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The Economist - Books of the Year 2006
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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Lawrence Wright
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4.36 avg rating — 38,388 ratings
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Suite Française
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Irène Némirovsky
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The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
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George Mackay Brown
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The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
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Antony Beevor
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Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
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Victor Sebestyen
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The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade
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Dangerous Nation: America's Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
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The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
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The Trouble with Africa: Why Foreign Aid Isn't Working
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District and Circle
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