61 Novels: Representations of the Vietnam War. (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
Description
This article is from the Vietnam FAQ, by Brian Ross, John R. Tegtmeier, Edwin E. Moise, Frank Vaughan, John Tegtmeier with numerous contributions by others.
61 Novels: Representations of the Vietnam War. (Recommended Reading List on the Viet Nam War)
Baber, Asa. The Land of a Million Elephants. 2nd ed.
reprint. Vietnam Generation Series. Burning Cities Press, 1992.
Bao Ninh. The Sorrow of War. London: Martin Secker and
Warburg, 1993; New York: Pantheon; reprint paper, Riverhead Books, 1996.
Browne, Corinne. Body Shop. New York: Stein and Day, 1973.
Bunting, Josiah. The Lionheads. New York: George
Braziller, 1972; Popular Library, 1972.
Burdick, Eugene and William Lederer. The Ugly American.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1958; reprint paper, Fawcett, 1987.
Butler, Robert Olen. The Alleys of Eden : A Novel. New
York: Horizon, 1981; Ballantine, 1983; reissue paper, Owlet, 1994.
Cassidy, John. A Station in the Delta. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1979; Ballantine, 1989.
Coonts, Stephen. Flight of the Inruder. Annapolis: Naval
Institute Press, 1986; New York: Pocket Books, 1991.
Crumley, James. One To Count Cadence. New York: Random
House, 1969; Vintage, 1987.
Del Vecchio, John. The 13th Valley. New York: Bantam,
1982.
Duong Thu Huong. Paradise of the Blind. New York: William
Morrow & Co, 1993; Penguin USA, 1994.
Ford, Daniel. Incident At Muc Wa. Garden City, NY:
Doubleday & Co, 1967.
Information on the most recent printing of this book is available from the
author at http://danford.net/mucwa.htm.
Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. New York: Viking,
1955; reprint, Modern Library, 1992; reissue paper, Penguin USA, 1991.
Hasford, Gustav. The Short Timers. New York: Harper & Row,
1980.
Heinemann, Larry. Close Quarters. New York: Farrar,
Straus, Giroux, 1977.
Heinemann, Larry. Paco's Story. New York: Farrar, Strauss
and Giroux, 1986; reprint paper, Viking, 1989.
Huggett, William Turner. Body Count. New York: G.P.
Putnam's Sons, 1973.
Karlin, Wayne, Le Minh Khue, and Truong Vu, editors. The
Other Side of Heaven: Postwar Fiction by Vietnamese and American
Writers. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press, 1995.
Compilation of works from the US, Vietnam and the
overseas Vietnamese communities.
Mason, Bobbie Ann. In Country: A Novel. New York: Harper
Row, 1985; reissue paper, Harperperennial, 1993.
Merkin, Robert. Zombie Jamboree. New York: Harper & Row,
1986.
O'Brien, Tim. Going After Cacciato. New York: Delacorte
Press, 1980;
Dell, 1980; reissue paper, Delacorte Press, 1989.
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. New York: Penquin,
1990; reprint paper, Penguin USA, 1991.
Rubin, Jonathan. The Barking Deer. New York: George
Braziller, 1974.
A surrealistic fable, set in the Central Highlands
during the advisory years. The work may not be for everyone, but
it deals with the universal anti-war issue of what happens to all the
people who are sucked along in the grand "visions" of opposing forces
going to war.
Stone, Robert. Dog Soldiers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1974; reprint paper, New York: Penguin USA, 1989.
Webb, James. Fields of Fire. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1978; reprint paper, New York: Pocket Books, 1993.
Wright, Stephen. Meditations in Green. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons, 1983; reissue paperback, Delta, 1996.
Continue to:
My Books
