Since we're only a few days into the new year, it's hard to say what 2014 will have in store. But one of the most important things on the calendar will surely be the commemoration of events that happened 100 years ago. The outbreak of the first world war, and the slaughter that followed, still feel like tragedies we haven't properly understood and with which we can't come to terms. But reading certainly helps. This month on the Reading group we'll do what we can to keep an important memory alive.

Naturally, the first work that springs to mind is that of the war poets, and we could certainly look at a good collection. There are also the incredibly moving memoirs and first-hand reports, such as Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That and Vera Brittain's Testament of Youth. And then there are the novels: Frederic Manning's Her Privates We, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, to name just three, are books worth reading in any year.

But mentioning Hemingway also makes me realise that there's an entirely different species of war book we might want to look at too: those of the damaged survivors, the Lost Generation, the people trying to put together the pieces after 1918. In its way, Fiesta is as much a reflection on the Great War as A Farewell to Arms. We might also want to go in the other direction and look directly at the history in books such Christopher Clark's The Sleepwalkers or John Keegan's First World War. Finally, it's worth considering the dozens, possibly hundreds of books, that have been released over the past year or so.

The choice is yours – all nominations will be gladly received and put in a hat, as is customary. Since it's the new year, I'd also be delighted to hear suggestions for other topics we might cover over the next few months.