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Award Winning Books About War
214 books from 21 lists, 1826 to 2026
War has produced more prize winning books than any other subject on this site, which says something about both war and prizes. The novels and the histories are listed together on purpose, because a reader who wants to understand a war is usually served by both and rarely cares which shelf the bookshop chose.
Books by prize
One shelf per list, newest first on each. The prize name opens its full list.
- 2026 Angel Down
- 2024 Night Watch
- 2016 The Sympathizer
- 2015 All the Light We Cannot See
- 2006 March
- 2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
- 1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
- 1975 The Killer Angels
- 1969 House Made of Dawn
- 1956 Andersonville
- 1955 A Fable
- 1952 The Caine Mutiny
- 1949 Guard of Honor
- 1948 Tales of the South Pacific
- 1945 A Bell for Adano
- 1943 Dragon's Teeth
- 1937 Gone with the Wind
- 1923 One of Ours
- 2025 Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom During the Civil War
- 2016 Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
- 2014 The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832
- 2013 Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam
- 2005 Washington's Crossing
- 2003 An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942–1943
- 2000 Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War
- 1995 No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
- 1992 The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil Liberties
- 1990 In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
- 1989 Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
- 1982 Mary Chesnut's Civil War
- 1971 Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
- 1968 The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
- 1961 Between War and Peace: The Potsdam Conference
- 1957 Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1920
- 1954 A Stillness at Appomattox
- 1947 Scientists Against Time
- 1945 Unfinished Business
- 1943 Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
- 1942 Reveille in Washington, 1860–1865
- 1940 Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
- 1932 My Experiences in the World War
- 1931 The Coming of the War, 1914
- 1930 The War of Independence
- 1929 The Organization and Administration of the Union Army, 1861–1865
- 1926 A History of the United States, Vol. VI: The War for Southern Independence (1849–1865)
- 1921 The Victory at Sea
- 1920 The War with Mexico
- 1918 A History of the Civil War, 1861–1865
- 2024 Brotherless Night
- 2012 The Song of Achilles
- 2011 The Tiger's Wife
- 2007 Half of a Yellow Sun
- 1997 Fugitive Pieces
- 2024 Flags on the Bayou
- 2022 Five Decembers
- 1979 Eye of the Needle
- 2024 Question 7
- 2016 East West Street
- 2012 Into the Silence
- 2007 Imperial Life in the Emerald City
- 2001 The Third Reich: A New History
- 1999 Stalingrad
- 2024 Some Desperate Glory
- 2022 A Desolation Called Peace
- 2011 Blackout/All Clear
- 1998 Forever Peace
- 1986 Ender's Game
- 1982 Downbelow Station
- 1976 The Forever War
- 1963 The Man in the High Castle
- 1961 A Canticle for Leibowitz
- 1960 Starship Troopers
- 1958 The Big Time
- 2022 The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
- 2018 Milkman
- 2017 Lincoln in the Bardo
- 2017 The Remains of the Day
- 2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North
- 1996 Last Orders
- 1995 The Ghost Road
- 1992 The English Patient
- 1987 Moon Tiger
- 1983 Life & Times of Michael K
- 1982 Schindler's List
- 1973 The Siege of Krishnapur
- 1969 Something to Answer For
- 2016 Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
- 2010 The Dead Hand
- 2008 The Years of Extermination
- 2007 The Looming Tower
- 2006 Imperial Reckoning
- 2005 Ghost Wars
- 2003 'A Problem from Hell'
- 2001 Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- 2000 Embracing Defeat
- 1989 A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
- 1988 The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 1985 The Good War
- 1973 Fire in the Lake
- 1972 Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45
- 1971 The Rising Sun
- 1969 The Armies of the Night
- 1963 The Guns of August
- 2016 Ozone Journal
- 2008 Time and Materials
- 2007 Native Guard
- 1997 Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
- 1994 Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems
- 1990 The World Doesn't End
- 1988 Partial Accounts: New and Selected Poems
- 1978 Collected Poems
- 1968 The Hard Hours
- 1966 Selected Poems
- 1964 At the End of the Open Road
- 1962 Poems
- 1948 The Age of Anxiety
- 1945 V-Letter and Other Poems
- 1929 John Brown's Body
- 1919 The Old Road to Paradise
- 2015 Preparation for the Next Life
- 2005 War Trash
- 2003 The Caprices
- 1995 Snow Falling on Cedars
- 1987 Soldiers in Hiding
- 1985 The Barracks Thief
- 2014 Missing Person
- 2012 Red Sorghum
- 2009 The Hunger Angel
- 2008 Desert
- 2002 Fatelessness
- 1999 The Tin Drum
- 1985 The Flanders Road
- 1982 One Hundred Years of Solitude
- 1979 The Axion Esti
- 1978 The Family Moskat
- 1974 Return to Ithaca
- 1966 O the Chimneys
- 1965 And Quiet Flows the Don
- 1961 The Bridge on the Drina
- 1958 Doctor Zhivago
- 1953 The Second World War
- 1939 Meek Heritage
- 1937 The Thibaults
- 1925 Saint Joan
- 1916 The Charles Men
- 2014 Redeployment
- 2007 Tree of Smoke
- 2005 Europe Central
- 2004 The News from Paraguay
- 2003 The Great Fire
- 1997 Cold Mountain
- 1987 Paco's Story
- 1980 Sophie's Choice
- 1979 Going After Cacciato
- 1975 Dog Soldiers
- 1974 Gravity's Rainbow
- 1952 From Here to Eternity
- 2013 Life After Life
- 2008 The Hunger Games
- 2007 A Thousand Splendid Suns
- 2005 The Book Thief
- 2003 The Kite Runner
- 1995 Beach Music
- 1990 The Things They Carried
- 1985 Blood Meridian
- 1977 Dispatches
- 1969 Slaughterhouse-Five
- 1961 Catch-22
- 1955 The Quiet American
- 1948 The Naked and the Dead
- 1947 The Diary of a Young Girl
- 1940 For Whom the Bell Tolls
- 1933 Testament of Youth
- 1929 A Farewell to Arms
- 1929 All Quiet on the Western Front
- 1925 Mrs Dalloway
- 1921 Three Soldiers
- 1918 The Return of the Soldier
- 2013 The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
- 2006 American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- 2004 Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
- 1999 Lindbergh
- 1993 Truman
- 1992 Fortunate Son: The Autobiography of Lewis B. Puller Jr.
- 1982 Grant: A Biography
- 1979 Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews
- 1977 A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence
- 1976 Edith Wharton: A Biography
- 1960 John Paul Jones
- 1958 George Washington, Vols. I-VII
- 1949 Roosevelt and Hopkins
- 1940 Woodrow Wilson, Life and Letters, Vols. VII and VIII
- 1935 R. E. Lee
- 1932 Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography
- 1923 The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page
- 2012 Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- 2008 2666
- 2005 The March
- 2002 Atonement
- 1979 The Year of the French
- 2011 Moon Over Manifest
- 1990 Number the Stars
- 1928 Gay Neck, the Story of a Pigeon
- 1997 Children of the Dusk
- 1989 Koko
- 1989 The Healer's War
- 1895 The Red Badge of Courage
- 1869 War and Peace
- 1826 The Last of the Mohicans
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