World War I Fiction

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World War I Fiction
1
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
21,983 members
441 reviews
4.1
6 Members
hailelib, jain, thorold, aulsmith, merrystar, brenzi
2
Regeneration
by Pat Barker
4,906 members
121 reviews
4
5 Members
brewergirl, hailelib, jain, amanda4242, brenzi
3
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
25,601 members
280 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
hailelib, pitjrw, amanda4242, ahef1963,jain
Explanations
jain : I hate Hemingway's treatment of Catherine SO MUCH.
4
A Month in the Country
by J. L. Carr
2,976 members
138 reviews
4.2
4 Members
inge87, pitjrw, amanda4242, brenzi
5
Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
6,519 members
164 reviews
4
3 Members
brewergirl, KimarieBee, brenzi
6
The Return of the Soldier
by Rebecca West
1,715 members
81 reviews
3.9
3 Members
inge87, amanda4242, brenzi
7
Maisie Dobbs
by Jacqueline Winspear
5,415 members
295 reviews
3.8
3 Members
brewergirl, hailelib, ClaudiaGlenn
8
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
by Dorothy L. Sayers
3,372 members
97 reviews
3.9
3 Members
thorold, merrystar, ahef1963
Explanations
thorold: mystery with background of WWI aftermath - shell-shock
9
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
12,991 members
172 reviews
3.8
3 Members
pitjrw, brenzi, ClaudiaGlenn
10
The Eye in the Door
by Pat Barker
2,317 members
55 reviews
4
3 Members
jain, amanda4242, brenzi
11
The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
3,063 members
63 reviews
4
3 Members
jain, amanda4242, brenzi
12
Rilla of Ingleside
by L. M. Montgomery
7,584 members
79 reviews
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, ahef1963
13
A Soldier of the Great War
by Mark Helprin
1,916 members
37 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
hipdeep, brenzi
14
Fall of Giants
by Ken Follett
9,749 members
327 reviews
4
2 Members
brewergirl, ClaudiaGlenn
15
The Good Soldier Švejk
by Jaroslav Hašek
3,957 members
72 reviews
4
2 Members
hailelib, thorold
16
Birds of a Feather
by Jacqueline Winspear
2,979 members
130 reviews
3.9
2 Members
brewergirl, inge87
17
One of Ours
by Willa Cather
1,395 members
43 reviews
3.8
2 Members
brewergirl, brenzi
18
Christmas in the Trenches
by John McCutcheon
268 members
12 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
hailelib, hipdeep
19
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
5,971 members
203 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
amanda4242, ahef1963
20
Pardonable Lies
by Jacqueline Winspear
2,586 members
113 reviews
3.9
2 Members
hailelib, ClaudiaGlenn
21
Lost Empires
by J. B. Priestley
200 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
thorold, amanda4242
Explanations
thorold: Reverse of the normal conceit - Priestley describes WWI sweeping away the corrupt pre-war society
22
Goodbye to All That
by Robert Graves
4,151 members
74 reviews
4
2 Members
pitjrw, amanda4242
23
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
by Siegfried Sassoon
792 members
13 reviews
3.8
2 Members
pitjrw, amanda4242
24
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
12,562 members
188 reviews
3.9
3 Members
KimarieBee, brenzi, ahef1963,jain ,merrystar
Explanations
jain : World War II
25
The Enchanted April
by Elizabeth von Arnim
3,477 members
140 reviews
4
2 Members
hailelib, brenzi
26
War Horse
by Michael Morpurgo
4,481 members
133 reviews
4
2 Members
amanda4242, brenzi
27
The Daughters of Mars
by Thomas Keneally
755 members
38 reviews
4
2 Members
hailelib, brenzi
28
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
by James Hilton
2,605 members
63 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
29
The Return of Captain John Emmett
by Elizabeth Speller
512 members
43 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
30
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
5,683 members
247 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
31
Spectred Isle
by KJ Charles
271 members
25 reviews
4.2
Member
jain
Explanations
jain: Set shortly after WWI, but several characters are veterans and the war is relevant to both the plot and the characterizations.
32
Parade's End
by Ford Madox Ford
1,983 members
29 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
33
All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown
by Sydney Taylor
899 members
7 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
merrystar
34
In Pale Battalions
by Robert Goddard
646 members
21 reviews
3.8
Member
KimarieBee
35
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
4,145 members
79 reviews
4.2
Member
brewergirl
36
August 1914
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
2,667 members
23 reviews
3.8
Member
hailelib
37
Strange Meeting
by Susan Hill
395 members
14 reviews
3.9
Member
amanda4242
38
In the Absence of Men
by Philippe Besson
331 members
10 reviews
3.9
Member
jain
39
Flambards Trilogy
by K. M. Peyton
97 members
½ 4.5
Member
merrystar
40
Barbed wire and roses
by Peter Yeldham
27 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
KimarieBee
41
Among the Mad
by Jacqueline Winspear
1,808 members
84 reviews
4
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
42
The Wars
by Timothy Findley
1,294 members
28 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
43
No Graves As Yet
by Anne Perry
937 members
28 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
hailelib
44
The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton
by Elizabeth Speller
214 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
45
A Duty to the Dead
by Charles Todd
1,407 members
97 reviews
3.8
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
46
In Parenthesis
by David Jones
703 members
14 reviews
3.9
Member
pitjrw
47
Jules and Jim [Novel]
by Henri-Pierre Roché
532 members
9 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Best friends on opposite sides
48
Flanders
by Patricia Anthony
142 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
jain
49
Fall on Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
5,821 members
127 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
50
An Unmarked Grave
by Charles Todd
582 members
43 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
51
Trooper to the Southern Cross
by Angela Thirkell
97 members
4 reviews
3.2
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Frustrated Diggers on their way home to Australia after the war
52
Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld
6,125 members
360 reviews
3.9
Member
hailelib
53
A Question of Honor
by Charles Todd
479 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
54
The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text
by Karl Kraus
66 members
3 reviews
4
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Giant satirical Austrian anti-war play from the 1920s
55
The Children's Book
by A. S. Byatt
4,132 members
219 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
56
The Man from St. Petersburg
by Ken Follett
3,046 members
34 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
hailelib
57
An Unwilling Accomplice
by Charles Todd
425 members
43 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
58
Tempting Fate
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
209 members
4.1
Member
amanda4242
59
Behemoth
by Scott Westerfeld
2,771 members
133 reviews
4.1
Member
hailelib
60
The African Queen
by C. S. Forester
1,519 members
48 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: WWI in Africa. But Bogart & Hepburn were better than the book
61
The Walnut Tree
by Charles Todd
266 members
32 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
62
Three Day Road
by Joseph Boyden
2,005 members
88 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
brenzi
63
Private Peaceful
by Michael Morpurgo
1,852 members
65 reviews
4.1
Member
amanda4242
64
The Shattered Tree
by Charles Todd
384 members
22 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
65
Another World
by Pat Barker
1,013 members
20 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
amanda4242
66
A Pattern of Lies
by Charles Todd
364 members
25 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
67
Deafening
by Frances Itani
794 members
27 reviews
3.8
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
68
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
10,581 members
90 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
brenzi
69
The Care and Management of Lies
by Jacqueline Winspear
713 members
35 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
70
Angels in the Gloom
by Anne Perry
542 members
12 reviews
3.8
Member
hailelib
71
A Long, Long Way
by Sebastian Barry
1,351 members
63 reviews
4
Member
brenzi
72
An Impartial Witness
by Charles Todd
820 members
45 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
73
Death of a Hero
by Richard Aldington
234 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
amanda4242
74
Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War
by Helen Zenna Smith
260 members
13 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
brenzi
75
The Boy I Love
by Marion Husband
80 members
9 reviews
3.8
Member
amanda4242
76
Mary Russell's War: A Journal of the Great War
by Laurie R. King
53 members
1 review
4
Member
amanda4242
77
Waiting for Sunrise
by William Boyd
1,164 members
54 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
brenzi
78
The Air We Breathe
by Andrea Barrett
555 members
42 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
brenzi
79
Stones from the River
by Ursula Hegi
4,925 members
69 reviews
4
2 Members
brenzi, ClaudiaGlenn,dara85 ,jain
Explanations
dara85 : This was World War II
jain : World War II
80
Trinity
by Leon Uris
3,274 members
36 reviews
4
81
QB VII
by Leon Uris
1,899 members
24 reviews
3.8
82
A Very Long Engagement
by Sébastien Japrisot
1,787 members
36 reviews
4
83
River of Darkness
by Rennie Airth
1,252 members
45 reviews
3.9
84
Ali and Nino: A Love Story
by Kurban Said
1,045 members
50 reviews
3.8
85
Under Fire
by Henri Barbusse
892 members
25 reviews
3.9
86
In the Shadow of Blackbirds
by Cat Winters
792 members
62 reviews
3.9
87
Three Soldiers
by John Dos Passos
754 members
13 reviews
½ 3.5
88
A Bitter Truth
by Charles Todd
650 members
56 reviews
½ 3.6
89
Somewhere in France
by Jennifer Robson
591 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
90
The Foreshadowing
by Marcus Sedgwick
473 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
91
Wake
by Anna Hope
428 members
71 reviews
3.8
92
Company K
by William March
289 members
11 reviews
4.1
93
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories
by Barbara Korte
128 members
1 review
½ 3.7
94
At Break of Day
by Elizabeth Speller
97 members
9 reviews
4
95
Life Class
by Pat Barker
1,101 members
55 reviews
½ 3.5
96
To the Last Man
by Jeff Shaara
1,092 members
21 reviews
3.9
97
The Well of Loneliness
by Radclyffe Hall
3,148 members
57 reviews
½ 3.5
98
In My Father's House (Shiloh Legacy, Book 1)
by Bodie Thoene
782 members
5 reviews
4
99
In the Company of Eagles
by Ernest K. Gann
188 members
5 reviews
4.2
100
The Regeneration Trilogy
by Pat Barker
886 members
15 reviews
½ 4.3