List of books with anti-war themes

This is a bibliography of works with an anti-war theme.

An anti-war book is a book that is perceived as having an anti-war theme. Below are lists of some fiction and non-fiction titles for adults, teens and children with anti-war themes.

Adult fiction

• All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
• The Americanization of Emily - William Bradford Huie
• Broken Under Interrogation - Jeffrey M. Hopkins novel, 2008
• Captain Jinks, Hero - Ernest Crosby, 1902
• Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
• Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut science fiction novel
• Celestial Matters - Richard Garfinkle science fiction novel
• Company K - William March novel
• Dead Yesterday - Mary Agnes Hamilton novel, 1916
• For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
• The Forever War - Joe Haldeman science fiction novel
• From Here to Eternity - James Jones novel
• Generals Die in Bed - Charles Yale Harrison novel
• The Good Soldier Svejk - Jaroslav Hašek novel
• Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo novel, 1938
• Lay Down Your Arms! - Bertha von Suttner novel
• Lysistrata - Aristophanes play, 411 BCE
• The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer novel
• Non-Combatants and Others - Rose Macaulay novel, 1916
• On the Beach - Nevil Shute novel
• Passport to Hell - Robin Hyde novel
• Plumes - Laurence Stallings novel
• The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane novel, 1895
• Shabdangal - Malayalam novel, 1947
• The Short-Timers - Gustav Hasford novel
• Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut science fiction novel
• The Thin Red Line - James Jones novel
• The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien, 1990
• The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass novel
• The Train Was on Time (Der Zug war pünktlich) - novel by Heinrich Böll, 1949
• The War Prayer - Mark Twain short story, c.1910
• Two Women - Alberto Moravia novel, 1958

Adult non-fiction

• An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Era - Charles DeBenedetti, 1990
• Born on the Fourth of July - Ron Kovic autobiography
• Choosing Peace: A Handbook on War, Peace, and Your Conscience - Robert A. Seeley, 1994
• The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War - 1984 book by Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Sagan and Donald Kennedy.
• Collateral Damage : America's War Against Iraqi Civilians - Chris Hedges, 2008
• The Conquest of Violence - Bart de Ligt, 1937.
• The Education of a Christian Prince (1516) and The Complaint of Peace (1517) by Desiderius Erasmus.
• Fate of the Earth - 1982 book by Jonathan Schell.
• The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now - 1998 book by Jonathan Schell.
• Hiroshima - John Hersey account of the bombings.
• The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War - Frederick Downs, 1978
• The Kingdom of God is Within You - Leo Tolstoy, 1894
• The Long Road to Greenham : Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820 - Jill Liddington, 1989.
• Nonviolence : the history of a dangerous idea - Mark Kurlansky, 2006.
• No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran - Murray Polner, 1971
• Nouveau Cynée (1623) by Émeric Crucé.
• Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe - 2004 book by Harvard scholar Graham Allison.
• Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero - 1998 book edited by Joseph Rotblat.
• Pacifism in the Twentieth Century - Peter Brock and Nigel Young, 1999.
• Peace Is Possible: Conversations with Arab and Israeli Leaders from 1988 to the Present - S. Daniel Abraham, Bill Clinton
• Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated - James Mann, editor, 2004
• The Politics of Jesus - John Howard Yoder, 1972
• A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
• Scapegoats of the Empire - Lt. George Witton memoir, 1907
• Science, Liberty and Peace - Aldous Huxley, 1946.
• The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger - 2007 book by Jonathan Schell.
• Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
• War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges, 2003
• War Is a Lie David Swanson 2010
• War Is a Racket - former U.S. Marine Major General Smedley Butler speech, 1933 and pamphlet, 1935
• We Will Not Cease - Archibald Baxter (with e-Text) memoir, 1939
• White Flash, Black Rain: Women of Japan Relive the Bomb - L. Vance-Watkins and A. Mariko, eds., 1995
• Why Didn't You Have To Go To Vietnam, Daddy? - (Steve Wilken) Starving Writers Publishing 2009
• Writings Against Power and Death - Alex Comfort, 1994.

Teen fiction

• The Clay Marble - Minfong Ho novel, 1991
• Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card novel, 1985
• Fallen Angels - Walter Dean Myers novel, 1988
• Habibi - Naomi Shihab Nye novel, 1997
• I Had Seen Castles - Cynthia Rylant, 1993
• The Life History of a Star - Kelly Easton, 2001
• Soldier's Heart: A Novel of the Civil War - Gary Paulsen novel, 1998

Teen non-fiction

• Ain't Gonna Study War No More: The Story of America's Peace Seekers - Milton Meltzer, 2002
• Lines in the Sand: New Writing on War and Peace - Hoffman and Lassister, eds. essays, stories, poems, 2003
• Operation Warhawks: How Young People Become Warriors - Terrence Webster-Doyle, 1993
• Some Reasons for War: How Families, Myths and Warfare Are Connected - Sue Mansfield, 1988

Children's fiction

• The Butter Battle Book - Dr. Seuss, 1984
• Sunrise over Fallujah - Walter Dean Myers, 2008
• War Game: Village Green to No-Man's-Land - Michael Foreman, 1994
• War Horse - Michael Morpurgo, 1982
• When the Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War - Greenfield, Gilchrist poems and illus., 2006

Children's non-fiction

• A Little Peace - Barbara Kerley, 2007
• Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World - Jane Breskin Zalben, 2004
• Peace One Day - Jeremy Gilley, 2005