A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Anabasis by Xenophon
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw
Ashes and Diamonds by Jerzy Andrzejewski
At Dawn We Slept by Gordon W. Prange
Battle Cry by Leon Uris
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua (memoir touch with war-family influence)
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War by Herman Melville
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (war backdrop) by Gabriel García Márquez
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Coming Home by Rosamunde Pilcher
Company K by William March
Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
Crimson Snow: Russia’s Winter War by Stanley Washburn
Cry, the Beloved Country (war impact) by Alan Paton
Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
Dispatches by Michael Herr
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Dragon’s Teeth by Upton Sinclair
Empire of the Sun by J.G. Ballard
Enemy at the Gates by William Craig
Exodus by Leon Uris
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston
Fields of Fire by James Webb
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
Generation Kill by Evan Wright
Glory by William Wharton
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves
Goodbye, Darkness by William Manchester
Grave of the Fireflies by Akiyuki Nosaka
Greyhound (The Good Shepherd) by C.S. Forester
Guernica by Dave Boling
Hail and Farewell by Ray Bradbury (war-touched short)
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
How Sleep the Brave by Léo Malet
Human Smoke by Nicholson Baker
I Claudius (war backdrop) by Robert Graves
In Parenthesis by David Jones
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Jarhead by Anthony Swofford
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Journey’s End by R.C. Sherriff
Joyeux Noël by Christian Carion
Julius Caesar (wars of Rome) by William Shakespeare
Khartoum by Alan Moorehead
Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
King Rat by James Clavell
Knight’s Cross by David Fraser
Korean War by Bruce Cumings
Kurt Seyit ve Şura by Nermin Bezmen
Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (war family trauma) by Eugene O’Neill
Love in the Time of Cholera (war backdrops) by Gabriel García Márquez
Lucky Child (war memoir) by Loung Ung
Madame Bovary (war era French) by Gustave Flaubert
Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
Memoirs of a Geisha (wartime Japan) by Arthur Golden
Men at Arms by Evelyn Waugh
Michael Collins by Tim Pat Coogan
Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist
Mister Roberts by Thomas Heggen
Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Night by Elie Wiesel
No Man’s Land by Reginald Berkeley
North and South by John Jakes
Notes of a Cavalry Officer by Leo Tolstoy
Odyssey by Homer
Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One Man’s War by Peter Chapman
On the Road (war generation impact) by Jack Kerouac
Operation Thunderbolt by Saul David
Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford
Paths of Glory by Humphrey Cobb
Pearl Harbor by Randall Wallace
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
Regeneration by Pat Barker
Remembrance Day by Henry Porter
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Rifleman Dodd by C.S. Forester
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer
Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
Sharpe Series by Bernard Cornwell
Shōgun (wartime samurai) by James Clavell
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
Spartacus by Howard Fast
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
The 33 Strategies of War (philosophy of wars) by Robert Greene
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Battle of Arnhem by Cornelius Ryan
The Battle of Britain by Richard Hough
The Blue and the Gray by John Leekley
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Bridges at Toko-Ri by James Michener
The Burmese Harp by Michio Takeyama
The Charge of the Light Brigade by Tennyson
The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote
The Cossacks by Leo Tolstoy
The Counterfeiters by André Gide
The Cranes Are Flying by Viktor Rozov
The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill
The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys
The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Face of Battle by John Keegan
The Fall of Paris by Alistair Horne
The Forgotten Soldier by Guy Sajer
The Glory of Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
The Haj by Leon Uris
The Hunters by James Salter
The Iliad by Homer
The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
The Last Valley by J.B. Pick
The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan
The Naked Island by Russell Braddon
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
The Pianist by Władysław Szpilman
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
The Red Horse by Eugenio Corti
The Siege by Ismail Kadare
The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway
The Somme by A.H. Farrar-Hockley
The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor by Gabriel García Márquez
The Thin Red Line by James Jones
The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien
The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño
The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna
The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The War Lover by John Hersey
The War Prayer by Mark Twain
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Winter Soldiers by Richard M. Ketchum
The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman
Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque
To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy
Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden
Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson
Twilight of the Gods by Wilbur Smith
Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
Vietnam by Stanley Karnow
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
War of the Rats by David L. Robbins
Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals
We Were Soldiers Once… and Young by Harold G. Moore & Joseph L. Galloway
What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes
Where Eagles Dare by Alistair MacLean
While Still We Live by Helen MacInnes
Winter in Wartime by Jan Terlouw
World at War by Mark Arnold-Forster
World War Z by Max Brooks
Wounds of War by Larisa Miller
Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
Zlata’s Diary by Zlata Filipović
