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Al Edgell’s Recommended Reading:
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CLASSICS
               The Sane Society by Erik Fromm
                Julian by Gore Vidal
                Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
                Invisible Man  by Ralph Ellison              
               The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
                Socrates’ Dialogues by Plato    
                War and Peace  by Leo Tolstoy
               Civilization and Its Discontents 
                    by Sigmund Freud
                In the Groves of Academe
                   by Mary McCarthy
 
 
 
 
Catcher in the Rye  by J.D. Salinger
Catch 22  by Joseph Heller
Autobiography of Malcolm X
   with A. Haley
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Tess of the D’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
1984 by George Orwell
...On Afghanistan: Descent into Chaos by Ahmed Rashid (2008) The Age of Sacred Terror by Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon (2002) Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy by Noam Chomsky (2006) Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke (2004) Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll (2004) Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan by Ann Jones (2006) Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Steven Kinzer (2006) The Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer (2005) Afghanistan’s Uncertain Transition from Turmoil to Normalcy by Barnett R. Rubin (2006) Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer (2004) The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003) A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (2007) The Places in Between by Rory Stewart (2006) Flashman and the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser (1989) New: Promises Not Kept  by John Isbister Terrorism in the Name of God  by Jessica Stern The True Believer  by Eric Hofer Globalization and Its Discontents  by Joseph Stiglitz Shadow Syndromes by John J. Ratey, MD Istanbul  by Orhan Pamuk The Battle for God  by Karen Armstrong Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Wealth and Poverty of Nations  by David Landes