Genre :: War (35 books)

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  #111

  Atonement

  by Ian McEwan

  (10 Reviews)

  176 Points

  "The play – for which Briony had designed posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its side, and lined the collection box in red crepe paper – was..."

  

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  #115

  The Good Soldier

  by Ford Madox Ford

  (7 Reviews)

  168 Points

  "This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

  

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  #133

  The War of the Worlds

  by H. G. Wells

  (9 Reviews)

  143 Points

  "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as..."

  

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  #148

  Doctor Zhivago

  by Boris Pasternak

  (6 Reviews)

  133 Points

  "On they went, singing "Rest Eternal," and whenever they stopped, their feet, the horses, and the gusts of wind seemed to carry on their singing."

  

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  #168

  Sophie's Choice

  by William Styron

  (1 Review)

  118 Points

  "In those days cheap apartments were almost impossible to find in Manhattan, so I had to move to Brooklyn."

  

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  #172

  The Killer Angels

  by Michael Shaara

  (5 Reviews)

  115 Points

  "1. THE SPY He rode into the dark of the woods and dismounted."

  

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  #179

  Schindler's List

  by Thomas Keneally

  (5 Reviews)

  110 Points

  "In Poland's deepest autumn, a tall young man in an expensive overcoat, double-breasted dinner jacket beneath it and - in the lapel of the dinner jacket - a large ornamental gold-on-black enamel ..."

  

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  #187

  The Red Badge of Courage

  by Stephen Crane

  (7 Reviews)

  104 Points

  "The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."

  

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  #194

  In Our Time

  by Ernest Hemingway

  (3 Reviews)

  99 Points

  "The strange thing was, he said, how they screamed every night at midnight."

  

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  #231

  From Here to Eternity

  by James Jones

  (2 Reviews)

  89 Points

  "When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still..."

  

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