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To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee

The Road: Vasily Grossman

Sofia Tolstoy: A Biography

The Original of Laura. Vladimir Nabokov: 2008

History of the Thirteen. Honore de Balzac: 1833-5

Al Qaeda in its Own Words. Gilles Kepel and Jean-Pierre Milelli ed.: 2008

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women.
Geraldine Brooks: 1995

The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan. Christina Lamb: 2004

The Places In Between. Rory Stewart: 2006

The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban. Sarah Chayes: 2007

A Thousand Splendid Suns. Khaled Hosseini: 2008

Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Ahmed Rashid: 2008

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. Ahmed Rashid: 2001