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Popular War Books
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The Book Thief (Hardcover)
by Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1645 times as war)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,055,441 ratings — published 2005
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by Erich Maria Remarque (shelved 1470 times as war)
avg rating 3.90 — 374,212 ratings — published 1929
Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1)
by Joseph Heller (shelved 1353 times as war)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,075,712 ratings — published 1961
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (shelved 1324 times as war)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,347,696 ratings — published 1969
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author) (shelved 1116 times as war)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,047,097 ratings — published 2014
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by Anne Frank (shelved 1113 times as war)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,713,671 ratings — published 1947
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Hardcover)
by Laura Hillenbrand (shelved 882 times as war)
avg rating 4.38 — 813,892 ratings — published 2010
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by Ernest Hemingway (shelved 701 times as war)
avg rating 3.80 — 324,440 ratings — published 1929
Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by Orson Scott Card (shelved 607 times as war)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,147,959 ratings — published 1985
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by John Boyne (Goodreads Author) (shelved 606 times as war)
avg rating 4.11 — 490,275 ratings — published 2006
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by Suzanne Collins (shelved 585 times as war)
avg rating 4.02 — 2,186,407 ratings — published 2010
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author) (shelved 571 times as war)
avg rating 4.53 — 560,955 ratings — published 2015
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by Elizabeth Wein (Goodreads Author) (shelved 569 times as war)
avg rating 4.06 — 176,189 ratings — published 2012
Atonement (Paperback)
by Ian McEwan (shelved 515 times as war)
avg rating 3.87 — 552,998 ratings — published 2001
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by Ernest Hemingway (shelved 512 times as war)
avg rating 3.96 — 377,084 ratings — published 1940
Gone with the Wind (Paperback)
by Margaret Mitchell (shelved 491 times as war)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,358,689 ratings — published 1936
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by Stephen E. Ambrose (shelved 483 times as war)
avg rating 4.43 — 111,976 ratings — published 1992
War and Peace (Paperback)
by Leo Tolstoy (shelved 472 times as war)
avg rating 4.09 — 438,254 ratings — published 1868
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author) (shelved 436 times as war)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,482,882 ratings — published 2003
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Hardcover)
by Mary Ann Shaffer (shelved 427 times as war)
avg rating 4.12 — 564,504 ratings — published 2008
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author) (shelved 410 times as war)
avg rating 4.35 — 226,620 ratings — published 2011
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author) (shelved 387 times as war)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,216,277 ratings — published 2007
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by Max Brooks (Goodreads Author) (shelved 384 times as war)
avg rating 4.01 — 510,952 ratings — published 2006
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by Ishmael Beah (shelved 382 times as war)
avg rating 4.14 — 216,706 ratings — published 2007
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by Art Spiegelman (shelved 375 times as war)
avg rating 4.35 — 284,410 ratings — published 1985
Black Hawk Down (Hardcover)
by Mark Bowden (shelved 371 times as war)
avg rating 4.28 — 61,872 ratings — published 1999
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by Stephen Crane (shelved 368 times as war)
avg rating 3.20 — 99,385 ratings — published 1895
Birdsong (Paperback)
by Sebastian Faulks (shelved 367 times as war)
avg rating 4.07 — 87,195 ratings — published 1993
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by David Benioff (shelved 364 times as war)
avg rating 4.28 — 126,202 ratings — published 2008
Matterhorn (Paperback)
by Karl Marlantes (shelved 354 times as war)
avg rating 4.23 — 43,324 ratings — published 2009
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by George R.R. Martin (shelved 340 times as war)
avg rating 4.41 — 734,363 ratings — published 1998
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by Tatiana de Rosnay (Goodreads Author) (shelved 328 times as war)
avg rating 4.14 — 462,585 ratings — published 2007
The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
by Michael Shaara (shelved 327 times as war)
avg rating 4.30 — 86,719 ratings — published 1974
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by Dalton Trumbo (shelved 317 times as war)
avg rating 4.15 — 52,983 ratings — published 1939
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author) (shelved 315 times as war)
avg rating 4.36 — 175,689 ratings — published 2016
The Iliad (Paperback)
by Homer (shelved 311 times as war)
avg rating 3.81 — 386,757 ratings — published -750
War (Hardcover)
by Sebastian Junger (Goodreads Author) (shelved 305 times as war)
avg rating 4.21 — 24,935 ratings — published 2010
Number the Stars (Mass Market Paperback)
by Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author) (shelved 305 times as war)
avg rating 4.11 — 454,891 ratings — published 1989
Redeployment (Hardcover)
by Phil Klay (shelved 292 times as war)
avg rating 3.97 — 43,485 ratings — published 2014
Schindler's List (Paperback)
by Thomas Keneally (shelved 291 times as war)
avg rating 4.34 — 212,922 ratings — published 1982
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by John Hersey (shelved 289 times as war)
avg rating 3.93 — 85,921 ratings — published 1946
How I Live Now (Paperback)
by Meg Rosoff (Goodreads Author) (shelved 284 times as war)
avg rating 3.59 — 62,512 ratings — published 2004
Dispatches (Paperback)
by Michael Herr (shelved 282 times as war)
avg rating 4.24 — 22,941 ratings — published 1977
The Guns of August (Paperback)
by Barbara W. Tuchman (shelved 278 times as war)
avg rating 4.17 — 95,913 ratings — published 1962
Cold Mountain (Paperback)
by Charles Frazier (shelved 278 times as war)
avg rating 3.83 — 258,743 ratings — published 1997
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by Eugene B. Sledge (shelved 265 times as war)
avg rating 4.38 — 28,807 ratings — published 1981
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (Hardcover)
by Marcus Luttrell (shelved 265 times as war)
avg rating 4.32 — 73,708 ratings — published 2006
The Yellow Birds (Hardcover)
by Kevin Powers (shelved 257 times as war)
avg rating 3.74 — 38,384 ratings — published 2012
Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
by Pat Barker (shelved 252 times as war)
avg rating 4.05 — 31,390 ratings — published 1991
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (shelved 248 times as war)
avg rating 4.28 — 116,946 ratings — published 2006
“Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?”
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995: An Exhibition Catalogue
“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
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