District Guide: All About Books: Windsor Genres

WAR NOVELS

World War I

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittan
The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarqueor

World War II

Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
City of Thieves by David Benioff
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frankvelt
Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
The Plum Tree by Ellen Marie Wiseman
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Thin Red Line by James Jones
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin

American Civil War

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Napoleon's Russian Invasion 1812

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Cambodia/Khmer Rouge

Never Fall Down by Patricia McCormick

Vietnam

In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O'Brien
If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O'Brien

French Revolution

The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner

Afghanistan

Where Men Win Glory by Jon Krakauer

Lebanon

Waltz with Bashir by Ari Folman

Israel/Palestine

Footnotes in Gaza by Joe Sacco
Palestine by Joe Sacco

MYSTERY NOVELS

After The Crash by Michel Bussi
All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Body of Lies by David Ignatius
Chainbreaker by Tara Sim
Crusher by Niall Leonard
The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin by Josh Berk
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Dust City by Robert Paul Weston
The English Teacher by Yiftach Reicher Atir
Envy by Gregg Olsen
Ghost Detective by Zachary Muswagon
The Girl In The Spider's Web by David Lagercrantz
The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti
The Grandest Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Haunted by Barbara Haworth-Attard
The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz
An Impartial Witness by Charles Todd
Jack by F. Paul Wilson
Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee
The Magnolia League by Katie Crouch
Moriarty by Anthony Horowitz
The Mystery of Hollow Places by Rebecca Podos
The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
The Reckoning by Patricia Tyrrell
A Red Herring Without Mustard by Alan Bradley
Ripper by Stefan Petrucha
Rosebush by Michele Jaffe
The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson
She Is Not Invisible by Marcus Sedgwick
Sleight by Jennifer Sommersby
Such Charming Liars by Karen M. McManus
A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht
True Colours by Lucy Lemay Cellucci
The Turning by Francine Prose
Verity by Colleen Hoover
The Voice Inside My Head by S. J. Laidlaw
Young Sherlock: Night Break by Andrew Lane

Fantasy

Apollyon by Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Awakening by Kelley Armstrong
The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
Call down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
The Calling by Kelley Armstrong
Cruel Crown by Victoria Aveyard
Daimon by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Deity by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Elixir by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Empire of Night by Kelley Armstrong
Forest of Ruin by Kelley Armstrong
Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong
The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong
Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
Hades by Alexandra Adornetto
Half-Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Heaven by Alexandra Adornetto
Instinct by Sherrilyn Kenyon
King's Cage by Victoria Aveyard
The Merciful Crow by Margaret Owen
Nightbane (the Lightlark Saga Book 2) by Alex Aster
Nocturna by Maya Motayne
Not Even Bones by Rebecca Schaeffer
Powerless by Lauren Roberts
Pure by Jennifer L. Armentrout
The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black
Reckless by Lauren Roberts
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Red Skies Falling by Alex London
Sea of Shadows by Kelley Armstrong
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
The Summoning by Kelley Armstrong
There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool
Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
Trial by Fire by Josephine Angelini

DYSTOPIC NOVELS

Across the Universe by Beth Revis
All Good Children by Catherine Austen
All Rights Reserved by Gregory Scott Katsoulis
The Complication by Suzanne Young
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
For the Win by Cory Doctorow
Gamescape - Overworld by Emma Trevayne
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
The Hive by Barry Lyga; Tom Jacobson; Jennifer Beals; Morgan Baden
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi
Independent Study by Joelle Charbonneau
In the After by Demitria Lunetta
In the Afterlight by Alexandra Bracken
Monument 14 by Emmy Laybourne
On the Edge of Gone by Corinne Duyvis
Origin by Jessica Khoury
The Pharmacist by Rachelle Atalla
The Program by Suzanne Young
Reboot by Amy Tintera
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
The Returning by Christine Hinwood
The Right and the Real by Joëlle Anthony
The Rule of Mirrors by Caragh M. O'Brien
The Stranded by Sarah Daniels
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
Variant by Robison Wells

Dystopian Book Recommendations

Dystopian Book Lists

1984 by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip Dick
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Road by Cormac Mccarthy
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

