No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria
By: Rania Abouzeid
4.36
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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1. The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
By: Lawrence Wright
3.00
Format: 12 pages, Hardcover
Ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorkerrecall the path terror in the Middle East has … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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2. Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World
By: Suzy Hansen
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Suzy Hansen left her country and moved to Istanbul and discovered America In the wake of the Septem… read more
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- journalism
- audiobook
3. Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self
By: Danielle Evans
4.10
Format: 271 pages,
Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Selfoffers a bold new perspective on the experience of being you… read more
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- contemporary
4. Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid
By: Jessica Alexander
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
An eye-opening and intimate memoir about life as an international humanitarian aid worker in the fi… read more
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- politics
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5. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
By: Joby Warrick
3.64
Format: None pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick reveals how the strain of militant Islam now raising i… read more
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- history
- war
6. The Line Becomes A River
By: Francisco Cantú
3.87
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Every day, a ceaseless flow of men, women and children push their way north, in scorched summer hea… read more
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- audiobook
7. The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
By: Janine Di Giovanni
4.61
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
n May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria. It would mark the beginning of a long relatio… read more
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8. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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9. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
By: Anand Gopal
3.94
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist National Book Award in Nonfiction finalist Helen Bern… read more
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10. A Case of Exploding Mangoes
By: Mohammed Hanif
4.06
Format: 360 pages,
Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betra… read more
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- politics
11. A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, from Tahrir Square to ISIS
By: Robert F. Worth
3.89
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
The definitive work of literary journalism on the Arab Spring and its troubled aftermath In 2011, a… read more
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12. The Furies
By: Natalie Haynes
4.40
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
When you open up, who will you let in? When Alex Morris loses her fiance in dreadful circumstances,… read more
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13. City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
By: Ben Rawlence
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
To the charity workers, Dadaab refugee camp is a humanitarian crisis; to the Kenyan government, it … read more
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14. Future Sex
By: Emily Witt
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A funny, fresh, and moving antidote to conventional attitudes about sex and the single woman Emily … read more
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15. We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria
By: Wendy Pearlman
4.20
Format: None pages, ebook
LONG-LISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL Reminiscent of the work of Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievic… read more
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16. 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
By: Chris Rose
4.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
1 Dead in Atticis a collection of stories by Times-Picayunecolumnist Chris Rose, recounting the fir… read more
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17. My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World’s Deadliest Migration Route
By: Sally Hayden
4.48
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
The Western world has turned its back on migrants, leaving them to cope with one of the most devast… read more
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- war
- nonfiction
- journalism
18. Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS
By: Azadeh Moaveni
4.04
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
Guest House for Young Widows charts the different ways women were recruited, inspired, or compelled… read more
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- journalism
19. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
20. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- audiobook
21. MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
By: Ben Hubbard
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
MBS is the untold story of how a mysterious young prince emerged from Saudi Arabia’s sprawling roya… read more
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"Mohammed bin Salman declined to be interviewed for this book"-Ben Hubbard, MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed bin Salman
22. On All Fronts: The Education of a Journalist
By: Clarissa Ward
4.53
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The recipient of multiple Peabody and Murrow awards, Clarissa Ward is a world-renowned conflict rep… read more
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- audiobook
23. Death Is Hard Work
By: Khaled Khalifa
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil war Khaled Khalifa's Death Is H… read more
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"إن أفضل الوسائل لهزم الحرب هي التوقف عن الحديث عنها"-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
"أسوء ما في الحرب تناسل الأحداث الغرائبية ,وتحول القصص المأساوية إلى حدث عادي"-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
"في الحرب مرور جنازة حدث عادي لا يثير اي شئ سوى حسد الأحياء الذين تحولت حياتهم الى إنتظار مؤلم للموت"-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
"اللحظة الأخيرة دوماً عاطفية، غالباً غير مناسبة للتفكير، لا مجال فيها لمحاكمات عقلانية، ويتكثّف فيها الزمن."-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
24. The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal
By: William J. Burns
4.27
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
From America's "secret diplomatic weapon" (The Atlantic), comes a memoir of service for five Presid… read more
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25. Gaza: An Inquest into Its Martyrdom
By: Norman G. Finkelstein
4.66
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
The Gaza Strip is among the most densely populated places in the world. More than two-thirds of its… read more
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26. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
By: Christiana Figueres
4.07
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. Ho… read more
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"Consumerism traps us into thinking we can purchase personality."-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
"Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don't believe in gravity. The science of climate change is not a belief, a religion, or a political ideology. It presents the facts that are measura…"-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
"Fair allocation of the remaining atmospheric space has proven to be a futile exercise no matter the formula. A fair outcome is not viable as long as we pursue it from a mindset of scarcity and compet…"-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis
27. Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
By: Joshua Yaffa
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From a leading journalist in Moscow and correspondent for The New Yorker, a groundbreaking portrait… read more
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"Without a clear moral vision, Meylac thought, all that’s left are careerism and bureaucratic efficiency."-Joshua Yaffa, Between Two Fires: Truth, Ambition, and Compromise in Putin's Russia
28. On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
By: Maggie Nelson
4.01
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated/Best Book of the Month NPR * USA Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture… read more
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"Nothing stays avant-garde forever; you have to keep moving."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"As we think, we might remember that it matters not only with whom and what we choose to think; it also matters what spirit we choose to think with."-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"This is one of the things I’ve learned about happiness: when you feel it, it’s good to say so. That way, if and when you say later in depression or despair, “I’ve just never been happy,"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
"The reparative turn, as applied to art, is in many ways a continuation of the orthopedic aesthetic, with the difference being that the twentieth-century model imagined the audience as numb, constrict…"-Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
29. Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
By: Emily Bazelon
4.31
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned journalist and legal commentator exposes the unchecked power… read more
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"the "criminal justice system accomplishes nothing we think of as its purpose," Sotomayor told her audience. "We think we're keeping people safe from criminals. We're just making worse criminals."-Emily Bazelon, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
"Somewhere along the way, the balance of power between the prosecution, the defense, and the judiciary shifted. We have to readjust it. The stakes are so high—the well-being of so many communities and…"-Emily Bazelon, Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
30. The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle against ISIS
By: Margaret Coker
4.36
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an el… read more
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31. No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria
By: Rania Abouzeid
4.36
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
“Rania Abouzeid has produced a work of stunning reportage from the very heart of the conflict, dari… read more
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