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10 best books like Fobbit (David Abrams): The Yellow Birds, Watergate, By Blood, The Right-Hand Shore, Ivyland, Here, Bullet, Dust to Dust, Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths, Almost Never
| Author | Kevin Powers |
| ISBN | 0316219363 |
With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.
"The war tried to kill us in the spring," begins this breathtaking account of friendship...
| Author | Thomas Mallon |
| ISBN | 0307378721 |
From one of our most esteemed historical novelists, a remarkable retelling of the Watergate scandal, as seen through a kaleidoscope of its colorful perpetrators and investigators.
For all the monumental documentation that Watergate generated—uncountable volumes of committee...
| Author | Ellen Ullman |
| ISBN | 0374117551 |
The award-winning writer returns with a major, absorbing, atmospheric novel that takes on the most dramatic and profoundly personal subject matter.
San Francisco in the 1970s. Free love has given way to radical feminism, psychedelic ecstasy to hard-edged gloom. The Zodiac Killer stalks...
| Author | Christopher Tilghman |
| ISBN | 0374203482 |
A masterful novel that confronts the dilemmas of race, family, and forbidden love in the wake of America's Civil War
Fifteen years after the publication of his acclaimed novel Mason's Retreat, Christopher Tilghman returns to the Mason family and the Chesapeake Bay in The Right-Hand Shore.
It...
| Author | Miles Klee |
| ISBN | 1935928619 |
Populated by a bumbling, murderous citizenry of corrupt cops, innocents, ravenous addicts, lovesick geniuses, and cynical adventurers, Ivyland operates in the shadow of a giant pharmaceutical corporation that thrives on people's weaknesses...and may have an even more sinister agenda. It's...
| Author | Brian Turner |
| ISBN | 1882295552 |
Adding his voice to the current debate about the US occupation of Iraq, in poems written in the tradition of such poets as Wilfred Owen, Yusef Komunyakaa (Dien Cai Dau), Bruce Weigl (Song of Napalm) and Alice James’ own Doug Anderson (The Moon Reflected Fire), Iraqi war veteran Brian Turner writes...
| Author | Benjamin Busch |
| ISBN | 0062014846 |
Tim O’Brien meets Annie Dillard in this remarkable memoir by debut author Benjamin Busch. Much more than a war memoir, Dust to Dust brilliantly explores the passage through a lifetime—a moving meditation on life and death, the adventures of childhood and revelations of adulthood. Seemingly...
| Author | Matt Gallagher |
| ISBN | 0306821761 |
These stories aren’t pretty and they aren’t for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have offered images of the fighting there. But this collection...
Honored as one of the "100 Notable Books of 2012" by The New York Times Book Review"The poems in On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths are taut, lucid, lyric, filled with complex emotional reflection while avoiding the usual difficulties of highbrow poetry."—New York Times Book Review
"Perillo...
| Author | Daniel Sada |
| ISBN | 1555976093 |
"Of my generation I most admire Daniel Sada, whose writing project seems to me the most daring."- Roberto Bolaño
This Rabelaisian tale of lust and longing in the drier precincts of postwar Mexico introduces one of Latin America’s most admired writers to the English-speaking world.
Demetrio...
| Author | Roxana Robinson |
| ISBN | 0374709572 |
Going from peace to war can make a young man into a warrior. Going from war to peace can destroy him.
Conrad Farrell has no family military heritage, but as a classics major at Williams College, he has encountered the powerful appeal of the Marine Corps ethic. "Semper Fidelis" comes...
The Book of Mischief: New and Selected Stories
| Author | Steve Stern |
| ISBN | 1555976212 |
“In the 25 years since [Stern] published his first book, younger Jewish writers have run with a similar shtick . . . But Stern was there first.”
—The Toronto Globe and Mail
The Book of Mischief triumphantly showcases twenty-five years of outstanding work by one of our true masters...
All the Ways We Kill and Die: An Elegy for a Fallen Comrade, and the Hunt for His Killer
| Author | Brian Castner |
| ISBN | 1628726547 |
The search for a friend’s killer is a riveting lesson in the way war has changed.
The EOD—explosive ordnance disposal—community is tight-knit, and when one of their own is hurt, an alarm goes out. When Brian Castner, an Iraq War vet, learns that his friend and EOD brother Matt has been...
| Author | Matthew J. Hefti |
| ISBN | 1440591881 |
Top 10 First Novels of 2016--Booklist
2016 Great Group Reads Selection
Contemplating suicide after nearly a decade at war, Levi sits down to write a note to his best friend Nick, explaining why things have to come to this inevitable end. Years earlier, Levi--a sergeant in the army--made...
| Author | Colby Buzzell |
| ISBN | 0425211363 |
An underemployed, skateboarding party animal, Colby Buzzell traded a dead-end future for the army--and ended up as a machine gunner in Iraq. To make sense of the absurd and frightening events surrounding him, he started writing a blog about the war--and how it differed from the government's official...
I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them
| Author | Jesse Goolsby |
| ISBN | 0544380983 |
In this powerful debut novel, three American soldiers haunted by their actions in Afghanistan search for absolution and human connection in family and civilian life.
Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the...
| Author | Helen Benedict |
| ISBN | 1569479666 |
Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady joined the army to bring honor to her family and democracy to the Middle East. Instead, she finds herself in a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003, guarding a makeshift American prison. There, Kate meets Naema Jassim, an Iraqi medical student whose father and little...
| Author | Bill Russell Edmonds |
| ISBN | 1605987743 |
In May of 2005, the U.S. government finally acknowledged that the invasion of Iraq had spawned an insurgency. With that admission, training the Iraqi Forces suddenly became a strategic priority. Lt. Col. Bill Edmonds, then a Special Forces captain, was in the first group of “official” military...
| Author | Katey Schultz |
| ISBN | 1934074853 |
Numerous characters—returning U.S. soldier and pragmatic jihadist, Afghan mother and listless American sister, courageous amputee and a ghost that cannot let go—appear in Flashes of War, which captures personal moments of fear, introspection, confusion, and valor in one collection spanning...
Terminal Lance: The White Donkey
| Author | Maximilian Uriarte |
| ISBN | 0692557776 |
I have been a proud anti-war protestor all my life, from Vietnam through the Iraq wars. The Vietnam draft ended just as I was supposed to go. I am a pacifist, which a vet might say is a luxury not everyone can afford, but I support vets; as they might say, they fought to give me the option to be a pacifist. Like...
| Author | Michael R. Gordon |
| ISBN | 0307377229 |
Eagerly anticipated in the wake of their national best seller Cobra II (“The superb, must-read military history of the invasion of Iraq”—Thomas L. Friedman), The Endgame is Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainor’s most ambitious and news-breaking book to date. A peerless work...
| Author | Paul Emil Erdman |
| ISBN | 0671223658 |
The Crash of '79 is a book so real that its plot reads like today's headlines. The central figure is that world traveler, playboy, despot, and winter-sports enthusiast His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Iran, whose grandiose and megalomaniacal dreams, nurtured in secret and financed by oil money, engulf...
| Author | Elliot Ackerman |
| ISBN | 1476778558 |
From a decorated veteran of the Iraq and Afghan Wars, and White House Fellow, a stirring debut novel about a young Afghan orphan and the harrowing, intractable nature of war.
Aziz and his older brother Ali are coming of age in a village amid the pine forests and endless mountains of eastern Afghanistan....
