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Anti War Books
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Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 160 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,517,312 ratings — published 1969
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 900,722 ratings — published 1961
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 535,818 ratings — published 1928
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,408 ratings — published 1939
War Is a Racket (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,565 ratings — published 1935
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 353,985 ratings — published 1990
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.82 — 364,157 ratings — published 1929
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.14 — 184,244 ratings — published 1974
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 446,552 ratings — published 1963
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,299,225 ratings — published 1947
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,634 ratings — published 1991
The Good Soldier Švejk (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 21,630 ratings — published 1921
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,410 ratings — published 1946
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,050,974 ratings — published 2014
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.30 — 111,545 ratings — published 1894
Mother Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 109,933 ratings — published 1961
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,692,472 ratings — published 1949
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.44 — 15,879 ratings — published 1954
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.56 — 71,783 ratings — published 2025
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 375,209 ratings — published 1868
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,358 ratings — published 2007
The Tin Drum (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,459 ratings — published 1959
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,798,077 ratings — published 2007
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.87 — 54,609 ratings — published -423
Going After Cacciato (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,949 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 — 4,837 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 4.15 — 9,299 ratings — published 2011
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.58 — 262,834 ratings — published 1980
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,768,086 ratings — published 2024
Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.37 — 21,158 ratings — published 2020
Three Guineas (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,994 ratings — published 1938
War's Unwomanly Face (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.51 — 40,781 ratings — published 1983
The Butter Battle Book (Library Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 14,705 ratings — published 1984
The Naked and the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,778 ratings — published 1948
Blockbuster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.68 — 480 ratings — published 2009
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 325,222 ratings — published 1940
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,028 ratings — published 2002
Homage to Catalonia (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 74,672 ratings — published 1938
Nuclear War: A Scenario (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.35 — 54,239 ratings — published 2024
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.99 — 51,260 ratings — published 1957
Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,895 ratings — published 1975
Washington Bullets (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,573 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 — 6,203 ratings — published 2013
Testament of Youth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,668 ratings — published 1933
Mother Courage and Her Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 3.63 — 23,358 ratings — published 1941
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 5,177 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 — 12,507 ratings — published 1995
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,956,807 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 — 19,978 ratings — published 2020
America's War for the Greater Middle East (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as anti-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,259 ratings — published 2016
“Somewhere nearby, artillery thundered. Vast fields — flat as a table, without a single tree — turned any moving figure into an easy target against the monotonous landscape, drawing German pilots toward whatever appeared below.
Twice already, the exhausted and terrified prisoners were strafed by Junkers aircraft returning from their missions, deciding to use up their remaining ammunition. At the command of the group leader — a State Security lieutenant — everyone scattered in all directions. Yet despite this, nearly twenty people, including soldiers, were killed by the bullets of the German vultures.
Roughly the same number were executed by the guards themselves. Anyone seriously wounded, anyone unable to keep walking, was shot on the spot.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book One
Context note:
During the first weeks of the German–Soviet War in 1941, prisoners and soldiers are driven across the open steppe. Caught between German air attacks and Soviet security forces, the weak and wounded are systematically eliminated. The scene exposes the brutal logic of total war on the Eastern Front.”
― Камень. Биографический роман: Часть первая. Первые шаги к свету и обратно
Twice already, the exhausted and terrified prisoners were strafed by Junkers aircraft returning from their missions, deciding to use up their remaining ammunition. At the command of the group leader — a State Security lieutenant — everyone scattered in all directions. Yet despite this, nearly twenty people, including soldiers, were killed by the bullets of the German vultures.
Roughly the same number were executed by the guards themselves. Anyone seriously wounded, anyone unable to keep walking, was shot on the spot.
— Volodymyr Shablia, Stone. Book One
Context note:
During the first weeks of the German–Soviet War in 1941, prisoners and soldiers are driven across the open steppe. Caught between German air attacks and Soviet security forces, the weak and wounded are systematically eliminated. The scene exposes the brutal logic of total war on the Eastern Front.”
― Камень. Биографический роман: Часть первая. Первые шаги к свету и обратно
“My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a much more important reason than that; namely, I can do something about it. So even if the U.S. was responsible for 2 percent of the violence in the world instead of the majority of it, it would be that 2 percent I would be primarily responsible for. And that is a simple ethical judgment. That is, the ethical value of one's actions depends on their anticipated and predictable consequences. It is very easy to denounce the atrocities of someone else. That has about as much ethical value as denouncing atrocities that took place in the 18th century.”
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