Historical Fiction Project Book List
Please remember you may not choose a novel that has been made into a film in the last 15 years. This is just a place
to start. Books are alphabetical by authors last name (the same way you will find them in the library). The list was
compiled from the Cawthra Park and Mississauga Library. Cawthra books are bolded.
World War One Novels
Barker, Pat – Eye in the Door
Major, Kevin – No Man’s Land (front)
Barker, Pat – Regeneration(shell shock)
Manning, Fredreric – The Middle Parts of Fortune
Barker, Pat- The Ghost Road
McKay, Sharon E. – Charlie Wilcox (front/home front)
Barry, Sebastien – A Long Long Way
Melville, Anne – Lorimers at War
Bonner, Cindy – Right From Wrong
Mitchell, Judith Claire – The Last Day of the War
Boyden, Joseph – Three Day Road
Montgomery, L.M – Rilla of Ingleside
Breslin, Theresa - Remembrance
Morpurgo, Michael – Private Peaceful
Butler, David – Lusitania
Murphy Jim - Truce
Carr, Phillipa – A Time for Silence
Patrick, William – Blood Winter
Carroll, James – Supply of Heroes
Perry, Anne – No Graves as Yet
Cloete, Stuart – How Young They Die
Perry , Anne – Shoulder the Sky
Coob, Humphreys – Paths of Glory
Reeman, Douglas – The Horizon
Cookson, Catherine – The Cinder Path
Remarque, Enrich - All Quiet on the Western Front
Darrell, Elizabeth – At the Going Down of the Sun
Roberts, Ann, Victoria – Liam’s Story
Davies, Robertson – Fifth Business
Robertson Derek – War Story
Deary, Terry – Trenches
Rostkowski, Margaret – After the Dancing Days
Eldridge, Jim – Flying Ace
Sharra, Jeff – To the Last Man
Erdich, Louise – The Master Butchers Singing Club
Sassoon, Siegfried – Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Faulkner, William – A Fable
Sasson, Siegfried – Sherston’s Progress
Faulks, Sebastian – Birdsong
Scholefield, Alan – The Alpha Raid
Fleming Thomas – Over There
Schroder, Monika – My Brother’s Shadow
Findley, Timothy – The Wars (front/home front)
Sedgwick, Marcus – The Foreshadowing
Fullerton, Alexander – Sixty Minutes for St. George
Slade, Arthur – Megiddo’s Shadow
Harrison, Charles Yale – General Die in Bed (front)
Smith, Helen Zenna – Not So Quiet…
Harrison, Sara – The Flowers of the Field
Smith, Frederick – In Presence of My Foes
Hennessy, Max – The Lion at Sea
Smith, Wilbur – The Burning Shore
Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms(love story)
Spillebeen, Geert – Kipling’s Choice
Hodgins, Jack – Broken Ground (front)
Stenhouse, Ted – Murder on the Ridge
Hoskyns, Tam – The Talking Cure (shell shock)
Torgov, Morley – The War to end all Wars
Howard, Audrey – As the Night Ends
Trumbo, Dona;d – Johnny Got His Gun
Hull, Jonathan – Losing Julia (love Story)
Urquhart, Jane – The Stone Carvers (home front)
Ingold, Jeanette – Pictures, 1918
Wilson, John – And in the Morning
Itani, Frances – Deafening (love story)
Wilson, John- Shot at Dawn
Jennedy, William – Rules of Encounter
Zweig, Stefan – Beware of Pity
Joprisot, Sebastien – A Very Long Engagement
Lawrence, Iain – Lord of the Nutcracker
Little Jean- Brothers far from home
World War Two Novels
Attema, Martha – A Time to Choose
Attema, Martha - Heros
Attema, Martha – When the War is Over
Ballard, J. G - Empire of the Sun
Begley, Louis – Wartime Lies (Poland)
Bragg, Melvin – The Soldiers Return
Brewster, Hugh – Prisoner of Dieppe
Brock, Dennis – Ash Garden
Broner, Peter – Night of Broken Glass
Bruchac, Joseph- Code Talker
