Topic
War
7 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
7 posts
Where to Start with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie — how to approach Half of a Yellow Sun, her Booker Prize-winning novel of the Nigerian-Biafran War and its essential companions. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Denis Johnson: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Denis Johnson — whether to begin with Jesus' Son or Tree of Smoke. A complete reading guide to the National Book Award-winning American author.
Where to Start with Ernest Hemingway: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Ernest Hemingway — how to approach The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and A Farewell to Arms. A complete reading guide to the master of the iceberg style.
Where to Start with Paullina Simons: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Paullina Simons — how to approach The Bronze Horseman, her epic WWII romance set during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad. A complete reading guide.
Best Books About War: Essential Reading List
The best books about war — from All Quiet on the Western Front and Catch-22 to The Things They Carried and Slaughterhouse-Five. War literature's most essential works.
Where to Start with Svetlana Alexievich: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Svetlana Alexievich — whether to begin with Voices from Chernobyl, Secondhand Time, or The Unwomanly Face of War. A complete reading guide.
Books Like A Thousand Splendid Suns: Women's Survival, War, and Unbreakable Bonds
Khaled Hosseini's two women in Kabul — Mariam, born in shame, and Laila, born with hope — whose lives converge under the Taliban is the most emotionally devastating account of what war does to women. These books share its female solidarity under impossible conditions.
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