Best War Fiction Books

Description
A war novel (military fiction) is a novel, in which the primary action takes place on a battlefield, or in a civilian setting (or home front), where the characters are, either preoccupied with the preparations for, suffering the effects of, or recovering from war. Many war novels are historical novels.
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
49,245 members
777 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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2
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
12,999 members
172 reviews
3.8
2 Members
Alguien, GrantMasson
3
Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
44,402 members
578 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, GrantMasson
4
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
33,622 members
511 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
Alguien
5
Home Front
by Kristin Hannah
2,545 members
91 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
6
A Soldier of the Great War
by Mark Helprin
1,922 members
37 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
7
Red Storm Rising
by Tom Clancy
7,230 members
62 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
8
The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
16,494 members
414 reviews
4.2
Member
GrantMasson
9
The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
12,531 members
133 reviews
4
Member
hipdeep
10
The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
5,321 members
121 reviews
3.8
Member
hipdeep
11
The End of the Affair
by Graham Greene
7,242 members
192 reviews
3.9
Member
hipdeep
12
The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
58,122 members
1,375 reviews
4.2
13
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
26,070 members
477 reviews
½ 4.3
14
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas
24,608 members
270 reviews
4.1
15
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
22,105 members
440 reviews
4.1
16
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
21,593 members
222 reviews
3.9
17
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
14,834 members
207 reviews
3.8
18
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
12,139 members
155 reviews
4
19
The Quiet American
by Graham Greene
8,734 members
206 reviews
4
20
The Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
8,410 members
104 reviews
4
21
Homage to Catalonia
by George Orwell
7,144 members
130 reviews
4.1
22
Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
6,533 members
165 reviews
4
23
Regeneration
by Pat Barker
4,926 members
123 reviews
4
24
Austerlitz
by W. G. Sebald
4,785 members
117 reviews
4.1
25
The Naked and the Dead
by Norman Mailer
4,544 members
49 reviews
3.9
26
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
4,152 members
79 reviews
4.2
27
Empire of the Sun
by J. G. Ballard
4,147 members
80 reviews
4
28
The Good Soldier Švejk
by Jaroslav Hašek
3,967 members
72 reviews
4
29
Restless
by William Boyd
2,974 members
118 reviews
3.8
30
From Here to Eternity
by James Jones
2,303 members
34 reviews
4
31
Parade's End
by Ford Madox Ford
1,991 members
29 reviews
3.8
32
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
by Ben Fountain
1,891 members
126 reviews
3.9
33
Soldiers of Salamis
by Javier Cercas
1,608 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
34
Men at Arms
by Evelyn Waugh
1,355 members
19 reviews
3.9
35
The Debacle
by Émile Zola
919 members
12 reviews
3.9
36
The Sound of Thunder
by Wilbur Smith
808 members
8 reviews
3.8
37
When the Wind Blows
by Raymond Briggs
761 members
25 reviews
½ 4.3
38
The Hunters
by James Salter
552 members
20 reviews
3.8
39
Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 & 3
by William Shakespeare
379 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
40
Memoirs of a Cavalier
by Daniel Defoe
134 members
1 review
½ 3.3
41
Covenant with Death
by John Harris
109 members
4 reviews
3.8