Good Vietnam War novels that are fiction?

Question

Something that I could find at a local library? Not really interested in something where the person is in the air force or navy but if they're good, then it won't matter.

Specifically someone in the army or marines

Answer 1

Vietnam War Novels
A Selected Bibliography of Fiction

Alexander, David. When the Buffalo Fight. Richmond, Victoria: Hutchinson of Australia, 1980; New York: Bantam, 1987.

Anderson, Kent. Sympathy for the Devil. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987.

Baber, Asa. Land of a Million Elephants. New York: Morrow, 1970.

Balaban, John. Coming Down Again. San Francisco: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1985.

Balfour, Vivian Vie. The Perimeter of Light. Minneapolis, Minn.: New Rivers Press, 1992.

Bao Ninh. The Sorrow of War. New York: Pantheon, 1995.

Bergen, David. The Time in Between. New York: Random House, 2005.

Bosse, Malcolm J. Incident at Naha.New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972.

Brown, Larry. Dirty Work. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books, 1989.

Bunting, Josiah. The Lionheads. New York: G. Braziller, 1972.

Burdick, Eugene and William Lederer. The Ugly American. New York: Norton, 1958.

Busby, Mark. Fort Benning Blues. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2001.

Butler, Robert Olen. The Alleys of Eden. New York: Horizon Press, 1981.

__________. The Deep Green Sea. New York: Henry Holt, 1998.

__________. On Distant Ground. New York: Knopf, 1985.

__________. Good Scent From a Strange Mountain. New York: Henry Holt, 1992.

Cassidy, John. A Station in the Delta. New York: Scribner's, 1979.

Clayton, Paul. Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam. Booklocker.com, 2001.

Coleman, Charles. Sergeant Back Again. New York: Harper & Row, 1980.

Cramer, Lenox. Slow Dance on the Killing Field. Medina, Ohio: Alpha Publications of Ohio, 1990.

Crumley, James. One to Count Cadence. New York: Random House, 1969.

Currey, Richard. Fatal Light. New York: Dutton/Seymour Lawrence 1988.

Dann, Jean Van Buren and Jack Dann, eds. In The Fields of Fire. New York: Tor, 1987.

Danziger, Jeff. Rising Like the Tucson. New York: Doubleday, 1991.

Davidson, James E. Highway One: A Vietnam War Story. Lincoln, Neb.: Writer's Showcase Press, 2001.

Davis, George. Coming Home. New York: Random House, 1971.

Del Vecchio, John. The 13th Valley. New York: Bantam, 1981.

DeMille, Nelson. Up Country. New York: Warner Books, 2002.

DeMott, Wes. Walking K. Naples, Fla.: Admiral House, 1998.

DiFusco, John, et al. Tracers. New York: Hill & Wang, 1986.

Dodge, Ed. Dau: A Novel of Vietnam. New York: Macmillan, 1984.

Doolittle, Jerome. The Bombing Officer. New York: Dutton, 1982.

Duong Thu Huong. Novel Without a Name. New York: Morrow, 1995.

_____. Paradise of the Blind. New York: Morrow, 1992.

Durden, Charles. No Bugles No Drums. New York: Viking Press, 1976.

Eastlake, William. The Bamboo Bed. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1969.

Farish, Terry. Flower Shadows. New York: Morrow, 1992.

Flowers, A. R. De Mojo Blues. New York: Dutton, 1986.

Ford, Daniel. Incident at Muc Wa. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967.

Fuller, Jack. Fragments. New York: Morrow, 1984.

Galli, Richard. REMFS. 2001.

Giovannitti, Len.The Man Who Won the Medal of Honor. New York: Random House, 1973.

Grady, Patrick. Through the Picture Tube. San Francisco: Robert D. Reed, 2000.

Gray, Anthony. Saigon. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982.

Green, Graham. The Quiet American. New York: Viking Press, 1955.

Greenburg, Martin and Augustus Richard Norton, eds. Touring Nam: The Vietnam Reader. New York: Morrow, 1985.

Groom, Winston. Better Times Than These. New York: Summit Books, 1978.

Halberstam, David. One Very Hot Day. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1967.

Haldeman, Joe W. The Forever War. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972.

__________. War Year. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston,1972.

Hall, James V. To Win the Hearts. Pittsburgh: Dorrance, 1996.

Hardesty, Steven. Ghost Soldiers. New York: Walker, 1986.

Hasford, Gustav. The Phantom Blooper. New York: Bantam, 1990.

_____.The Short-Timers. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

Heinemann, Larry. Close Quarters. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977.

_____. Paco's Story. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986.

Hempstone, Smith. A Tract of Time. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1966.

Henley, Patricia. In the River Sweet. New York: Anchor Books, 2002.

Herzog, Toby. Vietnam War Stories: Innocence Lost. New York: Routledge, 1992.

Huggett, William. Body Count. New York: Putnam, 1973.

James, Allston. Attic Light. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Capra Press, 1979.

Janko, James. Buffalo Boy and Geronimo. Willimantic, Conn.: Curbstone Press, 2001.

Just, Ward. A Dangerous Friend. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1999.

_____ . Stringer. Boston: Little, Brown, 1974.

Kaiko, Takeshi. Into a Black Sun. New York: Kodansha International, 1980.

Kalb, Bernard and Marvin Kalb. The Last Ambassador. Boston: Little, Brown, 1981.

Karlin, Wayne. Lost Armies. New York: Henry Holt, 1988.

