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  1. 1.
    The House of the Spirits
    by Isabel Allende

  2. 2.
    Legends of the Fall
    by Jim Harrison

  3. 3.
    Farewell My Concubine: Novel, A
    by Lilian Lee

  4. 4.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Leatherstocking Tale)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  5. 5.
    The English Patient
    by Michael Ondaatje

  6. 6.
    Den of Lions: A Startling Memoir of Survival and Triumph
    by Terry Anderson

  7. 7.
    In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War
    by Tobias Wolff

  8. 8.
    Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet
    by Lewis B. Puller Jr.

  9. 9.
    A Diary of the Century: Tales by America's Greatest Diarist
    by Edward Robb Ellis

  10. 12.
    Regeneration
    by Pat Barker

  11. 13.
    Children of the Holocaust (Jewish Lives)
    by Arnost Lustig

  12. 14.

  13. 15.
    Highways to a War
    by Christopher J. Koch

  14. 16.
    Last Orders
    by Graham Swift

  15. 17.
    Batting Against Castro: Stories
    by Jim Shepard

  16. 18.
    Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

  17. 19.
    Napoleon And Josephine: An Improbable Marriage
    by Evangeline Bruce

  18. 20.
    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene

  19. 21.
    The End of the Affair (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene

  20. 22.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  21. 23.
    Sophie's Choice (Modern Library)
    by William Styron

  22. 24.
    Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Thomas Pynchon

  23. 25.
    Blood of Others (Twentieth Century Classics)
    by Simone de Beauvoir

  24. 26.
    A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain: Stories
    by Robert Olen Butler

  25. 27.
    Diary of Anne Frank (Longman Imprint Books)
    by Anne Frank

  26. 28.
    The Confessions of Nat Turner
    by William Styron

  27. 29.
    The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
    by Gunter Grass

  28. 30.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

  29. 31.
    Season of Blood: A Rwandan Journey
    by Fergal Keane

  30. 32.
    Mein Kampf
    by Adolf Hitler

  31. 33.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  32. 34.
    Hiroshima (Vintage)
    by John Hersey

  33. 36.
    The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior
    by Horacio Verbitsky

  34. 37.
    The Private Life of Chairman Mao
    by Li Zhi-Sui

  35. 38.
    Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia
    by Jo Ann Kay McNamara

  36. 40.
    Europe: A History
    by Norman Davies

  37. 41.
    Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic
    by Paul Fussell

  38. 42.
    Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood
    by Binjamin Wilkomirski

  39. 44.
    Broken Country: Mountains and Memory
    by C. L. Rawlins

  40. 45.
    Badenheim 1939
    by Aron Appelfeld

  41. 46.
    The Painted Bird
    by Jerzy Kosinski

  42. 47.
    Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War
    by David Madden

  43. 48.
    Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood
    by Barbara Demick

  44. 49.
    Hannibal
    by Ross Leckie

  45. 50.
    Guided Tours of Hell: Novellas
    by Francine Prose

  46. 51.
    In the Season of the Daisies
    by Tom Phelan

  47. 52.
    War with the Newts (European Classics)
    by Karel Capek

  48. 53.
    Road From Coorain
    by Jill Ker Conway

  49. 54.
    Castles Burning: A Childs Life in War
    by Magda Denes

  50. 55.
    Father, Soldier, Son: Memoir of a Platoon Leader In Vietnam
    by Nathaniel Tripp

  51. 57.
    Fugitive Pieces: A Novel
    by Anne Michaels

  52. 58.
    Stones from the River
    by Ursula Hegi

  53. 59.
    A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
    by Prof. Orlando Figes

  54. 60.
    Lucien's Story: A Memoir
    by Aleksandra Kroh

  55. 61.
    Battlefield: Farming a Civil War Battleground
    by Peter svenson

  56. 62.
    Ten Men Dead: The Story of the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
    by David Beresford

  57. 63.
    In the Time of the Butterflies
    by Julia Alvarez

  58. 64.
    The Soldiers' Tale: Bearing Witness to a Modern War
    by Samuel Hynes

  59. 65.
    The Boys: Triumph Over Adversity
    by Martin Gilbert

  60. 66.
    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

  61. 67.
    Spider Eaters: A Memoir
    by Rae Yang

  62. 68.
    An Exchange of Hostages
    by Susan R. Matthews

  63. 69.
    The Lost Childhood: The Complete Memoir
    by Yehuda Nir

  64. 70.
    Facing The Extreme: Moral Life in the Concentration Camps
    by Tzvetan Todorov

  65. 72.
    Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War
    by Barbara Ehrenreich

  66. 73.
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    Killing Fields
    by Christopher Hudson

