01 The Huntress by Kate Quinn I'm in for World War II-set books with tough, brave female protagonists time. 04 The Ragged Edge of Night by Olivia Hawker The Ragged Edge of Night centers around a World War II-era friar-turned-husband, Anton Starzmann, during the dark days of the war.

Green, about a British journalist and an American private twenty years after they're linked by Gulf War

But wars are being waged, and Rae quickly figures out that she's not the heroine of the story.

Natalie Haynes's mythological retellings put women at the center of many scenes surrounding the Trojan War I listened to Haynes read her captivating woman-centric version of events surrounding the Trojan War

Another book that's quite different in tone but is an excellent look into Cold War-era spy goings-on

, and loss--all against a background of Beirut, a city shaped by and "smoldering with the legacy of war

Lee Warren Warren's book, the subtitle of which is A Neurosurgeon's Look at Faith, Doubt, and the Things Warren’s life story, both personal and professional, and his push and pull between faith and science, His experiences as a neurosurgeon, in the war, with his divorce and his remarriage, his beloved blended I wondered if his answers would be too easily reached or too pat, but Warren digs deeply into the realities Warren admits when he’s a mess, and he shows us the zigzag of a route he himself took through coping

There is talk of war's return, and three warriors will shape the future of the land of Vigrid: Elvar,

While events on Earth spiral into world war and destruction, sending the space missions toward uncertain

to this excellent space-opera, time-travel premise: Fleeing the final days of the generations-long war

focuses on the meandering, excruciating, grace-filled romance of a star-crossed couple just after World War

June Farrow. 05 Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh Emily Tesh's debut novel is a space opera about war

Alien Life, and AI. 06 Some Desperate Glory Emily Tesh Emily Tesh's debut novel is a space opera about war

But wars are being waged, and Rae quickly figures out that she's not the heroine of the story.

There's a postapocalyptic feel to the story, with turf wars, corruption, mercenary "runners" who shake

ruthless, and he's Wren's sworn enemy, a deadly force who has destroyed her countrymen and women in the wars something dark and dangerous was going on...but huffily announced that they'd wait until they had a search warrant

That We Knew (featured in the Greedy Reading List Six Great Stories about Brave Women During World War

experimentation and high-stakes trial and error, and while it slowed the pace of the story, it felt warranted review of You Can't Be Serious. 09 The Rose Code by Kate Quinn Kate Quinn makes the urgency of World War Rose Code is a wonderfully spun historical fiction story of three very different women who answer the wartime I love a World War II story about strong women making a difference, but I admit that I was curious as

It's 1926 in London, and recovery from the Great War inspires many in the city to dive into the wild

love of and time spent reading and my desire for a cleverly organized house were forces already at war

There's a ton to unpack here, including the exploration of the good and evil warring within each of us

In The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, Wamariya recalls her experiences through

inspiration for the character of Merlin); and the complicating factors of bloodthirsty vengeance and war

Victorious in war, unchallenged by foreign foes in North America for the first time in its history, the

I heard the dialogue in her voice, I had a mental image of Debbie Reynolds as her mother, and Star Wars

of and time spent reading and my vague desire for a cleverly organized house were forces already at war

backdrop of battles, learning other species’ languages and customs, and attempting to forge treaties among warring

the Void; Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex; and Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

ruthless, and he's Wren's sworn enemy, a deadly force who has destroyed her countrymen and women in the wars

The country is reeling at the end of World War I. offer a birthing or dying woman is diluted whiskey as they wait for the few doctors to come by the ward Yet for the book's characters, the life-and-death wartime and influenza crises bring laser focus to the

her future again and became a hard-working comedian who opened for Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and then warranted In What We Can Know , we're introduced to characters living in a 2119, post-global-warming, post-nuclear war existence in which the population has been cut by more than half, inland seas spread across the

access to health care, domestic abuse, and emotional abuse, as well as a personal reckoning in which the warring

German countryside set against a background of the unpredictable violence and destruction of World War The Ragged Edge of Night centers around a World War II-era friar-turned-husband, Anton Starzmann, during the dark days of the war.

but she comes on occasionally to yodel (her grandparents came to Alaska from Switzerland around World War

Chen writes a deeply felt warring of emotions and conflicting responsibility and duty. Locke as his ward since her beloved, offbeat father disappeared during a trip to acquire artifacts for

Must Not Think of Ourselves by Heather Grodstein Grodstein tells a poignant, powerful story of the Warsaw begins, it's November 1940, and Adam Paskow is one of the thousands of Jews newly imprisoned in the Warsaw There's a ton to unpack here, including the exploration of the good and evil warring within each of us

her mother and herself when she was an infant after World War II.

Bourdain does have sordid tales to tell, but he seems less puffed up over his kitchen war stories after

character of Ursula, her relationships with members of her family, and details of life during World Wars

There's a minor, secondhand, yet powerful focus on the brutality and destruction of war, but also significant But when the warden drops him off at home, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm hitched

the show, but she comes on to yodel (her grandparents came to Alaska from Switzerland around World War

She finds that she may be the only hope to save her war-torn country.

character of Ursula, her relationships with members of her family, and details of life during World Wars

In twentieth-century Idaho, elderly Zeno has lived a life filled with yearning, war, and unexpected late-in-life

Her father seems to have had post-war PTSD, which manifests itself in bursts of anger, a difficulty holding

storytellers represented here range from John Turturro to Tig Notaro; from a young female spy during World War

In The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After, Wamariya recalls her experiences through

Florence Adler Swims Forever ​ This lovely debut from Rachel Beanland takes place just before World War

character of Ursula, her relationships with members of her family, and details of life during World Wars

She finds that she may be the only hope to save her war-torn country.