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

Books set in Vietnam

Saigon: An Epic Novel of Vietnam
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
The Bangkok Asset: A Royal Thai Detective Novel
The Sympathizer
Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Vietnam: A History
Dispatches
The 13th Valley
Ho Chi Minh: A Life
The Refugees
The Turk Who Loved Apples: And Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World
Novel without a Name
The Girl in the Picture
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
The Things They Carried
Vietnam: Rising Dragon
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
The Headmaster’s Wager
Best of Vietnam (Travel Guide)

Books set in Prague

Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City
Men in Space
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
The Metamorphosis
Austerlitz
The Golem
Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968
Between the Woods and the Water
Prague Tales
The Prague Cemetery
By Night Under the Stone Bridge
Mendelssohn Is on the Roof
Prague Fatale: A Bernie Gunther Novel
The Prague Orgy
Necessary Errors
R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
Background to Danger
The Widow Killer
Heraclix and Pomp: A Novel of the Fabricated and the Fey
How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed

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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