All Quiet on the Western Front

The Nightingale Kristin Hannah

Two sisters in occupied France choose very different paths of resistance -- and both will be tested beyond anything they imagined.

The Tattooist of Auschwitz Heather Morris

In the darkest place on earth, the man tasked with tattooing prisoners falls in love with the woman whose number he inks onto her arm.

Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett O'Hara survives the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the destruction of everything she knew -- through stubbornness, resourcefulness, and a refusal to accept that it is over.

The Last Kingdom Bernard Cornwell

A Saxon boy captured by Vikings grows up to fight for both sides, uncertain which he is -- and finds himself at the center of Alfred the Great's struggle to hold England together.

The Zookeeper's Wife Diane Ackerman

After the Nazis bomb the Warsaw Zoo, the zookeeper and his wife hide 300 Jews in the empty animal cages -- one of the most extraordinary rescue operations of World War II.