War Literature

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Literature that deals with war and its consequences. Please recommend good books on this topic and remove those that don't belong on the list.
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Escorxador-5
de Kurt Vonnegut
44,008 membres
705 ressenyes
4.1
9 Members
hipdeep, anglemark, varielle, aulsmith, Dilara86, Kristelh, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,thecoroner
2
Res de nou a l'oest
de Erich Maria Remarque
19,074 membres
403 ressenyes
4.1
8 Members
anglemark, varielle, thorold, aulsmith, thecoroner, Kristelh, electrice, ahef1963
Explicacions
aulsmith: World War I on the Western Front
3
Un adéu a les armes
de Ernest Hemingway
22,398 membres
243 ressenyes
½ 3.7
7 Members
anglemark, varielle, aulsmith, thecoroner, Kristelh, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963
Explicacions
aulsmith: I personally find the misogyny in this book so bad as to make it unreadable, but others think it is an important book about war.
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Ilíada
de Homer
39,950 membres
386 ressenyes
4
6 Members
hipdeep, anglemark, varielle, aulsmith, thecoroner, Kristelh
5
Per qui toquen les campanes
de Ernest Hemingway
18,956 membres
185 ressenyes
3.9
6 Members
varielle, RBeffa, thecoroner, Kristelh, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963
6
The Red Badge of Courage
de Stephen Crane
11,150 membres
128 ressenyes
½ 3.4
5 Members
varielle, aulsmith, thecoroner, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963
Explicacions
aulsmith: US Civil War battlefield.
7
L'Imperi del Sol
de J. G. Ballard
3,734 membres
70 ressenyes
4
5 Members
charl08, thorold, RBeffa, thecoroner, Kristelh
8
Suite francesa
de Irène Némirovsky
9,912 membres
344 ressenyes
4
5 Members
thecoroner, Dilara86, Kristelh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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L'americà tranquil
de Graham Greene
8,038 membres
182 ressenyes
4
5 Members
thorold, RBeffa, Kristelh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
10
Catch-22
de Joseph Heller
40,007 membres
526 ressenyes
4.1
4 Members
hipdeep, anglemark, aulsmith, Kristelh,Bluewolf0411
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La Nit
de Elie Wiesel
27,575 membres
573 ressenyes
½ 4.3
4 Members
dara85, Kristelh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
12
El caçador d'estels
de Khaled Hosseini
52,803 membres
1,300 ressenyes
4.2
4 Members
dara85, Kristelh, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
13
The English Patient
de Michael Ondaatje
11,556 membres
174 ressenyes
3.9
4 Members
charl08, varielle, Kristelh, ahef1963
14
Les Aventures del bon soldat Svejk
de Jaroslav Hašek
3,524 membres
62 ressenyes
4
4 Members
anglemark, thorold, thecoroner, Kristelh
Explicacions
thorold: One of the best satirical accounts of war. Ever.
15
Parade's End
de Ford Madox Ford
1,754 membres
26 ressenyes
3.8
3 Members
thorold, Kristelh, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicacions
thorold: For my money, this is the best English novel about WW1
16
Half of a Yellow Sun
de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
6,904 membres
296 ressenyes
4.2
3 Members
Dilara86, Kristelh, ahef1963
17
Testament of Youth
de Vera Brittain
2,155 membres
53 ressenyes
4.1
3 Members
thorold, Kristelh, ahef1963
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Guerra i pau
de Leo Tolstoy
28,852 membres
458 ressenyes
½ 4.3
3 Members
thecoroner, Kristelh, ManWithAnAgenda
19
Els Nus i els morts
de Norman Mailer
4,140 membres
46 ressenyes
3.9
3 Members
aulsmith, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda
Explicacions
aulsmith: I personally can't stand this book, but others think it's an important war novel.
20
The Things They Carried
de Tim O'Brien
14,343 membres
393 ressenyes
4.2
2 Members
charl08, Tess_W
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The End of the Affair
de Graham Greene
6,522 membres
171 ressenyes
3.9
3 Members
hipdeep, Kristelh, ManWithAnAgenda
22
Gone with the Wind
de Margaret Mitchell
23,459 membres
441 ressenyes
½ 4.3
3 Members
dara85, thecoroner, Kristelh
23
Viatge al fons de la nit
de Louis-Ferdinand Céline
6,012 membres
82 ressenyes
4.2
3 Members
anglemark, thecoroner, Kristelh
24
El joc de l'Ender
de Orson Scott Card
41,129 membres
1,046 ressenyes
½ 4.3
3 Members
aulsmith, Bluewolf0411, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda
25
La cartoixa de Parma
de Stendhal
4,401 membres
79 ressenyes
3.8
3 Members
thorold, thecoroner, Kristelh
Explicacions
thorold: An account of Waterloo by someone who knew what war was really like.
