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War Fiction books
Novels and fictional works that focus on military conflicts, warfare, and the experiences of soldiers and civilians during times of war. Narrow it by mood, length or era, or let us pull one off the shelf.
All 14 war fiction books
Salt to the Sea
Ruta Sepetys
4.5(17k)448 pages · 2016Readers aged 12 and up who are drawn to character-driven war fiction, particularly those wanting to discover a historically overlooked catastrophe — the sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff — through intimate, multi-perspective storytelling.
YADarkHopeful
The Women
Kristin Hannah
4.7(347k)480 pages · 2024Readers drawn to female-centered wartime historical fiction — particularly fans of Hannah's The Nightingale or The Four Winds — who want to encounter the long-overlooked story of U.S. Army nurses in the Vietnam War told with emotional seriousness and intimate character detail.
HopefulMelancholy
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn
4.6(98k)560 pages · 2017Kate Quinn's The Alice Network is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling historical novel that weaves together two women's stories across the World Wars — a WWI spy operating in German-occupied France and a 1947 Amer…
TenseHopeful
Galaxy in Flames
Ben Counter
4.7(5.4k)416 pages · 2006Dedicated Horus Heresy readers who have completed the first two novels and are ready to witness the series' central act of betrayal dramatised at full, operatic scale.
Book 3 · The Horus HeresyDarkTense
Diplomatic Hail Mary
Aer-ki Jyr
4.6(387)340 pages · 2026Dedicated followers of the Starship Fleet Commander series who have read all seven preceding volumes and want to see Aatroxiss's empire-level command complicated by an unplanned mentorship role as the galactic conflict escalates toward its endgame.
TensePropulsive
March
Geraldine Brooks
4.4(8.7k)320 pages · 2005Readers of serious literary historical fiction who are curious about the moral and psychological interior of an idealistic man tested by the Civil War — especially those who have ever wondered what lay behind the cheerful letters home in Little Women.
DarkMelancholy
Horus Rising
Dan Abnett
4.7(9.4k)416 pages · 2006Readers new to Warhammer 40,000 who want a character-driven, novelistic entry point into the lore, as well as committed fans of long-form military science fantasy willing to invest in an expansive saga with genuine thematic depth.
Book 1 · The Horus HeresyDarkTense
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
4.3(13k)256 pages · 1929Students, first-time readers of Hemingway, and general readers building a shelf of canonical American fiction who will benefit from Amanda Vaill's contextual introduction in this 2025 Vintage Classics edition.
DarkMelancholy
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Christy Lefteri
4.4(47k)384 pages · 2019Readers of character-driven literary fiction who want the Syrian refugee crisis rendered through intimate human experience — grief, survival, and quiet tenderness — rather than political analysis.
HopefulMelancholy
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
4.7(4.7k)304 pages · 1929Readers aged 15 and up — particularly those drawn to Hemingway-style war literature, students encountering it as assigned reading, or viewers of the 2022 Academy Award-winning film who want to experience the spare, first-person intimacy of Remarque's original source text.
YADarkMelancholy
The Resistance Daughter
Joanne Kormylo
4.5(3.6k)384 pages · 2025Readers of commercial WWII fiction in the Anna Stuart / Soraya M. Lane vein who want a fast, emotionally heavy resistance-and-captivity story whose wartime detail rests on genuinely documented family research rather than set dressing.
TenseHopeful
Etna
Paul Yoon
4.5(674)208 pages · 2025Readers of literary war fiction who trust Yoon's restrained, elegiac register — especially those who responded to Snow Hunters or Run Me to Earth — and book clubs drawn to a fable-inflected odyssey about home, loss, and trust, told through a canine veteran's eyes.
HopefulMelancholy
When the Jessamine Grows
Donna Everhart
4.4(8.5k)400 pages · 2024Readers who find the Civil War most compelling when seen through the domestic sphere — women managing farms, families, and impossible moral choices — and who enjoy character-driven Southern historical fiction with rich book-club discussion potential.
DarkMelancholy
The Secret Sewing Society
Siobhan Curham
4.5(2.6k)462 pages · 2026Readers of emotionally driven multi-generational women's historical fiction — particularly fans of Evie Woods or Fiona Valpy — who want a propulsive family-mystery structure set against the deeply resonant backdrop of Ukraine across two wars.
HopefulMelancholy
Every war fiction book, A to Z14 titles
- A Farewell to Arms · Ernest Hemingway
- All Quiet on the Western Front · Erich Maria Remarque
- Diplomatic Hail Mary · Aer-ki Jyr
- Etna · Paul Yoon
- Galaxy in Flames · Ben Counter
- Horus Rising · Dan Abnett
- March · Geraldine Brooks
- Salt to the Sea · Ruta Sepetys
- The Alice Network · Kate Quinn
- The Beekeeper of Aleppo · Christy Lefteri
- The Resistance Daughter · Joanne Kormylo
- The Secret Sewing Society · Siobhan Curham
- The Women · Kristin Hannah
- When the Jessamine Grows · Donna Everhart