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All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3020 times as war)
avg rating 4.12 — 536,893 ratings — published 1928
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2790 times as war)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,962,108 ratings — published 2005
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 2585 times as war)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,519,652 ratings — published 1969
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2335 times as war)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,055,660 ratings — published 2014
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2185 times as war)
avg rating 3.99 — 901,652 ratings — published 1961
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1979 times as war)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,306,825 ratings — published 1947
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 1922 times as war)
avg rating 4.15 — 354,542 ratings — published 1990
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1671 times as war)
avg rating 3.94 — 592,764 ratings — published -500
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1634 times as war)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,336,833 ratings — published 2015
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1427 times as war)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,397,199 ratings — published 1956
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1344 times as war)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,014,782 ratings — published 2010
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 1288 times as war)
avg rating 3.82 — 364,891 ratings — published 1929
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1174 times as war)
avg rating 4.16 — 999,226 ratings — published 2006
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1115 times as war)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,781,488 ratings — published 2024
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 1003 times as war)
avg rating 4.17 — 375,870 ratings — published 1868
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 941 times as war)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,210,784 ratings — published 2018
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 938 times as war)
avg rating 3.99 — 325,746 ratings — published 1940
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 928 times as war)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,803,150 ratings — published 2007
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 884 times as war)
avg rating 4.44 — 142,233 ratings — published 1992
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 854 times as war)
avg rating 4.19 — 827,752 ratings — published 2008
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 842 times as war)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,498,763 ratings — published 1985
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 837 times as war)
avg rating 3.96 — 575,868 ratings — published 2001
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 822 times as war)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,848,287 ratings — published 2010
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 820 times as war)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,589,523 ratings — published 2003
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 795 times as war)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,141,850 ratings — published 2011
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 774 times as war)
avg rating 4.15 — 539,604 ratings — published 2018
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 768 times as war)
avg rating 3.99 — 130,593 ratings — published 2012
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 761 times as war)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,269,124 ratings — published 1936
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 693 times as war)
avg rating 4.35 — 268,330 ratings — published 2016
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 687 times as war)
avg rating 4.36 — 286,036 ratings — published 2011
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 681 times as war)
avg rating 3.94 — 531,065 ratings — published -750
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 674 times as war)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,573 ratings — published 1946
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 665 times as war)
avg rating 4.58 — 263,313 ratings — published 1980
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 656 times as war)
avg rating 4.18 — 87,176 ratings — published 1962
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 647 times as war)
avg rating 4.32 — 669,620 ratings — published 2017
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 641 times as war)
avg rating 4.39 — 384,526 ratings — published 1986
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 639 times as war)
avg rating 4.00 — 143,484 ratings — published 2015
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 635 times as war)
avg rating 4.31 — 70,236 ratings — published 1999
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 611 times as war)
avg rating 4.30 — 174,350 ratings — published 2008
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 609 times as war)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,515 ratings — published 1939
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 606 times as war)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,473 ratings — published 2007
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 601 times as war)
avg rating 3.30 — 111,650 ratings — published 1894
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 583 times as war)
avg rating 4.14 — 184,480 ratings — published 1974
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 579 times as war)
avg rating 4.34 — 190,898 ratings — published 2006
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 578 times as war)
avg rating 4.23 — 152,397 ratings — published 1960
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 562 times as war)
avg rating 4.26 — 57,386 ratings — published 1997
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 559 times as war)
avg rating 4.37 — 927,805 ratings — published 1946
Matterhorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 554 times as war)
avg rating 4.28 — 48,912 ratings — published 2010
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 536 times as war)
avg rating 4.02 — 578,660 ratings — published 2006
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 533 times as war)
avg rating 4.44 — 406,499 ratings — published 2017
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
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combat, war-books, war-fiction, war-literature, war-novels, warfare, and wars