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I’m Traveling Alone: A Novel
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
CoDex 1962: A Trilogy
Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
A Violent Life
Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane
Tunisian Dreams
Tirra Lirra by the River: A Novel
A Room with a View
White Spirit
Love and Ruin

Books set in Vietnam

Novel without a Name
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Saigon: An Epic Novel of Vietnam
Vietnam: A History
The Sympathizer
Dispatches
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Tears of Autumn: A Paul Christopher Novel
Best of Vietnam (Travel Guide)
Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family
The Turk Who Loved Apples: And Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World
The Things They Carried
The 13th Valley
The Headmaster’s Wager
The Girl in the Picture
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
Paradise of the Blind
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
The Lotus Eaters
The Honourable Schoolboy

Books set in Prague

A Perfect Spy
Necessary Errors
The Trial
The Joke
The Metamorphosis
Despair
The Widow Killer
The Cowards
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Alice’s Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer
How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed
R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
Between the Woods and the Water
Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City
The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War
Life with a Star
By Night Under the Stone Bridge
Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968
Prague Tales

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Thrillers Set During WWII

Fiction in WWII The Second World War inspired a lot of classic literature. At Nomad, we’ve curated books from quite a few of the authors who lived through that conflict: from Arthur Koestler‘s fiction to Alan Moorehead’s journalism (especially his classic account of the Desert War), and Art Spiegelman’s graphic novels, like My Father …Read More

NomadReader 2.0 – We’re back!

Dear Nomads and Readers, After taking a hiatus to improve site functionality, we’re happy to announce that NomadReader is back online—leaner, faster, and better than before. As you look around the site, you’ll notice many more titles and locations, and a better user experience. As we were redesigning the site, we …Read More