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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 246 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.97 — 433,574 ratings — published 2005
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 128 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.72 — 43,383 ratings — published 2019
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,494 ratings — published 2005
The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.26 — 64,409 ratings — published 2002
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.36 — 36,861 ratings — published 2006
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 (ebook)
by (shelved 79 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.67 — 7,504 ratings — published 2019
Falling Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.26 — 17,218 ratings — published 2007
Towers Falling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.03 — 11,566 ratings — published 2016
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 56 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.73 — 83,536 ratings — published 2007
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,666 ratings — published 2004
The Submission (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.67 — 12,696 ratings — published 2011
Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,407 ratings — published 2016
14 Cows for America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,557 ratings — published 2007
Ground Zero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.34 — 25,572 ratings — published 2021
Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.54 — 2,390 ratings — published 2021
Report from Ground Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,177 ratings — published 2002
Thunder Dog: The True Story of a Blind Man, His Guide Dog, and the Triumph of Trust at Ground Zero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,257 ratings — published 2011
Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,186 ratings — published 2002
This Very Tree: A Story of 9/11, Resilience, and Regrowth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.55 — 946 ratings — published 2021
Let's Roll!: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,086 ratings — published 2002
A Fall of Marigolds (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.09 — 75,066 ratings — published 2014
Love Is the Higher Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,470 ratings — published 2009
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,609 ratings — published 2004
In the Shadow of No Towers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.67 — 4,145 ratings — published 2004
The Red Bandanna: A Life. A Choice. A Legacy. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,090 ratings — published 2017
All We Have Left (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 28 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,837 ratings — published 2016
The Eleventh Day: 9/11 - The Ultimate Account (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.11 — 833 ratings — published 2011
Touching History: The Untold Story of the Drama That Unfolded in the Skies Over America on 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.31 — 826 ratings — published 2008
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration & 9/11 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.09 — 560 ratings — published 2004
Netherland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.41 — 18,706 ratings — published 2008
Among the Heroes (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.17 — 610 ratings — published 2002
Last Man Down: A Firefighter's Story of Survival and Escape from the World Trade Center (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,694 ratings — published 2002
The Man Who Walked Between the Towers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.17 — 15,508 ratings — published 2003
The Emperor's Children (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as 9-11)
avg rating 2.98 — 21,444 ratings — published 2006
One Tuesday Morning (9/11, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.40 — 22,059 ratings — published 2003
The Memory of Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,231 ratings — published 2016
America Is Under Attack: September 11, 2001: The Day the Towers Fell (Actual Times)
by (shelved 23 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,144 ratings — published 2011
Saturday (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.64 — 73,080 ratings — published 2005
Firehouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,614 ratings — published 2002
Flight 93: The Story, the Aftermath, and the Legacy of American Courage on 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.41 — 784 ratings — published 2014
In the Shadow of the Fallen Towers: The Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, and Years after the 9/11 Attacks: A Graphic Novel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,431 ratings — published
I Survived the Attacks of September 11th, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.24 — 12,543 ratings — published 2012
Seven and a Half Tons of Steel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.14 — 454 ratings — published 2016
Tower Stories: An Oral History of 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.22 — 440 ratings — published 2004
American Widow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.37 — 1,211 ratings — published 2008
Survivor Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.56 — 884 ratings — published 2021
Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers: Who They Were, Why They Did It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.95 — 462 ratings — published 2005
The Woman Who Wasn't There: The True Story of an Incredible Deception (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as 9-11)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,156 ratings — published 2012
Branches of Hope: The 9/11 Survivor Tree (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as 9-11)
avg rating 4.07 — 352 ratings — published 2021
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“SEPTEMBER 1, 1939
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.
Into this neutral air
Where blind skyscrapers use
Their full height to proclaim
The strength of Collective Man,
Each language pours its vain
Competitive excuse:
But who can live for long
In an euphoric dream;
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face
And the international wrong.
Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.
The windiest militant trash
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.
From the conservative dark
Into the ethical life
The dense commuters come,
Repeating their morning vow;
'I will be true to the wife,
I'll concentrate more on my work,'
And helpless governors wake
To resume their compulsory game:
Who can release them now,
Who can reach the dead,
Who can speak for the dumb?
All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
Defenseless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.”
― Another Time
I sit in one of the dives
On Fifty-second Street
Uncertain and afraid
As the clever hopes expire
Of a low dishonest decade:
Waves of anger and fear
Circulate over the bright
And darkened lands of the earth,
Obsessing our private lives;
The unmentionable odour of death
Offends the September night.
Accurate scholarship can
Unearth the whole offence
From Luther until now
That has driven a culture mad,
Find what occurred at Linz,
What huge imago made
A psychopathic god:
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return.
Exiled Thucydides knew
All that a speech can say
About Democracy,
And what dictators do,
The elderly rubbish they talk
To an apathetic grave;
Analysed all in his book,
The enlightenment driven away,
The habit-forming pain,
Mismanagement and grief:
We must suffer them all again.
Into this neutral air
Where blind skyscrapers use
Their full height to proclaim
The strength of Collective Man,
Each language pours its vain
Competitive excuse:
But who can live for long
In an euphoric dream;
Out of the mirror they stare,
Imperialism's face
And the international wrong.
Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.
The windiest militant trash
Important Persons shout
Is not so crude as our wish:
What mad Nijinsky wrote
About Diaghilev
Is true of the normal heart;
For the error bred in the bone
Of each woman and each man
Craves what it cannot have,
Not universal love
But to be loved alone.
From the conservative dark
Into the ethical life
The dense commuters come,
Repeating their morning vow;
'I will be true to the wife,
I'll concentrate more on my work,'
And helpless governors wake
To resume their compulsory game:
Who can release them now,
Who can reach the dead,
Who can speak for the dumb?
All I have is a voice
To undo the folded lie,
The romantic lie in the brain
Of the sensual man-in-the-street
And the lie of Authority
Whose buildings grope the sky:
There is no such thing as the State
And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
Defenseless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.”
― Another Time













