The Best Books About WW1 and WW2 | Fiction Recommendations

Hello Friends! Today is Remembrance Day so I thought it was a good day to recommend what I think are The Best Books About WW1 and WW2! I love giving you guys fiction recommendations so I hope you can find a good novel about the first or second World War.

Books Mentioned
0:00 - Intro
1:10 - Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
3:03 - All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
4:04 - Regeneration by Pat Barker
5:49 - War Horse by Michael Morpurgo
6:48 - At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
7:42 - Atonement by Ian McEwan
10:08 - The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
12:34 - Katalin Street by Magda Szabo
14:17 - Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
15:58 - How We Disappeared by Jing Jing Lee
18:05 - The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
20:03 - Outro

[RoisinsReading]

I'm so blue in this video! I had my screen settings on eye comfort and thought the footage was really orange which is why I look like a Tim Burton ghost to begin with!

[rananajjar]

thank you for the great recommendations ♥

[fionamaclean]

Goodnight Mister Tom and Back Home both by Michelle Magorian, and The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier are my favourite children's book set in WW2

[illustratorsam]

Everything is Illuminated is one of my favorite books!
Thanks for this list 🤗 I’ve been turned off by European-centered war novels, but I promise I will read The English Patient someday!

[writerspen]

I would highly recommend Herman Wouk's "The Winds of War" and "War and Remembrance." Both the books and mini series are great!!

[Richard.HistoryLit]

'A Farewell to Arms' by Hemingway might be on a WWI tbr list.

[gerardmarks]

Roisin, I doubt you have ever read Faulk's Birdsong! Wraysford was a Lieutenant, tasked protecting the diggers. Capt Weir was the company commander of the diggers. You forget to mention that All Quiet on the Western Front, was the first anti war novel, subsequently burned by the Nazis. Morpurgo's Private Peaceful, is a more powerful novel, dealing with the English class war spilling over into war in Flanders Fields. What about Robert Graves autobiographical Good by to All That!]

[carriem]

I just read my first Ondaatje novel last month - The Cat’s Table - and thoroughly enjoyed it. Need to find The English Patient!

[Eternal-Student]

Re Birdsong: Stephen has an affair with the textile factory owner’s wife, not a farmer.

[Nastya-ujbg]

I love remarque so much, more his ww2