Born to Be Killed
William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone
Published 2025
288 pages
The most popular war books of 2025
Books about war show what armed conflict does to those who live through it. Soldiers at the front, families at home, and the long shadow afterward are told in novels, memoirs and histories. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.
See also War fiction, Military science fiction, Military adventure, and War poetry
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Monopoly X How Top-Secret World War II Operations Used the Game of Monopoly to Help Allied POWs Escape, Conceal Spies, and Send Secret Codes
Philip E. Orbanes
Published 2025
304 pages
Becoming Ghost
Cathy Linh Che
Published 2025
120 pages
Above and Beyond (Warhammer 40,000)
Denny Flowers
Published 2025
464 pages
Combat Monsters
Tanya Huff, Peter Clines, Jonathan Maberry, David Mack, Jeremy Robinson, Scott Sigler, Catherine Stine, Harry Turtledove, Jane Yolen
Published 2025
384 pages
No Precious Truth
Chris Nickson
Published 2025
240 pages
Lord of Blackthorne (The Blackthorne Chronicles)
Jason Kingsley
Published 2025
464 pages
Conrad and Margot's Story
Heather Slade
Published 2025
374 pages
At the End of the World There Is a Pond
Steven Duong
2025 · 2026 edition
112 pages
Brid
DAVID ALAN. WOODS
Published 2025
400 pages
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom (Light Novel) Vol. 19
Dojyomaru
Published 2025
292 pages
Emergence
Michael Simon
Published 2025
430 pages
Winter Fusion
Anna Hackett
Published 2025
93 pages
His Christmas Journey Home
Linda Goodnight
Published 2025
272 pages
World Enemy No. 1
Jochen Hellbeck
2025 · 2026 edition
560 pages
An Unlikely Prospect
Shelley Blanton-Stroud
Published 2025
256 pages
Penguin Readers Level 5 Ashes in the Snow (ELT Graded Reader) Abridged Edition.
Ruta Sepetys
Published 2025
96 pages
Whispers in the Glen
Sue Lawrence
Published 2025
272 pages
The Lord of Demons The Burning, Book Three
Evan Winter
Published 2025
432 pages
A Tale of Stars and Shadow
Lisa Cassidy
Published 2025
2189 pages
The Moonlit Piazza
Annabelle Thorpe
Published 2025
400 pages
Healing Hearts
Taryn Kincaid
Published 2025
107 pages
Rescue
Czeslaw Milosz
Published 2025
128 pages
Lost in Terror
Naʻīmah Aḥmad Mahjūr
Published 2025
305 pages