Top 10 Dystopian Movie Futures

HISTORICAL FICTION NOVELS

The Apprentice's Masterpiece by Melanie Little
Arthur: The Seeing Stone by Kevin Crossley Holland
Ashes by Laurie Halse Anderson
Blood Red Snow White by Marcus Sedwick
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon
Daniel O'Thunder by Ian Weir
The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
The Englishman's Boy by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Euphoria by Lily King
Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris
The Gilded Wolves by Roshani Chokshi
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Gold Eaters by Ronald Wright
Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink
Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Pox Party by M. T. Anderson
Regeneration by Pat Barker
The Road to Jerusalem by Jan Guillou
A Secret Kept by Tatiana De Rosnay
Sweet Caress by William Boyd
Tangled Webs by Lee Bross
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

PYSCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS

And the Trees Crept In by Dawn Kurtagich
Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
Beware That Girl by Teresa Toten
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Good Girl by Mary Kubica
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
With Malice by Eileen Cook
The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

MULTI-CULTURAL NOVELS

419 by Will Ferguson
Aria by Nazanine Hozar
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Ina Rilke
The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
Cold White Sun by Sue Farrell Holler
Disappearing Moon Cafe by Sky Lee
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy
Karma by Cathy Ostlere
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
Peony in Love by Lisa See
Prayers for the Stolen by Jennifer Clement
Queen of Dreams by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Red Poppies by Alai
Red Sorghum by Mo Yan
Sanaaq by Mitiarjuk Attasie Nappaaluk
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra
Three Souls by Janie Chang
Throwaway Daughter by William Bell
Wanting Mor by Rukhsana Khan

Non-Fiction Multicultural Books

The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamaral
The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
The Concubine's Children by Denise Chong
Down the Nile by Rosemary Mahoney
Gulag by Anne Applebaum
Little Princes by Conor Grennan
Prisoner of Tehran by Marina Nemat
Skeletons on the Zahara by Dean King
They Called Me Number One by Bev Sellars

Multicultural Book Lists

Good Reads: Best Multicultural

Science Fiction

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness
A Beautiful Friendship by David Weber
Big Big Sky by Kristyn Dunnion
The Body Institute by Carol Riggs
Calamity by Brandon Sanderson
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau
Code by Kathy Reichs
Conquest by John Connolly
Defy the Stars by Claudia Gray
Devil's Pocket by John Dixon
The Diamond of Darkhold by Jeanne DuPrau
End of Days by Eric Walters
Exposure by Kathy Reichs
False Memory by Dan Krokos
Fear by Michael Grant
Fire Season by David Weber
The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron
Game Over by Andrew Klavan
Gemina by Amie Kaufman
Glow by Amy Kathleen Ryan
Gone by Michael Grant
Hostage Run by Andrew Klavan
Hunger by Michael Grant
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman
Impostors by Scott Westerfeld
Ivory and Bone by Julie Eshbaugh
Jekyl's Mirror by William Huszey
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
The Last Star by Rick Yancey
Lies by Michael Grant
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Light by Michael Grant
Living Hell by Catherine Jinks
The Martian by Andy Weir
Memory Boy by Will Weaver
The Midwife of Venice by Roberta Rich
Mindwar by Andrew Klavan
Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness
Once Every Never by Lesley Livingston
Outrage by John Sandford
The Pearl Wars by Nick James
The People of Sparks by Jeanne DuPrau
Phoenix Island by John Dixon
Plague by Michael Grant
Pretties by Scott Westerfeld
The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Regenesis by Eric Walters
Seizure by Kathy Reichs
The Shade of the Moon by Susan Beth Pfeffer
Shatter City by Scott Westerfeld
The Siege by Mark Alpert
The Six by Mark Alpert
Skyship Academy: Crimson Rising by Nick James
Skyship Academy: Strikeforce by Nick James
Spark by Amy Kathleen Ryan
Specials by Scott Westerfeld
Starflight by Melissa Landers
Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
Stone Rider by David Hofmeyr
Tempest by Julie Cross
Terminal by Kathy Reichs
This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
Uglies by Scott Westerfeld
Virals by Kathy Reichs
A War of Gifts by Orson Scott Card
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi
Zero Repeat Forever by G.S. Prendergast
Z for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien

All About Books: Windsor Genres

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WAR NOVELS

World War I

World War II

American Civil War

Napoleon's Russian Invasion 1812

Cambodia/Khmer Rouge

Vietnam

French Revolution

Afghanistan

Lebanon

Israel/Palestine

MYSTERY NOVELS

Fantasy

DYSTOPIC NOVELS

Dystopian Book Recommendations

Dystopian Book Lists

Top 10 Dystopian Movie Futures

HISTORICAL FICTION NOVELS

PYSCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS

MULTI-CULTURAL NOVELS

Non-Fiction Multicultural Books

Multicultural Book Lists

Science Fiction