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A Super Long List of Fiction Books to Keep You Busy During a Deployment

January 12, 2018 by Julie

A Super Long List of Fiction Books to Keep You Busy During a Deployment

I love to read, I have as long as I can remember. My dad was a librarian when I was born and I guess it was just meant to be. I read about 40-70 books a year and wish it could be 100. Seriously. Books are amazing! I love how you can get truly lost in a story, learn more about something you didn’t, or connect with characters and hear their stories.

Getting lost in a book is a good way to handle those deployment days. Books can be so healing in this way, whether they simply take your mind off of your own situation or allow you to experience a story that touches your heart.

A Super Long List of Fiction Books to Keep You Busy During a Deployment

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If you are looking for a book to read this deployment, here are some fiction books to add to your list. Enjoy!

Fiction with a Military theme

Up in Smoke by Hannah R. Conway

Don’t Mean a Thing by Renee Conoulty

Blue Stars by Emily Gray Tedrowe

Full Measures by Rebecca Yarros

Historical Fiction

Some Luck by Jane Smiley

As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner

The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner

Barkskins by Annie Proulx

The Girls by Emma Cline

A Bridge Across the Ocean by Susan Meissner

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

Secrets of a Charmed Life by Susan Meissner

Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

A Hundred Summers by Beatriz Williams

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

A Super Long List of Fiction Books to Keep You Busy During a Deployment

Thriller/Suspense/Mystery

The Last Mrs. Parrish by Liv Constantine

All the Missing Girls by Megan Miranda

The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris

Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris

Women’s Fiction

Forever, Interrupted by Taylor Jenkins Reid

One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

The Secrets of Midwives by Sally Hepworth

The Red Door Inn by Liz Johnson

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty

The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton

Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

The Swimmer’s Assistant by Amber Myers

I’ve Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

A Super Long List of Fiction Books to Keep You Busy During a Deployment

Contemporary Fiction

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Perfect Little World by Kevin Wilson

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult

Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal

Where’d You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

The Girls from Corona del Mar by Rufi Thorpe

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult

YA Fiction

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell

The Selection by Kiera Cass

Just One Day by Gayle Forman

Paper Towns by John Green

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

Science Fiction/Dystopia

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

Matched by Ally Condie

11/22/63 by Stephen King

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Delirium by Lauren Oliver

Open Minds by Susan Kaye Quinn

Divergent by Veronica Roth

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

What are your favorite books???

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Owner of Soldier's Wife, Crazy Life. Writer, reader, coffee drinker. Mom to three boys, wife of a National Guard soldier. Living life in Tennessee.

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