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.
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The Underground Library
The Lost Book of Bonn
The Woman with No Name
Lady Codebreaker
Uprising
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
Waiting for the Monsoon
The Truth of the Aleke (Forever Desert, #2)
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
Embers in the London Sky
Kindling
We Are Only Ghosts
Sisters of Belfast
No Better Time: A Novel of the Spirited Women of the Six Triple Eight Central Postal Directory Battalion
Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)
The Things We Leave Unfinished
In the Likely Event
The Traitor Queen (The Bridge Kingdom, #2)
Prophet Song
The Secret Book of Flora Lea
The Warm Hands of Ghosts
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #2)
The Armor of Light (Kingsbridge, #4)
The Midwife of Auschwitz (Women of War #1)
The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris
Dark Age (Red Rising Saga, #5)
Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6)
The Wind Knows My Name
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakCatch-22 by Joseph HellerSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrAtonement by Ian McEwan
World War II Fiction
1,196 books — 2,025 voters
The Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneNumber the Stars by Lois LowryBetween Shades of Gray by Ruta SepetysOperation Einstein by Mark A. Cooper
YA Holocaust & WWII Novels
390 books — 790 voters

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,061 books — 2,346 voters
City of Bones by Cassandra ClareForbidden by Tabitha SuzumaVampire Academy by Richelle MeadDelirium by Lauren OliverPerfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles
Best Books Involving Forbidden Love
1,389 books — 3,219 voters

1984 by George OrwellThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Smart Apocalyptic and Dystopian Fiction
513 books — 819 voters
Unspoken Abandonment by Bryan A. WoodWar by Sebastian JungerOutlaw Platoon by Sean  ParnellHouse to House by David BellaviaLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Iraq and Afghanistan War Books
246 books — 444 voters

All Quiet on the Western Front
The Book Thief
Slaughterhouse-Five
All the Light We Cannot See
Catch-22
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Things They Carried
The Art of War
The Nightingale
Night  (The Night Trilogy, #1)
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
A Farewell to Arms
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
War and Peace
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

Sun Tzu
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

J.R.R. Tolkien
War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

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