📚 War Fiction

Fiction written from the front: what the trenches and the jungles did to the way stories are told.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject war stories in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Greenmantle	John Buchan	1915	521
	The Red Badge of Courage	Stephen Crane	1871	447
	Mr. Standfast	John Buchan	1918	437
	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway	1940	185
	The Master Key	L. Frank Baum	1901	162
	Catch-22	Joseph Heller	1961	134
	The Quiet American	Graham Greene	1940	117
	The English Patient	Michael Ondaatje	1992	93
	Válka s mloky	Karel Čapek	1936	75
	The Winds of War	Herman Wouk	1971	52
	King Rat	James Clavell	1950	49
	Katz und Maus	Günter Grass	1961	47
	World War Z	Max Brooks	2006	46
	The Mark of Athena	Rick Riordan	2011	40
	We the living	Ayn Rand	1936	38
	Red Storm Rising	Tom Clancy	1983	35
	The 5th wave (The 5th Wave #1)	Richard Yancey	2013	30
	Gregor and the Marks of Secret	Suzanne Collins	2006	28
	A Long Walk to Water( Linda Sue Park)	Linda Sue Park	2008	27
	A Court of Wings and Ruin	Sarah J. Maas	2017	26
	Chronicle in Stone	Ismail Kadare	1973	24
	Sky Hunters	Jack Shane	2005	24
	Gregor and the Code of Claw	Suzanne Collins	2007	23
	Thân phận của tình yêu	Bảo Ninh	1990	22
	Assassin's Quest	Robin Hobb	1997	21
	The power of one	Bryce Courtenay	1989	18
	The Ghost Brigades	John Scalzi	2006	18
	Legend	Marie Lu	2011	18
	Prodigy	Marie Lu	2012	17
	Skyward	Brandon Sanderson	2018	17

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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