The Iliad
750 BC★ 9.9
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War and Peace
1869★ 9.8
Aeneid
19 BC★ 9.5
The Waste Land
1922★ 9.4
Gravity's Rainbow
1973★ 8.7
Catch-22
1961★ 8.7
Slaughterhouse Five
1969★ 8.4
The Tin Drum
1959★ 8.3
History of the Peloponnesian War
431 BC★ 8.2
All Quiet on the Western Front
1928★ 8.0
A Farewell to Arms
1929★ 8.0
Journey to the End of the Night
1932★ 8.0
Battle Cry of Freedom
1988★ 7.9
The Things They Carried
1990★ 7.8
The Histories
440 BC★ 7.5
Mahabharata
400 BC★ 7.5
The Art of War
500 BC★ 7.3
Henry V
1599★ 7.3
Henry IV, Part One
1597★ 7.2
The Book of Songs
Author unknown
600 BC★ 7.2
The History of Rome
25 BC★ 7.2
Lysistrata and Other Plays
411 BC★ 7.1
The Gallic War
50 BC★ 7.1
The Persian Expedition (Anabasis)
370 BC★ 7.0
Parade's End
1928★ 7.0
Red Cavalry
1926★ 7.0
A History of the Crusades
1951★ 6.9
Mother Courage and Her Children
1939★ 6.9
The Face of Battle
1976★ 6.9
With the Old Breed
1981★ 6.8
Richard III
1592★ 6.8
Love in a Fallen City
1943★ 6.8
The Quiet American
1955★ 6.7
The Sleepwalkers
2012★ 6.7
Atonement
2001★ 6.7
From Here to Eternity
1951★ 6.7
Hadji Murat
1912★ 6.6
The Good Soldier Svejk
1923★ 6.6
The Tain Bo Cuailnge
Author unknown
750★ 6.6
Goodbye to All That
1929★ 6.6
And Quiet Flows the Don
1940★ 6.5
The Naked and the Dead
1948★ 6.5
A Stillness at Appomattox
1953★ 6.5
The Thirty Years War
1938★ 6.4
The Guns of August
1962★ 6.4
The Great War and Modern Memory
1975★ 6.3
The White Guard
1926★ 6.3
Goodbye, Darkness
1980★ 6.3
Dispatches
1977★ 6.0
Fire in the Lake
1972★ 5.9
The Armada
1959★ 5.8
The Killer Angels
1974★ 5.8
The Siege of Krishnapur
1973★ 5.8
The Cold War
2005★ 5.8
A Bright Shining Lie
1988★ 5.7
The Sorrow of War
1991★ 5.7
A Rumor of War
1977★ 5.6
The Warriors
1959★ 5.6
Ender's Game
1985★ 5.5
Half of a Yellow Sun
2006★ 5.4