The Most Recent 40 - Recommended Without Reservation
Discover the top 40 must-read books recommended without reservation. Explore curated literary gems across genres for your next great read.
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The Looming Tower
by Lawrence Wright
Explores both the American and Arab sides of the September 11th terrorist attacks in an account of the people, ideas, events, and intelligence failures that …
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Flashman
by George MacDonald Fraser
"If ever there was a time when I felt that 'watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman."–P.G. Wodehouse The first novel in …
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The Towers of Trebizond
by Rose Macaulay
Serio-comic novel about English eccentrics who travel in Turkey.
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A Sailor of Austria
by John Biggins
In a historical novel about the last days of the seldom discussed Austrian empire, a 101-year-old former sailor in the Austro-Hungarian Navy narrates this fascinating …
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Fiasco
by Thomas E. Ricks
"Drawing on the exclusive cooperation of an extraordinary number of American military personnel, including more than one hundred senior officers, and access to more than …
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The Way West
by Alfred Bertram Guthrie (Jr.)
An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG …
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Kingdom of Shadows
by Alan Furst
“Kingdom of Shadows must be called a spy novel, but it transcends genre, as did some Graham Greene and Eric Ambler classics.”—The Washington Post Paris, …
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A Small Death in Lisbon
by Robert C. Wilson
A sex slaying in modern-day Lisbon. A secret in 1941 Berlin. The shocking connection makes this the most talked-about thriller in years.
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Augustus: A Novel
by John Williams
A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius," "Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a …
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A Coffin for Dimitrios
by Eric Ambler
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • The classic story of an ordinary man seemingly out of his …
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H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
by Patrick O'Brian
Capt. Aubrey and his friend Maturin sail to the Indian Ocean to save the British merchant fleet from the French.
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Tears of Autumn
by Charles McCarry
Influential secret agent Paul Christopher pursues a dangerous theory abut the assassinaton of President Kennedy, an investigation that threatens American foreign policy.
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A Thief of Time
by Tony Hillerman
When two corpses appear amid stolen goods and bones at an ancient burial site, Leaphorn and Chee must plunge into the past to unearth the …
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The Last Kingdom
by Bernard Cornwell
In the middle years of the ninth-century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the …
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Wild Swans
by Jung Chang
Memoir of three Chinese women, Jung Chang, her mother, and her grandmother in twentieth-century China.
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