Lists featuring Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War

• BBC's "The Big Read - Books 1-100"
• Museums, Libraries, and Archives Society's "30 Books Every Adult Should Read Before They Die"
• Dr. Peter Boxall's "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (2006 edition)"
• Orange Prize for Fiction's "50 Essential Reads by Contemporary Authors"
• silvermoondragon's "Books to read before I die - the likely version."
• Theduckthief's "Books you should read if you want to consider yourself well-read"
• Annie's "Books you should read if you want to consider yourself well-read"
• BBC - The Big Read - Top 100 Books
• Waterstone Books's "100 Best 20th Century Books"
• Telegraph's "100 Best Books Since 1982"
• BBC Women's Watershed Books
• Callil and Toibin The Modern Library 200 Best Novels in English since 1950
• The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's 'My Favourite Book' 2004
• The Essential books
• Nancy Pearl's Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason
• gauloises's "My Top 100 Novels"
• larisa5656's "My Neverending Lifetime Reading List"
• 501 Must-Read Books - Modern Fiction
• mishistar's "My Neverending Lifetime Reading List"
• gauloises's "Books That I Have Read"
• southernbohemian's "I Can't Possibly Live Long Enough to Read All of This"
• Sara's "I Can't Possibly Live Long Enough to Read All of This"
• mborg88's "Books I have to read before I die"
• originalcracker's "Every Book In My Lists of Books to Read"
• Bohdel's "Books Del wants to read"