Cloud Cuckoo Land

The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver

A Baptist preacher drags his wife and four daughters to the Belgian Congo in 1959 -- and the country's transformation destroys and remakes his family in equal measure.

Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

A captured British spy in Nazi-occupied France is writing down everything she knows -- but what she is writing is not what she appears to be writing.

The Alice Network Kate Quinn

A pregnant socialite and a haunted former spy team up across decades to find a woman who vanished during the war.

The Book Thief Markus Zusak

Narrated by Death, it's the story of a girl who steals books in Nazi Germany and shares their words with those around her.

Homegoing Yaa Gyasi

Two half-sisters in eighteenth-century Ghana and their descendants across seven generations -- one line sold into slavery, one living in Ghana through colonialism and independence.