Updated: February 23, 2010
Novels to Enjoy for the...
Soldier in World War 1
What they were reading (and writing) in the trenches.
1914 by John OxenhamA Minstrel in France by Harry Lauder
A Padre in France by George A. Birmingham
Action Front by Boyd Cable
All for a Scrap of Paper by Joseph Hocking
An Orkney Maid by Amelia Edith Barr
August First by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Barbarians by Robert W. Chambers
Beyond by John Galsworthy
Bird of Paradise by Ada Leverson
Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss
Changing Winds by St. John G. Ervine
Everyman's Land by C.N. Williamson
Facing the German Foe by Colonel James Fisk
Fighting in France by Ross Kay
Four Days: The Story of a War Marriage by Hetty Hemenway
Gentlemen at Arms by J.H. Morgan
Getting Together by Ian Hay
Going West by Basil King
H.M.S. -- by John Graham Bower
Jimmie Higgins by Upton Sinclair
Missing by Mrs. Humphrey Ward
Mr. Britling Sees it Through by H.G. Wells
Over the Top by Arthur Guy Empey
P.J. The Secret Service Boy by Lord Hamilton
Private Spud Tamson by R.W. Campbell
Red Cross & Iron Cross by Axel Munthe
Rough Road by William J. Locke
Shelled by an Unseen Foe by James Fiske
Tatterdemalion by John Galsworthy
Torchy by Sewell Ford
The Air Trust by George Allan England
The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Bars of Iron by Ethel May Dell
The Belgians to the Front by Colonel James Fisk
The Black Box by E. Phillip Oppenheim
The Brown Brethren by Patrick MacGill
The City of Masks by George Barr McCutcheon
The Courage of Marge O'Doone by James Oliver Curwood
The Daredevil by Maria Thompson Daviess
The Dark Forest by Hugh Walpole
The Deserter by Richard Harding Davis
The Devil's Garden by W.B. Maxwell
The Devil's Own by Randall Parrish
The Diary of a U-Boat Commander by Stephen King-Hall
The End of the Great War by J. Stewart Barney
The First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Guns of Europe by Joseph A. Altsheler
The Last Shot by Frederick Palmer
The Lieutenant and Others by Sapper
The Major by Ralph Connor
The Marne by Edith Wharton
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William White
The Middle Parts of Fortune by Frederic Manning
The Next of Kin by Nellie L. McClung
The Odyssey of a Torpedoed Transport by Maurice Larrouy
The Red Horizon by Patrick MacGill
The Rider in Khaki by Nat Gould
The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett
The Secret Battle by Sir A.P. Herbert
The Secret Hand by Valentine Williams
The Silence of Colonel Bramble by Andre Maurois
The Submarine Hunters by Percy F. Westerman
The Test of Scarlet by Coningsby Dawson
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Tale of a Tank by Harold Ashton
The Tree of Heaven by May Sinclair
The Unseen Host by Charles L. Warr
The Vermilion Box by E.V. Lucas
The War, Madame by Paul Geraldy
The White Morning by Gertrude Atherton
The Willing Horse by Ian Hay
Tommy by Joseph Hocking
Towards Morning by I.A.R. Wylie
Treat 'em Rough by Ring Lardner
Under Fire by Henri Barbusse
Up and Down by E.F. Benson
Victorious by Reginald Wright Kauffman
When William Came by Saki
Where the Souls of Men are Calling by Credo Fitch Harris