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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 243 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,102 ratings — published 2006
An Ishmael of Syria (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.81 — 635 ratings — published 2016
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 106 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,652 ratings — published 2016
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,575 ratings — published 2004
Bel Canto (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.94 — 335,779 ratings — published 2001
Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.93 — 53,937 ratings — published 2008
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.47 — 190,671 ratings — published 2018
The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,971 ratings — published 2011
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.43 — 13,759 ratings — published 2013
Inside Terrorism (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)
by (shelved 48 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,094 ratings — published 1998
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 46 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.72 — 47,742 ratings — published 2019
Isis: The State of Terror (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 46 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,995 ratings — published 2015
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,764 ratings — published 2004
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,822 ratings — published 2015
Home Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.01 — 74,277 ratings — published 2017
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,184 ratings — published 2014
Rainbow Six (John Clark, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #10)
by (shelved 39 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.14 — 59,354 ratings — published 1998
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.30 — 13,049 ratings — published 2005
The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,646 ratings — published 2016
I Am Pilgrim (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.31 — 207,234 ratings — published 2013
The Lion's Game (John Corey, #2)
by (shelved 36 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.23 — 40,876 ratings — published 2000
Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)
by (shelved 35 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.19 — 119,672 ratings — published 2009
Patriot Games (Jack Ryan, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.17 — 215,956 ratings — published 1987
The Association of Small Bombs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.57 — 14,743 ratings — published 2016
The Lion (John Corey, #5)
by (shelved 33 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.27 — 34,407 ratings — published 2010
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.86 — 688 ratings — published 2005
Incendiary (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.62 — 14,038 ratings — published 2005
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,676 ratings — published 2008
Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,945 ratings — published 2004
Think Fast or Die (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.13 — 146 ratings — published 2019
Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.17 — 782 ratings — published 2017
The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,528 ratings — published 2015
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.91 — 23,256 ratings — published 1997
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,147 ratings — published 2011
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,659 ratings — published 2018
The Siege: 68 Hours Inside The Taj Hotel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,417 ratings — published 2013
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.04 — 59,069 ratings — published 2012
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad (Audio)
by (shelved 29 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,706 ratings — published 2012
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,903 ratings — published 2000
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,553 ratings — published 2023
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.67 — 8,036 ratings — published 2019
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,841 ratings — published 2015
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.73 — 86,096 ratings — published 2007
The President Is Missing (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.86 — 130,295 ratings — published 2018
United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.06 — 925 ratings — published 2015
Extreme Measures (Mitch Rapp, #11)
by (shelved 25 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,435 ratings — published 2008
3rd Degree (Women's Murder Club, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.08 — 105,759 ratings — published 2004
Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.42 — 10,440 ratings — published 2018
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,077,375 ratings — published 2013
American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.25 — 103,846 ratings — published 2010
“The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a multi-party political system, universal adult suffrage, accountable government, Jews, homosexuals, women's rights, pluralism, secularism, short skirts, dancing, beardlessness, evolution theory, sex. There are tyrants, not Muslims.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that we should now define ourselves not only by what we are for but by what we are against. I would reverse that proposition, because in the present instance what we are against is a no brainer. Suicidist assassins ram wide-bodied aircraft into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and kill thousands of people: um, I'm against that. But what are we for? What will we risk our lives to defend? Can we unanimously concur that all the items in the preceding list -- yes, even the short skirts and the dancing -- are worth dying for?
The fundamentalist believes that we believe in nothing. In his world-view, he has his absolute certainties, while we are sunk in sybaritic indulgences. To prove him wrong, we must first know that he is wrong. We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love. These will be our weapons. Not by making war but by the unafraid way we choose to live shall we defeat them.
How to defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized. Don't let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared.”
― Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that we should now define ourselves not only by what we are for but by what we are against. I would reverse that proposition, because in the present instance what we are against is a no brainer. Suicidist assassins ram wide-bodied aircraft into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and kill thousands of people: um, I'm against that. But what are we for? What will we risk our lives to defend? Can we unanimously concur that all the items in the preceding list -- yes, even the short skirts and the dancing -- are worth dying for?
The fundamentalist believes that we believe in nothing. In his world-view, he has his absolute certainties, while we are sunk in sybaritic indulgences. To prove him wrong, we must first know that he is wrong. We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love. These will be our weapons. Not by making war but by the unafraid way we choose to live shall we defeat them.
How to defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized. Don't let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared.”
― Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
“Osama, baah!" Bashir roared.
"Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home. As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone who can shoot at you once and then run off and hide while you have to remain eternally on guard. You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. That only way to defeat it is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.”
― Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
"Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home. As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone who can shoot at you once and then run off and hide while you have to remain eternally on guard. You have to attack the source of your enemy's strength. In America's case, that's not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The enemy is ignorance. That only way to defeat it is to build relationships with these people, to draw them into the modern world with education and business. Otherwise the fight will go on forever.”
― Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
