171 books
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71 voters
Anti War Books
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,507,429 ratings — published 1969
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 896,779 ratings — published 1961
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 531,515 ratings — published 1928
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 49,966 ratings — published 1939
War Is a Racket (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,418 ratings — published 1935
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 351,672 ratings — published 1990
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 361,397 ratings — published 1929
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 183,087 ratings — published 1974
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 443,865 ratings — published 1963
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,268,132 ratings — published 1947
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,413 ratings — published 1991
The Good Soldier Švejk (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,498 ratings — published 1921
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,642 ratings — published 1946
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,030,207 ratings — published 2014
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.30 — 111,149 ratings — published 1894
Mother Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 108,869 ratings — published 1961
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,629,412 ratings — published 1948
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 15,735 ratings — published 1954
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.57 — 64,207 ratings — published 2025
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 372,663 ratings — published 1869
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,797 ratings — published 2007
The Tin Drum (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,242 ratings — published 1959
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,335 ratings — published -423
Going After Cacciato (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,872 ratings — published 1978
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,795 ratings — published 2006
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 9,274 ratings — published 2011
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.58 — 260,635 ratings — published 1980
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,714,312 ratings — published 2024
Three Guineas (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,930 ratings — published 1938
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,779,680 ratings — published 2007
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.51 — 40,336 ratings — published 1983
The Butter Battle Book (Library Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,690 ratings — published 1984
The Naked and the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,703 ratings — published 1948
Blockbuster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.69 — 470 ratings — published 2009
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 323,272 ratings — published 1940
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,005 ratings — published 2002
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 73,864 ratings — published 1938
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 52,355 ratings — published 2024
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.98 — 50,799 ratings — published 1957
Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,848 ratings — published 1975
Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 20,819 ratings — published 2020
Washington Bullets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,507 ratings — published 2020
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam (American Empire Project)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 6,059 ratings — published 2013
Testament of Youth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,630 ratings — published 1933
Mother Courage and Her Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.63 — 23,221 ratings — published 1941
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,165 ratings — published 2012
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,412 ratings — published 1995
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,935,449 ratings — published 2005
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.61 — 19,194 ratings — published 2020
America's War for the Greater Middle East (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,248 ratings — published 2016
“The human beings also passed canteens, which guards would fill with water. When food came in, the human beings were quiet and trusting and beautiful. They shared.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writing of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States …”
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