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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1673 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,623,662 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1359 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,828,719 ratings — published 2007
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 654 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.08 — 418,583 ratings — published 2012
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 346 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.77 — 58,667 ratings — published 2002
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 275 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,621 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 246 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,746 ratings — published 2004
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 225 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.20 — 56,527 ratings — published 2014
The Places in Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.99 — 21,778 ratings — published 2004
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,921 ratings — published 2000
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.11 — 14,765 ratings — published 2014
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.67 — 26,008 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 147 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,952 ratings — published 2011
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 138 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,455 ratings — published 2014
The Patience Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.70 — 7,513 ratings — published 2008
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)
by (shelved 128 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,463 ratings — published 2010
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.36 — 5,291 ratings — published 2013
The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner #1)
by (shelved 112 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.01 — 33,130 ratings — published 2000
Swallows of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.69 — 13,392 ratings — published 2002
Games Without Rules: The Often Interrupted History of Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,735 ratings — published 2012
When the Moon is Low (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,955 ratings — published 2015
Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,658 ratings — published 2007
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 99 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,722 ratings — published 2018
The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,992 ratings — published 2021
A House Without Windows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.01 — 17,562 ratings — published 2016
War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.25 — 24,741 ratings — published 2010
Sparks Like Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.28 — 24,092 ratings — published 2021
Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,158 ratings — published 2009
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.34 — 103,298 ratings — published 2006
The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.68 — 32,988 ratings — published 2011
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,870 ratings — published 1989
An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,846 ratings — published 1999
Earth and Ashes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.64 — 2,257 ratings — published 2000
Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,726 ratings — published 1963
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia (Kodansha Globe)
by (shelved 74 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,598 ratings — published 1990
Afgantsy: The Russians In Afghanistan, 1979-1989 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,387 ratings — published 2011
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 4.02 — 9,900 ratings — published 2003
Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.10 — 45,377 ratings — published 2009
A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,500 ratings — published 2009
A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.44 — 4,528 ratings — published 2013
The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,366 ratings — published 2002
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,884 ratings — published 2006
Dancing in the Mosque: An Afghan Mother's Letter to Her Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,062 ratings — published 2020
In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,369 ratings — published 2009
Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,271 ratings — published 2002
Parvana's Journey (The Breadwinner, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,424 ratings — published 2002
The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.06 — 13,155 ratings — published 2019
The Storyteller's Daughter: One Woman's Return to Her Lost Homeland (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,482 ratings — published 2003
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.95 — 7,290 ratings — published 1958
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 3.49 — 7,168 ratings — published 2011
Nel mare ci sono i coccodrilli (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as afghanistan)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,858 ratings — published 2010
“The women in that ward were simple, ordinary refugee women. They came from villages or very small towns. Even before becoming refugees, they had been poor. They had no education. They had no notion of an outside world where life might be different. They were being treated for various ailments, but in the end, their gender was their ailment.
In the first bed, a skinny fourteen-year-old girl lay rolled into her sheets in a state of almost catatonic unresponsiveness, eyes closed, not speaking even in reply to the doctor’s gentle greeting. Her family had brought her to be treated for mental illness, the doctor explained with regret. They had recently married her to a man in his seventies, a wealthy and influential personage by their standards. In their version of things, something had started mysteriously to go wrong with her mind as soon as the marriage was agreed upon – a case of demon possession, her family supposed. When, after repeated beatings, she still failed to cooperate gracefully with her new husband’s sexual demands, he had angrily returned her to her family and ordered them to fix this problem.
They had taken the girl to a mullah, who had tried to expel the demon through prayers and by writing Quranic passages on little pieces of paper that had to be dissolved in water and then drunk, but this had brought no improvement, so the mullah had abandoned his diagnosis of demon possession and decided that the girl was sick. The family had brought her to the clinic, to be treated for insanity.”
― Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance
In the first bed, a skinny fourteen-year-old girl lay rolled into her sheets in a state of almost catatonic unresponsiveness, eyes closed, not speaking even in reply to the doctor’s gentle greeting. Her family had brought her to be treated for mental illness, the doctor explained with regret. They had recently married her to a man in his seventies, a wealthy and influential personage by their standards. In their version of things, something had started mysteriously to go wrong with her mind as soon as the marriage was agreed upon – a case of demon possession, her family supposed. When, after repeated beatings, she still failed to cooperate gracefully with her new husband’s sexual demands, he had angrily returned her to her family and ordered them to fix this problem.
They had taken the girl to a mullah, who had tried to expel the demon through prayers and by writing Quranic passages on little pieces of paper that had to be dissolved in water and then drunk, but this had brought no improvement, so the mullah had abandoned his diagnosis of demon possession and decided that the girl was sick. The family had brought her to the clinic, to be treated for insanity.”
― Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women's Resistance
“I looked westward and marveled that, somewhere over those mountains, Kabul still existed. It really existed, not just as an old memory, or as the heading of an AP story on page 15 of the San Francisco Chronicle.”
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