Chalmers, Aidan – Postcards from No Man’s Land
Charlesworth, Monique – The Children’s War
Chan, Gillian – A Foreign Field
Claus, Hugo – The Sorrow of Belgium
Corelli, Maria – In Love and War: a letter to my parents
Cormier, Robert – Heroes
Cross Vince- Blitz
Crummey, Michael- The Wreckage
Dos Passos, John – Three Soldiers
Eldridge, Jim – Desert Stranger
Eldridge, Jim – Spy Smuggler
Elliot, L.M – Under a war Torn Sky (French resistance)
Findley, Timothy – Famous Last Words
Follett, Ken – Eye of the Needle
Follett, Ken – Hornet Flight
Follett, Ken – Key to Rebecca
Follett, Ken – Night over Water
Ford, Mackenzie – Gifts of War
Frayn, Michael – Spies (secret service)
Furst, Alan – Blood of Victory (Romania)
Harlow, Joan – Shadows of the Sea
Harris, John - Army of Shadows a novel of the Resistance
Harris, John - Corporal Cotton's little war
Harris, Robert - Enigma
Heneghan, Wish Me Luck
Hesse, Karen – Aleutian Sparrow
Heywood, Joseph - The Berkut
Higgins, Jack – Where Eagles Dare
Higgins, Jack- Flight of Eagles
Higgins, Jack – The Eagle has Flown
Hodgkinson, Amanda – 22 Britannia Road
Hughes, Dean- Soldiers Boys
Hugo, Richard - The Hitler Diaries
Humphreys, Helen – Coventry (London Blitz)
Humphreys, Helen – The Lost Garden (London Blitz)
Hunter, Bernice – The Girls they Left Behind
Hyde, Christopher – A Gathering of Saints
Isles, Greg – Black Cross
Greene, Graham – The Tenth Man
Greene, Graham – The Summer of my German Soldier
Gwaltney, Doris – Home front
Lawrence, Ian – B is for Buster
Lefebure, Molly - Blitz!
MacLean, Alistair – Where Eagles Dare
Matas, Carol – Jesper
Matas, Carol – Lisa
Matas, Carol - Whirlwind
Mazer, Harry – The Last Mission (POW)
Mazer, Harry – A Boy No More
Mazer, Harry – A Boy at War
Meade, Glenn - The Sands of Sakkara
Michaels, Anne- Fugitive Pieces
Morton, Kate – Distant Hours
Nemirovsky, Irene – Suite Francais
Okuizumi, Hirkaru – The Stones Cry Out (Japan)
Palermo, Sharon – The Lie that had to be (evacuation)
Pearson, Kit – The lights go on Again (evacuation)
Peet, Mal - Tamar
Perrett, Bryan – D-Day
Perrett, Bryan – U- Boat Hunter
Pilcher, Rosamunde – Coming Home
Pollock, J. C - Goering's list
Reeman, Douglas – For Valour (navy)
Reeman, Douglas – Killing Ground
Reeman, Douglas- In Danger’s Hour
Reid, Charles – Ghost of Hero’s Past
Roy, Gabrielle – The Tin Flute
Rylant, Cynthia – I see Castles
Salisbury, Graham – Eyes of the Emperor
Salisbury, Graham – Under a Blood Red Sun
Scott, Douglas - Shadows
Shereve, Anita - Resistance
Silko, Leslie Marmon – Ceremony
Tamberg, Urve – Darkest Corner of the World
Thomas, Leslie – The Magic Army
Toksvis, Sandi – Hitler’s Canary
Tsukiyama, Gail –The Language of Threads (Hong Kong)
Watkins, Yoko – My Brother, My Sister and I (refugees)
Watkins, Yoko – So Far from the Bamboo Grove
Watts, Irene – Remember Me (refugees)
Westall, Robert - The Machine Gunners
Wilson, John – Flames of the Tiger (Germany)
Wilson, John – Four Steps to Death (Stalingrad)
Wulffson, Don – Soldier X (USSR)
Holocaust
Appignanesi, Lisa – The Memory Man
Arnold, Elliott – A Night of Watching
Barwick, James – Devil at the Crossroads
Bat-Ami, Miriam – Two Suns in the Sky
Bellievau, G.K. – Go Down into Silence
Bennett, Cherie and Jeff Gottesfeld – Anne Frank and Me
Broner, Peter – Night of Broken Glass
Cirino, Linda – Eva’s Story
Clark, Cathy – Guardian Angel Hope
Diamant, Anitia- Day After Night
Dogar, Sharon - Annexed
