Adult Fiction by Setting—War
American Revolution
Bernard Cornwell—The Fort
Newt Gingrich—To Try Men’s Souls
Louise Gouge—At the Captain’s Command
Siri Mitchell—The Messenger
American Civil War
Geraldine Brooks—March
Jennifer Chiaverini—The Union Quilters
Mary Ellis—The Quaker and the Rebel
Newt Gingrich—The Battle of the Crater
Barbara Hambly—Homeland
Laird Hunt—Neverhome
Robin Oliveira—My Name is Mary Sutter
Jeff Shaara—The Smoke at Dawn
Other Wars
Ken Babbs—Who Shot the Water Buffalo (Vietnam
War)
Dale Brown—Rogue Forces (Iraq)
T. Davis Bunn—Lion of Babylon (Iraq)
Bernard Cornwell—1356: Go With God, But Fight
(Hundred Years War)
Kristin Hannah—Home Front (Iraq)
Karl Marlantes—Matterhorn (Vietnam War)
Philipp Meyer—The Son (American Indian Wars)
Madeline Miller—The Song of Achilles (Trojan War)
Michelle Moran—Madame Tussaud (French
Revolution)
Sharon Kay Penman—Lionheart (3rd Crusade)
Jayne Anne Phillips—Lark and Termite (Korean War)
Michael Pitre—Fives and Twenty-fives (Iraq)
Kevin Powers—Yellow Birds (War in Iraq)
Recommended Website
www.goodreads.com/genres/war-fiction
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World War I
Chris Bohjalian—The Sandcastle Girls
Ken Follett—The Fall of Giants
Sara Hylton—Flirting With Destiny
Thomas Keneally—The Daughters of Mars
Jojo Moyes—The Girl You Left Behind
Murray Pura—The Wings of Morning
Josh Ritter—Bright’s Passage
April Smith—A Star for Mrs. Blake
Elizabeth Speller—The Return of Captain John Emmett
Charles Todd—The Red Door
Jacqueline Winspear—The Care and Management of Lies
World War II
Kate Atkinson—Life After Life
James Benn—Billy Boyle series
Sarah Bird—Above the East China Sea
Sarah Blake—The Postmistress
Sigmund Brouwer—Thief of Glory
Debra Dean—The Madonnas of Leningrad
P.T. Deutermann—Pacific Glory
Anthony Doerr—All the Light We Cannot See
Kate Furnivall—The White Pearl
W.E.B. Griffin—The Honor of Spies
Suzanne Hayes—I’ll Be Seeing You
Mary Horlock—The Book of Lies
Kristina McMorris—Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
Tatiana de Rosnay—Sarah’s Key
Jeff Shaara—The Final Storm
Patrick Taylor—An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War
Classics
Joseph Heller—Catch 22
Ernest Hemingway—The Sun Also Rises
Thomas Keneally—Schindler’s List
Margaret Mitchell—Gone with the Wind
Erich Maria Remarque—All Quiet on the Western Front
Michael Shaara—The Killer Angels