Booklist Queen's 2023 Reading Challenge - hosted by booklistqueen

World War I Book
Pick out a book that is set during the First World War. It's so much messier than WWII, but it's still such an important historical event.
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Gerta by Kateřina Tučková

Gerta

Kateřina Tučková

459 pages • digital • 2009

fiction historical emotional slow-paced
A History Of The First World War In 100 Objects: In Association With The Imperial War Museum by John Hughes-Wilson, Nigel Steel

A History Of The First World War In 100 Objects: In Association With The Imperial War Museum

John Hughes-Wilson, Nigel Steel

448 pages • 2014

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
Yours Is the Night by Amanda Dykes

Yours Is the Night

Amanda Dykes

352 pages • paperback • 2021

fiction historical emotional reflective slow-paced
The Deep by Alma Katsu

The Deep

Alma Katsu

448 pages • paperback • 2020

fiction historical horror mystery mysterious tense slow-paced
Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I by Heather Webb, Hazel Gaynor

Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I

Heather Webb, Hazel Gaynor

8 hours, 8 minutes • audio • 2017

fiction historical romance emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
The First World War by Michael Eliot Howard

The First World War

Very Short Introductions #154

Michael Eliot Howard

154 pages • paperback • 2007

nonfiction history informative fast-paced
The Philosopher's Flight by Tom Miller

The Philosopher's Flight

The Philosophers Series #1

Tom Miller

422 pages • hardcover • 2018

fiction fantasy historical science fiction adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
The End of Innocence by Allegra Jordan

The End of Innocence

Allegra Jordan

320 pages • paperback • 2012

fiction historical romance emotional reflective slow-paced
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Journey to the End of the Night

Ferdinand Bardamu #1

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

453 pages • paperback • 1932

fiction classics challenging dark reflective slow-paced
Open Fire by Amber Lough

Open Fire

Amber Lough

264 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction historical young adult adventurous dark sad medium-paced