The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller
2011
Books with the “War Fiction” trope
Stories set during a war that reshapes the fates and characters of the people in it, most often World War II.
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Setting and place · War Fiction
Books with this trope
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson
2010
Outlander
Diana Gabaldon
1991
The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons
2000
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
1936
The White Queen
Philippa Gregory
2009
The Poppy War
R. F. Kuang
2018
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
1985
Starship Troopers
Robert A. Heinlein
1959
Old Man's War
John Scalzi
2005
Lavinia
Ursula K. Le Guin
2008
All You Need Is Kill
Hiroshi Sakurazaka
2004
Atonement
Ian McEwan
2001
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
2003
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
2005
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn
2017
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
1992
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
1940
Schindler's Ark
Thomas Keneally
1982
The Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell
2004
Azincourt
Bernard Cornwell
2008
A Thousand Ships
Natalie Haynes
2019
Priest of Bones
Peter McLean
2018
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr
2014
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah
2015
Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein
2012
Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys
2016
The Sunne in Splendour
Sharon Kay Penman
1982
Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian
1969
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
1989
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
2017
Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross
2023
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi
2013
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
2008
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
1869
A Train in Winter
Caroline Moorehead
2011
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
1929
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
1961
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
2007
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
1969
The Forever War
Joe Haldeman
1974
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
2013
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