🏷️ War
33 entries tagged with this trope
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Two sisters in WWII France. One shelters a downed Allied pilot. One joins the Resistance. In love and war, everyone must choose a side. Will wreck you.
The Rose Code
Kate Quinn · 2021
Three women at Bletchley Park during WWII. A debutante, a shop girl, and an eccentric genius. They broke enemy codes and their friendships barely survived the secrets.
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak · 2021
A Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot fall in love as their island splits apart. Part of the story is narrated by a fig tree. Yes, really. And it works beautifully.
The Last Enemy: The Howling Nights
CH_Darling · 2020
THE Marauders-era fic. A multi-part epic covering their Hogwarts years into the first war. The worldbuilding is extraordinary. This IS canon for many readers.
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak · 2021
A Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot fall in love during the 1974 war. Decades later in London, their daughter pieces together their story. Partly narrated by a fig tree. Breathtaking.
Of Leaves and Stars
esthree · 2021
A Marauders-era epic that focuses on the quiet moments — the in-between spaces where Remus and Sirius fall in love against the backdrop of growing darkness.
The Way of Kings
Brandon Sanderson · 2010
Stormlight Archive Book 1. Doorstopper fantasy at its peak — Kaladin, Shallan, Dalinar.
The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang · 2018
A war orphan aces the imperial entrance exam. What follows is brutal military fantasy inspired by 20th-century China.
The Poppy War
R.F. Kuang · 2018
Rin aces the exam, enters the academy, discovers she has shamanic powers. Then war comes and nothing is the same. Grimdark fantasy inspired by Chinese history.
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Two sisters in Nazi-occupied France. One resists openly. One resists silently. Both survive in ways that will break your heart.
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005
Death tells the story of Liesel, a girl in Nazi Germany who steals books. The writing is luminous. The ending is inevitable. You will cry.
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
A blind French girl and a German boy. WWII brings them together. The prose is so beautiful it hurts. Pulitzer winner.
The Alice Network
Kate Quinn · 2017
A female spy network in WWI. Decades later, an unlikely duo hunts for the truth. Two timelines, two fierce women, one unforgettable story.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris · 2018
Lale tattooed numbers on prisoners at Auschwitz. One day he tattooed the love of his life. A true story of love surviving the worst of humanity.
Rights and Wrongs
LoveBitca8 · 2017
Hermione is thrown back to 1970s and meets a young Lucius Malfoy. Time-travel Dramione with Marauders-era intrigue.
The Last Enemy: Darkest Hour
CH_Darling · 2022
The Marauders in the First Wizarding War. Follows ATYD's energy but goes darker. The dread of knowing what's coming.
The Debt of Time
ShayaLonnie · 2017
Hermione travels back to the Marauders era. 730k words of war, friendship, romance, and consequence. The Marauders epic.
Not Easily Conquered
dropdeaddream & WhatAreFears · 2015
Letters from the 1940s. Steve and Bucky through decades. The multimedia format (letters, news clippings) is genius.
The Rose Code
Kate Quinn · 2021
Three women work as codebreakers at Bletchley Park during WWII. Years later, one is in an asylum and sends a coded message. Unputdownable.
The Women
Kristin Hannah · 2024
Frankie McGrath volunteers as a nurse in Vietnam. Coming home is harder than war. Kristin Hannah does for Vietnam nurses what she did for WWII resistance.
All the Light We Cannot See
Anthony Doerr · 2014
A blind French girl and a German soldier in WWII. Their paths converge in a besieged city. Pulitzer-winner that reads like poetry.
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Two sisters in Nazi-occupied France. One shelters the enemy. One fights with the Resistance. Both are unforgettable.
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak · 2005
Death narrates the story of a girl who steals books in Nazi Germany. The writing is extraordinary. You will ugly-cry.
The Bracelet
AkashaTheKitty · 2008
Hermione is captured during the war and bound to Draco by a magical bracelet. Power dynamics and moral complexity at their finest.
Beginning and End
mightbewriting · 2020
Hermione time-travels and gets stuck in the past with Draco. They have to navigate the First Wizarding War together.
The Last Enemy: The Art of Dying
CH_Darling · 2020
THE Marauders era fic. Spans all seven years. The worldbuilding rivals Rowling. Prepare to have your heart systematically destroyed.
Sirius Black and the Secret Keeper
LeftWingLibrals · 2021
The First Wizarding War through Sirius's eyes. Who is the spy? The paranoia and devotion destroy you. The ending hurts even though you know it's coming.
The Sympathizer
Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2015
A communist spy infiltrates the South Vietnamese army. The first-person narrator confesses everything. Pulitzer Prize winner — savage, funny, and utterly unlike anything else.
The Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons · 2001
Leningrad, 1941. Tatiana falls in love with a Soviet soldier the day Germany invades. This book will ruin your life and you'll thank it.
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2006
The Nigerian civil war through the eyes of three people. One of the most important historical novels written in English. Adichie at her most devastating.
A Long Petal of the Sea
Isabel Allende · 2019
Two strangers flee the Spanish Civil War and marry out of necessity. Decades later, their marriage of survival becomes something more. Allende at her most sweeping.
Isolation
Bex-chan · 2010
Draco is placed in Gryffindor Tower as a spy. He and Hermione are confined together. The slow burn is exquisite and the war backdrop makes everything darker.
The Art of Drowning
nimrodel_writes · 2010
The First Wizarding War as experienced by Remus and Sirius. How do you love someone while the world burns? How do you trust when paranoia is survival?