There is a diverse range of fiction written about this time period. Some novels tell of the brutal experience of war in the trenches, while others focus on the struggle to adjust to life after the shattering experiences of war ...or on the grief of those left behind. If you have an interest in reading fiction about this historical time period, below are some new and notable World War I fiction titles. Perhaps one or two will pique your interest.
Letters from Skye by Jessica Brockmole (2013)
A love story told in letters spans two world wars and follows the correspondence between a poet on the Scottish Isle of Skye and an American volunteer ambulance driver for the French Army, an affair that is discovered years later when the poet disappears.
When his beloved brother-in-law goes missing at the front in 1916, Angus defies his pacifist upbringing to join the war and find him. Assured a position as a cartographer in London, he is instead sent directly into the visceral shock of battle.
Wake by Anna Hope (2014)
Three women confront the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives, including dance teacher, Hettie, who pursues a dubious relationship; Pensions Exchange worker, Evelyn, who mourns, the changes in her brother; and Ada, who sees her missing son everywhere.
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally (2013)
Joining the war effort as nurses in 1915, two spirited Australian sisters, carrying a guilty secret, become the friends they never were at home and find themselves courageous in the face of extreme danger.
In Falling Snow by Mary-Rose MacColl (2012)
Traveling to France during World War I to bring home her 15-year-old brother who ran away to enlist, Iris, a young Australian nurse, decides to stay in Paris to help establish a field hospital staffed entirely by women.
The Canal Bridge: A Novel of Ireland, Love, and the First World War by Tom Phelan (2014)
After suffering the horrors of World War I, two friends return to a changed Ireland, as the effect of the war make them violent participants in the Irish struggle for freedom from Britain.
Stella Bain by Anita Shreve (2013)
Suffering from shell shock and memory loss from her time spent as a nurse's aide on a French battlefield during World War I, American Stella Bain is taken in by London surgeon August Bridge and his wife.
This novel follows the lives of four very different men--Frank, Benedict, Jean-Batiste, and Harry--as their fates converge on the most terrible and destructive day of World War I, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
For mystery lovers...Charles Todd (the pseudonym of a mother/son writing team) has a new 2014 title in the Inspector Ian Rutledge mystery series. Hunting Shadows is Book 16 in the series that began in 1996 with A Test of Wills. Inspector Ian Rutledge, a shell-shocked veteran of World War I, tries to pick up the pieces of his previous Scotland Yard career. Horrors of the war haunt each book of the series set in post-World War I England.
For even more World War I fiction titles, view the list recently created by the Reader Services Department here.
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