26
Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography
de Robert Graves
3,692 membres
66 ressenyes
4
2 Members
varielle, thorold
27
King Rat
de James Clavell
2,845 membres
43 ressenyes
4
2 Members
RBeffa, ahef1963
28
The Winds of War
de Herman Wouk
3,329 membres
55 ressenyes
4.2
2 Members
RBeffa, ahef1963
29
Regeneration
de Pat Barker
4,502 membres
113 ressenyes
4
2 Members
charl08, ahef1963
30
Jingo
de Terry Pratchett
9,490 membres
121 ressenyes
4
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
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Mare Coratge i els seus fills
de Bertolt Brecht
2,381 membres
14 ressenyes
½ 3.5
2 Members
thorold, aulsmith
Explicacions
aulsmith: Civilians in the Thirty Years War.
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If This Is a Man / The Truce
de Primo Levi
2,300 membres
32 ressenyes
½ 4.5
2 Members
thorold, thecoroner
33
Number the Stars
de Lois Lowry
18,586 membres
643 ressenyes
4.1
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
34
The Killer Angels
de Michael Shaara
8,773 membres
189 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
RBeffa
35
A Soldier of the Great War
de Mark Helprin
1,785 membres
37 ressenyes
½ 4.3
Member
hipdeep
36
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
de Margalit Fox
177 membres
7 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
alcottacre
37
El guepard
de Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
6,566 membres
147 ressenyes
4.1
2 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963
38
Els pilars de la Terra
de Ken Follett
27,261 membres
753 ressenyes
4.2
2 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963
39
The Gallery
de John Horne Burns
340 membres
8 ressenyes
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
40
To Try Men's Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom
de Newt Gingrich
297 membres
11 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
Tess_W
41
We Are at War. The Diaries of Five Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times
de Simon Garfield
153 membres
5 ressenyes
4
Member
alcottacre
42
La Cavalleria Roja
de Isaac Babel
761 membres
23 ressenyes
3.8
Member
thecoroner
43
The Last German Victory: Operation Market Garden, 1944
de Aaron Bates
7 membres
1 ressenya
Member
Tess_W
44
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
de David Howarth
1,093 membres
43 ressenyes
4
Member
Tess_W
45
Girl at War
de Sara Novic
959 membres
53 ressenyes
4.1
Member
dara85
46
Capità de mar i de guerra
de Patrick O'Brian
9,293 membres
216 ressenyes
4
Member
Tess_W
47
Lilac Girls
de Martha Hall Kelly
3,690 membres
183 ressenyes
4
Member
dara85
48
Lavinia
de Ursula K. Le Guin
2,141 membres
93 ressenyes
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
49
The Yellow Birds
de Kevin Powers
1,827 membres
137 ressenyes
3.8
Member
anglemark
50
Crooked Heart
de Lissa Evans
525 membres
41 ressenyes
4.1
Member
charl08
51
Thud!
de Terry Pratchett
10,180 membres
143 ressenyes
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
52
Red Storm Rising
de Tom Clancy
6,576 membres
59 ressenyes
3.9
Member
hipdeep
53
Hiroshima
de John Hersey
3,307 membres
51 ressenyes
4
Member
Tess_W
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History
de Elsa Morante
1,381 membres
28 ressenyes
4.2
Member
thecoroner
55
Officers and Gentlemen
de Evelyn Waugh
1,079 membres
8 ressenyes
3.9
Member
thorold
56
All for Nothing
de Walter Kempowski
502 membres
18 ressenyes
4
Member
charl08
57
The Enormous Room
de E. E. Cummings
1,463 membres
26 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
58
The End of the Battle
de Evelyn Waugh
958 membres
5 ressenyes
4
Member
thorold
59
The cake tree in the ruins
de Akiyuki Nosaka
50 membres
1 ressenya
4.1
Member
charl08
60
After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets
de Eavan Boland
32 membres
4
Member
hipdeep
61
The Moon Is Down
de John Steinbeck
3,393 membres
105 ressenyes
3.8
Member
aulsmith
62
Men at Arms
de Evelyn Waugh
1,220 membres
17 ressenyes
3.8
Member
thorold
63
El Don de plàcides aigües
de Mikhail Sholokhov
1,555 membres
20 ressenyes
4
Member
thecoroner
64
El Doctor Givago
de Boris Pasternak
11,378 membres
152 ressenyes
3.9
Member
thecoroner
65
Homenatge a Catalunya
de George Orwell
6,177 membres
105 ressenyes
4.1
Member
thorold
66
Vida i destí
de Vasily Grossman
3,432 membres
89 ressenyes
½ 4.4
Member
thecoroner
67
Palestine
de Joe Sacco
1,779 membres
43 ressenyes
4.2
Member
ahef1963
68
Group Portrait With Lady
de Heinrich Böll
1,322 membres
18 ressenyes
3.9
Member
thecoroner
69
A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement, Autumn
de Anthony Powell
894 membres
16 ressenyes
4.2
Member
thorold
70
Handbook For Visitors From Outer Space
de Kathryn Kramer
96 membres
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
71
El Timbal de llauna
de Günter Grass
7,592 membres
93 ressenyes
4
Member
thecoroner
72
Billar a dos quarts de deu
de Heinrich Böll
1,358 membres
20 ressenyes
3.8
Member
thorold
73
The Thin Red Line
de James Jones
1,353 membres
21 ressenyes
3.8
Member
thecoroner
74
Història de dues ciutats
de Charles Dickens
36,655 membres
456 ressenyes
3.9
2 Members
thecoroner, ahef1963,aulsmith
Explicacions
aulsmith : More an urban revolution than a war.
