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24 alternatives to All the Light We Cannot See

WWII fiction from both French and German point of view

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. All the Light We Cannot See launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Light▲58

   A Radiant History from Creation to the Quantum Age

   2016 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   The Nightingale▲66

   Two sisters living in Nazi-occupied France, WWII

   2015 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning▲56

   A new interpretation of Hitler's frightening worldview

   2015 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   War in Val D’Orcia▲55

   An Italian War diary 1943–1944

   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Dark Matter of the Mind▲67

   The Culturally Articulated Unconscious

   2017 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Making Ideas Happen▲75

   Overcoming the obstacles between vision and reality

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Blitzed▲66

   Drugs in Nazi Germany

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Black Swan▲80

   The impact of the highly improbable

   2015 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914▲66

   Why a group of well-meaning leaders stumbled into war

   2015 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes To War▲61

    The path to war and the gripping first clashes

    2015 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    Dreams of My Russian Summers: A Novel▲55

    Memory and Imagination of Coming of Age in France and Russia

    2015 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being▲68

    Milan Kundera's first and finest novel

    2015 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    The WikiLeaks Files▲67

    The world according to US Empire

    2015 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    In the Garden of Beasts▲59

    Love, terror, and an American family in Hitler's Berlin

    2015 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    The Great War and Modern Memory ▲77

    Profound study on how WW1 created our ironic, modern world

    2015 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Fahrenheit 451 ▲21

    A Book About Books

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    The Dark Forest▲71

    Part to of the acclaimed Three-Body Problem

    2015 · its alternatives →

18. 18FA
    Fictionhub, a place to share fiction▲46

    2015 · fictionhub.io · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Gutshot: Stories▲128

    Isolation and coupling are pushed to their dark edges

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Eleanor: A Novel▲72

    A mix of ghost story, time travel and dream worlds.

    2016 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Ender's Game▲93

    The enemy's gate is down

    2015 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Chasing Shadows▲5

    Visions of Our Coming Transparent World

    2017 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Presence▲81

    Science fiction novel about the future of Virtual Reality

    2016 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Man's Search for Meaning▲102

    An enduring work of Holocaust survival literature

    2015 · its alternatives →

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