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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
2,293 books — 2,648 voters
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen1984 by George OrwellCrime and Punishment by Fyodor DostoevskyHamlet by William ShakespeareOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
100 Best Books of All Time: The World Library List
100 books — 1,707 voters

ثلاثية غرناطة by Radwa AshourThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniAzazil by Youssef ZiedanThe Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Best Middle East Fiction
447 books — 498 voters
The Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienThe Sorrow of War by Bảo NinhA Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two by Michael G. KramerThe Full Circle for Mick by Michael G. KramerWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. Moore
Veteran Recommendations
906 books — 480 voters

War by Sebastian JungerUnspoken Abandonment by Bryan A. WoodOutlaw Platoon by Sean ParnellHouse to House by David BellaviaLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Iraq and Afghanistan War Books
259 books — 474 voters
Cinder by Marissa MeyerEmpress of All Seasons by Emiko JeanEon by Alison GoodmanThe Poppy War by R.F. KuangThe Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Asian Fantasy & Science Fiction
507 books — 309 voters

Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich HarrerWinging It by Lia RussReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Asia
349 books — 189 voters
The Frontlines of Peace by Severine AutesserreBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenMy War Gone By, I Miss It So by Anthony LoydA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtSketches from the Periphery by M.P. Summers
Conflict-Zone Journalism
287 books — 147 voters

Only If You Dare by Margo HoornstraMaking Faces by Amy HarmonBroken by Lauren LayneThe Vixen and the Vet by Katy RegneryThe Grunt 1 by Latrivia S. Nelson
Home: Romance Novels with Veterans of the Middle Eastern Wars
209 books — 122 voters
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)
269 books — 107 voters

Lost Son of Salem by Mohammad AlfaresEL TERCER TESTIGO by Juan José Soriano LluchThe Red Tent by Anita DiamantThe Dovekeepers by Alice HoffmanThe Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
Historical Fiction - Middle East
138 books — 101 voters
I'll Meet You There by Heather DemetriosSomething like Normal by Trish DollerThe Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse AndersonRites of Passage by Joy N. HensleyIf I Lie by Corrine Jackson
YA Fiction with Military and Veteran Themes
80 books — 72 voters

If You Could Be Mine by Sara FarizanGuapa by Saleem HaddadTurkey by Jack ScottThe Hakawati by Rabih AlameddinePerking the Pansies - Jack and Liam move to Turkey by Jack Scott
LGBT in the Middle East
65 books — 70 voters
A Girl Like That by Tanaz BhathenaThe Wrath and the Dawn by Renée AhdiehShadow Spinner by Susan FletcherHabibi by Naomi Shihab NyeThe Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
Young Adult & Middle Grade Fiction Set in the Middle East
230 books — 68 voters

Dirty Wars by Jeremy ScahillMissions by Marc McGuireGhost Wars by Steve CollThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThink Fast or Die by Simon W. Clark
Best War on Terror Books
75 books — 60 voters
Nevada Lowball by Antonio NicassioMigrant Crisis by John SteelSparkles And Karim by Dave MooresThe Six Pillars Of Effective Leadership by Jim CarloughLost in Shangri-la by Mitchell Zuckoff
The Modern Art of War and Survival
208 books — 56 voters

The Immigrant and the Golden Coin by Dorothy May MercerA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Beloved Daughter by Alana TerryNumber the Stars by Lois LowryBecause of Twilight by Adele Bradford
novels for when you wish you knew more about what you see on tv
84 books — 51 voters
The City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Kingdom of Copper by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Empire of Gold by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Tale of Iśva Raman by Najeev NadarajahThe Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Middle Eastern - South Asian fantasy
54 books — 46 voters

Syrian Brides by Anna HalabiThe Hidden Face of Eve by Nawal El SaadawiHeadscarves and Hymens by Mona EltahawyWoman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiThe Veil and the Male Elite by Fatema Mernissi
Arab feminism
46 books — 45 voters
The Girl with Ghost Eyes by M.H. BorosonA-Ma Alchemy of Love by Nataša PantovićGulab by Rohith S. KatbamnaA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniThe Girl with No Face by M.H. Boroson
Best Asian Protagonist
179 books — 42 voters

The Storyteller, Or, the Hakawati by Rabih AlameddineA Map of Home by Randa JarrarWhere Jasmine Blooms by Holly S. WarahThe Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja KahfCrescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
Arab Americans in Fiction
49 books — 25 voters
Black Flags by Joby WarrickHet meisje dat van IS won by Farida KhalafThe Last Girl by Nadia MuradThe Way of the Strangers by Graeme WoodThe Jihadis Return by Patrick Cockburn
Books about ISIS
100 books — 21 voters

The New Book of Middle Eastern Food by Claudia RodenPersiana by Sabrina GhayourOlives, Lemons & Za'atar by Rawia BisharaArabesque by Claudia RodenFalastin by Sami Tamimi
Best Middle Eastern & North African Cookbooks
136 books — 17 voters
Simply Effective by Ron AshkenasHarvard Business Review Leader's Handbook by Ron AshkenasThe Breadwinner by Deborah EllisA Single Shard by Linda Sue ParkNory Ryan's Song by Patricia Reilly Giff
Read Around the World FOR KIDS (No picture books)
178 books — 14 voters

The Corpse Washer by Sinan AntoonThe Iraqi Nights by Dunya MikhailThe Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq by Hassan BlasimThe Gardener of Baghdad by Ahmad ArdalanThe War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail
Iraq in Diaspora
22 books — 13 voters
The Woman from Tantoura by Radwa AshourFriendly Fire by Alaa Al AswanyChicago by Alaa Al AswanyI Saw Ramallah by Mourid BarghoutiNo One Sleeps in Alexandria by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
The American University in Cairo Press - Fiction in Translation
134 books — 11 voters

An Ishmael of Syria by Asaad AlmohammadI Want to Hold Your Hand by Marie ForceAfter the War by Jessica ScottSparkles And Karim by Dave MooresSomebody Like You by Beth K. Vogt
Memorial: Widows and Widowers of War
16 books — 6 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
87 books — 6 voters

Commando by Chris TerrillBY SEA AND BY LAND by Robin NeillandsEating Smoke by Chris ThrallGoing All The Way by Mark TimeThe Drift by Chris Thrall
Books written by former Royal Marines Commandos
24 books — 5 voters
Cracking The Rich Code Volume 20 by Diane Merrill WiggintonNatural Questions by SenecaLaboratorio Grecia by Jacopo BrogiThe Foxhunter by Dr Andrew J RynneReflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
Other Bibliographic Sources of the documentary movie Laboratory Greece (2019)
23 books — 5 voters

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