Novels set in the 1940s

French novel by Albert Camus

1969 novel by Mario Puzo

novel by Ayn Rand

1957 novel by Jack Kerouac

2006 novel by John Boyne

1958 novella by Truman Capote

1949 novel by Agatha Christie

1948 novel by Agatha Christie

novel by Evelyn Waugh

2006 novel by Thomas Harris

2004 novel by Roberto Bolaño

novel by Jeffrey Eugenides

1954 war novel by Väinö Linna

1998 novel by Michael Cunningham

novel by Charles Bukowski

book by Jerzy Kosinski

novel by Kurt Vonnegut

Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson, drawing thematic parallels between wartime secrecy and modern information control, emphasizing the role of information in political, military, and personal domains.

1961 novel by Erich Maria Remarque

1992 novel by Cormac McCarthy

2018 novel by Heather Morris

novel by Heinrich Böll

1962 novel by James Clavell

1951 novel by James Jones

1947 novel by Hans Fallada

novel by Ken Follett

novel by Aleksandr Fadejev

1942 novel by Sándor Márai

1984 novel by J. G. Ballard

1950 novel by Doris Lessing

novel by Ken Follett

sci-fi novel by Karel Čapek from 1922

book by Patrick Modiano

Oeroeg (translated into English as "The Black Lake") is the first novel by Hella Haasse. First published anonymously in 1948, it has become one of the best-known Dutch novels and a staple of literary education for many Dutch schoolchildren. The novel, a Bildungsroman, is set in the former Dutch East Indies: the anonymous narrator grows up on a plantation in the Dutch colony of West Java, his childhood friend is a native boy of the same age. As the narrator grows up, he finds himself becoming estranged from his friend, as a result of the political and racial circumstances of colonial life. Afte

1956 novel by Grace Metalious

1954 novel by Boileau-Narcejac

novel by Philip Roth

novel by Philip Roth

1994 alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove

1953 novel by Ira Levin

1981 novel by F. Paul Wilson

1982 novel by Harry Mulisch

SS-GB is an alternative history novel by Len Deighton, set in a United Kingdom conquered and occupied by Germany during the Second World War. The novel's title refers to the branch of the Nazi SS that controls Britain. It was first published in 1978.

1991 novel by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

1985 novel by Ray Bradbury

1967 novel by Chaim Potok

novel by Heinrich Böll

1989 novel by Dan Simmons

novel written by Patrick Modiano

novel written by Donald Ray Pollock

1995 novel by Harry Turtledove

1949 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre

novel by V. C. Andrews

1950 historical novel by Nasīm Ḥijāzī

novel by Hans Peter Richter

1947 novel by Gerard Reve (as "Simon van het Reve")

1970 novel by Magda Szabó

1996 novel by Harry Turtledove

1981 semi-autobiographical children's book