#121 in Historical fiction
Regeneration
- 256
- Pages
- about 4.5 h
- Reading time
Affiliate link: buying through it supports BookRank at no extra cost to you.
Our view
“Regeneration” is a quietly powerful anti-war novel that asks what healing means and what war does to those who survive it. Pat Barker keeps the action away from the front line, in a hospital where an army doctor treats officers broken by the fighting, real figures of the period among them. Some readers rank it as a modern classic. It opens a trilogy continued in “The Eye in the Door” and “The Ghost Road”.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
Regeneration is a historical and anti-war novel by Pat Barker, first published in 1991. The novel was a Booker Prize nominee and was described by the New York Times Book Review as one of the four best novels of the year in its year of publication. It is the first book in the Regeneration Trilogy of novels on the First World War, being followed by The Eye in the Door in 1993, and then The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize in 1995.
Reading order · Regeneration Trilogy
Full order & progress →- RegenerationThis book
8.08.0 / 10 - The Eye in the DoorThe Eye in the Door–Not ranked yet
- The Ghost RoadThe Ghost Road–Not ranked yet
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 53 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 27% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Rankings average of 8.0. That is how 8.0 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 53 | 100% |
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
