › eight-novels-about-women8 Novels About Women That Are Set During the Second World War

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   • Courage, My Love by Kristin Beck. This book highlights times when ordinary women do extraordinary things. It’s 1943, and widowed Lucia, trying to raise her son in German-occupied Rome, does her best to ignore escalating tensions until it becomes impossible.
   • Daughters of the Night Sky by Aimie K. Runyan. A troop of female pilots becomes the enemy’s worst nightmare. Katya has always wanted to fly — even though she’s a girl — and must prove herself over and over.
   • The Library of Legends by Janie Chang. Students embark on a perilous journey to safeguard both human lives and a priceless library. When Japanese forces invade China, university student Lian must flee to the interior of China with her classmates and professors, taking with them an ancient library of Chinese legends.
   • The Invisible Woman by Erika Robuck. World War II’s most improbable spy was born to high society, but was more interested in adventure than fashion or debutante balls.

2. readingladies.com › daughters-of-war-book-reviewDaughters of War [Book Review] - Reading Ladies

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   Nov 15, 2021 · Recommended: I recommend Daughters of War (#1 in a Trilogy) for fans of fast-paced and well-written WW11 historical fiction, for readers who love a story of siblings and complicated family drama, and for book clubs. Although the story has a satisfactory ending some details hint at what could be next in the trilogy.

3. fivebooks.com › best-books › gayle-lemmon-on-womenThe best books on Women and War - Five Books

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   The best books on Women and War. recommended by Gayle Lemmon. When war comes, women pick up the pieces, providing for families and taking up jobs previously done by men. Increasingly, women are to be found on the frontlines of combat too, as the author and journalist explains. Interview by Eve Gerber.

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4. www.standard.co.uk › culture › booksBest fiction 2021: The best new books to read this year, from ...

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   We’ve put together our edit of the most unmissable fiction hitting shelves in 2021, from Meg Mason’s Sorrow and Bliss to Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, to help you curate your reading ...

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5. lithub.com › the-best-reviewed-fiction-of-2021The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2021 - Literary Hub

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   • Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney. (FSG) 27 Rave • 26 Positive • 25 Mixed • 2 Pan. Listen to an excerpt from Beautiful World, Where Are You here.
   • Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. (Knopf) 28 Rave • 24 Positive • 6 Mixed. “Klara and the Sun confirms one’s suspicion that the contemporary novel’s truest inheritor of Nabokovian estrangement—not to mention its best and deepest Martian—is Ishiguro … Never Let Me Go wrung a profound parable out of such questions: the embodied suggestion of that novel is that a free, long, human life is, in the end, just an unfree, short, cloned life.
   • No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood. (Riverhead) 31 Rave • 13 Positive • 7 Mixed. Read an interview with Patricia Lockwood here. “Now Lockwood has put that strength into her first novel, No One is Talking About This, which leaves no doubt that she still takes her literary vocation seriously.
   • Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen. (FSG) 32 Rave • 12 Positive • 7 Mixed • 1 Pan. “… a novel that takes the religious beliefs of its characters seriously, without ever forgetting how easily faith can twist itself into absurdity … is light on curmudgeonly social commentary.

6. www.ft.com › content › 7a881a03/2462/459e-930c-f526eBest books of 2021: Fiction - Financial Times

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   Nov 18, 2021 · Whitehead’s latest novel is not just a crime caper but also a thrilling immersion in the sights and sounds of 1950s and ’60s Harlem. Crossroads. by Jonathan Franzen, Fourth Estate £20/Farrar ...

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   What is a good book about war crimes?

   • THE SINGING FOREST, by Judith McCormack. (Biblioasis, 302 pp., paper, $16.95.) A young lawyer in present-day Toronto grapples with the moral reckoning of war crimes as she probes a mass murder committed by Stalin’s security police in 1930s Belarus. TENDERNESS, by Alison MacLeod. (Bloomsbury, 640 pp., $29.)

   The Best Historical Fiction of 2021 - The New York Times

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   What are the most unmissable books in 2021?

   • We’ve put together our edit of the most unmissable fiction hitting shelves in 2021, from Meg Mason’s Sorrow and Bliss to Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, to help you curate your reading list. Third time’s the charm: Damon Galgut has scooped this year’s Booker Prize, after previously being shortlisted twice before.

   Best fiction 2021: 30 best novels to read from Damon Galgut to Sally

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   What is a good book about World War II?

   • Chang’s novel is an enchanting blend of history and fantasy that brings forward a little-known chapter in history about the mass evacuation of Chinese universities during the war. World War II’s most improbable spy was born to high society, but was more interested in adventure than fashion or debutante balls.

   8 Novels About Women That Are Set During the Second World War

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   What are some good books about World War 1?

   • Less known is Shusaku Endo’s The Sea and Poison, a heartbreaking novel of Japanese doctors conducting vivisection on captured American soldiers, which, I have to say, made me cry. Taking a different approach to war is Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, a glorious novel about family and, well, World War I, but no matter.

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   What new books are coming to bookshops in 2021?

   • There’s an abundance of brilliant new novels arriving in bookshops this year, including a wave of exciting debuts. We’ve put together our edit of the most unmissable fiction hitting shelves in 2021, from Meg Mason’s Sorrow and Bliss to Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half, to help you curate your reading list.

   Best fiction 2021: 30 best novels to read from Damon Galgut to Sally

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   Are women warriors forgotten?

   • Except when most people think about wounded warriors, they think about men. It’s a reminder that although both women and men experience war, we hear less about women’s experiences. Both male and female veterans need support after fighting prolonged conflicts, yet women warriors are often forgotten.

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8. www.nytimes.com › 2021/12/09 › booksThe Best Historical Fiction of 2021 - The New York Times

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   Dec 9, 2021 · A young lawyer in present-day Toronto grapples with the moral reckoning of war crimes as she probes a mass murder committed by Stalin’s security police in 1930s Belarus. TENDERNESS, by Alison ...