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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.

Andrews, Lori B. The Silent Assasin. New York: St. Martins, 2007.

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.

Johnson, Denis. Tree of Smoke. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux., 2007.

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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