The Things They Carried
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"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien has been selected for Northampton's "On the Same Page" community reading program for 2011. Here are some other recommended titles that touch on similar themes. (August 2011):
Collections
- The Vietnam Reader by Stewart O'Nan
Y.9V679o 1998
Poetry
- The Moon Reflected Fire by Doug Anderson
Y.9V679o 1998
Fiction
- The Deep Green Sea by Robert Olen Butler.
- Indian Country by Phillip Caputo.
- Novel Without a Name by Thu Huong Duong.
- The Turtle Warrior by Mary Relindes Ellis
- The Lotus Eaters by Gerald Green
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene.
- Better Times Than These by Winston Groom.
- The Ha-Ha by Dave King
- The Man From Saigon by Marti Leimbach
- Matterhorn : a novel of the Vietnam War by Karl Marlantes
- The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by Bao Ninh.
- The Lotus Eaters by Tatjana Soli.
- The Gangster We Are All Looking For by lê thi diem thúy.
Nonfiction
- Keep Your head Down by Doug Anderson
EAn2375.A 2009
- Tour of duty : John Kerry and the Vietnam War by Douglas Brinkley
F687.B771t 2004
- Fire In the Lake; the Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald
F687.F576f
- Vietnam, the Necessary War : a reinterpretation of America's most disastrous military conflict by Michael Lind
F687.L64v 1999
- Once upon a distant war : David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, Peter Arnett : young war correspondents and their early Vietnam battles by William Prochnau
F687.P941o 1996
- Called to Serve: Stories of Men & Women Confronted by the Vietnam War Draft by Tom Weiner
F687B.W431c 2011
- The Killing Zone : my life in the Vietnam War by Frederick Downs
F687F.D759k 2007 - My Detachment by Tracy Kidder
F687Q.K538m 2005
Category: Reading Lists, Historical Fiction