_____. Prisoners. Willimantic, Conn.: Curbstone, 1998.

Karlin, Wayne, Basil T. Paquet, and Larry Rottmann, eds. Free Fire Zone: Short Stories by Vietnam Veterans. Coventry, Conn.: 1st Casualty Press, 1973; New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.

King, Stephen. Hearts in Atlantis. New York: Scribner, 1999.

Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Fifth Book of Peace. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.

Klinkowitz, Jerome and John Somer. Writing Under Fire: Stories of the Vietnam War. New York: Dell, 1978.

Kolpacoff, Victor. The Prisoners of Quai Dong. New York: New American Library, 1967.

Lartequy, Jean. The Centurions. New York: Dutton, 1961.

__________. Presumed Dead. New York: Dutton, 1965.

Little, Loyd.The Parthian Shot. New York: Viking Press, 1975.

Marks, Jason. Looking for Canterbury. Philadelphia, Pa.: Xlibris Corporation, October 2002.

Mason, Bobbie Ann. In Country. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.

Mayer, Tom. The Weary Falcon. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1971.

McAfee, John. Slow Walk in a Sad Rain. New York: Warner, 1993.

McDonald, Walter. A Band of Brothers: Stories from Vietnam. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1989.

Myers, Thomas. Walking Point: American Narratives of Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Miller, Kenn. Tiger, the Lurp Dog. Boston: Little, Brown, 1983.

Moore, Gene D. The Killing at Ngo Tho. New York: Norton, 1967.

Moore, Robin. The Green Berets. New York: Crown, 1965.

Morris, Jim. War Story. Boulder, Colo.: Sycamore Island Books, 1979.

Mulligan, John. Shopping Cart Soldiers. Willimantic, Conn.: Curbstone Press, 1998.

Myers, Walter Dean. Fallen Angels. New York: Scholastic Books, 1988.

Newhafer, Richard. No More Bugles in the Sky. New York: New American Library, 1966.

O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1990.

_____. Going after Cacciato. New York: Delacorte, 1978.

_____. In the Lake of the Woods. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1994.

_____. July, July. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Stewart O'Nan. The Names of the Dead. New York: Doubleday, 1996.

O'Nan, Stewart, ed. The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of American Fiction and Nonfiction on the War. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1998.

Pelfrey, William.The Big V. New York: Liveright, 1972.

Pfarrer, Donald. The Fearless Man. New York: Random House, 2004.

_____. Neverlight. New York: Seaview Books, 1982.

Phillips, Jayne Anne. Machine Dreams. New York: Dutton/Seymour Lawrence, 1984.

Pratt, John Clark. The Laotian Fragments. New York: Viking Press, 1974.

Proffitt, Nicholas. Gardens of Stone. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1983.

Red Eagle, Philip A. Red Earth: A Vietnam Warrior's Journey Duluth, Minn.: Holy Cow! Press, 1997.

Riggan, Rob. Free Fire Zone. New York: Norton, 1984.

Roth, Robert. Sand in the Wind. Boston: Little, Brown, 1973.

Rowe, John. Count Your Dead. Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1968.

Rubin, Jonathan. The Barking Dog. New York: G. Braziller, 1974.

Salter, Dean. Jason Seeley’s War. Waterloo, Ont.: Stillmeadow Press, 2004.

Scarborough. Elizabeth.The Healer's War. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1988.

Schaeffer, Susan Fromberg. Buffalo Afternoon. New York: Knopf, 1989.

Scott, Joanna C. Charlie and the Children. Seattle: Black Heron Press, 1997.

Sloan, James Park. War Games. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1971.

Staranowicz, Bob. Chapter One: The Story of Vic Charles. Princeton, N.J.: Xlibris Corp., 2000.

Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1974.

Straub, Peter. Koko. New York: Dutton, 1988.

_____. The Throat. New York: Dutton, 1993.

Tran Van Dinh. Blue Dragon, White Tiger: A Tet Story. Philadelphia: TriAm Press, 1983.

Turnbull, Rick. Gum's Story. Augusta, Ga: Harbor House, 2002.

Walsh, Patricia L. Forever Sad the Hearts. New York: Avon, 1982.

Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose. New York: Asian American Writers' Workshop, 1998.

Webb, James. Fields of Fire. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice- Hall, 1978.

_____. Lost Soldiers. New York: Bantam, 2001.

Weber, Joe. Rules of Engagement. Novato, Calif.: Lyford Books, 1991.

Werder, Albert. A Spartan Education. Brooklyn Heights, N.Y.: Beekman Publishers, 1978.

Willdorf, Barry. Bring the War Home!. San Francisco: A Gauche Press, 2001.

Williams, John A. Captain Blackman. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1972.

Wilson, William.The LBJ Brigade. Los Angeles: Apocalypse, 1966.

Wright, Stephen. Meditations in Green. New York: Scribner's, 1983.

For additional information, see Wittman, Sandra. Writing About Vietnam: A Bibliography of the Literature of the Vietnam Conflict. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989.


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Answer 2

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RE:
Good Vietnam War novels that are fiction?
Something that I could find at a local library? Not really interested in something where the person is in the air force or navy but if they're good, then it won't matter.

Answer 3

"The Quiet American" by Graham Greene would be a great one if you want the perspective of someone not in the military; otherwise "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien is also classic Vietnam War novel.

Answer 4

Read Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers. It may not be appropriate though for 5th grade because of language and adult themes. Who cares? Just read and enjoy. Or you can save the title and read it in several years.

Answer 5

I liked Nelson DeMille's, Up Country, very good read!

Answer 6

The Slaugherhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut is excellent. I'm not sure if it's exactly what your looking for, but you should read it, either way.