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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime WalkWar and post-9/11 America during a Dallas Cowboys game.
Red CavalryBrutal, beautiful, haunting.
Half of a Yellow SunEpic novel set during the Nigerian Civil War.
The Radetzky March by Joseph RothThe classic novel about the end of an empire.
Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne PorterA fantastic collection of three novellas.
Goodbye to All That by Robert GravesThe classic World War I memoir.
Memoirs of Ulysses S. GrantThe memoirs of the man who saved the Union.
Black Hearts by Jim FrederickA nonfiction tour de force from the Iraq War.
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime WalkWar and post-9/11 America during a Dallas Cowboys game.
Democracy by Joan DidionA 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 BeahThe memoirs of a child-soldier.
I Saw RamallahA poet returns home after thirty years in exile.