War Literature

1

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,189 members

777 reviews

4.1

9 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, varielle, aulsmith, Dilara86, Kristelh, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner

2

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

22,066 members

441 reviews

4.1

8 Members: anglemark, varielle, thorold, aulsmith, thecoroner, Kristelh, electrice, ahef1963
Explanations: aulsmith: World War I on the Western Front

3

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

25,684 members

281 reviews

½ 3.7

7 Members: anglemark, varielle, aulsmith, thecoroner, Kristelh, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963
Explanations: aulsmith: I personally find the misogyny in this book so bad as to make it unreadable, but others think it is an important book about war.

4

The Iliad

by Homer

47,578 members

446 reviews

4

6 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, varielle, aulsmith, thecoroner, Kristelh

5

For Whom the Bell Tolls

by Ernest Hemingway

21,562 members

222 reviews

3.9

6 Members: varielle, RBeffa, thecoroner, Kristelh, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963

6

The Red Badge of Courage

by Stephen Crane

13,436 members

138 reviews

½ 3.4

5 Members: varielle, aulsmith, thecoroner, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963
Explanations: aulsmith: US Civil War battlefield.

7

Empire of the Sun

by J. G. Ballard

4,141 members

80 reviews

4

5 Members: charl08, thorold, RBeffa, thecoroner, Kristelh

8

Suite Française

by Irène Némirovsky

10,610 members

356 reviews

4

5 Members: thecoroner, Dilara86, Kristelh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Quiet American

by Graham Greene

8,718 members

206 reviews

4

5 Members: thorold, RBeffa, Kristelh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

44,346 members

578 reviews

4.1

4 Members: hipdeep, anglemark, aulsmith, Kristelh,Bluewolf0411

11

Night

by Elie Wiesel

12,930 members

240 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: dara85, Kristelh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

58,059 members

1,375 reviews

4.2

4 Members: dara85, Kristelh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

12,578 members

189 reviews

3.9

4 Members: charl08, varielle, Kristelh, ahef1963

14

The Good Soldier Švejk

by Jaroslav Hašek

3,964 members

72 reviews

4

4 Members: anglemark, thorold, thecoroner, Kristelh
Explanations: thorold: One of the best satirical accounts of war. Ever.

15

Parade's End

by Ford Madox Ford

1,985 members

29 reviews

3.8

3 Members: thorold, Kristelh, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: thorold: For my money, this is the best English novel about WW1

16

Half of a Yellow Sun

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7,908 members

317 reviews

4.2

3 Members: Dilara86, Kristelh, ahef1963

17

Testament of Youth

by Vera Brittain

2,423 members

54 reviews

4.1

3 Members: thorold, Kristelh, ahef1963

18

War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy

33,575 members

511 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: thecoroner, Kristelh, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The Naked and the Dead

by Norman Mailer

4,537 members

49 reviews

3.9

3 Members: aulsmith, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations: aulsmith: I personally can't stand this book, but others think it's an important war novel.

20

The Things They Carried

by Tim O'Brien

16,479 members

414 reviews

4.2

2 Members: charl08, Tess_W

21

The End of the Affair

by Graham Greene

7,233 members

192 reviews

3.9

3 Members: hipdeep, Kristelh, ManWithAnAgenda

22

Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

26,031 members

477 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: dara85, thecoroner, Kristelh

23

Journey to the End of the Night

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

6,897 members

86 reviews

4.2

3 Members: anglemark, thecoroner, Kristelh

24

Ender's Game

by Orson Scott Card

45,582 members

1,125 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: aulsmith, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Charterhouse of Parma

by Stendhal

4,967 members

82 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: thorold, thecoroner, Kristelh
Explanations: thorold: An account of Waterloo by someone who knew what war was really like.

26

Goodbye to All That

by Robert Graves

4,166 members

74 reviews

4

2 Members: varielle, thorold

27

King Rat

by James Clavell

3,187 members

49 reviews

4

2 Members: RBeffa, ahef1963

28

The Winds of War

by Herman Wouk

3,652 members

59 reviews

4.2

2 Members: RBeffa, ahef1963

29

Regeneration

by Pat Barker

4,921 members

122 reviews

4

2 Members: charl08, ahef1963

30

Jingo

by Terry Pratchett

10,523 members

131 reviews

4

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

31

Mother Courage and Her Children

by Bertolt Brecht

2,613 members

17 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thorold, aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith: Civilians in the Thirty Years War.

