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1. The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries That Defined America by Jeffery Rosen
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/01/...

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2. The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus by Charles King
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/01/...

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3. Jerusalem, Jerusalem: A Memoir of War and Peace, Passion and Politics by Lesley Hazleton
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/01/...

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4. God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World by Walter Russell Mead
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/02/...

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5. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Steven Greenblatt
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/02/...

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6. Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations by Nigel Cliff
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/02/...

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7. The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Jim Al-Khalili

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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/02/...

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8. Israel: Opposing Viewpoints ed. by Myra Immell
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/02/...

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9. Heretics: The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church by Jonathan Wright
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/03/...

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10. Exploring Reality: The Intertwining of Science and Religion by John Polkinghorne
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/03/...

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11. Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream by Arianna Huffington
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/05/...

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12. What Israel Means to Me: By 80 Prominent Writers, Performers, Scholars, Politicians, and Journalists ed. by Alan Dershowitz
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/04/...

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13. The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason by Victor Stenger
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/04/...

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14. Me of Little Faith by Lewis Black
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/04/...

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15. Eight Pieces of Empire: A 20-Year Journey Through the Soviet Collapse by Lawrence Scott Sheets
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/04/...

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16. The Mirage by Matt Ruff
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/04/...

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17. A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home by Steve Pemberton
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/05/...

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18. The Chosen by Chaim Potok
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/05/...

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19. The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book by Timothy Beal
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/06/...

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20. Reading the Bible Again For the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally by Marcus Borg
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/06/...

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21. Jerusalem 1913: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Amy Dockser Marcus
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/05/...

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22. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwoood
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/05/...

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23. Mao Zedong by Jonathan Spence
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/05/...

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24. A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery by E. Benjamin Skinner
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/05/...

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25. Running the Books: The Adventures of an Accidental Prison Librarian by Avi Steinberg
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/06/...

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26. Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R. by Julie Holland
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/06/...

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27.The Honored Dead: A Story of Friendship, Murder, and the Search for Truth in the Arab World by Joseph Braude
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/06/...

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28. Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife by Lisa Miller
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/10/...

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29. Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali by Tariq Ali and David Barsamian
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/09/...

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30. Did Jesus Exist? The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth by Bart D. Ehrman
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/09/...

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31. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West by Blaine Harden
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/07/...

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32. Why I Am a Catholic by Garry Wills
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/07/...

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33. Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran by Shahrnush Parsipur
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/07/...

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34. The Middle East: Current Controversies ed. by Noel Merino
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/07/...

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35. The Panther in the Basement by Amos Oz
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/08/...

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36. Unsettled: The Problem of Loving Israel by Marc Aronson

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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/08/...

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37. Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/07/...

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38. Dealing with the Dragon: A Year in the New Hong Kong by Jonathan Fenby
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/07/...

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39. Divorce Islamic Style by Amara Lakhous
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/07/...

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40. The Arab Revolution: Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising by Jean-Pierre Filiu

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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/08/...

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41. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession by David Grann
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/08/...

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42. Ali and Ramazan by Perihan Mağden
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/08/...

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43. Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion by Janet Reitman

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44. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/09/...

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45. God's Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World by Cullen Murphy
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/12/...

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46. Passage of Tears by Abdourahman A. Waberi
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/09/...

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47. The House of Jasmine by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/09/...

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48. Divinity of Doubt: The God Question by Vincent Bugliosi
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/09/...

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49. The Fratricides by Nikos Kazantzakis
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/09/...

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50. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, And Hope in A Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
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http://maphead.wordpress.com/2012/09/...