I've read both of these books, and they are both very good. We were soldiers once is a bit more of a straight-up factual memoir, while The Things they Carried is a bit more literary and a bit more moving.

My favorite war novel by far is Guy Sajer's The Forgotten Solider. It's a memoir about a French-German who fights for the Nazis on the Russian front during WWII, and it's crazy good. Most heart-wrenching and depressing war memoir I've read.

 

Have you read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? I've heard good things about that... word of mouth though.And it may be more of a chick thing since it's basically a Jane Austin book. I really wanna read Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.