What to Read After What It Is Like to Go to War
Readers who loved What It Is Like to Go to War by Karl Marlantes keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where What It Is Like to Go to War is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after What It Is Like to Go to War
The good soldiers
Steel My Soldiers' Hearts
Fives and twenty-fives
Achilles in Vietnam
Fortunate Son
Kill anything that moves
War
Matterhorn
With the old breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa
A rumor of war
A Bright Shining Lie
The last stand of the tin can sailors
Generation Kill
Beyond band of brothers
The Few
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
The red circle
The liberator
Horse soldiers
The Longest Winter
Lions of Kandahar
Masters of the Air
The mission, the men, and me
Retribution