Afghanistan


The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
And the Mountains Echoed
The Bookseller of Kabul
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
The Places in Between
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
The Patience Stone
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)
The Tragedy of Afghanistan by Raja AnwarAfghanistan-Washington's Secret War by Phillip BonoskyUnholy Wars by John K. CooleyForbidden Truth by Jean-Charles BrisardCharlie Wilson's War by George Crile
Blowback Season 4 Bibliography
50 books — 1 voter
The Cult of Romance by Sarah AyoubLove from A to Z by S.K. AliIn the Likely Event by Rebecca YarrosSleepless in Dubai by Sajni PatelMaya's Laws of Love by Alina Khawaja
Romances in the Middle East
16 books — 1 voter

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThree Cups of Tea by Greg MortensonJamilia by Chingiz AitmatovMidnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
Books Set in the -stan Countries
333 books — 172 voters

Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,179 books — 2,452 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniLost Horizon by James HiltonKim by Rudyard KiplingThe Man Who Would Be King by Rudyard Kipling
TREKKING THE 'STANS
85 books — 59 voters

Nadeem Aslam
Even the air of this country has a story to tell about warfare. It is possible here to lift a piece of bread from a plate and following it back to its origins, collect a dozen stories concerning war-how it affected the hand that pulled it out of the oven, the hand that kneaded the dough, how war impinged upon the field where wheat was grown.
Nadeem Aslam, The Wasted Vigil

Khaled Hosseini
I said to you, "Hold my hand. Nothing bad will happen." These are only words. A father's tricks, It slays your father, your faith in him. Because all I can think tonight is how deep the sea, and how vast, how indifferent. How powerless I am to protect you from it. All I can do is pray. ...more
Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

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