Afghanistan


The Kite Runner
A Thousand Splendid Suns
And the Mountains Echoed
The Bookseller of Kabul
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell
The Places in Between
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
The Patience Stone
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)
Thai Food by David ThompsonMaangchi's Real Korean Cooking by MaangchiLand of Plenty by Fuchsia DunlopJapanese Cooking by Shizuo TsujiThai Street Food by David Thompson
Best Asian Cookbooks
173 books — 32 voters
Three Women of Herat by Veronica DoubledayKabul Beauty School by Deborah RodriguezMahtab's Story by Libby GleesonOutspoken by Sima SamarThe Favored Daughter by Fawzia Koofi
Women of Afghanistan
8 books — 4 voters

War by Sebastian JungerUnspoken Abandonment by Bryan A. WoodOutlaw Platoon by Sean  ParnellHouse to House by David BellaviaLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Iraq and Afghanistan War Books
253 books — 461 voters
The City of Brass by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Kingdom of Copper by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Empire of Gold by S.A. ChakrabortyThe Tale of Iśva Raman by Najeev NadarajahThe Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
Middle Eastern - South Asian fantasy
49 books — 39 voters

Tecumseh and Brock by James LaxerVimy by Pierre BertonThe Invasion of Canada by Pierre BertonFlames Across the Border by Pierre BertonMarching as to War by Pierre Berton
Canada At War
38 books — 4 voters
Winging It  by Lia RussSeven Years in Tibet by Heinrich HarrerReading Lolita in Tehran by Azar NafisiA Capitalist in North Korea by Felix AbtThe Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Asia
352 books — 184 voters

Khaled Hosseini
Hassan and I looked at each other. Cracked up. The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980's: that Afghans are an independent people. Afghans cherish customs but abhor rules. And so it was with kite fighting. The rules were simple: No rules. Fly your kite. Cut the opponents. Good luck. ...more
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Greg Mortenson
Despite everything that has befallen us, do we not continue to hold the destiny of this shattered and magnificent nation, together with the future of all our children-girls and boys alike-in the palm of our hands?
Greg Mortenson, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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