Steven Pressfield 1998
- What it is
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War lived from the inside · a big story that sweeps you along
- Genre
- Historical fiction Classics
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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Silence of the Girls
Pat Barker 2018
It leaves you shaken · a farewell that moves you
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Fierce and defiant and unflinching
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Fierce and defiant · it makes you cry, in a good way
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War from the inside and unflinching
Winter King
Bernard Cornwell 1995
In common with yours: war from the inside · love in the middle of danger
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell 1992
Like yours: war from the inside · love hurts sometimes
Poppy War
R. F. Kuang 2018
Like yours: war from the inside · you won't want to come back
El reino imposible
Yeyo Balbás 2026
Like yours: war from the inside · it grabs you with a mystery
Gardens of the Moon
Steven Erikson 1999
Like yours: war from the inside · full of big ideas
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson 2010
Like yours: war from the inside · you won't want to come back
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Only fierce and defiant
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
Elif Shafak 2020
It leaves you shaken, but in literary fiction
The Color Purple
Alice Walker 1983
It leaves you shaken · you come out liking people more
7 books · Alike in just one
Only war from the inside
Cold mountain
Charles Frazier 1997
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini 2004
It leaves you shaken · a farewell that moves you
Atonement
Ian McEwan 2001
In common with yours: war from the inside · a farewell that moves you
Catch-22
Joseph Heller 1904
In common with yours: war from the inside · funny, and it bites
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Shaffer 2008
In common with yours: war from the inside · funny and sad at once
Hurricane Wars
Thea Guanzon 2023
In common with yours: war from the inside · it raises the temperature
Forrest Gump
Winston Groom 1999
In common with yours: war from the inside · comforting, like coming home
15 books · Alike in just one
Only unflinching
Ssea Of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh 2005
A reader shelved it with yours in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
The Persian Boy
Mary Renault 1972
Readers put them together in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe 1958
Grouped with yours in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
The revenant
Michael Punke 2002
Fierce and defiant · it tells it straight
Shogun
James Clavell 1975
A big story that sweeps you along · you won't want to come back
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexander Dumas 1940
Just as epic and defiant, but more morally grey and hopeful
Die Drei Musketiere
Alexandre Dumas 1973
Love and laughs in equal parts · love in the middle of danger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey 2005
Fierce and defiant · nobody is entirely good
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1941
It leaves you shaken · nobody is entirely good
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler 1979
Fierce and defiant · it tells it with no filter
The Fellowship of the Ring
J.R.R. Tolkien 1972
Just as epic and defiant, but more wondrous and melancholic
East of Eden
John Steinbeck 1952
It hurts, and then it heals · it makes you think, without a lecture
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende 1994
You won't want to come back · one family, generation after generation
The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 2008
A world to get lost in · love in the middle of danger
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Nautical Chart
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It messes with your head · it changes how you see things
True Grit
Charles Portis 1969
Sharp and very funny · outlaws and guns in the West
The Group
Mary McCarthy 1968
Funny and sad at once · a small, intimate story
Trio
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It makes you cry, in a good way · funny and sad at once
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe 1800
It makes you think, without a lecture · surviving with everything scarce
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It leaves you shaken, but in a thriller
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