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War Fiction Books
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.12 — 532,477 ratings — published 1928
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,939,956 ratings — published 2005
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 897,669 ratings — published 1961
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,034,524 ratings — published 2014
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,509,488 ratings — published 1969
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 352,185 ratings — published 1990
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,276,369 ratings — published 2015
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 362,004 ratings — published 1929
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.58 — 1,725,029 ratings — published 2024
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.16 — 990,553 ratings — published 2006
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 323,689 ratings — published 1940
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 50,061 ratings — published 1939
Where Eagles Dare (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 47,216 ratings — published 1967
Matterhorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.28 — 48,530 ratings — published 2010
The Naked and the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,722 ratings — published 1948
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,199,367 ratings — published 2018
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.19 — 823,403 ratings — published 2008
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,462 ratings — published 1991
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,562,228 ratings — published 2003
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.30 — 111,235 ratings — published 1894
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.33 — 93,296 ratings — published 1974
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 572,598 ratings — published 2001
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 142,193 ratings — published 2015
The Yellow Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 26,975 ratings — published 2012
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,783,250 ratings — published 2007
The Guns of Navarone (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 19,849 ratings — published 1957
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.17 — 373,206 ratings — published 1869
The Caine Mutiny (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,318 ratings — published 1951
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.32 — 658,860 ratings — published 2017
From Here to Eternity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,258 ratings — published 1951
The Quiet American (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,863 ratings — published 1955
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 129,952 ratings — published 2012
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.30 — 172,485 ratings — published 2008
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.89 — 251,581 ratings — published 1997
Eye of the Needle (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 172,441 ratings — published 1978
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 350,028 ratings — published 2016
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 14 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.21 — 85,658 ratings — published 1986
Tomorrow, When the War Began (Tomorrow, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 61,420 ratings — published 1993
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.79 — 31,160 ratings — published 2012
The Dogs of War (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.99 — 25,617 ratings — published 1974
Birdsong (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 84,963 ratings — published 1993
Going After Cacciato (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,889 ratings — published 1978
The Paris Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 150,552 ratings — published 2021
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.36 — 283,587 ratings — published 2011
The Short-Timers (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,468 ratings — published 1979
The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.38 — 60,032 ratings — published 1971
The Eagle Has Landed (Liam Devlin, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 58,864 ratings — published 1975
Every Man Dies Alone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.27 — 37,989 ratings — published 1947
Starship Troopers (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 249,911 ratings — published 1959
Redeployment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as war-fiction)
avg rating 3.96 — 25,241 ratings — published 2014
“Grenville's line of Cornishmen swayed and lurched, a low growl running through the ranks like a storm far out at sea, the boulders grinding as the waves built. And then it burst, men yelling, shaking their weapons in the air, the pikes clashing, thumping the ground, shouting, demanding, exclaiming, 'Kernow vedn keskerras!' Cornwall will march!”
― The Keys of Hell and Death
― The Keys of Hell and Death
“Often the wise way is to seek the need, not the want. Want is often tainted by greed and is often wholly self-centred. Need by contrast is often the wish of the heart or soul for something better, something more whole.”
― The Empress:
― The Empress:












