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Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is the epistolary bestseller about books and occupation. These recommendations explore the WWII historical fiction tradition or offer companion reading in the tradition of the warm, witty, book-loving novel that finds community and resilience in the darkest circumstances.
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All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
The Pulitzer Prize-winning WWII companion — a blind French girl and a German soldier in occupied France, Doerr's dual-narrative novel sharing The Guernsey Literary Society's interest in what ordinary people do under occupation and how beauty and books survive.
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The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
The French sisters in WWII companion — Vianne and Isabelle in occupied France, Hannah's bestselling novel following the same emotional territory as the Guernsey novel but at a larger and darker scale.
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Atonement
by Ian McEwan
The British WWII literary companion — Briony Tallis's false accusation in 1935 and its consequences through Dunkirk and wartime London, McEwan's most celebrated novel sharing the Guernsey novel's interest in what the war did to ordinary British lives.
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A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles
The character-under-constraint companion — Count Rostov under house arrest in the Metropol Hotel for thirty-two years, Towles sharing the Guernsey novel's conviction that a life of reading and friendship and small pleasures can be sustaining even in confinement.
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84 Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
The essential epistolary book-lover companion — letters between American reader Helene Hanff and a London antiquarian bookseller, the other celebrated epistolary love letter to books that The Guernsey Literary Society readers consistently love.
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis de Bernieres
The Mediterranean WWII companion — an Italian officer and a Greek doctor's daughter on the island of Cephalonia during occupation; shares the Guernsey novel's structure of an outsider (occupying soldier) and an islander forming an unexpected bond under constraint.
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The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
The dual-timeline WWII women companion — a female spy in WWI France and a female student searching for her cousin in 1947; Quinn's novel for readers who loved the Guernsey novel's focus on what women did during wartime.
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Suite Francaise
by Irene Nemirovsky
The French occupation companion with an extraordinary backstory — Némirovsky's novel about the German invasion and occupation of France, found in a notebook decades after her death in Auschwitz; the darkest and most literary of the WWII occupation novels.
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