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Across War, Genre Fiction, Contemporary, and Literature & Fiction — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as The Ghost Road by Pat Barker.

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The Eye in the Door — Pat Barker

The Eye in the Door

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

Coming Up For Air — George Orwell

Coming Up For Air

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

A Shred of Honour — Tom Connery

A Shred of Honour

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

The Berkut — Joseph Heywood

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

The Balkan Trilogy — Olivia Manning

The Balkan Trilogy

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

Suite Francaise — Irene Nemirovsky

Suite Francaise

Irene Nemirovsky

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

The Parrot Cage — Daphne Wright

The Parrot Cage

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

The Warbirds — Richard Herman

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

A Dirty Distant War — E. M. Nathanson

A Dirty Distant War

E. M. Nathanson

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

The Sonneberg Run — George Robert Elford

The Sonneberg Run

George Robert Elford

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

The Good German — Joseph Kanon

The Good German

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War — Jeff Shaara

Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

Blue of Noon — Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

Black Wind: A Dirk Pitt Novel (Dirk Pitt Adventure) — Clive Cussler

Black Wind: A Dirk Pitt Novel (Dirk Pitt Adventure)

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

Put Out Thefirs — Maureen Lee

Put Out Thefirs

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

Birthright — NORA ROBERTS

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

The Things They Carried — Tim O’Brien

The Things They Carried — Tim O’Brien

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

The Don Flows Home to the Sea — Mikhail Sholokhov

The Don Flows Home to the Sea

Mikhail Sholokhov

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

If It Wasn’t For Her — Jim Mooneyhan

If It Wasn’t For Her

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

Cal Not Erie & N Irelan — Bernard Maclaverty

Cal Not Erie & N Irelan

Bernard MacLaverty

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

Pettibone’s Law — John Keene

Pettibone’s Law

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

Sharpe’s Siege: Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814 (Richard Sharpe Adventure Series) — Bernard Cornwell

Sharpe’s Siege: Richard Sharpe and the Winter Campaign, 1814 (Richard Sharpe Adventure Series)

Bernard Cornwell

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

The Runner — Christopher Reich

Christopher Reich

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

Slade’s Marauder — Steven Cade

Slade’s Marauder

Themes: War • Genre Fiction • Contemporary

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