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World War I Fiction

Based on tag: World War I Fiction

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1

All Quiet on the Western Front

by Erich Maria Remarque

19,449 members

406 reviews

4.1

6 Members: hailelib, jain, thorold, aulsmith, merrystar, brenzi

2

4,563 members

114 reviews

4

5 Members: brewergirl, hailelib, jain, amanda4242, brenzi

3

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

22,943 members

249 reviews

½ 3.7

4 Members: hailelib, pitjrw, amanda4242, ahef1963,jain
Explanations: jain : I hate Hemingway's treatment of Catherine SO MUCH.

4

A Month in the Country

2,394 members

119 reviews

4.2

4 Members: inge87, pitjrw, amanda4242, brenzi

5

by Sebastian Faulks

6,149 members

159 reviews

4

3 Members: brewergirl, KimarieBee, brenzi

6

The Return of the Soldier

by Rebecca West

1,590 members

78 reviews

3.9

3 Members: inge87, amanda4242, brenzi

7

by Jacqueline Winspear

4,937 members

278 reviews

3.8

3 Members: brewergirl, hailelib, ClaudiaGlenn

8

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,130 members

90 reviews

3.9

3 Members: thorold, merrystar, ahef1963
Explanations: thorold: mystery with background of WWI aftermath - shell-shock

9

by Boris Pasternak

11,703 members

152 reviews

3.9

3 Members: pitjrw, brenzi, ClaudiaGlenn

10

The Eye in the Door

2,185 members

51 reviews

4

3 Members: jain, amanda4242, brenzi

11

2,875 members

58 reviews

4

3 Members: jain, amanda4242, brenzi

12

Rilla of Ingleside

by L. M. Montgomery

6,623 members

70 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

13

A Soldier of the Great War

by Mark Helprin

1,811 members

37 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, brenzi

14

8,729 members

316 reviews

4

2 Members: brewergirl, ClaudiaGlenn

15

The Good Soldier Svejk

by Jaroslav Hašek

3,582 members

64 reviews

4

2 Members: hailelib, thorold

16

Birds of a Feather

by Jacqueline Winspear

2,756 members

124 reviews

3.9

2 Members: brewergirl, inge87

17

by Willa Cather

1,265 members

38 reviews

3.8

2 Members: brewergirl, brenzi

18

Christmas in the Trenches

by John McCutcheon

235 members

10 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hailelib, hipdeep

19

The Thirty-Nine Steps

5,524 members

191 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963

20

Pardonable Lies

by Jacqueline Winspear

2,384 members

108 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hailelib, ClaudiaGlenn

21

by J. B. Priestley

190 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: thorold, amanda4242
Explanations: thorold: Reverse of the normal conceit - Priestley describes WWI sweeping away the corrupt pre-war society

22

Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

by Robert Graves

3,779 members

67 reviews

4

2 Members: pitjrw, amanda4242

23

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

by Siegfried Sassoon

739 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: pitjrw, amanda4242

24

The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

11,805 members

173 reviews

3.9

3 Members: KimarieBee, brenzi, ahef1963,jain ,merrystar
Explanations: jain : World War II

25

The Enchanted April

by Elizabeth von Arnim

2,934 members

127 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hailelib, brenzi

26

by Michael Morpurgo

3,892 members

124 reviews

4

2 Members: amanda4242, brenzi

27

The Daughters of Mars

by Thomas Keneally

700 members

34 reviews

4

2 Members: hailelib, brenzi

28

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

by James Hilton

2,381 members

52 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

29

The Return of Captain John Emmett

by Elizabeth Speller

483 members

40 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: inge87

30

The Alice Network

4,571 members

225 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

31

226 members

20 reviews

4.1

Member: jain
Explanations: jain: Set shortly after WWI, but several characters are veterans and the war is relevant to both the plot and the characterizations.

