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.
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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
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
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
[…] Reading books, watching movies, tv, going on walks, working on your hobbies, etc, all of these will help you through a deployment. Focusing on your hobbies will help keep you busy. You can also work on your career, work on going to school or do something to better yourself. […]