Books with anti-war themes have explicit anti-war messages or have been described as having significant anti-war themes or sentiments. Not all of these books have a direct connection to any particular anti-war movement. The list includes fiction and non-fiction, and books for children and younger readers.

Fiction

All Men Are Enemies – Richard Aldington Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson – George I. Gurdjieff, 1949 All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque, 1928 The Americanization of Emily – William Bradford Huie, 1964 Ashe of Rings – Mary Butts novel, 1926"Mary Butts...produced an extraordinary and now almost forgotten novel, Ashe of Rings (1926), which combines the Supernatural, both benign and malevolent, with a strong anti-war message."F. Hammill, A. Sponenberg, E. Miskimmin, Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950. Springer, 2006. , (p.295) Bid Me To Live – H.D. novel, 1960"More explicitly pacifist examples include...Hilda Doolittle's Bid Me To Live". "World War One Writing", in Faye Hammill, Esme Miskimmin, Ashlie Sponenberg (eds.) An Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900–1950. Palgrave, 2008 (p. 295). Captain Jinks, Hero – Ernest Crosby, 1902Cynthia Wachwell, War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861–1914. Louisiana State University Press 2010, (pp. 163-66)."Among Crosby's numerous anti-imperialist writings was the delightful, satirical novel Captain Jinks, Hero published in 1902..."Philip S. Foner, The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Birth of American Imperialism Vol. 2: 1898–1902. NYU Press, 1972. (p. 590) Catch-22 – Joseph Heller, 1961 A Doctor's Journal Entry For 6 August,1945 - Vikram Seth 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, 1916Vincent B. Sherry, The Cambridge companion to the literature of the First World War. Cambridge University Press, 2005 (p.102) Death Of A Hero – Richard Aldington Despised and Rejected – Rose Allatini novel (published under the name A. T. Fitzroy) 1918Despised and Rejected was banned by the British Government shortly after publication. See John Sloan (June 2004). "A War of Individuals: Bloomsbury Attitudes to the Great War by Jonathan Atkin". The Review of English Studies 55 (220): 478–480. doi:10.1093/res/55.220.478. Retrieved 1 September 2014. A Fable – William Faulkner, 1954, World War I The Empty Drum - Leo Tolstoy, 1887 A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway, 1929 For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway, 1940 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 Involution & Evolution – Joss Sheldon novel Johnny Got His Gun – Dalton Trumbo novel, 1938 Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline novel Lay Down Your Arms! – Bertha von Suttner novel Looking Good – Keith Maillard novel Legend of the Galactic Heroes – Yoshiki Tanaka Lyndon Johnson and the Majorettes – Keith Maillard novel Lysistrata – Aristophanes play, 411 BCE The Naked and the Dead – Norman Mailer novel Non-Combatants and Others – Rose Macaulay novel, 1916 Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War – Evadne Price (as Helen Zenna Smith) novel, 1930 On the Beach – Nevil Shute novel The Once and Future King – T. H. White, 1958"T.H. White declared the theme of his Arthurian fantasy, The Once and Future King written for the most part between 1938 and 1941, was to find "an antidote to war"". Tom Shippey, "Fantasy" in The Oxford Companion to English Literature edited by Margaret Drabble. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006. (p.351). Paths of Glory – Humphrey Cobb, 1935Shampa Iftakhar: "Paths of Glory: Injustice and Crime against Humanity", International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, 2015. Quiet Ways – Katharine Burdekin novel, 1930"During World War One Burdekin worked as a VAD nurse, an experience which inspired her sixth novel, the vigorously anti-war Quiet Ways." F. Hammill, A. Sponenberg, E. Miskimmin, Encyclopedia of British Women’s Writing 1900–1950. Springer, 2006. (p.34) The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane novel, 1895 Regeneration – Pat Barker Shabdangal – Malayalam novel, 1947 The Short-Timers – Gustav Hasford novel Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut science fiction novel The Sorrow of War – Bảo Ninh novel, 1990 The Thin Red Line – James Jones novel, 1962 The Things They Carried – Tim O'Brien, 1990 Three Soldiers – John Dos Passos novel, 1921, World War I The Tin Drum – Günter Grass novel The Train Was on Time (Der Zug war pünktlich) – Heinrich Böll novel, 1949 Two Women – Alberto Moravia novel, 1958 Under Fire – Henri Barbusse novel, 1916"Henri Barbusse, the author of the internationally famed anti-war novel Le Feu (Under Fire)"... Alan Kramer, Dynamic of Destruction : Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War Oxford University Press, 2007 (p. 237). The Unknown Soldier – Väinö Linna novel, 1954 Voyage to Faremido – Frigyes Karinthy novel, 1916"Karinthy, as a pacifist, is very bitter about the war...In asides Karithy expresses horror at the war, damning both Central Powers and Allies". "Voyage to Faremido and Capillaria" in E. F. Bleiler and Richard Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years. Kent State University Press, 1990. (pp. 400-401). . "War" - Ludwig Renn novel, 1928. War Porn - Roy Scranton novel, 2016. "The War Prayer" – Mark Twain short story, c.1910 War with the Newts – Karel Čapek, novel 1936Darko Suvin describes War with the Newts as "the pioneer of all anti-fascist and anti-militarist SF". Suvin, "Capek, Karel" in Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers by Curtis C. Smith. St. James Press, 1986, (p.842-4). The Wars – Timothy Findley novel, 1977"The Wars is an anti-war novel". "Author uses fiction to show horrors of First World War".The Leader-Post, November 15, 1977 (p.47). Why Are We in Vietnam? – Norman Mailer novel, 1967 Why Was I Killed? (retitled Return of the Traveller in the US) – Rex Warner novel, 1943"...his final excursion into visionary fiction...was Why Was I Killed?, an after-death fantasy on a pacifist theme". Michael Moorcock, "Introduction" to The Aerodrome by Rex Warner. Vintage Classics, 2007. (pp. ix-xx)

