Sorry, this is going to be a bit of a rehash today. I wanted to make sure I linked to all the great suggestions I received for books about and set during WWI and WWII, so I thought I would make two nice lists conveniently on one page. Hopefully this will make it easy if anyone wants to print the lists off. If you click on the titles you can read about them on Amazon.
WWI suggestions:
Life Class, Pat Barker
Regeneration, Pat Barker
No Angel, Penny Vincenzi
Long Way Home, Sebastian Barry
Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
Air We Breath, Andrea Barrett
Crimson Portrait, Jody Shields
Apple Blossom Time, Kathryn Haig
Dark Tide, Vera Brittain
Flowers of the Field, Sarah Harrison
The Last Day of the War, Judith Claire Mitchell
Mansfield, C.K. Stead
Random Harvest, James Hilton
Love's Mansion, Paul West
Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain
Dreamers of the Day, Mary Doria Russell
A Very Long Engagement, Sebastien Japrisot
Winter of the World, Carol Ann Lee
Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford
Under Fire, Henri Barbusse
An Airman's Wife: A True Story of Lovers Separated by War, Aimee McHardy
Penguin Book of World War I Stories, edited by Barbara Korte
Goodbye to All That, Robert Graves
The Great War and Modern Memory, Paul Fussell
A Soldier of the Great War, Mark Helprin
Barbed Wire and Yellow Roses, Peter Yeldham
Black Diamonds, Kim Kelly
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
The Middle Parts of Fortune Somme and Ancre, Frederic Manning
A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Storm of Steel, Ernst Junger
Patrimony, Jane Thynne
Alfred and Emily, Doris Lessing
Goshawk Squadron, Derek Robinson
Verdun, Jules Romain
Greenmantle, John Buchan
Vimy, Pierre Berton
The Enormous Room, E.E. Cummings
WWII suggestions:
April in Paris, Michael Wallner
The Bronze Horseman, Paullina Simons
Heart Mountain, Gretel Ehrlich
Resistance, Owen Sheers
She Goes to War, Edith Pargeter
A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
Atonement, Ian McEwan
Jill, Philip Larkin
Gone to Soldiers, Marge Piercy
The Siege, Helen Dunmore
The Welsh Girl, Peter Ho Davies -
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
Charlotte Gray, Sebastian Faulks
Land Girls, Angela Huth
Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes, Mollie Panter-Downes
The Balkan Trilogy and The Levant Trilogy, Olivia Manning
Tallgrass, Sandra Dallas
Debs at War, Anne de Courcy
Resistance: One Woman's Defiance in Occupied France, Agnes Humbert
Restless, William Boyd
If This is a Man, Primo Levi
The Summer of My German Soldier, Bette Greene
Night, Elie Wiesel
Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky
The Night Watch, Sarah Waters
Human Voices, Penelope Fitzgerald
Sophie's Choice, William Styron
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
The Winds of War and War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk
These are definitely not complete lists (and it seems like there are more WWI titles than WWII titles--I thought it would be the reverse), but they are a starting point if you are looking for a book about this period. I hope to read many of the books as well. Hopefully I've listed all the suggestions I've received, and if I've missed something please let me know. Thanks for everyone's help!
WWI suggestions:
WWII suggestions: