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20 books

African History

A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902

A History of Ethiopia

A Diplomatic Revolution

Southern Sudan: Colonialism, Resistance and Autonomy

A History of Modern Sudan

Proudly We Can Be Africans: Black Americans and Africa, 1935-1961

Prelude to the Mahdiyya: Peasants and Traders in the Shendi Region, 1821–1885

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5 books

Alternate History

Underground Airlines

The Only Harmless Great Thing

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

Wolf By Wolf

The Man in the High Castle

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18 books

American History

The Devil's Highway

Between Two Empires: Race, History, and Transnationalism in Japanese America

Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class

Island World: A History of Hawai’i and the United States

The American Ascendancy: How the United States Gained and Wielded Global Dominance

Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800–1850

The Comanche Empire

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2 books

American Literature

When Conscience Trod the Stage: American Plays of Social Awareness

British Drama, 1660-1779: A Critical History

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2 books

Asian History

The Great Divergence

Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961

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1 book

Biography

The Road to Khartoum: A Life of General Charles Gordon

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15 books

British History

The making of the English working class

Origins of Modern English Society 1

Imagining the Middle Class: The Political Representation of Class in Britain, c.1780–1840

Hitler and Appeasement

City of Dreadful Delight

Hitler, Chamberlain and Appeasement

Appeasement and Rearmament: Britain, 1936–1939

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3 books

British Literature

When Conscience Trod the Stage: American Plays of Social Awareness

British Drama, 1660-1779: A Critical History

British Romantic Drama: Historical and Critical Essays

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Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works

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3 books

Childrens

The Secret Garden

Little Women

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

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30 books

Classics

Mrs Dalloway

The Great Gatsby

The Picture of Dorian Grey

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Animal Farm

Nine Stories

Anna Karenina

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5 books

Cold War

Death in Berlin

Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany

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The Global Cold War

Cold War Orientalism: Asia in the Middlebrow Imagination, 1945-1961

This Terrible Beauty

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6 books

Colonialism

A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902

Imperial Leather

A Diplomatic Revolution

Insatiable Appetite: The United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical World

Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World

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25 books

Contemporary

My Sister's Keeper

Paper Towns

Her Fearful Symmetry

The Fault in Our Stars

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

The Casual Vacancy

Faking Normal

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14 books

Crime

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Dexter in the Dark

The Talented Mr. Ripley / Ripley Under Ground / Ripley's Game

Dearly Devoted Dexter

I Hunt Killers

Manner of Death

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Schneewittchen muss sterben

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2 books

Cultural History

Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism

Hidden fron history

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11 books

Did Not Finish

Dragon Teeth

From a Buick 8

Next

Breaking Dawn

The Casual Vacancy

Forged in crisis

The Red Chamber

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4 books

Drama

When Conscience Trod the Stage: American Plays of Social Awareness

British Drama, 1660-1779: A Critical History

British Romantic Drama: Historical and Critical Essays

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Oroonoko, The Rover and Other Works

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15 books

Dystopia

A Reaper at the Gates

A Torch Against the Night

Secondborn

An Ember in the Ashes

Animal Farm

The Hunger Games

The Road

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4 books

Espionage

Underground Airlines

Kushiel's Dart

Code Name Verity

Eye of the Needle A Novel

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2 books

Essay

Guns

We Should All Be Feminists

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71 books

European History

A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902

Death in Berlin

Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts: Honor and Ritual Pollution in Early Modern Germany

Rites of Spring

Shattered Past: Reconstructing German Histories

Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany

Socialist Modern: East German Everyday Culture and Politics

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88 books

Fantasy

The Farseer Trilogy

Children of Blood and Bone

A Blade So Black

Unicorn Triangle

My Son Heydari and the Karkadann

The Stone Sky

The Obelisk Gate

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17 books

Favorites

Bitten

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Lisey's Story

The Silmarillion

The Golden Compass

The Subtle Knife

The Amber Spyglass

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2 books

Feminism

We Should All Be Feminists

The Testaments

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9 books

Gender And Sexuality

Civilization without Sexes: Reconstructing Gender in Postwar France, 1917-1927

Imperial Leather

Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things

Manliness and Civilization

City of Dreadful Delight

The New Biography: Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France

Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud

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