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War Books
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2927 times as war)
avg rating 4.11 — 522,032 ratings — published 1928
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2723 times as war)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,889,481 ratings — published 2005
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 2522 times as war)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,487,400 ratings — published 1969
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2286 times as war)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,985,439 ratings — published 2014
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2148 times as war)
avg rating 3.99 — 888,445 ratings — published 1961
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1954 times as war)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,205,684 ratings — published 1947
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 1869 times as war)
avg rating 4.15 — 346,044 ratings — published 1990
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1637 times as war)
avg rating 3.94 — 574,122 ratings — published -500
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1558 times as war)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,136,116 ratings — published 2015
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1413 times as war)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,368,240 ratings — published 1956
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1331 times as war)
avg rating 4.39 — 999,939 ratings — published 2010
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 1253 times as war)
avg rating 3.82 — 354,895 ratings — published 1929
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1167 times as war)
avg rating 4.16 — 971,264 ratings — published 2006
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1027 times as war)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,592,339 ratings — published 2024
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 967 times as war)
avg rating 4.17 — 367,002 ratings — published 1869
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 927 times as war)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,172,220 ratings — published 2018
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 913 times as war)
avg rating 3.99 — 319,073 ratings — published 1940
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 908 times as war)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,743,235 ratings — published 2007
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 869 times as war)
avg rating 4.44 — 139,370 ratings — published 1992
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 838 times as war)
avg rating 4.19 — 812,844 ratings — published 2008
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 837 times as war)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,476,599 ratings — published 1985
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 822 times as war)
avg rating 3.95 — 564,813 ratings — published 2001
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 809 times as war)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,735,889 ratings — published 2010
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 804 times as war)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,504,994 ratings — published 2003
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 765 times as war)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,622 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 760 times as war)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,004,881 ratings — published 2011
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 741 times as war)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,258,261 ratings — published 1936
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 725 times as war)
avg rating 4.16 — 488,755 ratings — published 2018
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 677 times as war)
avg rating 4.37 — 277,862 ratings — published 2011
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 675 times as war)
avg rating 4.35 — 257,040 ratings — published 2016
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 658 times as war)
avg rating 4.05 — 89,902 ratings — published 1946
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 656 times as war)
avg rating 3.93 — 511,669 ratings — published -800
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 648 times as war)
avg rating 4.58 — 255,455 ratings — published 1980
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 640 times as war)
avg rating 4.18 — 85,008 ratings — published 1962
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 632 times as war)
avg rating 4.30 — 69,133 ratings — published 1999
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 630 times as war)
avg rating 4.32 — 632,394 ratings — published 2017
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 627 times as war)
avg rating 4.39 — 376,297 ratings — published 1986
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 611 times as war)
avg rating 4.01 — 138,701 ratings — published 2015
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 603 times as war)
avg rating 4.30 — 167,856 ratings — published 2008
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 599 times as war)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,470 ratings — published 2007
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 597 times as war)
avg rating 4.21 — 48,914 ratings — published 1939
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 585 times as war)
avg rating 3.30 — 110,250 ratings — published 1894
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 573 times as war)
avg rating 4.14 — 180,918 ratings — published 2003
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 566 times as war)
avg rating 4.23 — 148,839 ratings — published 1960
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 564 times as war)
avg rating 4.34 — 184,325 ratings — published 2006
Matterhorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 546 times as war)
avg rating 4.28 — 47,717 ratings — published 2010
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 536 times as war)
avg rating 4.37 — 883,779 ratings — published 1946
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 535 times as war)
avg rating 4.25 — 54,194 ratings — published 1997
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 533 times as war)
avg rating 4.02 — 568,525 ratings — published 2006
Birdsong (Paperback)
by (shelved 531 times as war)
avg rating 4.11 — 84,150 ratings — published 1993
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
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