Reading list

Great War Reading Project (chronological order)

Fiction by authors (born 1896-1900) from countries involved in the Great War

(i.e. those who turned 18 between July 1914 and November 1918).

Also memoirs of the war by literary figures (born 1896-1900)*

1896 (31 titles)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, This Side of Paradise (1920)

O’Flaherty, Liam, The Informer (1925)

Bromfield, Louis, Early Autumn (1926)

Springs, Elliott White, Warbirds: the diary of an unknown aviator (1927)

Blunden, Edmund, Undertones of War * (1928)

Tey, Josephine, The Man in the Queue (1929)

Powell, Dawn, Dance Night (1930)

van Doderer, Heimito, The Secret of the Empire (1930)

Brinig, Myron, Wide Open Town (1931)

Gloag, John, Tomorrow’s Yesterday (1932)

Mills, George, Meredith and Co. (1933)

Miyazawa, Kenji, Night on the Milky Way Train (1934)

Mitchell, Janet, Tempest in Paradise (1935)

Plisnier, Charles, Nothing to Chance (1936)

Panfyorov, Fyodor, And then the Harvest (1937)

Savard, Felix-Antoine, Boss of the River (1937)

Kinnan Rawlings, Marjorie, The Yearling (1938)

Meghani, Jhaverchand, The Promised Hand (1938)

Postgate, Raymond, Verdict of Twelve (1940)

Zuckmayer, Carl, Second Wind * (1940)

Smith, Betty, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)

Rogers, Joel Townsley, The Red Right Hand (1945)

Spitz, Jacques, The Eye of Purgatory (1945)

Castle, Marian, Deborah (1946)

Nolan Clark, Ann, Secret of the Andes (1952)

Brown, Slater, Spaceward Bound (1955)

Tomasi di Lampedusa, Giuseppe, The Leopard (1958)

Ackerley, J.R., We Think the World of You (1960)

Porteous, Sydney, Cattleman (1960)

Lindsay, Joan, Picnic at Hanging Rock (1967)

Gibbon, Monk, Inglorious Soldier * (1968)

1897 (55 titles)

Scanlon, Herbert, Recollections of a Soldier’s Life (1918)

Anthony, Joseph, The Gang (1921)

Walsh, James M., The Lost Valley (1921)

Price, Edith Ballinger, Garth, Able Seaman (1923)

Burke, Kenneth, The White Oxen (1924)

Collins, Dale, Ordeal (1924)

Wheen, Arthur, Two Masters (1924)

Teodoreanu, Ionel, One Moldavian Summer (1925)

Aragon, Louis, Nightwalker (1926)

Faulkner, William, Soldiers’ Pay (1926)

Bolitho, Hector, Solemn Boy (1927)

Gibberd, Kathleen, Vain Adventure (1927)

Kataev, Valentin, The Embezzlers (1927)

Bataille, Georges, Story of the Eye (1928)

Fisher, Rudolph, The Walls of Jericho (1928)

Ilf, Ilya (and Evgeny Petrov), The Twelve Chairs (1928)

Marienhof, Anatoly, Cynics (1928)

Pottle, Frederick, Stretchers* (1929)

Newman, Bernard, The Cavalry Went Through (1930)

Thomas, Adrienne, Katrin Becomes a Soldier (1930)

Alverdes, Paul, Reinhold at the Front (1931)

Hanley, James, Boy (1931)

Granberry, Edwin, A Trip to Czardis (1932)

Simpson, Helen de Guerry, Boomerang (1932)

Singh, Nanak, White Blood (1932)

Coates, Robert M., Yesterday’s Burdens (1933)

Mendes, Alfred, Pitch Lake (1934)

Yeates, Victor, Winged Victory (1934)

Birkett, Winifred, Earth’s Quality (1935)

Mc Coy, Horace, They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935)

Mitchison, Naomi, We Have Been Warned (1935)

Uno, Chiyo, Confessions of Love (1935)

Jones, Lewis, Cwmardy (1936)

Kandel, Aben, City for Conquest (1936)

Knight, Eric, Song on Your Bugles (1937)

