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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

19,760 members

413 reviews

4.1

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

2

4,620 members

115 reviews

4

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

3

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

23,294 members

256 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

2,462 members

119 reviews

4.2

4 Members: inge87, pitjrw, amanda4242, brenzi

5

by Sebastian Faulks

6,192 members

160 reviews

4

3 Members: brewergirl, KimarieBee, brenzi

6

The Return of the Soldier

by Rebecca West

1,601 members

79 reviews

3.9

3 Members: inge87, amanda4242, brenzi

7

by Jacqueline Winspear

5,054 members

282 reviews

3.8

3 Members: brewergirl, hailelib, ClaudiaGlenn

8

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

by Dorothy L. Sayers

3,164 members

93 reviews

3.9

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

9

by Boris Pasternak

11,887 members

154 reviews

3.9

3 Members: pitjrw, brenzi, ClaudiaGlenn

10

The Eye in the Door

2,205 members

52 reviews

4

3 Members: jain, amanda4242, brenzi

11

2,901 members

59 reviews

4

3 Members: jain, amanda4242, brenzi

12

Rilla of Ingleside

by L. M. Montgomery

6,764 members

74 reviews

4.1

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

13

A Soldier of the Great War

by Mark Helprin

1,833 members

37 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: hipdeep, brenzi

14

8,907 members

316 reviews

4

2 Members: brewergirl, ClaudiaGlenn

15

The Good Soldier Svejk

by Jaroslav Hašek

3,640 members

67 reviews

4

2 Members: hailelib, thorold

16

Birds of a Feather

by Jacqueline Winspear

2,797 members

127 reviews

3.9

2 Members: brewergirl, inge87

17

by Willa Cather

1,291 members

39 reviews

3.8

2 Members: brewergirl, brenzi

18

Christmas in the Trenches

by John McCutcheon

241 members

10 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: hailelib, hipdeep

19

The Thirty-Nine Steps

5,585 members

194 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: amanda4242, ahef1963

20

Pardonable Lies

by Jacqueline Winspear

2,407 members

109 reviews

3.9

2 Members: hailelib, ClaudiaGlenn

21

by J. B. Priestley

191 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

3,858 members

67 reviews

4

2 Members: pitjrw, amanda4242

23

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man

by Siegfried Sassoon

748 members

13 reviews

3.8

2 Members: pitjrw, amanda4242

24

The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

11,930 members

176 reviews

3.9

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

25

The Enchanted April

by Elizabeth von Arnim

3,023 members

131 reviews

4

2 Members: hailelib, brenzi

26

by Michael Morpurgo

3,983 members

129 reviews

4

2 Members: amanda4242, brenzi

27

The Daughters of Mars

by Thomas Keneally

706 members

35 reviews

4

2 Members: hailelib, brenzi

28

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

by James Hilton

2,419 members

54 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

29

The Return of Captain John Emmett

by Elizabeth Speller

487 members

41 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: inge87

30

The Alice Network

4,732 members

226 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

31

232 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

1,834 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

33

All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown

by Sydney Taylor

831 members

7 reviews

4.2

Member: merrystar

34

In Pale Battalions

by Robert Goddard

620 members

19 reviews

3.8

Member: KimarieBee

35

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

3,831 members

78 reviews

4.2

Member: brewergirl

36

by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

2,496 members

24 reviews

3.8

Member: hailelib

37

Strange Meeting

363 members

12 reviews

3.9

Member: amanda4242

38

In the Absence of Men

by Philippe Besson

239 members

5 reviews

3.9

Member: jain

39

Flambards Trilogy

by K. M. Peyton

93 members

½ 4.5

Member: merrystar

40

Barbed wire and roses

by Peter Yeldham

29 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: KimarieBee

41

by Jacqueline Winspear

1,671 members

80 reviews

4

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

42

by Timothy Findley

1,227 members

27 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

43

No Graves As Yet

889 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hailelib

44

The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton

by Elizabeth Speller

205 members

11 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: inge87

45

A Duty to the Dead

by Charles Todd

1,326 members

96 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

46

641 members

14 reviews

3.9

Member: pitjrw

47

by Henri-Pierre Roché

497 members

9 reviews

½ 3.5

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

48

by Patricia Anthony

138 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: jain

49

Fall on Your Knees

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

5,574 members

124 reviews

3.9

Member: ahef1963

50

An Unmarked Grave

by Charles Todd

538 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

51

Trooper to the Southern Cross

by Angela Thirkell

94 members

4 reviews

3.2

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

52

by Scott Westerfeld

5,791 members

353 reviews

3.9

Member: hailelib

53

A Question of Honor

by Charles Todd

440 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

54

The Last Days of Mankind: The Complete Text

56 members

3 reviews

3.8

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

55

The Children's Book

3,890 members

214 reviews

3.8

Member: thorold

56

The Man from St. Petersburg

2,762 members

31 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hailelib

57

An Unwilling Accomplice

by Charles Todd

387 members

44 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

58

by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

201 members

4.1

Member: amanda4242

59

by Scott Westerfeld

2,595 members

131 reviews

4.1

Member: hailelib

60

The African Queen

by C. S. Forester

1,397 members

44 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

248 members

30 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

62

by Joseph Boyden

1,889 members

87 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: brenzi

63

Private Peaceful

by Michael Morpurgo

1,700 members

63 reviews

4.2

Member: amanda4242

64

The Shattered Tree

by Charles Todd

354 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

65

971 members

19 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: amanda4242

66

A Pattern of Lies

by Charles Todd

329 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

67

by Frances Itani

764 members

27 reviews

3.8

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

68

This Side of Paradise

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

9,811 members

86 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: brenzi

69

The Care and Management of Lies

by Jacqueline Winspear

658 members

36 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

70

Angels in the Gloom

504 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: hailelib

71

A Long, Long Way

by Sebastian Barry

1,283 members

60 reviews

4

Member: brenzi

72

An Impartial Witness

by Charles Todd

772 members

43 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ClaudiaGlenn

73

Death of a Hero

by Richard Aldington

213 members

5 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: amanda4242

74

Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War

by Helen Zenna Smith

241 members

12 reviews

4.2

Member: brenzi

75

by Marion Husband

76 members

9 reviews

3.8

Member: amanda4242

76

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

by Laurie R. King

53 members

1 review

4

Member: amanda4242

77

Waiting for Sunrise

by William Boyd

1,076 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: brenzi

78

The Air We Breathe

by Andrea Barrett

517 members

40 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: brenzi

79

Stones from the River

4,767 members

69 reviews

4

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

80

3,124 members

36 reviews

4

81

1,790 members

23 reviews

3.8

82

A Very Long Engagement

by Sébastien Japrisot

1,706 members

35 reviews

4

83

River of Darkness

by Rennie Airth

1,208 members

45 reviews

3.9

84

984 members

49 reviews

3.8

85

by Henri Barbusse

818 members

25 reviews

3.9

86

In the Shadow of Blackbirds

739 members

60 reviews

3.9

87

by John Dos Passos

718 members

12 reviews

½ 3.5

88

by Charles Todd

617 members

54 reviews

½ 3.6

89

Somewhere in France

by Jennifer Robson

532 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

90

The Foreshadowing

by Marcus Sedgwick

448 members

19 reviews

½ 3.6

91

402 members

69 reviews

3.8

92

by William March

262 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

1,052 members

53 reviews

½ 3.5

96

To the Last Man

1,016 members

19 reviews

3.9

97

The Well of Loneliness

by Radclyffe Hall

2,851 members

53 reviews

½ 3.5

98

In the Company of Eagles

by Ernest K. Gann

172 members

5 reviews

4.2

99

In My Father's House (Shiloh Legacy, Book 1)

by Bodie Thoene

719 members

3 reviews

4

100

The Summer Before the War

by Helen Simonson

1,892 members

128 reviews

3.8

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