#War

4 books tagged with war, sorted by rating.

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The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

5/5

Fiction & Literature

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

4/5

Fiction & Literature

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

4/5

Science Fiction Fiction & Literature

The Women

by Kristin Hannah

4/5

Fiction & Literature

The Song of Achilles

by Madeline Miller

5/5

A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a profoundly moving retelling of Homer's Iliad. Exiled prince Patroclus befriends golden Achilles, and their bond deepens as they grow into young men and are called to fight in the Trojan War.

Fiction & Literature

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

4/5

Set on a small Mediterranean island during World War II, bombardier Yossarian is desperate to survive the insanity of war. The infamous Catch-22 dictates that concern for one's own safety in the face of danger is the process of a rational mind — but anyone rational would fly combat missions, making them insane.

Fiction & Literature

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

4/5

Billy Pilgrim has become "unstuck in time," experiencing the events of his life in random order — including his time as a prisoner of war during the firebombing of Dresden and his abduction by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore. So it goes.

Science Fiction Fiction & Literature

The Women

by Kristin Hannah

4/5

In 1965, twenty-year-old Frankie McGrath, raised in a sheltered Southern California family, joins the Army Nurse Corps and is sent to Vietnam. The novel follows her through the chaos of combat hospitals and then home to an America that doesn't want to hear about the war, or about the women who served in it.

Fiction & Literature