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