DEPRESSION, PRE-WORLD WAR II & WORLD WAR II FICTION
(LATE 1920s TO MID 1940s)
| AUTHORS | TITLES |
| BALLARD, JG. | Empire of the Sun |
| BAT-AMI, Miriam | Two Suns in the Sky (WWII refugee camp) |
| BEACH, Edward | Run Silent, Run Deep |
| Dust on the Sea | |
| BENNETT, Cherie | Anne Frank and Me |
| BERNSTEIN, Sara Tuvel | Seamstress |
| BLIGHT, Edward | A Time to Choose (Japanese American families, WWII) |
| BONHAM, Frank | Burma Rifles |
| Ghost Front | |
| BRADBURY, Ray | Dandelion Wine |
| BUCHHEIM, Lothar-Gunther | The Boat |
| BUCK, Pearl | Dragon Seed |
| BURNFORD, Sheila | Bel Ria |
| CAEDDERT, Luann | Friends and Enemies |
| CAREY, Janet Lee | Molly's Fire |
| CLARKE, John | Black Soldier |
| CLAVELL, James | King Rat |
| CORMIER, Robert | Heroes: A Novel |
| DE BERNIERES, Louis | Corelli's Mandolin |
| DEIGHTON, Len | Winter |
| DELDERFIELD, R. F. | To Serve Them All My Days |
| DENENBERG, Barry | One Eye Laughing: The Diary of Julie Weiss (1938) |
| DOWELL, Frances O'Roark | Dovey Coe |
| DU MAURIER, Daphne | Rebecca |
| EARLY, Tony | Jim the Boy (Depression) |
| ERICKSON, John R. | Moonshiner's Gold (Texas, Prohibition) |
| FITZGERALD, F. Scott | Great Gatsby |
| Beautiful and the Damned | |
| Tender is the Night | |
| Last Tycoon | |
| FOLLETT, Ken | Eye of the Needle |
| Key to Rebecca | |
| FORBES, Colin | Palermo Affair |
| FORMAN, James | Skies of Crete |
| FUKEI, Arlene | Skies of Crete |
| GABRIEL, Marion | Seventh Moon |
| GARDNER, John | Secret Generations |
| Secret Houses | |
| GARTH, David | Watch on the Bridge |
| GREENE, Bette | Summer of My German Soldier |
| GRIFFIN, W. E. B | Soldier Spies |
| GUTERSON, David | Snow Falling on Cedars |
| HAAS, Ben | House of Christina |
| HAMMETT, Dashiell | Maltese Falcon |
| HANSEN, Ron | Hitler’s Niece |
| HELLER, Joseph | Catch – 22 |
| HESSE, Karen | Out of the Dust |
| Time of Angels | |
| Witness (Vermont, 1922, Ku Klux Klan) | |
| HEMINGWAY, Ernest | For Whom the Bells Toll |
| Islands in the Stream | |
| HERSEY, John | The Wall |
| HIGGINS, Jack | Eagle Has Landed |
| Eagle Has Flown | |
| Where Eagles Dare | |
| HIJUELOS, Oscar | A Simple Havana Melody (Cuba and Paris) |
| HOUSEHOLD, Geoffrey | Doom's Cavern |
| HULME, Kathryn | Nun’s Story |
| JACKSON, Mick | Five Boys (England, WWII) |
| KENEALLY, Thomas | Schindler’s List |
| KESSLER, Brad | Lick Creek (1920s Virginia) |
| KENNEDY, William | Ironweed |
| KINSEY-WARNOCK, NATALIE | If Wishes Were Horses |
| KNAUSS, Sibylle | Eva's Cousin (Germany 1933-1945) |
| KNOWLES, John | A Separate Peace |
| KOZINSKY, Jerzy | Painted Bird |
| LANSDALE, Joe R. | Bottoms (Depression Texas) |
| LEE, Harper | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| LEE, John | Ninth Man |
| LEWIS, Sinclair | Babbit |
| LISLE, Janet Taylor | Art of Keeping Cool (1942 Rhode Island, German spy?) |
| MACLEAN, Alistair | Guns of Navarone |
| MARSHALL, Catherine | Julie |
| MATAS, Carol | After the War |
| MAZER, Harry | A Boy at War: A Novel of Pearl Harbor |
| MCCULLOUGH, Colleen | An Indecent Obsession |
| McNICHOLS, ann | Falling From Grace (1930s Arkansas) |
| MEYERS, Annette | Murder Me Now (Prohibition Era mystery) |
| MORRISON, Toni | Bluest Eye |
| MOWAT, Farley | Black Joke |
| NATHANSON, E. M. | Dirty Dozen |
| PECK, Robert Newton | A Day No Pigs Would Die |
| PLATT, Randall Beth | Likes of Me (Seattle, 1918) |
| POTOK, Chaim | Chosen |
| POUPENEY, Mollie | Her Father's Daughter (Oregon, 1930s) |
| PUZO, Mario | Godfather |
| PRESSFIELD, Steven | Legend of Bagger Vance |
| REMARQUE, Erich Maria | Arch of Triumph |
| RYAN, Pam Munoz | Esperanza Rising (Depression, Mexican farm workers) |
| RYLANT, Cynthia | I Had Seen Castles |
| SAROYAN, William | Human Comedy |
| SEIFFERT, Rachel | The Dark Room (Germany 1930s) |
| SHAW, Irwin | Young Lions |
| SIMONS, Paullina | Bronze Horseman |
| SNEIDER, Vern | Tea House of the August Moon |
| SPARK, Muriel | Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| STEINBECK, John | Grapes of Wrath |
| Moon is Down | |
| TAN, Amy | Kitchen God’s Wife |
| TAYLOR, Mildred | Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry |
| THURBER, James | Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
| TUNNELL, Michael O. | Brothers in Valor: A Story of the Resistance (Germany, WWII) |
| URIS, Leon | QB VII |
| Mila 18 | |
| VONNEGUT, Kurt | Slaughterhouse Five |
| WALLACE, Randall | Pearl Harbor |
| WALTERS, Eric | Caged Eagles (Japanese internment) |
| WAUGH, Evelyn | Brideshead Revisited |
| WEST, Morris | Devil's Advocate |
| WESTHEIMER, David | Von Ryan’s Express |
| WHITE, Robb | Up Periscope |
| WIESEL, Elie | Dawn |
| Fifth Son | |
| Night | |
| WOOLF, Virginia | A Room of One’s Own |
| WOUK, Herman | Winds of War |
| War and Remembrance | |
| Caine Mutiny | |
| WILLIS, Patricia | Barn Burner (Depression, 14-year-old runaway) |
| WRIGHT, Richard | Native Son |
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