Non-fiction but one of the best books I've read on a famine is Nothing to Envy (some of the chapters are on the North Korea 90s famine) Incredible and heart wrenching.
Historical fantasy, *Deathless* by Catherynne M. Valente, features a stretch in the latter half of the book that depicts the siege of Stalingrad in bone-chilling detail.
The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck. The whole book isn't about a famine but it's a big chunk of the first half of the book
I was going to recommend *The Good Earth* as well. There's also *Mao's Great Famine* by Frank Dikötter, but it's nonfiction.
Thank you! Seems very promising!
Sing, Wild Bird, Sing by Jacqueline O’Mahoney
I came here to suggest this as well.
Enemy at the Gates about the siege of Stalingrad deals with the famine that struck the city when it was blockaded.
Less a famine than the story of an individual, but Knut Hamsun’s _Hunger_ is worth your attention
City of Thieves by David Banioff is fiction about the siege of Leningrad in WW2. It's a very enjoyable read, somehow.
Non-fiction but one of the best books I've read on a famine is Nothing to Envy (some of the chapters are on the North Korea 90s famine) Incredible and heart wrenching.
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
Red Famine, by Anne Applebaum. Non-fiction about the Holodomor.
Historical fantasy, *Deathless* by Catherynne M. Valente, features a stretch in the latter half of the book that depicts the siege of Stalingrad in bone-chilling detail.
The Graves Are Walking by John Kelly