Great Reading Adventure: Suggestions List

Fiction Richard Aldington Death of a Hero: A Novel (1929) Henri Barbusse Under Fire: The Story of a Squad (1916) Pat Barker Regeneration Trilogy: Regeneration, The Eye in the Door and The Ghost Road (1991-1998) Sebastian Barry A Long, Long Way (2005) William Boyd An Ice-Cream War (1982) John Buchan The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915) Willa Cather One of Ours (1922) Louis-Ferdinand Céline Journey to the End of the Night (1932) Erskine Childers The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (1903) Humphrey Cobb Paths of Glory (1935) Alfred Döblin Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929) Jon Dos Passos Three Soldiers (1921) Ben Elton The First Casualty (2005) Sebastian Faulks Birdsong (1993) Ford Madox Ford Parade’s End (1924-1928) C S Forester The General (1936) Georg Grabenhorst Zero Hour (1928) Cicely Hamilton William: An Englishman (1918) Jaroslav Hašek The Good Soldier Švejk: And His Fortunes in the World War (1923) Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms (1929) Susan Hill Strange Meeting (1971) Richard Hughes The Human Predicament Trilogy: The Fox in the Attic and The Wooden Shepherdess (1971-1973) Sébastien Japrisot A Very Long Engagement (1981) Jennifer Johnston How Many Miles to Babylon? (1974) Frederic Manning Her Privates We (1929) Pat Mills and Joe Colquhoun Charley’s War (1979-1984) Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago (1957) Ron Rash The Cove (2012) All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) Erich Maria Remarque (1930) Erich Maria Remarque (1936) Ludwig Renn War (1929) Derek Robinson Goshawk Squadron (1971) Jules Romains Verdun (1938) Joseph Roth The Radetzky March (1932) Siegfried Sassoon Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (1930) R C Sheriff Journey’s End (1929) Mikhail Sholokov And Quiet Flows the Don (1929) Dalton Trumbo Johnny Got His Gun (1935) Jane Urquhart The Stone Carvers (2001) Roger Vercel Captain Conan (1934) H G Wells Mr Britling Sees It Through (1916) Rebecca West Return of the Soldier (1918) Henry Williamson The Patriot’s Progress (1930) Henry Williamson A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (1951-1969) Volume 4: How Dear is Life (1954) Volume 5: A Fox Under My Cloak (1955) Volume 6: The Golden Virgin (1957) Volume 7: Love and the Loveless (1958) Volume 8: A Test to Destruction (1960) Stefan Zweig Journey into the Past (ca. 1933) Stefan Zweig Wondrak and Other Stories

Poetry David Jones In Parenthesis (1937)

Autobiographies Edmund Blunden Undertones of War (1928) Vera Brittain Testament of Youth (1933) Robert Graves Goodbye to All That (1930) Ernst Jünger Storm of Steel (1920) T E Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926) Cecil Lewis Sagittarius Rising (1936) Henry Williamson The Wet Flanders Plain (1929) Stefan Zweig The World of Yesterday (1942)

Other Non-Fiction Geoff Dyer The Missing of the Somme (1994) Joseph Roth What I Saw: Reports from Berlin 1920-1933