Editors' Top Picks
The Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightGhost Wars by Steve CollBlack Flags by Joby WarrickThe 9/11 Commission Report by National Commission on Terr...Directorate S by Steve Coll
Terrorism, 9/11, "War on Terror" (non-fiction)
77th out of 248 books — 87 voters
John Adams by David McCullough1776 by David McCulloughTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Best American History Books
1373rd out of 2,195 books — 2,585 voters

Necropolis by Catharine ArnoldTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinWill in the World by Stephen GreenblattWe Two by Gillian GillPompeii by Alex Butterworth
History & Biography Published in Decade: 2000s
181st out of 242 books — 11 voters
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiThe Epic of Gilgamesh by AnonymousNot Without My Daughter by Betty MahmoodyPersepolis by Marjane SatrapiRubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám
Iran and Iraq, Ancient and Modern
476th out of 482 books — 197 voters

The 300 by Daniel WasserblyA Soldier's Story by Omar N. BradleyGoodbye, Darkness by William ManchesterThe Road Past Mandalay by John MastersCrusade in Europe by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Best Military Autobiographies
102nd out of 139 books — 9 voters
Winter Soldier by Iraq Veterans Against the WarHubris by Michael IsikoffImperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv ChandrasekaranOverthrow by Stephen KinzerFiasco by Thomas E. Ricks
Iraq
34th out of 85 books — 5 voters

In Extremis by Lindsey HilsumThe Correspondents by Judith MackrellFallout by Lesley M.M. BlumeYou Don't Belong Here by Elizabeth BeckerHiroshima by John Hersey
The Essential Foreign Correspondent Reading List
107th out of 156 books — 7 voters


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