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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk War and post-9/11 America during a Dallas Cowboys game.
Red Cavalry Brutal, beautiful, haunting.
Half of a Yellow Sun Epic novel set during the Nigerian Civil War.
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth The classic novel about the end of an empire.
Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter A fantastic collection of three novellas.
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves The classic World War I memoir.
Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant The memoirs of the man who saved the Union.
Black Hearts by Jim Frederick A nonfiction tour de force from the Iraq War.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk War and post-9/11 America during a Dallas Cowboys game.
Democracy by Joan Didion A classic novel written by one of America's greatest writers
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid Combat in Israel - from a woman's perspective.
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah The memoirs of a child-soldier.
I Saw Ramallah A poet returns home after thirty years in exile.