All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · ★★★★★ · 296 pages · 1928
The book shows the hells of war from the point of a German private in World War I. The toils of losing friends, being a youth and having to grow up quickly to see death, not knowing who you are when you come home. It is a touching book in many levels and shows how war's humanizing and dehumanizing aspects.