Non-fiction

Addicted to War – Joel Andreas, 1991, 2002 Old Man at the Bridge - Ernest Hemingway May 1938 The Armies of the Night – Norman Mailer non-fiction novel, 1968 Autobiography:The Story of my Experiments with Truth – Mohandas K. Gandhi, 1927 The Bloody Traffic – Fenner Brockway, 1934Martin Ceadel,"Selected Bibliography", in Pacifism in Britain, 1914–1945 : the defining of a faith. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1980. (pp. 323-333). Born on the Fourth of July – Ron Kovic autobiography, 1976 The Causes of World War Three – C. Wright Mills, 1958"Anti-war Book May Offend" (Review of The Causes of World War Three) Reading Eagle - December 7, 1958 (p. 52) The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War – Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Sagan and Donald Kennedy, 1984 Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians – Chris Hedges, 2008 The Complaint of Peace – Desiderius Erasmus, 1517Ben Lowe, Imagining peace: a history of early English pacifist ideas, 1340–1560.Penn State Press, 1997 (pp. 163-64). The Conduct of the Allies – Jonathan Swift, 1711 The Conquest of Violence – Bart de Ligt, 1937Peter Van Den Dungen, "Jacob ter Meulen and Bart de Ligt as Pioneers of Peace History" in Harvey L. Dyck, The Pacifist Impulse in Historical Perspective. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1996. (pp. 52-72) Cry Havoc! – Beverley Nichols, 1933 Disenchantment – C. E. Montague, 1922"In 1922 C.E. Montague's Disenchantment began the flood of anti-war accounts by former soldiers..." Philip Towle, Democracy and peace making : negotiations and debates, 1815-1973. London : Routledge, 2000. (p. 106). The Education of a Christian Prince – Desiderius Erasmus, 1516 Einstein on Peace – edited by Otto Nathan and Heinz Norden; preface by Bertrand Russell, 1960 Ends and Means – Aldous Huxley essays, 1937 Fate of the Earth – Jonathan Schell, 1982 The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now – Jonathan Schell, 1998 Good-Bye to All That - Robert Graves, 1929 Hiroshima – John Hersey account of the bombings, 1946 Human Smoke – Nicholson Baker If the War Goes On … – Hermann Hesse, 1971"If the War Goes On: Herman Hesse's writing against war". The Village Voice, June 17, 1971 (p. 35). In Solitary Witness: The Life and Death of Franz Jägerstätter – Gordon C. Zahn, 1981 The Killing Zone: My Life in the Vietnam War – Frederick Downs, 1978 The Kingdom of God is Within You – Leo Tolstoy, 1894 The Inevitable Revolution – Leo Tolstoy, 1909 Krieg dem Kriege aka War Against War – Ernst Friedrich, 1924"When antiwar commemorative demonstrations took place all over Germany during the 1924 anniversary year, Friedrich published War Against War in Berlin with text and captions in four languages".Dora Apel,"Cultural Battlegrounds: Weimar Photographic Narratives of War". New German Critique No. 76, (Winter, 1999) (pp. 49-84)Review of War Against War! Steve Andrew, The Morning Star, 4 August 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2014. The Last Weapon and its sequel The Weapon Unsheathed – Theodora Wilson Wilson, 1916 The Long Road to Greenham: Feminism and Anti-Militarism in Britain since 1820 – Jill Liddington, 1989"Jill Liddington's The Long Road to Greenham, for example, which examines women's pacifism from 1820 to the 1980s...." Heloise Brown, The Truest Form of Patriotism: Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870-1902, Manchester University Press, 2013. . Miami and the Siege of Chicago – Norman Mailer non-fiction novel, 1968 New Cyneas – Émeric Crucé, 1623 Newer Ideals of Peace – Jane Addams, 1907"In Newer Ideals of Peace (1907) she added that social sentiments “must be enlightened, disciplined and directed by the fullest knowledge". The latter book was her plea for a civilized alternative to war". Gary J Dorrien, Social Ethics in the Making : interpreting an American tradition. Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. (p. 177). No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran – Murray Polner, 1971 Nonviolence: The history of a dangerous idea – Mark Kurlansky, 2006 Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe – Graham Allison, 2004 Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero – edited by Joseph Rotblat, 1998 Pacifism in Europe to 1914, Peter Brock, 1972 Pacifism in the Twentieth Century – Peter Brock and Nigel Young, 1999 Pacifism in the United States – Peter Brock, 1968 Peace Is Possible: Conversations with Arab and Israeli Leaders from 1988 to the Present – S. Daniel Abraham, Bill Clinton, 2006 Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated – James Mann, editor, 2004 Peace with Honour – A. A. Milne, 1934 A People's History of the United States – Howard Zinn, 1980 Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch – Immanuel Kant essay, 1795 The Politics of Jesus – John Howard Yoder, 1972 The Power of Non-Violence – Richard B. Gregg, 1934 The Root Is Man: Two Essays in Politics – Dwight Macdonald, 1953"As always with Macdonald, honesty won out (one almost adds, alas) and the "inside" political discussion reached its climax with his essay "The Root Is Man," in which he arrived at a kind of anarcho-pacifism based on an absolutist morality." Irving Howe, Selected Writings, 1950–1990 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990 (p. 257). 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 – Jonathan Schell, 2007