While several of our regulars weren’t able to be at the meeting, the ones there had some very interesting suggestions and a nice mix of fiction and non-fiction.
Fiction
Hotel on Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan
The Oriental Life by Evelyn Toynton
The Gustav Sonata Rose Tremain
The German Girl Armando Lucas Correa
The Amazing adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
The One Man Andrew Gross
The Lilac Girls Martha Hall Kelly
Mischling Affinity Konar
Non-fiction:
Hong Kong Holiday by Emily Hahn
To Hell and Back Audie Murphy
The Train to Crystal City: ShowFDR’s secret prisoner exchange program and America’s only family internment camp during WW II by Jan Jarboe Russell
Showa Japan by Hans Brinckmann
Hitler: a biography by Ian Kershaw
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution by Ian Kershaw
In the Garden of the Beasts by Erik Larson
Berlin Embassy by William Russell
The Winter Fortress-the epic mission to
Sabotage Hitler’s atomic bomb. By Neal Bascomb
The Mathews Men: seven brothers and the war against Hitler’s Uboats By William Geroux
Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
The Lost: The search for six of six million by Daniel Mendelsohn
The Lady in Gold: the extraordinary tale of Gustav Klimt’s masterpiece by Anne Marie O’Connor