The Book Thief – Markus Zusak (2005)
Set in Nazi Germany, young Liesel Meminger finds solace in books while Death narrates her story of survival, love, and the power of words.
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Young Adult
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Psychological
A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini (2007)
The lives of Mariam and Laila intertwine in war-torn Afghanistan, where love, sacrifice, and resilience shape their struggle for survival and freedom.
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Science Fiction
Young Adult
Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card (1985)
A gifted boy, Ender Wiggin, is trained by Graff to save humanity from the alien Buggers, but victory comes at a devastating price. A brilliant, haunting tale of war and conscience.
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Science Fiction
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut Jr (1969)
Billy Pilgrim drifts through war, love, and alien abduction, discovering time’s strange truths and the quiet absurdity of survival in a world shaped by chaos and loss.
Non Fiction
Night – Elie Wiesel (1956)
Eliezer and his father struggle to survive the Nazi death camps, haunted by loss, silence, and shattered faith, in a searing tale of endurance and the fight to remember.
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Dawn – Elie Wiesel (1960)
Haunted survivor Elisha, steadfast Gad, and a captive English officer face a night of reckoning where war, memory, and morality collide in a tense struggle before dawn.
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Day – Elie Wiesel (1961)
A wounded Holocaust survivor, his devoted lover Kathleen, and the watchful Dr. Russel navigate love, memory, and survival in a world where the past refuses to let go.
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Romance
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell (1936)
Amid war and ruin, a Southern woman’s fierce will to survive defies love, loss, and convention in a tale of passion, pride, and the unyielding grip of home.
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Historical
The Iliad – Homer
The Iliad by Homer is an ancient Greek epic focusing on the wrath of Achilles and the Trojan War, exploring themes of honor, fate, and heroism.
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Historical
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (1869)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy follows Pierre Bezukhov, Prince Andrei, and Natasha Rostova as they navigate love, war, and destiny during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia.