On 5 November 2019, the BBC News listed Regeneration on its list of the 100 most influential novels. According to academic critic Karin Westman, Regeneration was "well received by reviewers in both the UK and the United States."Westman 61–64. Beyond frequent praise, the main points discussed often related to the veracity of Barker's depiction of the War period and about her role as a woman writer, along with the connections of this work to her previous novels. Westman argues that many of these critics judged Barker's work on "content rather than style", so that this work allowed her to break from her earlier classification as a regional, working-class feminist into the "(male) canon of British literature". The novel was even one of the "best novels of 1992", according to the New York Times.
On 5 November 2019, the BBC News listed Regeneration on its list of the 100 most influential novels. According to academic critic Karin Westman, Regeneration was "well received by reviewers in both the UK and the United States."Westman 61–64. Beyond frequent praise, the main points discussed often related to the veracity of Barker's depiction of the War period and about her role as a woman writer, along with the connections of this work to her previous novels. Westman argues that many of these critics judged Barker's work on "content rather than style", so that this work allowed her to break from her earlier classification as a regional, working-class feminist into the "(male) canon of British literature". The novel was even one of the "best novels of 1992", according to the New York Times.