Category: Middle East (& Near East) : Literature & History (Sorted by Author's last name)
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story (2002) - Tamim Ansary (1948-) (Grade:B)
Islam: A Short History (2000) - Karen Armstrong (-) (Grade:C-)
No god but God : The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (2005) - Reza Aslan (1972-) (Grade:A)
The Goddess and the Bull : Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization (2005) - Michael Balter (-) (Grade:A-)
Saddam: King of Terror (2002) - Con Coughlin (-) (Grade:A)
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (1989) - David Fromkin (-) (Grade:A+)The Far Enemy : Why Jihad Went Global (2005) - Fawaz A. Gerges (-) (Grade:B+)
Shooting War (2007) - Dan Goldman (11/05/1974-) (Grade:C-)
Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the Wes (2006) - Alex Grobman (-) (Grade:A-)
Moth Smoke (2000) - Mohsin Hamid (-) (Grade:A)
Baghdad Without a Map : And Other Misadventures in Arabia (1991) - Tony Horwitz (1958-) (Grade:A)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) - Khaled Hosseini (03/04/1965-) (Grade:B+)
The Kite Runner (2003) - Khaled Hosseini (03/04/1965-) (Grade:B+)
Wild Thorns (Al-Subar) (1976) - Sahar Khalifeh (1941-) (Grade:B)
Crescent & Star : Turkey Between Two Worlds (2001) - Stephen Kinzer (-) (Grade:A-)
Shooting War (2007) - Anthony Lappe (-) (Grade:C-)
What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (2002) - Bernard Lewis (-) (Grade:A)
Palace of Desire: Book II of the Cairo Trilogy (1957) - Naguib Mahfouz (1911-) (Grade:C+)
The Book of Trouble : A Romance (2006) - Ann Marlowe (1958-) (Grade:B+)
The Riddle and the Knight : In Search of Sir John Mandeville, the World's Greatest Traveler (1996) - Giles Milton (-) (Grade:A)
Mantle of the Prophet : Religion and Politics in Iran (1985) - Roy Mottahedeh (1940-) (Grade:B)
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism (1999) - Simon Reeve (-) (Grade:B+)
What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006) - Louise Richardson (-) (Grade:C)
Two Stars for Peace: The Case for Using U.S. Statehood to Achieve Lasting Peace in the Middle East (2003) - Martine Rothblatt (-) (Grade:A)
The Truth about Syria (2007) - Barry Rubin (-) (Grade:A)
Haroun and the Sea of Stories (1990) - Salman Rushdie (1947-) (Grade:B)
The Case For Democracy : The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror (2004) - Natan Sharansky (01/20/1948-) (Grade:A)
Edges: O Israel O Palestine (2005) - Leora Skolkin-Smith (1952-) (Grade:B)
Baghdad Sketches (1933) - Freya Stark (05/09/1893-1993) (Grade:A-)
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006) - Lawrence George Wright (08/02/1947-) (Grade:A+)