What are some good war novels that are from women povs?
I’ve read books like The Alice Network and I reallyyyy like it. I mainly like the war/tough times aspect as well as the strong female protagonist. I’m just looking for anything I could buy on my Kindle and finish in two days!
I know this is a controversial suggestion these days, but… Gone With the Wind
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Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson (WWII)
The Women, by Kristin Hannah (Vietnam War)
The Huntress, by Kate Quinn (WWII)
The Dovekeepers (bit of a stretch, it’s set during the Siege of Masada and doesn’t really deal with the actual fighting all that much, but it’s an excellent book and told entirely from several women’s perspectives)
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*Gone To Soldiers*, Marge Piercy. It’s World War II told from the perspective of I think 14 POV characters, most of whom are women. Many of them are related: Naomi is a French Jew who’s sent to live with her cousin Ruthie in Detroit; Ruthie’s brother Duvey is in the merchant marines; Naomi’s sister Jacqueline joins the Resistance and has a relationship with Jeff, whose sister Bernice is a WAAF in the states.
It is a longer book, at 800 pages in paperback, but it’s a fast read, it’s easy to keep track of the POV characters (each chapter is told from the perspective of one character except for the day Pearl Harbor is bombed), and it’s non-technical. Very good read, highly recommend.
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Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
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The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
The Girls of Pearl Harbour by Soraya M Lane
Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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I really enjoyed Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea – it’s based on the true stories of women who were Red Cross volunteers during WWII on the front lines of the war. The author wrote the book after learning that his mother was one of those volunteers.
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The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah.
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War’s Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich, a Nobel’s Prize for Literature winner. It’s a collection of heart-rending interviews by the author of women’s experience fighting on the front lines of the Second World War in classic men’s roles like sniper, pilot or sapper, but also on the jarring transition back to a ‘traditional’ life after the war’s end.
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I know this is a controversial suggestion these days, but… Gone With the Wind
Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson (WWII)
The Women, by Kristin Hannah (Vietnam War)
The Huntress, by Kate Quinn (WWII)
The Dovekeepers (bit of a stretch, it’s set during the Siege of Masada and doesn’t really deal with the actual fighting all that much, but it’s an excellent book and told entirely from several women’s perspectives)
*Gone To Soldiers*, Marge Piercy. It’s World War II told from the perspective of I think 14 POV characters, most of whom are women. Many of them are related: Naomi is a French Jew who’s sent to live with her cousin Ruthie in Detroit; Ruthie’s brother Duvey is in the merchant marines; Naomi’s sister Jacqueline joins the Resistance and has a relationship with Jeff, whose sister Bernice is a WAAF in the states.
It is a longer book, at 800 pages in paperback, but it’s a fast read, it’s easy to keep track of the POV characters (each chapter is told from the perspective of one character except for the day Pearl Harbor is bombed), and it’s non-technical. Very good read, highly recommend.
Anil’s Ghost, Michael Ondaatje
Codename Verity was amazing.
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
The Girls of Pearl Harbour by Soraya M Lane
Between Shades of Grey by Ruta Sepetys
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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I really enjoyed Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea – it’s based on the true stories of women who were Red Cross volunteers during WWII on the front lines of the war. The author wrote the book after learning that his mother was one of those volunteers.
The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah.
War’s Unwomanly Face by Svetlana Alexievich, a Nobel’s Prize for Literature winner. It’s a collection of heart-rending interviews by the author of women’s experience fighting on the front lines of the Second World War in classic men’s roles like sniper, pilot or sapper, but also on the jarring transition back to a ‘traditional’ life after the war’s end.