World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction books

That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day

Richard Dehan

Richard Dehan’s novel, set against the backdrop of the First World War, opens in a lavish dining room where a…

A farewell to arms

Ernest Hemingway

The novel opens on a summer‑time front line where a house overlooks a river, a plain of crops, and distant…

The Girl Philippa

Robert W. Chambers

The novel is a wartime melodrama set against the looming conflict of World War I, as indicated by its subject…

The Thirty-Nine Steps

John Buchan

John Buchan’s The Thirty‑Nine Steps is a wartime spy story that begins in the summer of 1915, when a weary,…

Mr. Standfast

John Buchan

The novel opens on a weary British officer returning from the Western Front, his mind a tangle of medals,…

The Zeppelin's Passenger

E. Phillips Oppenheim

The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a World‑War‑I era historical novel that opens with a leisurely autumn walk…

Good Old Anna

Marie Belloc Lowndes

Good Old Anna is a domestic novel set against the outbreak of the First World War, catalogued as World War,…

Tatterdemalion

John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy’s Tatterdemalion is a wartime novel set in the summer of 1914, tracking a widowed…

The Rough Road

William John Locke

The Rough Road is a First‑World War novel that follows the unlikely life of James Marmaduke “Doggie” Trevor,…

With Haig on the Somme

D. H. Parry

The work is a wartime novel set amid the grinding combat of the Western Front, its opening plunges the reader…

The Rover Boys on a Hunt; or, The Mysterious House in the Woods

Edward Stratemeyer

The Rover Boys on a Hunt is a youthful adventure series that blends school‑yard rivalry with outdoor…

The Dark Tower

Phyllis Bottome

The Dark Tower is a sprawling family saga set against the backdrop of the First World War and its aftermath,…

The Rover Boys Under Canvas; Or, The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine

Edward Stratemeyer

The Rover Boys Under Canvas is a school‑boy adventure that blends the familiar camaraderie of Edward…

Where the Souls of Men are Calling

Credo Fitch Harris

This novel is a World War‑I era work of fiction that opens in the imagined American town of Hillsdale, a…

Tom Slade on a Transport

Percy Keese Fitzhugh

The novel opens with Tom Slade strolling down Terrace Avenue toward his modest office at Temple Camp, where a…

Tam o' the Scoots

Edgar Wallace

Tam o’ the Scoots is a first‑person war narrative that blends gritty aerial combat with a rough‑spoken…

The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia

George A. Taylor

The work is a wartime novel that blends personal memoir with speculative commentary, first appearing in the…

Lucile Triumphant

Elizabeth M. Duffield

The novel is a youthful, wartime‑era tale that follows Lucile, a bright‑eyed, sport‑loving teenager, and her…

War and the Weird

Phillips, Forbes; Hopkins, R. Thurston

War and the Weird is a hybrid of war memoir and speculative essay that uses the First‑World War as a…

All quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque

The novel is a first‑person war story set in the trenches of World War I, narrated by the nineteen‑year‑old…

Barbarians

Robert W. Chambers

Barbarians is a World War I novel that opens amid the cramped decks of a mule transport bound for the Western…

Los cuatro jinetes del apocalipsis

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Grapes of wrath

Boyd Cable