Ten Favorite World War II Novels

(by request, and alphabetically by author)

Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (sometimes published as Corelli’s Mandolin) by Louis de Bernières
The Red Magician by Lisa Goldstein
When Angels Rest by Donald Harington
I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
Fateless (sometimes published as Fatelessness) by Imre Kertész
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
In the Shadows of the Sun by Alexander Parsons
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Manfred’s Pain by Robert McLiam Wilson

— February 24, 2023