The good and the bad, and the in-between – an incomplete list of Iraq and Afghanistan War fiction, 2003 – 2009:
NOVELS / GRAPHIC NOVELS / PLAYS / VIDEO, FILMS, MOVIE
IRAQ WAR NOVELS:
Story of the Sand – Mark B. Pickering
Lost Boys – James Miller
Zubaida’s Window – Iqbal Al-Qazwini
The Ghost – Robert Harris
Like No Other – Robert Mercer Nairne
A Desert Called Peace – Tom Kratman
Operation Supergoose – William Hart
Hocus Potus – Malcolm MacPherson
The Sirens of Baghdad – Yasmina Khadra
Last One In – Nicholas Kulish
Homefront – Tony Christini
The Conquest of Oila – Tony Christini
Still the Monkey – Alivia C. Tagliaferri
The Scorpion’s Gate – Richard A. Clarke
The Human War – Noah Cicero
Homeland – Paul William Roberts
Outsourced – R. J. Hillhouse
Body of Lies – David Ignatius
The Contractor – Charles Holdefer
Bowl of Cherries – Millard Kaufman
Jasmine’s Tortoise – Corinne Souza
Ever After – Karen Kingsbury
Refresh, Refresh – Benjamin Percy
The L. P. – David Walks-As-Bear
Checkpoint – Nicholson Baker
A Medic in Iraq – Cole Bolchoz
The Chameleon’s Shadow – Minette Walters
Ammi: Letter To A Democratic Mother – Saeed Mirza
We Are Now Beginning Our Descent – James Meek
Mojave Winds – Mark Biskeborn
Sufi’s Ghost – Mark Biskeborn
No Space for Further Burials – Feryal Ali Gauhar
Queen of Hearts & Black Hands – Daniel Homan
Blind Fall – Christopher Rice
One of Us – Melissa Benn
Sunrise Over Fallujah – Walter Dean Myers
Concealed…Inside the Enemy – Barbara Kline
100 Days and 99 Nights – Alan Madison
A Thousand Veils – D. J. Murphy
You Leader Will Control Your Fire – Roy William Scranton
The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid
Linger – M. E. Kerr
Homefront – Kristen Tsetsi
Nothing to Lose – Lee Child
A Dangerous Age – Ellen Gilchrist
One Weekend a Month – Craig Trebilcock
No Time for Ribbons – Craig Trebilcock
The Third River – Nisreen Ghandourah
One September Morning – Rosalind Noonan
Wrongful Death – Robert Dugoni
When You Come Home – Nora Eisenberg
Castle – J. Robert Lennon
IRAQ WAR GRAPHIC NOVELS:
Army@Love – Rick Veitch
Shooting War – Lappe and Goldman
“Greendale” as graphic novel – Neil Young & Joshua Dysart
Pride of Baghdad – Vaughan and Henrichon
Iraq: Operation Corporate Takeover – Wilson and O’Connor
DMZ – Brian Wood
To Afghanistan and Back – Ted Rall
The War Within – Gary Trudeau
IRAQ WAR PLAYS:
The Wolf – Sean Huze
1984 – Tim Robbins
Peace Mom – Dario Fo
Stuff Happens – David Hare
The Vertical Hour – David Hare
9 Parts of Desire – Heather Raffo – more info
Flags – Jane Martin
Black Watch – Gregory Burke1 | 2
Ward 57 – Jessica Goldberg
March On, Dream Normal – Jeanette Scherrer
Betrayed – George Packer (additional)
Get Your War On – Shawn Sides / David Rees
One Shot, One Kill – Richard Vetere
Palace of the End – Judith Thompson
Beast – Michael Weller
In Conflict – Yvonne Latty/students
The Warrior – Jake Gilhooley
Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall be Unhappy – Tony Kushner
Prayer For My Enemy – Craig Lucas
Iraq War, The Musical! – Paul Cross
The Eyes of Babylon – Jeff Key
Prophecy – Karen Malpede
Bring the King, Bring Him – Haider Munathar
Welcome Home, Jenny Sutter – Julie Marie Myatt
How Many Miles to Basra? – Colin Teevan
The Lonely Soldier Monologues – Helen Benedict
Old Glory – Brett Neveu
Baghdad Wedding – Hassan Abdulrazzak
The Women of… – Edgecombe, Harrison, Pollack, cast
Soldiers Circle – Russell Vandenbroucke
IRAQ WAR FICTION FILMS AND VIDEO:
Lions for Lambs
Over There
Valley of the Wolves Iraq
The Tiger and the Snow
Stop-Loss
The Situation
G.I. Jesus
24
A Mighty Heart
Home of the Brave
Grace is Gone
In the Valley of Elah
Rendition
Redacted
Homecoming
Embedded
Body of Lies
The Kingdom
Battle for Haditha – Walsh review
War, Inc.
A Journal for Jordan
Against All Enemies
Brothers
Shooting War
Ahlaam
Badland
Charlie Wilson’s War
“Green Zone”
Day Zero
Turtles Can Fly
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
The Lucky Ones
Diary of the Dead
The Hurt Locker
“W”
Army Wives
Saving Jessica Lynch
Generation Kill
Taking Chance
In the Loop
The Messenger
Brothers
COMMENTARY (on Iraq war fiction):
Hollywood’s New Censors – John Pilger
Hollywood Goes to War – Andrew Gumbel
Hollywood Always at War – Response to “Hollywood Goes to War”- Christini / (Pilger)
Too Soon for Iraq Dramas?
Don’t Mention the War – Eddie Cockrell
Footnotes to the Conquest: Iraq War Novels and Movies
Antiwar Novels Are “Belligerent”? – Tony Christini
The Iraq war movie: Military hopes to shape genre – Julian E. Barnes
War No More: The Antiwar Impulse in American Literature, 1861-1914 byCynthia Wachtell
See also:
Iraq War Documentary Films and Video:
EXTENSIVE LIST AT WIKIPEDIA
A Practical Policy 
The media finally picked up the story about private contractors after the Sept. 16 shootings but it was always a slow motion train wreck happening in plain sight, right in front of our eyes. My novel The Contractor took years to write, and Blackwater is only part of the story.
Thanks for listing “Homefront” here. Military spouses, soldiers, and literary readers have responded incredibly favorably, and because I wrote it to introduce people to the intimate and surreal quality of waiting for someone you love to survive a war, that it’s here to be introduced to more people is extremely gratifying.
KT