Pap, Károly, Azarel (1937)

La Farge, Christopher, Each to the Other (1939)

Sperry, Armstrong, Call It Courage (1940)

Gallico, Paul, The Snow Goose (1941)

Goodrich, Marcus, Delilah (1941)

Lernet-Holenia, Alexander, Mars in Aries (1941)

Szathmári, Sándor, Voyage to Kazohinia (1941)

Blyton, Enid, The Land of Far-Beyond (1942)

O’Brien, Kate, The Last of Summer (1943)

Smith, Lillian, Strange Fruit (1944)

Barnard Eldershaw, M., Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1947)

Cooper, Lettice, Black Bethlehem (1947)

Wheatley, Dennis, The Second Seal (1950)

Osaragi, Jiro, The Journey (1952)

Simonaityte, Ieva, Buse and Her Sisters (1953)

Barr, Stringfellow, Purely Academic (1957)

Graves, Richard H., On Gallipoli: an epic of ANZAC (1958)

Wilder, Thornton, The Eighth Day (1967)

Cloete, Stuart, How Young They Died (1969)

Mellersh, Harold, Schoolboy into War * (1978)

1898 (43 titles)

Waugh, Alec, The Prisoners of Mainz * (1919)

Libedinsky, Yuri, A Week (1922)

Boyd, Thomas, Through the Wheat (1923)

Curlewis, Jean, Beach Beyond (1923)

Bove, Emmanuel, My Friends (1924)

Barfield, Owen, The Silver Trumpet (1925)

Kessel, Joseph, Belle de Jour (1928)

Remarque, Erich, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Ferreira de Castro, Jose M., The Jungle (1930)

Harrison, Charles Yale, Generals Die in Bed (1930)

Dołęga-Mostowicz, Tadeusz, The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma (1932)

al Hakim, Tawfiq, Return of the Spirit (1933)

Lewis, C.S., The Pilgrim’s Regress (1933)

Brecht, Bertolt, Threepenny Novel (1934)

Heslop, Harold, Last Cage Down (1935)

Adamič, Louis, Cradle of Life (1936)

Holtby, Winifred, South Riding (1936)

Walschap, Gerard, The Man Who Meant Well (1936)

Bemelmans, Ludwig, My War with the United States* (1937)

Benét, Stephen Vincent, By the Waters of Babylon (1937)

Child, Philip, God’s Sparrows (1937)

Hoult, Norah, Coming from the Fair (1937)

Hatch, Richard W., The Fugitive (1938)

Edmunds, Murrell, Between the Devil (1939)

Mc Crone, Guy, Antimacassar City (1940)

Regler, Gustav, The Great Crusade (1940)

Rey, H.A., Curious George (1941)

Goffin, Robert, The White Brigade (1943)

Jones, Zenith, Siren in the Night (1943)

Lockridge, Richard, Death in the Mind (1945)

Popkin, Zelda, The Journey Home (1945)

Erdman, Loula Grace, The Years of the Locust (1946)

Bond, Mary Fanning Wickham, Device and Desire (1949)

Malaparte, Curzio, The Skin (1949)

Risse, Heinz, The Earthquake (1950)

Huchet Bishop, Claire, All Alone (1953)

Vialar, Paul, Five Soldiers (1954)

Hazaz, Haim, Gates of Bronze (1956)

Haylen, Leslie, A for Artemis (1960)

Cialente, Fausta, The Levantines (1961)

Ibuse, Masuji, Black Rain (1965)

Papashvily, George, Home, and Home Again* (1973)

1899 (42 titles)

Shute, Nevil, Stephen Morris (1923)

Cobb, Chester, Days of Disillusion (1926)

Bakunts, Aksel, The Dark Valley (1927)

Olesha, Yuri, Envy (1927)

Brophy, John, The Bitter End (1928)

Childers, James Saxon, Hilltop in the Rain (1928)

Bowen, Elizabeth, The Last September (1929)

Hemingway, Ernest, A Farewell to Arms (1929)

Eberhart, Mignon, While the Patient Slept (1930)

Burnett, W.R., Little Caesar (1931)

de Brunhoff, Jean, The Story of Babar (1931)

