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Afghanistan Books
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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1633 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,501,412 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1316 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,740,772 ratings — published 2007
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 636 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.08 — 405,241 ratings — published 2012
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 339 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.77 — 57,126 ratings — published 2002
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 274 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,737 ratings — published 2006
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,920 ratings — published 2004
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 216 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.19 — 53,239 ratings — published 2014
The Places in Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 177 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,828 ratings — published 2004
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,813 ratings — published 2000
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.11 — 14,305 ratings — published 2014
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 151 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.67 — 25,805 ratings — published 2007
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.76 — 18,556 ratings — published 2011
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,157 ratings — published 2014
The Patience Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.70 — 7,145 ratings — published 2008
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)
by (shelved 127 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,419 ratings — published 2010
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 122 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,074 ratings — published 2013
The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner #1)
by (shelved 106 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.01 — 31,862 ratings — published 2000
Swallows of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.69 — 12,599 ratings — published 2002
Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,646 ratings — published 2007
When the Moon is Low (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,151 ratings — published 2015
Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,649 ratings — published 2012
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 96 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,497 ratings — published 2018
War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,173 ratings — published 2010
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,700 ratings — published 2021
Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,094 ratings — published 2009
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.34 — 101,071 ratings — published 2006
Sparks Like Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.28 — 22,895 ratings — published 2021
A House Without Windows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.00 — 15,893 ratings — published 2016
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.68 — 31,518 ratings — published 2011
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,178 ratings — published 1989
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,825 ratings — published 1999
Caravans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,435 ratings — published 1963
Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of our Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,759 ratings — published 2003
Afgantsy: The Russians In Afghanistan, 1979-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,332 ratings — published 2011
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
by (shelved 71 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,169 ratings — published 1990
A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,490 ratings — published 2009
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.09 — 43,787 ratings — published 2009
Earth and Ashes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,169 ratings — published 2000
A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.44 — 4,420 ratings — published 2013
The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,353 ratings — published 2002
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.36 — 37,639 ratings — published 2006
In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,355 ratings — published 2009
Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,261 ratings — published 2002
Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,560 ratings — published 2020
The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.06 — 12,966 ratings — published 2019
The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,460 ratings — published 2003
Parvana's Journey (The Breadwinner, #2)
by (shelved 55 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,117 ratings — published 2002
The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,756 ratings — published 2011
In the Sea There are Crocodiles: Based on the True Story of Enaiatollah Akbari (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,944 ratings — published 2010
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.49 — 7,086 ratings — published 2011
“Even the air of this country has a story to tell about warfare. It is possible here to lift a piece of bread from a plate and following it back to its origins, collect a dozen stories concerning war-how it affected the hand that pulled it out of the oven, the hand that kneaded the dough, how war impinged upon the field where wheat was grown.”
― The Wasted Vigil
― The Wasted Vigil
“I have the impression that our children are much more excited about going to school than children in other countries are. They think of it as a special privilege. Going to school, being with other children, getting books and pencils - all of that is like a dream for them.”
― Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance
― Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance
