World War I Fiction

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World War I Fiction
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14 participating members
1
All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
18,307 members
391 reviews
4.1
6 Members
hailelib, jain, thorold, aulsmith, merrystar, brenzi
2
Regeneration
by Pat Barker
4,482 members
111 reviews
4
5 Members
brewergirl, hailelib, jain, amanda4242, brenzi
3
Birdsong
by Sebastian Faulks
5,951 members
153 reviews
4
3 Members
brewergirl, KimarieBee, brenzi
4
The Return of the Soldier
by Rebecca West
1,497 members
75 reviews
3.9
3 Members
inge87, amanda4242, brenzi
5
Maisie Dobbs
by Jacqueline Winspear
4,772 members
269 reviews
3.8
3 Members
brewergirl, hailelib, ClaudiaGlenn
6
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
by Dorothy L. Sayers
2,962 members
85 reviews
3.8
3 Members
thorold, merrystar, ahef1963
Explanations
thorold: mystery with background of WWI aftermath - shell-shock
7
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
21,670 members
237 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
hailelib, amanda4242, ahef1963,jain
Explanations
jain : I hate Hemingway's treatment of Catherine SO MUCH.
8
A Month in the Country
by J. L. Carr
2,179 members
117 reviews
4.2
3 Members
inge87, amanda4242, brenzi
9
The Eye in the Door
by Pat Barker
2,118 members
50 reviews
4
3 Members
jain, amanda4242, brenzi
10
The Ghost Road
by Pat Barker
2,780 members
57 reviews
4
3 Members
jain, amanda4242, brenzi
11
Rilla of Ingleside
by L. M. Montgomery
6,052 members
61 reviews
4.1
2 Members
merrystar, ahef1963
12
A Soldier of the Great War
by Mark Helprin
1,747 members
38 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
hipdeep, brenzi
13
Fall of Giants
by Ken Follett
8,258 members
303 reviews
4
2 Members
brewergirl, ClaudiaGlenn
14
The Good Soldier Svejk
by Jaroslav Hašek
3,426 members
59 reviews
4
2 Members
hailelib, thorold
15
Birds of a Feather
by Jacqueline Winspear
2,634 members
123 reviews
3.9
2 Members
brewergirl, inge87
16
One of Ours
by Willa Cather
1,163 members
38 reviews
3.8
2 Members
brewergirl, brenzi
17
Christmas in the Trenches
by John McCutcheon
216 members
10 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
hailelib, hipdeep
18
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
5,215 members
182 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
amanda4242, ahef1963
19
Pardonable Lies
by Jacqueline Winspear
2,262 members
108 reviews
3.9
2 Members
hailelib, ClaudiaGlenn
20
Lost Empires
by J. B. Priestley
183 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
21
Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak
10,970 members
147 reviews
3.9
2 Members
brenzi, ClaudiaGlenn
22
The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
11,362 members
178 reviews
3.9
3 Members
KimarieBee, brenzi, ahef1963,jain ,merrystar
Explanations
jain : World War II
23
The Enchanted April
by Elizabeth von Armin
2,675 members
117 reviews
4.1
2 Members
hailelib, brenzi
24
War Horse
by Michael Morpurgo
3,581 members
121 reviews
4
2 Members
amanda4242, brenzi
25
The Daughters of Mars
by Thomas Keneally
662 members
34 reviews
4
2 Members
hailelib, brenzi
26
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
by James Hilton
2,210 members
49 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
27
The Return of Captain John Emmett
by Elizabeth Speller
478 members
39 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
28
The Alice Network
by Kate Quinn
3,945 members
198 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
29
Spectred Isle
by KJ Charles
200 members
21 reviews
4.1
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.
30
Parade's End
by Ford Madox Ford
1,696 members
26 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
31
All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown
by Sydney Taylor
792 members
6 reviews
4.2
Member
merrystar
32
In Pale Battalions
by Robert Goddard
601 members
17 reviews
3.8
Member
KimarieBee
33
Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
3,574 members
73 reviews
4.2
Member
brewergirl
34
August 1914
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
2,288 members
22 reviews
3.8
Member
hailelib
35
Strange Meeting
by Susan Hill
345 members
11 reviews
3.8
Member
amanda4242
36
In the Absence of Men
by Philippe Besson
201 members
5 reviews
3.9
Member
jain
37
Flambards Trilogy
by K. M. Peyton
89 members
½ 4.6
Member
merrystar
38
Barbed wire and roses
by Peter Yeldham
27 members
5 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
KimarieBee
39
Among the Mad
by Jacqueline Winspear
1,564 members
79 reviews
4
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
40
The Wars
by Timothy Findley
1,171 members
25 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
41
No Graves As Yet
by Anne Perry
833 members
30 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
hailelib
42
The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton
by Elizabeth Speller
202 members
11 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
43
A Duty to the Dead
by Charles Todd
1,266 members
93 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
44
Jules and Jim
by Henri-Pierre Roché
467 members
9 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Best friends on opposite sides
45
Flanders
by Patricia Anthony
133 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
jain
46
Fall on Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
5,348 members
123 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
47
An Unmarked Grave
by Charles Todd
500 members
43 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
48
Trooper to the Southern Cross
by Angela Thirkell
91 members
4 reviews
3.2
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Frustrated Diggers on their way home to Australia after the war
49
Leviathan
by Scott Westerfeld
5,472 members
339 reviews
3.9
Member
hailelib
50
A Question of Honor
by Charles Todd
412 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
51
The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)
by Karl Kraus
47 members
3 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: Giant satirical Austrian anti-war play from the 1920s
52
The Children's Book
by A. S. Byatt
3,736 members
208 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
53
The Man from St. Petersburg
by Ken Follett
2,606 members
29 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
hailelib
54
An Unwilling Accomplice
by Charles Todd
366 members
42 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
55
Tempting Fate
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
196 members
4.1
Member
amanda4242
56
Behemoth
by Scott Westerfeld
2,403 members
126 reviews
4.1
Member
hailelib
57
The African Queen
by C. S. Forester
1,309 members
42 reviews
3.8
Member
thorold
Explanations
thorold: WWI in Africa. But Bogart & Hepburn were better than the book
58
The Walnut Tree
by Charles Todd
231 members
28 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
59
Three Day Road
by Joseph Boyden
1,808 members
86 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
brenzi
60
Private Peaceful
by Michael Morpurgo
1,562 members
58 reviews
4.1
Member
amanda4242
61
The Shattered Tree
by Charles Todd
326 members
21 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
62
Another World
by Pat Barker
944 members
20 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
amanda4242
63
A Pattern of Lies
by Charles Todd
310 members
25 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
64
Goodbye to All That
by Robert Graves
3,612 members
65 reviews
4
Member
amanda4242
65
Deafening
by Frances Itani
742 members
26 reviews
3.8
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
66
This Side of Paradise
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
9,150 members
84 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
brenzi
67
Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
by Siegfried Sassoon
702 members
13 reviews
3.8
Member
amanda4242
68
The Care and Management of Lies
by Jacqueline Winspear
613 members
36 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
69
Angels in the Gloom
by Anne Perry
472 members
10 reviews
3.8
Member
hailelib
70
A Long, Long Way
by Sebastian Barry
1,194 members
54 reviews
4.1
Member
brenzi
71
An Impartial Witness
by Charles Todd
734 members
39 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ClaudiaGlenn
72
Death of a Hero
by Richard Aldington
203 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
amanda4242
73
Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War
by Helen Zenna Smith
233 members
12 reviews
4.2
Member
brenzi
74
The Boy I Love
by Marion Husband
75 members
9 reviews
3.9
Member
amanda4242
76
Waiting for Sunrise
by William Boyd
1,010 members
53 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
brenzi
77
The Air We Breathe
by Andrea Barrett
506 members
39 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
brenzi
78
Stones from the River
by Ursula Hegi
4,601 members
68 reviews
4
2 Members
brenzi, ClaudiaGlenn,dara85 ,jain
Explanations
dara85 : This was World War II
jain : World War II
79
Trinity
by Leon Uris
2,958 members
36 reviews
4
80
QB VII
by Leon Uris
1,716 members
22 reviews
3.8
81
A Very Long Engagement
by Sébastien Japrisot
1,635 members
33 reviews
4
82
River of Darkness
by Rennie Airth
1,156 members
42 reviews
3.9
83
Ali and Nino
by Kurban Said
928 members
45 reviews
3.8
84
Under Fire
by Henri Barbusse
740 members
21 reviews
3.8
85
In the Shadow of Blackbirds
by Cat Winters
699 members
60 reviews
3.9
86
Three Soldiers
by John Dos Passos
667 members
11 reviews
½ 3.6
87
In Parenthesis
by David Jones
601 members
13 reviews
3.9
88
A Bitter Truth
by Charles Todd
590 members
54 reviews
½ 3.6
89
Somewhere in France
by Jennifer Robson
496 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
90
The Foreshadowing
by Marcus Sedgwick
430 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
91
Wake
by Anna Hope
380 members
67 reviews
3.8
92
Company K
by William March
246 members
9 reviews
4.1
93
The Penguin Book of First World War Stories
by Barbara Korte
102 members
½ 3.7
94
At Break of Day
by Elizabeth Speller
91 members
9 reviews
4
95
Life Class
by Pat Barker
1,016 members
54 reviews
½ 3.5
96
The Well of Loneliness
by Radclyffe Hall
2,612 members
47 reviews
½ 3.4
97
In the Company of Eagles
by Ernest K. Gann
157 members
5 reviews
½ 4.3
98
In My Father's House
by Bodie Thoene
659 members
3 reviews
4
99
The Summer Before the War
by Helen Simonson
1,739 members
118 reviews
3.8
100
The General
by C. S. Forester
328 members
4 reviews
3.9