32

If This Is a Man / The Truce

by Primo Levi

2,706 members

35 reviews

½ 4.5

2 Members: thorold, thecoroner

33

Number the Stars

by Lois Lowry

22,079 members

691 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

34

The Killer Angels

by Michael Shaara

9,818 members

197 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: RBeffa

35

A Soldier of the Great War

by Mark Helprin

1,919 members

37 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: hipdeep

36

The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

by Margalit Fox

247 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: alcottacre

37

The Leopard

by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

7,654 members

172 reviews

4.1

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

38

The Pillars of the Earth

by Ken Follett

30,397 members

806 reviews

4.2

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

39

The Gallery

by John Horne Burns

400 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom

by Newt Gingrich

350 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: Tess_W

41

We Are at War. The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times

by Simon Garfield

164 members

6 reviews

4

Member: alcottacre

42

Red Cavalry

by Isaak Babel

896 members

31 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

43

The Last German Victory: Operation Market Garden, 1944

by Aaron Bates

14 members

1 review

Member: Tess_W

44

We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance

by David Howarth

1,207 members

46 reviews

4

Member: Tess_W

45

Girl at War

by Sara Novic

1,088 members

58 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

46

Master & Commander

by Patrick O'Brian

10,362 members

240 reviews

4

Member: Tess_W

47

Lilac Girls

by Martha Hall Kelly

4,687 members

205 reviews

4

Member: dara85

48

Lavinia

by Ursula K. Le Guin

2,587 members

104 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

49

The Yellow Birds

by Kevin Powers

2,071 members

144 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: anglemark

50

Crooked Heart

by Lissa Evans

582 members

44 reviews

4.1

Member: charl08

51

Thud!

by Terry Pratchett

11,210 members

160 reviews

4.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

52

Red Storm Rising

by Tom Clancy

7,218 members

62 reviews

3.9

Member: hipdeep

53

Hiroshima (expanded edition)

by John Hersey

5,026 members

80 reviews

4

Member: Tess_W

54

History

by Elsa Morante

1,580 members

32 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

55

Officers and Gentlemen

by Evelyn Waugh

1,193 members

9 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold

56

All for Nothing

by Walter Kempowski

616 members

24 reviews

4

Member: charl08

57

The Enormous Room

by E. E. Cummings

1,663 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

Unconditional Surrender

by Evelyn Waugh

1,071 members

6 reviews

4

Member: thorold

59

The Cake Tree in the Ruins (Pushkin Collection)

by Akiyuki Nosaka

62 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: charl08

60

After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets

by Eavan Boland

35 members

4

Member: hipdeep

61

The Moon Is Down

by John Steinbeck

3,930 members

122 reviews

3.9

Member: aulsmith

62

Men at Arms

by Evelyn Waugh

1,352 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold

63

And Quiet Flows the Don

by Mikhail Sholokhov

1,810 members

24 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

64

Doctor Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak

12,986 members

172 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

65

Homage to Catalonia

by George Orwell

7,136 members

129 reviews

4.1

Member: thorold

66

Life and Fate

by Vasily Grossman

4,144 members

100 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: thecoroner

67

Palestine

by Joe Sacco

2,063 members

50 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963

68

Group Portrait With Lady

by Heinrich Böll

1,443 members

19 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

69

A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement

by Anthony Powell

931 members

15 reviews

4.2

Member: thorold

70

A Handbook For Visitors From Outer Space

by Kathryn Kramer

102 members

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

71

The Tin Drum

by Günter Grass

8,403 members

104 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

72

Billiards at half-past nine

by Heinrich Böll

1,493 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

73

The Thin Red Line

by James Jones

1,516 members

22 reviews

3.9

Member: thecoroner

74

A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

42,044 members

491 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963,aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith : More an urban revolution than a war.

75

The Debacle

by Émile Zola

923 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: thorold

76

V.

by Thomas Pynchon

5,721 members

43 reviews

4

Member: thecoroner

77

The Balkan Trilogy

by Olivia Manning

1,274 members

33 reviews

4.1

Member: thorold

78

Monstrous Regiment

by Terry Pratchett

10,495 members

149 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

79

The Radetzky March

by Joseph Roth

3,326 members

85 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

80

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

by T. E. Lawrence

5,353 members

65 reviews

4

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Love it or hate it, it's definitely war and definitely literature...

81

Ivanhoe

by Walter Scott

15,035 members

137 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

82

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

4,153 members

79 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

83

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

15,272 members

145 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thecoroner

84

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

21,538 members

358 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ahef1963

85

Life After Life

by Kate Atkinson

9,456 members

624 reviews

4

Member: ahef1963

86

The Sergeant in the Snow

by Mario Rigoni Stern

389 members

18 reviews

4.2

Member: thecoroner

87

Men and Not Men

by Elio Vittorini

425 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: thecoroner

88

The Bonfire of Berlin: A Lost Childhood in Wartime Germany

by Helga Schneider

177 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

89

Sophie's Choice

by William Styron

6,567 members

91 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

90

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

20,493 members

615 reviews

4.2

91

The Forever War

by Joe Haldeman

10,427 members

272 reviews

4

92

Mother Night

by Kurt Vonnegut

8,110 members

100 reviews

4.1

93

American War

by Omar El Akkad

2,279 members

110 reviews

½ 3.7

94

The Return of the Soldier

by Rebecca West

1,717 members

81 reviews

3.9

95

The Charioteer

by Mary Renault

1,264 members

37 reviews

4.1

96

Semiosis

by Sue Burke

1,144 members

53 reviews

3.8

97

How Many Miles to Babylon?

by Jennifer Johnston

315 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

98

Death of a Hero

by Richard Aldington

234 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

99

Look Down in Mercy

by Walter Baxter

47 members

2 reviews

3.8

100

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

by Mary Ann Shaffer

21,273 members

1,310 reviews

4.2

Member: ahef1963,aulsmith
Explanations: aulsmith : While some of this got at the experience of being in occupied territory during the war, I thought on the whole the book was too fluffy, especially to be called literature.

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