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WW1 Centenary Potential Reading List
A list of potential titles for the WW1 Centenary Bookclub.
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The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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Tim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 4,047 ratings
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Testament of Youth
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4.11 avg rating — 12,267 ratings
score: 687,
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The Guns of August
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4.18 avg rating — 83,178 ratings
score: 577,
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6 people voted
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Birdsong
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4.11 avg rating — 83,013 ratings
score: 479,
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.10 avg rating — 509,032 ratings
score: 392,
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4 people voted
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Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 33,200 ratings
score: 290,
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3 people voted
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 346,866 ratings
score: 289,
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3 people voted
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The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
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4.23 avg rating — 13,565 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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Letters from a Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends
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Alan Bishop (Editor)
4.42 avg rating — 465 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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My Father's War
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Sophie Masson (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 96 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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1916 (Australia's Great War, #3)
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3.85 avg rating — 53 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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Parade's End
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3.87 avg rating — 6,773 ratings
score: 186,
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Stories of World War One
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3.76 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 186,
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2 people voted
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Goodbye to All That
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3.93 avg rating — 15,377 ratings
score: 184,
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The War Poems
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4.21 avg rating — 2,846 ratings
score: 178,
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2 people voted
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All I See Is Mud
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Andrew Dunkley (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 175,
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2 people voted
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Goddamn This War!
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4.15 avg rating — 845 ratings
score: 174,
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War Horse (War Horse, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 58,131 ratings
score: 163,
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2 people voted
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Wake
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3.86 avg rating — 5,552 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Birdsong on Holbeck Moor
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Billy Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Journey's End
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3.87 avg rating — 4,524 ratings
score: 98,
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The Foreshadowing
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3.80 avg rating — 2,379 ratings
score: 98,
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1 person voted
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The Accrington Pals
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3.27 avg rating — 132 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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A Woman's War
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4.14 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 97,
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1 person voted
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Not So Quiet...
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4.20 avg rating — 1,040 ratings
score: 96,
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Valentine Joe (Rose #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 428 ratings
score: 95,
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1 person voted
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A Rose for the ANZAC Boys
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4.02 avg rating — 2,234 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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It Was the War of the Trenches
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4.23 avg rating — 2,564 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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Loyal Creatures
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3.96 avg rating — 457 ratings
score: 93,
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1 person voted
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The Horses Didn't Come Home
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4.24 avg rating — 96 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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The Silver Donkey: A Novel for Children
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3.80 avg rating — 2,067 ratings
score: 91,
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1 person voted
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Flora's War
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3.79 avg rating — 71 ratings
score: 90,
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1 person voted
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The Good Soldier Švejk
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4.10 avg rating — 20,663 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Eventual Poppy Day
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3.61 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 89,
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1 person voted
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Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
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4.07 avg rating — 1,813 ratings
score: 88,
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1 person voted
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Generals Die in Bed
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3.82 avg rating — 1,639 ratings
score: 87,
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1 person voted
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Only Remembered
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4.10 avg rating — 78 ratings
score: 84,
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1 person voted
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Line of Fire: Diary of an Unknown Soldier
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3.72 avg rating — 335 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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Soldier Boy
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Anthony Hill (Goodreads Author)
3.23 avg rating — 319 ratings
score: 83,
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1 person voted
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A Broken World: Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War
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3.91 avg rating — 186 ratings
score: 82,
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1 person voted
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Birds Without Wings
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4.16 avg rating — 16,037 ratings
score: 81,
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1 person voted
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Love Letters of the Great War
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Mandy Kirkby (Editor)
4.24 avg rating — 422 ratings
score: 79,
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1 person voted
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Courageous First World War Stories
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 78,
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1 person voted
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The Poppy Wife
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Caroline Scott (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 4,011 ratings
score: 77,
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1 person voted
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In Love and War
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Liz Trenow (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,587 ratings
score: 76,
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1 person voted
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