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War

A war novel is a novel in which the primary action takes place in a field of armed combat, or in a domestic setting (or home front) where the characters are preoccupied with the preparations for, or recovery from, war. See history for specific wars.

In the Shadow of Blackbirds
Promise of Blood (The Powder Mage, #1)
Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II
The Lives of Tao
The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and the Pursuit of America's Enemies to the Ends of the Earth
Necessary Evil (The Milkweed Triptych, #3)
Racing for the Sun
July 1914: Countdown to War
Time to Kill: A Sniper Novel (Kyle Swanson Sniper, #6)
The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War
Prisoner B-3087
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941
Louisa May's Battle: How the Civil War Led to Little Women
Mary Walker Wears the Pants: The True Story of the Doctor, Reformer, and Civil War Hero

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  • The Elite (The Selection, #2)
    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
    Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    Promise Me Darkness
    The Yellow Birds
    Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
    The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
    Quintana of Charyn (Lumatere Chronicles, #3)
    The Runaway King (The Ascendance Trilogy, #2)
    Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
    The Kingmaker's Daughter (The Cousins' War #4)
    Suicide Note
    Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)
    Article 5 (Article 5, #1)
    Eating Smoke by Chris ThrallThe Royal Marines by Richard BrooksThe Royal Marines by Julian ThompsonRoyal Marines Commandos by John ParkerReflected Glory by Carney Lake
    Royal Marines (RM)
    19 books — 3 voters
    City of Bones by Cassandra ClareThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsForbidden by Tabitha SuzumaPerfect Chemistry by Simone ElkelesVampire Academy by Richelle Mead
    Best Books Involving Forbidden Love
    406 books — 1,113 voters

    We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Harold G. MooreA Rumor Of War by Philip CaputoA Bright Shining Lie by Neil SheehanChickenhawk by Robert MasonHell In A Very Small Place by Bernard B. Fall
    Vietnam War Books
    53 books — 20 voters

    Catch-22
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    The Things They Carried
    The Diary of a Young Girl
    Night  (The Night Trilogy, #1)
    Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
    A Farewell to Arms
    Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
    Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
    The Art of War
    Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest
    Atonement
    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    For Whom the Bell Tolls

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