75
The Debacle
de Émile Zola
824 membres
12 ressenyes
4
Member
thorold
76
V.
de Thomas Pynchon
5,200 membres
36 ressenyes
4
Member
thecoroner
77
The Balkan Trilogy
de Olivia Manning
1,109 membres
31 ressenyes
4.1
Member
thorold
78
Monstrous Regiment
de Terry Pratchett
9,390 membres
131 ressenyes
4
Member
ahef1963
79
La Marxa de Radetzky
de Joseph Roth
2,886 membres
76 ressenyes
4.2
Member
thecoroner
80
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
de T. E. Lawrence
4,788 membres
55 ressenyes
4
Member
thorold
Explicacions
thorold: Love it or hate it, it's definitely war and definitely literature...
81
Ivanhoe
de Sir Walter Scott
13,015 membres
122 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
thecoroner
82
Johnny Got His Gun
de Dalton Trumbo
3,699 membres
75 ressenyes
4.2
Member
thecoroner
83
El Darrer dels mohicans
de James Fenimore Cooper
13,226 membres
125 ressenyes
½ 3.5
Member
thecoroner
84
La guerra de los mundos
de H. G. Wells
18,398 membres
309 ressenyes
3.8
Member
ahef1963
85
Life After Life
de Kate Atkinson
8,248 membres
589 ressenyes
4
Member
ahef1963
86
The Sergeant in the Snow
de Mario Rigoni Stern
335 membres
17 ressenyes
4.2
Member
thecoroner
87
Men and Not Men
de Elio Vittorini
379 membres
7 ressenyes
½ 3.7
Member
thecoroner
88
The Bonfire of Berlin: A Lost Childhood in Wartime Germany
de Helga Schneider
154 membres
8 ressenyes
½ 3.6
Member
thecoroner
89
Sophie's Choice
de William Styron
6,001 membres
87 ressenyes
4.1
Member
thecoroner
90
The Song of Achilles
de Madeline Miller
13,037 membres
510 ressenyes
4.2
91
The Forever War
de Joe Haldeman
9,407 membres
252 ressenyes
4
92
Mare nit (Mother Night).
de Kurt Vonnegut
7,282 membres
91 ressenyes
4.1
93
American War
de Omar El Akkad
1,832 membres
96 ressenyes
3.8
94
El retorn del soldat
de Rebecca West
1,556 membres
78 ressenyes
3.9
95
The Charioteer
de Mary Renault
1,115 membres
34 ressenyes
4.1
96
Semiosis
de Sue Burke
893 membres
37 ressenyes
3.8
97
How Many Miles to Babylon?
de Jennifer Johnston
288 membres
13 ressenyes
½ 3.6
98
Death of a Hero
de Richard Aldington
207 membres
5 ressenyes
½ 3.4
99
Look Down in Mercy
de Walter Baxter
43 membres
2 ressenyes
3.8
100
La Societat literària i de pastís de pela de patata de Guernsey
de Mary Ann Shaffer
19,383 membres
1,246 ressenyes
4.2
Member
ahef1963,aulsmith
Explicacions
aulsmith : While some of this got at the experience of being in occupied territory during the war, I thought on the whole the book was too fluffy, especially to be called literature.