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April 2002
Compiled by Janice Burwash, of Burlington (WA) Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

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Los Alamos, A Dangerous Friend - Joseph Kanon
All the King's men - Robert Penn Warren
The Comedians, The Human Factor, The Quiet American, Ministry of Fear (and others) - Graham Greene
The Little Drummer - John LeCarre
Agents of Innocence - David Ignatius
The Untouchable - John Banville
A Flag for Sunrise - Robert Stone
Mother Night - Kurt Vonnegut
The Secret Agent, Under Western Eyes - Joesph Conrad
Stones from the River - Ursula Hegi
The Forger - Paul Watson

Library Journal's recent Reader's Shelf article (January 2002) dealt with Moral Questions for Book Group Reads - the titles were:
Sweet Hereafter - Russell Banks
Last Orders - Graham Swift
Woman of the Inner Sea - Thomas Keneally
Wild Life - Molly Gloss
End of the Affair - Graham Greene
Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Saskiad - Brian Hall

Not necessarily A Good German readalike, but definitely dealt with moral issues:
Just Revenge - Alan Dershowitz

These books deal with moral dilemmas during and post WWII:
The Archivist - Martha Cooley
The Mark of the Angel - Nancy Huston
The Man in the Box - Thomas Moran
In Memory of the Forest - Charles Powers
Second Hand Smoke - Thane Rosenbaum
The Reader - Bernard Schlink

Early American history, also rife with moral dilemmas:
Scandalmonger -William Safire

Vietnam War:
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien

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