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Serena at Savvy Verse & Wit and Anna of Diary of an Eccentric have been co-hosting the War Through the Generations Reading Challenge for the past three years.

They’ve delved into WWII, the Vietnam War and the American Civil War. For 2012, they’ve chosen to focus on WWI (1914-1918), also known as The Great War and The War to End All Wars.

I have a real interest in the time period around this war, which permanently changed the world, and seem to read a lot of literature centered on that era, so I thought this would be a snap. Then I looked at my TBR list for 2012 and realized that none of the books I’ve put on it thus far qualify. AAACK!

But I did find some after all:

So I’m entering at only the WADE level which requires me to read 4-10 books in any genre with WWI as a primary or secondary theme and occurring before, during, or after the war.

1. Blizzard of Glass by Sally M. Walker – non-fiction, middle-school

2. The Absolutist by John Boyne – fiction

3. The Underpainter Read in December 2012 by Jane Urquart – literary fiction

4. Moon Over Manifest by Claire Vanderpoole – fiction, YA, Newbery Medal winner

5. The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller – fiction, mystery

6. An Unmarked Grave: A Bess Crawford mystery by Charles Todd – fiction, mystery

7. The Mapping of Love and Death: a Maisie Dobbs mystery by Jacqueline Winspear – fiction, mystery

8. Broken Music by Marjorie Eccles – fiction, mystery, romance