  67. 74.
    Spite House: Last Secret
    by Monika Jensen-stevenson

  68. 75.
    Dreaming of Hitler
    by Daphne Merkin

  69. 76.
    Children Are Civilians Too (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Heinrich Boll

  70. 77.
    Never to Be Forgotten: A Young Girl's Holocaust Memoir
    by Beatrice Muchman

  71. 78.
    Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968
    by Heda Margolius Kovaly

  72. 79.
    Funeral Rites
    by Jean Genet

  73. 80.
    Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    by Jared Diamond

  74. 81.
    Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
    by Jan Wong

  75. 82.
    Cold Mountain
    by Charles Frazier

  76. 83.
    The Reader (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Bernhard Schlink

  77. 84.
    The Leopard: A Novel
    by Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

  78. 85.
    Blood Meridian (Picador Books)
    by Cormac McCarthy

  79. 86.
    Starship Troopers
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  80. 87.
    I Never Saw Another Butterfly
    by Hana Volavkova

  81. 88.
    Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
    by George MacDonald Fraser

  82. 89.
    ?
    All But My Life: A Memoir
    by Gerda Weissmann Klein

  83. 90.
    Bitter Grounds: A Novel
    by Sandra Benitez

  84. 91.
    The War in the Waste (Ever, Pt 1)
    by Felicity Savage

  85. 92.
    ?
    Burned Child Seeks the Fire
    by Cordelia Edvardson

  86. 93.
    Monkey Bridge
    by Lan Cao

  87. 95.
    Tear This Heart Out
    by Angeles Mastretta

  88. 96.
    The Periodic Table
    by Primo Levi

  89. 98.
    ?
    The Last Diary of Tsarita Alexandra
    by Vladimir and Khrustalev, Vladimir Kozlov

  90. 99.
    Under the Red Flag
    by Ha Jin

  91. 100.
    The Karnau Tapes
    by Marcel Beyer

  92. 101.
    Hotel Sarajevo
    by Jack Kersh

  93. 102.
    Matters of Chance: A Novel
    by Jeannette Haien

  94. 103.
    A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
    by Barbara W. Tuchman

  95. 104.

  96. 105.
    Cloudsplitter: A Novel
    by Russell Banks

  97. 106.
    The Reawakening
    by Primo Levi

  98. 107.
    Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War
    by Donald McCaig

  99. 108.
    Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the Gulag
    by Janusz Bardach

  100. 109.
    Havana Dreams: A Story of a Cuban Family
    by Wendy Gimbel

  101. 110.
    ?

  102. 111.
    Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
    by Ron Rosenbaum

  103. 112.
    A World Away : A Novel
    by Stewart O'Nan

  104. 113.
    D-Day
    by Stephen Ambrose

  105. 114.
    The Fall of a Sparrow
    by Robert Hellenga

  106. 115.
    Occupation: The Ordeal of France 1940-1944
    by Ian Ousby

  107. 116.
    The Farming of Bones
    by Edwidge Danticat

  108. 117.
    Anne Frank, Revised Edition: The Biography
    by Melissa Muller

  109. 118.
    Bread for the Departed (Jewish Lives)
    by Bogdan Wojdowski

  110. 120.
    My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin
    by Professor Peter Gay

  111. 121.
    Dogfight: And Other Stories
    by Michael Knight

  112. 122.
    Triage: A Novel
    by Scott Anderson

  113. 123.
    The Last King of Scotland
    by Giles Foden

  114. 126.
    I Will Bear Witness 1942-1945: A Diary of the Nazi Years
    by Victor Klemperer

  115. 127.
    To the Bitter End (v. 2)
    by Victor Klemperer

  116. 128.
    Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae
    by Steven Pressfield

  117. 129.
    Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age
    by Christian Meier

  118. 130.
    THE GOOD MAN OF NANKING: The Diaries of John Rabe
    by John Rabe

  119. 132.
    The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
    by Friedrich Katz

  120. 133.
    Turkey Unveiled
    by Nicole Pope

  121. 134.
    GARDENS IN THE DUNES: A Novel
    by Leslie Marmon Silko

  122. 135.
    The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
    by Sandra Gulland

  123. 136.
    The Stone War
    by Madeleine E. Robins

  124. 137.
    Waiting: A Novel
    by Ha Jin

  125. 138.
    We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
    by David Howarth

  126. 139.
    The Shadow of the Sun
    by Ryszard Kapuscinski

  127. 140.
    Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
    by John McCain

  128. 141.

  129. 143.