Kästner, Erich, Fabian (1931)

Knowles, Vernon, Eternity in an Hour (1932)

Latimer, Margery, Guardian Angel and Other Stories (1932)

Stong, Phil, State Fair (1932)

Freeman, H.W., Pond Hall’s Progress (1933)

Hunter, Norman, The Incredible Adventures of Professor Branestawm (1933)

White, Antonia, Frost in May (1933)

Cobb, Humphrey, Paths of Glory (1935)

Fleming, Berry, Siesta (1935)

Guilloux, Louis, Bitter Victory (1935)

Kerr, James Lennox, Woman of Glenshiels (1935)

Bates, Ralph, The Olive Field (1936)

Forester, C.S., The General (1936)

Leonov, Leonid, Skutarevsky (1936)

Kawabata, Yasunari, Snow Country (1937)

Marshall, Bruce, Luckypenny (1937)

Atkinson, M.E., The Compass Points North (1938)

Seredy, Kate, The Singing Tree (1939)

Sheean, Vincent, Bird of the Wilderness (1941)

Travers, P.L., I Go by Sea, I Go by Land (1941)

Lewis, Janet, Against a Darkening Sky (1942)

Caudill, Rebecca, Barrie and Daughter (1943)

Haycox, Ernest, Bugles in the Afternoon (1943)

White, E.B., Stuart Little (1945)

Langgässer, Elisabeth, The Quest (1950)

Gijsen, Marnix, Lament for Agnes (1951)

Ghose, Sudhin N., The Flame of the Forest (1955)

Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita (1955)

Farrell, Michael, Thy Tears Might Cease (1963)

Ferguson, Ruby, Children at the Shop (1967)

Linklater, Eric, Fanfare for a Tin Hat * (1970)

1900 (40 titles)

Mitchell, Margaret, Lost Laysen (1916)

Chamson, André, Roux the Bandit (1925)

Ostenso, Martha, Wild Geese (1925)

Pollard, James, The Bushland Man (1926)

Desnos, Robert, Liberty or Love! (1927)

Dahlberg, Edward, Bottom Dogs (1929)

Wolfe, Thomas, Look Homeward, Angel (1929)

Márai, Sándor, The Rebels (1930)

Kesten, Hermann, Happy Man (1931)

Hinkson, Pamela, The Ladies’ Road (1932)

Mannin, Ethel, Love’s Winnowing (1932)

Nezval, Vitezslav, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1932)

Hilton, James, Lost Horizon (1933)

Baume, Eric, Burnt Sugar (1934)

Silone, Ignazio, Bread and Wine (1935)

Ardizzone, Edward, Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain (1936)

d’Alton, Louis, Death Is So Fair (1936)

Ó Faoláin, Seán, Bird Alone (1936)

Garnett, Eve, The Family from One End Street (1937)

Lindsay, Jack, The Blood Vote (1937)

Caldwell, Taylor, Dynasty of Death (1938)

Le Sueur, Meridel, The Girl (1939)

Holling, Holling C., Paddle-to-the-Sea (1941)

Heming, J.W., Time Marches Off (1942)

Rabon, Israel, The Street (1928)

de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine, The Little Prince (1943)

Seghers, Anna, The Excursion of the Dead Girls (1943)

Stern, Philip van Doren, The Greatest Gift (1943)

Goudge, Elizabeth, The Little White Horse (1946)

Weiskopf, F. C., Twilight on the Danube (1946)

Beck, Warren, The First Fish: and other stories (1947)

Chauncy, Nancen, They Found a Cave (1947)

Hobson, Laura Z., Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)

Sarraute, Nathalie, Portrait of a Man Unknown (1947)

Greener, Leslie, Moon Ahead (1951)

Shaw, Charles, Heaven Knows, Mr Allison (1952)

Apitz, Bruno, Naked among Wolves (1958)

Hughes, Richard, The Fox in the Attic (1961)

Green, Julien, The War at Sixteen *(1964)

Collis, John Stewart, Bound upon a Course * (1971)

Viganò, Renata, Partisan Wedding (1976)