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The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,504,781 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,743,101 ratings — published 2007
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.16 — 625,115 ratings — published 2012
I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.34 — 36,431 ratings — published
The Breadwinner (The Breadwinner #1)
by (shelved 12 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.01 — 31,897 ratings — published 2000
The Bookseller of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.77 — 57,154 ratings — published 2002
The Dressmaker of Khair Khana: Five Sisters, One Remarkable Family, and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.76 — 18,571 ratings — published 2011
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.66 — 358,770 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 9 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.31 — 18,939 ratings — published 2004
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,819 ratings — published 2000
Swallows of Kabul (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.69 — 12,625 ratings — published 2002
When the Moon is Low (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.12 — 17,164 ratings — published 2015
Parvana's Journey (The Breadwinner, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,125 ratings — published 2002
The Afghan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.77 — 15,182 ratings — published 2006
Mud City (The Breadwinner, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.98 — 5,547 ratings — published 2003
The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.97 — 961 ratings — published 2014
My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,858 ratings — published 2001
And the Mountains Echoed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.08 — 405,640 ratings — published 2012
The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,756 ratings — published 2011
Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden and 9/11 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.12 — 304 ratings — published 2011
The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.49 — 7,090 ratings — published 2011
My Life with the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.87 — 520 ratings — published 2010
The Taliban Reader: War, Islam and Politics In Their Own Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.40 — 15 ratings — published 2017
Poetry of the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.00 — 74 ratings — published 2012
Bullets and Train (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.47 — 32 ratings — published
An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan, 1970-2010 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.33 — 81 ratings — published 2011
The Breadwinner: A Graphic Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,633 ratings — published 2018
The Taliban at War: 2001 - 2018 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.29 — 41 ratings — published 2019
Looking for the Enemy: Mullah Omar and the Unknown Taliban (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.05 — 215 ratings — published 2019
A Girl Called Genghis Khan: How Maria Toorpakai Wazir Pretended to Be a Boy, Defied the Taliban, and Became a World Famous Squash Player (People Who Shaped Our World)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.09 — 123 ratings — published 2019
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,501 ratings — published 2018
No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,160 ratings — published 2014
My Name Is Parvana (The Breadwinner, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,435 ratings — published
A House Without Windows (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.00 — 15,930 ratings — published 2016
Shooting Kabul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.94 — 5,833 ratings — published 2009
The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.11 — 14,315 ratings — published 2014
Kids of Kabul: Living Bravely Through a Never-Ending War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.09 — 364 ratings — published 2012
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.67 — 25,808 ratings — published 2007
The Places in Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.99 — 20,854 ratings — published 2004
A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.83 — 807 ratings — published 2010
Malala Yousafzai and the Girls of Pakistan (Out in Front)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.00 — 42 ratings — published 2014
The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,429 ratings — published 2012
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.15 — 8,874 ratings — published 2009
Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,095 ratings — published 2009
Who Marries Whom?: Educational Systems as Marriage Markets in Modern Societies (European Studies of Population, 12)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2003
Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as taliban)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,071 ratings — published 2009
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as taliban)
avg rating 4.20 — 770 ratings — published
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as taliban)
avg rating 3.62 — 47 ratings — published 1998
Kiss Her Goodbye (Frankie Elkin, #4)
by (shelved 1 time as taliban)
avg rating 3.92 — 9,818 ratings — published 2025
“As to the 'Left' I'll say briefly why this was the finish for me. Here is American society, attacked under open skies in broad daylight by the most reactionary and vicious force in the contemporary world, a force which treats Afghans and Algerians and Egyptians far worse than it has yet been able to treat us. The vaunted CIA and FBI are asleep, at best. The working-class heroes move, without orders and at risk to their lives, to fill the moral and political vacuum. The moral idiots, meanwhile, like Falwell and Robertson and Rabbi Lapin, announce that this clerical aggression is a punishment for our secularism. And the governments of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, hitherto considered allies on our 'national security' calculus, prove to be the most friendly to the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Here was a time for the Left to demand a top-to-bottom house-cleaning of the state and of our covert alliances, a full inquiry into the origins of the defeat, and a resolute declaration in favor of a fight to the end for secular and humanist values: a fight which would make friends of the democratic and secular forces in the Muslim world. And instead, the near-majority of 'Left' intellectuals started sounding like Falwell, and bleating that the main problem was Bush's legitimacy. So I don't even muster a hollow laugh when this pathetic faction says that I, and not they, are in bed with the forces of reaction.”
― Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
Here was a time for the Left to demand a top-to-bottom house-cleaning of the state and of our covert alliances, a full inquiry into the origins of the defeat, and a resolute declaration in favor of a fight to the end for secular and humanist values: a fight which would make friends of the democratic and secular forces in the Muslim world. And instead, the near-majority of 'Left' intellectuals started sounding like Falwell, and bleating that the main problem was Bush's legitimacy. So I don't even muster a hollow laugh when this pathetic faction says that I, and not they, are in bed with the forces of reaction.”
― Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
“Talking to [him] that day, and [him] and the other Talibs, it seemed obvious enough that what lay at the foundation of the Taliban’s rule was fear, but not fear of the Taliban themselves, at least not in the beginning. No; it was fear of the past. Fear that the past would return, that it would come back in all its disaggregated fury. That the past would become the future. The beards, the burqas, the whips, the stones; anything, anything you want. Anything but the past”
― The Forever War
― The Forever War
