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War Books
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2918 times as war)
avg rating 4.11 — 515,750 ratings — published 1928
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2720 times as war)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,851,262 ratings — published 2005
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 2494 times as war)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,473,082 ratings — published 1969
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2271 times as war)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,949,991 ratings — published 2014
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2126 times as war)
avg rating 3.99 — 882,779 ratings — published 1961
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1947 times as war)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,149,311 ratings — published 1947
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 1851 times as war)
avg rating 4.14 — 342,613 ratings — published 1990
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1613 times as war)
avg rating 3.95 — 564,369 ratings — published -500
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1520 times as war)
avg rating 4.64 — 2,036,682 ratings — published 2015
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1402 times as war)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,352,698 ratings — published 1956
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1329 times as war)
avg rating 4.39 — 992,289 ratings — published 2010
A Farewell to Arms (Paperback)
by (shelved 1240 times as war)
avg rating 3.82 — 351,075 ratings — published 1929
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1158 times as war)
avg rating 4.16 — 956,039 ratings — published 2006
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 975 times as war)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,491,555 ratings — published 2024
War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 948 times as war)
avg rating 4.17 — 363,001 ratings — published 1869
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 918 times as war)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,150,564 ratings — published 2018
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 901 times as war)
avg rating 3.99 — 316,212 ratings — published 1940
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 895 times as war)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,718,547 ratings — published 2007
Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest (Paperback)
by (shelved 859 times as war)
avg rating 4.44 — 138,008 ratings — published 1992
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 841 times as war)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,466,442 ratings — published 1985
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 834 times as war)
avg rating 4.19 — 805,239 ratings — published 2008
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 806 times as war)
avg rating 3.95 — 560,273 ratings — published 2001
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 805 times as war)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,461,442 ratings — published 2003
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 800 times as war)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,677,173 ratings — published 2010
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 763 times as war)
avg rating 4.00 — 127,536 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 752 times as war)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,944,897 ratings — published 2011
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 741 times as war)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,253,080 ratings — published 1936
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 702 times as war)
avg rating 4.16 — 464,836 ratings — published 2018
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 676 times as war)
avg rating 4.37 — 274,020 ratings — published 2011
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 674 times as war)
avg rating 4.35 — 252,205 ratings — published 2016
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 647 times as war)
avg rating 4.58 — 251,551 ratings — published 1980
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 644 times as war)
avg rating 3.93 — 505,184 ratings — published -800
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 643 times as war)
avg rating 4.05 — 88,611 ratings — published 1946
The Guns of August (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 634 times as war)
avg rating 4.18 — 84,068 ratings — published 1962
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 629 times as war)
avg rating 4.30 — 68,672 ratings — published 1999
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 624 times as war)
avg rating 4.39 — 372,038 ratings — published 1986
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 621 times as war)
avg rating 4.32 — 615,671 ratings — published 2017
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
by (shelved 604 times as war)
avg rating 4.01 — 136,475 ratings — published 2015
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 593 times as war)
avg rating 4.21 — 48,373 ratings — published 1939
City of Thieves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 592 times as war)
avg rating 4.30 — 165,308 ratings — published 2008
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 590 times as war)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,642 ratings — published 2007
The Red Badge of Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 578 times as war)
avg rating 3.30 — 109,708 ratings — published 1895
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 564 times as war)
avg rating 4.22 — 147,178 ratings — published 1960
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
by (shelved 563 times as war)
avg rating 4.14 — 179,481 ratings — published 1974
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 560 times as war)
avg rating 4.34 — 181,476 ratings — published 2006
Matterhorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 547 times as war)
avg rating 4.27 — 47,250 ratings — published 2010
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 532 times as war)
avg rating 4.02 — 564,102 ratings — published 2006
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 532 times as war)
avg rating 4.37 — 862,249 ratings — published 1946
Birdsong (Paperback)
by (shelved 527 times as war)
avg rating 4.11 — 83,577 ratings — published 1993
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 527 times as war)
avg rating 4.25 — 52,863 ratings — published 1997
“All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
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combat, war-books, war-fiction, war-literature, war-novels, warfare, and wars