Douglas, Kirk- The Broken Mirror
Dunn, J.R.- Days of Cain
Edelman, Gwen – War Story
Elberg, Yehudah – Ship of the Hunted
Fallada, Hans – Every man Dies Alone
Foer, Jonathan – Everything s Illuminated
Gros, Elly - Elly
Gruener, Ruth – Destined to Live
Iles, Greg – Black Cross
Isaacs, Anne – Torn Thread
Jablonski Carla - Resistance
Kacer, Kathy – The Secret of Gabi’s Dresser
Kacer, Kathy – The Diary of Laura’s Twin
Kaufman, Lola- The Hidden Girl
Keizer, Gregg – The Longest Night
Kelby, Nicole – In the Company of Angels
Kerr, Judith – When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Kertesz, Imre – Fateless/ Fatelessness
Kositsky, Lynne- The Thought of High Windows
Litewka, Albert – Warsaw: a novel of resistance
Matas, Carol – After the War
Matas, Carol – Daniel’s Story
Matas. Carol – In my Enemy’s House
Matas, Carol – Turned Away
Meyer, Susan – Dark Radishes
Minsky, Ruth – The Cage
Monteleone, Thomas – Night of Broken Souls
Murphy, Louise – The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
Napoli, Donna Jo – Stones in Water
Paperny, Myra – The Greenies
Pick, Alison – Far to Go
Polak, Monique – What World is Left
Poulsen, David - Numbers
Prager, Emily – Eve’s Tattoo
Reiss, Johanna – The Upstairs Room
Rosen, Jonathan – Joy comes the Morning
Rosner, Elizabeth – The Speed of Light
Rostkowski- After the Dancing Days
Russell, Mary Doria – The Thread of Grace
Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk – Hope’s War
Sebald, W.G. – Austerlitz
Sebald W.G – The Emmigrants
Seiffart, Rachel – The Dark Room
Sharenow, Robert – The Berlin Boxing club
Silva, Daniel – A Death in Vienna
Spinelli, Jerry - Milkweed
Stryon, William -Sophie's choice
Thoene, Bodie – Danzig Passage
Thoene, Bodie - A Daughter of Zion
Thoene, Bodie – Jerusalem Interlude
Thoene, Bodie – Munich Signature
Thoene, Bodie – Warsaw Requiem
Tova, Teresa – Still the Night
Watts, Irene – Finding Sophie
Watts, Irene – Good-Bye Marianne
Winter, Kathryn – Katarina
Weisel, Elsie – Day, Night, Dawn (3 books)
Weisel, Elie –The Gates of the Forest
Wiseman, Eva – My Canary Yellow Star
Wolf, Joan – Someone named Eva
Yolen, Jane – The Devil’s Arithmetic
Zacharius, Walter – Songbird
Zusak, Marcus – The Book Thief
America
Home Front or more women focused
Blake, Sarah – The Post Mistress
Boulle, Pierre - The bridge over the river Kwai
Giff, Patricia Reilly – Lily’s Crossing
Griffin, W.E.B. – The Soldier Spies
Griffin, W.E.B – Battleground
Griffin, W.E.B - Counterattack
Griffin, W.E.B - Honor bound
Griffin, W.E.B - Line of fire
Heller, Joseph – Catch – 22
Heller, Joseph – Closing Time
Mazer, Harry – A Boy at War: a novel of Pearl Harbour
MacLean, Alistair - Force 10 from Navarone
Salisbury, Graham – Under the Blood-Red Sun
Thesman, Jean – Molly Donnelly
Wallace, Randall – Pearl Harbour
Battle, Lois - War Brides
Carrier, Roch – La guerre, yes sir! (Quebec)
Findley, Timothy – You Went Away
Follett, Ken – Jackdaws (women, spies)
Hahnm Mary Downing – Stepping on the Cracks
Harlow, Joan Hiatt – Shadows on the Sea
Hegi, Ursula – Stones from the River
Humphries, Helen – The Lost Garden
Kogawa, Joy – Itsuka
Kogawa ,Joy- The Electric Field
Kogawa, Joy – Obasan ( Japanese Internment)
Lenard, Yvone – Chantal
Morrissey, Donna – Downhill chance (Newfoundland)
Smith, Sherri - Flygirl
Tanita, Davis – Mare’s War
Walters, Eric – Caged Eagle (Japanese Internment)
Walters, Eric- Camp 30
Walters, Eric – Camp X