Favorite Vietnam War Fiction
Explore the best Vietnam War fiction books with our curated list of favorites. Discover gripping novels that capture the drama, history, and heroism of the Vietnam War era.
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Pettibone's Law
by John Keene
The story of Vietnam pilot Smilin' Jack Rawlins, told with cinematic shifts from war scenes to the present day, traces one man's--and one nation's--journey into …
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Slow Walk in a Sad Rain
by John P. McAfee
"Welcome to Special Forces A Camp number 413, where commanding officers issue orders without meaning. Weapons are used in ways the grotesque opposite of their …
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613 West Jefferson
by D. S. Lliteras
Based on the author's own experiences in Vietnam, deftly explores the emotional and spiritual wounds of war in a veteran's return home.
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Gods Go Begging
by Alfredo Vea
“Luminous... a beautiful book.” – Carolyn See For Vietnam veteran Jesse Pasadoble, now a defense attorney living in San Francisco, the battle still rages: in …
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Dirty Work
by Larry Brown
Braiden Chaney has no arms or legs. Walter James has no face. They lost them in Vietnam, along with other, more vital parts of themselves. …
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The Things They Carried
by Tim O'Brien
One of the first questions people ask about The Things They Carried is this: Is it a novel, or a collection of short stories? The …
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Sympathy for the Devil
by Kent Anderson
Army issue to the core, Sergeant Hanson and his buddies Quinn and Silver are superb soldiers, but their lust for war leads to catastrophe in …
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Lost Soldiers
by James Webb
Once in a great while there comes a novel of such emotional impact and acute insight that it forever changes the way a reader sees …
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The Sorrow of War
by Bảo Ninh
The daring and controversial novel that took the world by storm-- a story of politics, selfhood, survival, and war. Featured in The Vietnam War by …
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Novel Without a Name
by Duong Thu Huong
This is the powerful, deeply personal story of Vietnam's war against Americans as lived from the inside by North Vietnamese soldiers and villagers on the …
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Patches of Fire
by Albert French
The story of a young man's encounter with a war and deaths beyond his understanding; of his return to a country torn by racial unrest …
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Fallen Angels
by Walter Dean Myers
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on …
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Better Times Than These
by Winston Groom
Frank Holden and other soldiers from varying backgrounds find their lives radically changed in Vietnam by a war that they find difficult to understand or …
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Meditations in Green
by Stephen Wright
Sardonic, searing, seductive and surreal, the award-winning Meditations in Green is regarded by many as the best novel of the Vietnam War. It is a …
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A Reckoning for Kings
by Chris Bunch
This searing story set during the Tet Offensive--North Vietnam's all-out attempt to win the war in 1968--contains a hard-hitting plot enhanced by the authors' intimate …