32

by Ford Madox Ford

1,809 members

26 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

33

All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown

by Sydney Taylor

821 members

6 reviews

4.2

Member: merrystar

34

In Pale Battalions

by Robert Goddard

617 members

17 reviews

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

35

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

3,775 members

76 reviews

4.2

Member: brewergirl

36

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

2,449 members

23 reviews

3.8

Member: hailelib

37

Strange Meeting

360 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: amanda4242

38

In the Absence of Men

by Philippe Besson

228 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: jain

39

Flambards Trilogy

by K. M. Peyton

92 members

½ 4.6

Member: merrystar

40

Barbed wire and roses

by Peter Yeldham

29 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

41

by Jacqueline Winspear

1,659 members

80 reviews

4

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

42

by Timothy Findley

1,215 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

43

No Graves As Yet

872 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hailelib

44

The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton

by Elizabeth Speller

203 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: inge87

45

A Duty to the Dead

by Charles Todd

1,316 members

96 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

46

634 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: pitjrw

47

by Henri-Pierre Roché

490 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Best friends on opposite sides

48

by Patricia Anthony

137 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jain

49

Fall on Your Knees

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

5,508 members

123 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

50

An Unmarked Grave

by Charles Todd

530 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

51

Trooper to the Southern Cross

by Angela Thirkell

93 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Frustrated Diggers on their way home to Australia after the war

52

by Scott Westerfeld

5,697 members

348 reviews

3.9

Member: hailelib

53

A Question of Honor

by Charles Todd

433 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

54

The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text

55 members

3 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: Giant satirical Austrian anti-war play from the 1920s

55

The Children's Book

3,839 members

209 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

56

The Man from St. Petersburg

2,734 members

31 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: hailelib

57

An Unwilling Accomplice

by Charles Todd

378 members

42 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

58

by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

201 members

4.1

Member: amanda4242

59

by Scott Westerfeld

2,558 members

129 reviews

4.1

Member: hailelib

60

The African Queen

by C. S. Forester

1,375 members

43 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold
Explanations: thorold: WWI in Africa. But Bogart & Hepburn were better than the book

61

The Walnut Tree

by Charles Todd

246 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

62

by Joseph Boyden

1,867 members

87 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: brenzi

63

Private Peaceful

by Michael Morpurgo

1,675 members

59 reviews

4.1

Member: amanda4242

64

The Shattered Tree

by Charles Todd

341 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

65

963 members

19 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: amanda4242

66

A Pattern of Lies

by Charles Todd

322 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

67

by Frances Itani

761 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

68

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

9,644 members

85 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: brenzi

69

The Care and Management of Lies

by Jacqueline Winspear

647 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

70

Angels in the Gloom

501 members

10 reviews

3.8

Member: hailelib

71

A Long, Long Way

by Sebastian Barry

1,267 members

58 reviews

4

Member: brenzi

72

An Impartial Witness

by Charles Todd

766 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

73

Death of a Hero

by Richard Aldington

211 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: amanda4242

74

Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War

by Helen Zenna Smith

239 members

12 reviews

4.2

Member: brenzi

75

by Marion Husband

75 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: amanda4242

76

Mary Russell's War: A Journal of the Great War

by Laurie R. King

51 members

1 review

4

Member: amanda4242

77

Waiting for Sunrise

by William Boyd

1,067 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: brenzi

78

The Air We Breathe

by Andrea Barrett

514 members

38 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: brenzi

79

Stones from the River

4,719 members

68 reviews

4

2 Members: brenzi, ClaudiaGlenn,dara85 ,jain
Explanations: dara85 : This was World War II
jain : World War II

80

3,090 members

36 reviews

4

81

1,778 members

22 reviews

3.8

82

A Very Long Engagement

by Sébastien Japrisot

1,687 members

34 reviews

4

83

River of Darkness

by Rennie Airth

1,192 members

42 reviews

3.9

84

973 members

49 reviews

3.8

85

by Henri Barbusse

789 members

24 reviews

3.9

86

In the Shadow of Blackbirds

725 members

57 reviews

3.9

87

by John Dos Passos

710 members

11 reviews

½ 3.6

88

by Charles Todd

611 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

89

Somewhere in France

by Jennifer Robson

527 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

90

The Foreshadowing

by Marcus Sedgwick

448 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

91

396 members

67 reviews

3.8

92

by William March

256 members

10 reviews

4.1

93

The Penguin Book of First World War Stories

by Barbara Korte

110 members

½ 3.7

94

At Break of Day

by Elizabeth Speller

91 members

9 reviews

4

95

1,050 members

53 reviews

½ 3.5

96

To the Last Man

1,003 members

18 reviews

3.9

97

In the Company of Eagles

by Ernest K. Gann

167 members

5 reviews

4.2

98

In My Father's House

by Bodie Thoene

706 members

3 reviews

4

99

The Summer Before the War

by Helen Simonson

1,872 members

126 reviews

3.8

100

The Regeneration Trilogy

821 members

14 reviews

½ 4.3

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