  130. 144.
    The Balm of Gilead Tree: New and Selected Stories
    by Robert Morgan

  131. 145.
    Anil's Ghost: A Novel
    by Michael Ondaatje

  132. 147.
    Hitler and the Occult
    by Ken Anderson

  133. 149.
    ?
    On the Night Plain: A Novel
    by J. Robert Lennon

  134. 150.
    Marie Antoinette: The Journey
    by Antonia Fraser

  135. 151.
    Johnny Got His Gun
    by Dalton Trumbo

  136. 152.
    Cat and Mouse
    by Gunter Grass

  137. 153.
    The Charterhouse of Parma (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

  138. 154.
    Dog Years
    by Gunter Grass

  139. 155.
    The House of Splendid Isolation: A Novel
    by Edna O'Brien

  140. 156.
    In the Lake of the Woods
    by Tim O'Brien

  141. 157.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  142. 158.
    Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
    by Jung Chang

  143. 159.
    The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
    by John Putnam Demos

  144. 160.
    Home and Away (California Fiction)
    by Joanne Meschery

  145. 161.
    Henry and Clara: A Novel
    by Thomas Mallon

  146. 162.
    Absolution: A Novel
    by Olaf Olafsson

  147. 163.
    Scissors, Paper, Rock: A Novel
    by Fenton Johnson

  148. 165.
    Ocean of Words Army Stories
    by Ha Jin

  149. 166.
    Novel without a Name
    by Duong Thu Huong

  150. 167.
    A User's Guide to the Millennium: Essays and Reviews
    by J. G. Ballard

  151. 168.
    The Statement
    by Brian Moore

  152. 169.
    Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War
    by Peter Maass

  153. 170.
    Bitter Winds: A Memoir of My Years in China's Gulag
    by Harry Wu

  154. 171.
    End of the Affair, The
    by Graham Greene

  155. 172.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

  156. 173.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  157. 174.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  158. 175.

  159. 176.
    The Clown (Penguin Classics)
    by Heinrich Boll

  160. 177.
    The Third Lie
    by Agota Kristof

  161. 179.
    War Before Civilization: The Myth of the Peaceful Savage
    by Lawrence H. Keeley

  162. 180.
    Deep River
    by Shusaku Endo

  163. 181.
    The Manchurian Candidate
    by Richard Condon

  164. 182.
    The Sweetheart Season: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Karen Joy Fowler

  165. 183.
    A Brother's Blood
    by Michael C. White

  166. 184.
    The Land of Green Plums
    by Herta Müller

  167. 185.
    Moon Tiger
    by Penelope Lively

  168. 186.
    The Tent of Orange Mist
    by Paul West

  169. 187.
    Badenheim 1939
    by Aharon Appelfeld

  170. 188.
    Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel
    by Louis de Bernieres

  171. 189.
    Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
    by Sebastian Faulks

  172. 190.
    ?
    In the Hold
    by Vladimir ARSENIJEVIC

  173. 191.
    The Man in the Box
    by Thomas Moran

  174. 192.
    Closely Watched Trains (European Classics)
    by Bohumil Hrabal

  175. 193.
    Lucien's Story: A Memoir
    by Aleksandra Kroh

  176. 194.
    The Dictator's Shadow: Life Under Augusto Pinochet
    by Heraldo Munoz

  177. 197.
    In the Memory of the Forest
    by Charles Powers

  178. 198.
    Part of the Furniture
    by Mary Wesley

  179. 199.
    Comfort Woman
    by Nora Okja Keller

  180. 200.

  181. 201.
    Ivanhoe (Thrift Edition)
    by Sir Walter Scott

  182. 202.
    The Foundation Pit (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Andrey Platonov

  183. 203.
    The Trap
    by Rink Van Der Velde

  184. 204.
    Red Azalea
    by Anchee Min

  185. 205.
    The Bridge Builder's Story
    by Howard Fast

  186. 206.
    South Wind Changing
    by Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh

  187. 207.
    Dreams of the Centaur: A Novel
    by Montserrat Fontes

  188. 208.
    Krik? Krak!
    by Edwidge Danticat

  189. 209.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell

  190. 210.
    Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast
    by Bill Richardson

  191. 211.
    At His Side; The Last Years of Isaac Babel
    by A. N. Pirozhkova

  192. 212.
    Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life
    by Timothy W. Ryback

  193. 213.
    Literature or Life
    by Jorge Semprun

  194. 214.
    The Calling of Katie Makanya: A Memoir of South Africa
    by Margaret McCord

  195. 216.
    The Journal of Hélène Berr
    by Helene Berr

  196. 217.
    A Journal for Jordan: A Story of Love and Honor
    by Dana Canedy

  197. 218.
    ?
    The Killing Fields

  198. 219.
    Spite House: The Last Secret of the War in Vietnam
    by Monika Jensen-Stevenson

  199. 220.
    Chess Garden
    by Brooks Hansen

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