9/11: Essential Reading
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the Books & Books team put together a group of essential fiction and non-fiction reads on the topic so we can all better understand the legacy and horror of that day and the events that followed.
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September 11th and its Aftermath:
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READING LIST:
UNSETTLED BELONGING: Educating Palestinian American Youth after 9/11
by Thea Renda Abu El-Haj (University of Chicago Press, $41.60)
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REIGN OF TERROR: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump
by Spencer Ackerman (Viking, $30)
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HARBOR: A Novel
by Lorraine Adams (Vintage, $15)
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MAN IN THE DARK: A Novel
by Paul Auster (Picador, $17)
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THE RISE AND FALL OF OSAMA BIN LADEN
by Peter Bergen (Simon & Schuster, $30)
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CRUSADE: Chronicles of an Unjust War
by James Carroll (Holt Paperbacks, $22.99)
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IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone
by Raijv Chandrasekaran (Vintage, $17)
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AGAINST ALL ENEMIES: Inside America’s War on Terror
by Richard A. Clarke (Free Press, $16)
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THE TORTURE MEMOS: Rationalizing the Unthinkable
edited by David Cole (New Press, $17.95)
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GHOST WARS: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by Steve Coll (Penguin Books, $22)
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THE DAY THE WORLD CAME TO TOWN: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
by Jim Defede (William Morrow Paperbacks, $16.99)
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FALLING MAN
by Don DeLillo (Scribner, $17)
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TO START A WAR: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq
by Robert Draper (Penguin Books, $19)
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102 MINUTES: The Unforgettable Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn (Times Books, $16)
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
by David Finkel (Picador, $16)
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THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY: An Oral History of 9/11
by Garrett M. Graff (Avid Reader Press, $30)
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SUBTLE TOOLS: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump
by Karen J. Greenberg (Princeton University Press, $29.95)
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THE RELUCTANT FUNDAMENTALIST
by Mohsin Hamid (Mariner Books, $15.99)
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THE IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORT
by the Iraq Study Group (Pinnacle Press, $16.84)
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POETRY AFTER 9/11: An Anthology of New York Poets
edited by Dennis Loy Johnson and Valerie Merians (Melville House, $14.95)
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THE DARK SIDE: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals
by Jane Mayer (Anchor, $17)
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LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN: A Novel
by Colum McCann (Random House Trade Paperbacks, $18)
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THE EMPEROR’S CHILDREN
by Claire Messud (Vintage, $17)
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CLONING TERROR: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present
by W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago Press, $39)
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SELLING FEAR: Counterterrorism, The Media, and Public Opinion
by Brigitte L. Nacos, Yaeli Bloch-Elkon, Robert Y. Shapiro (University of Chicago Press, $44.20)
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THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT
by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (Claitor’s Pub Division, $15.90)
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EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE: A Novel
by Jonathan Safran Foer (Mariner Books, $16.99)
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THE SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE REPORT ON TORTURE: Committee Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program
by Senate Select Committee on Intelligence with foreword by Diane Feinstein (Melville House, $17.99)
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NIGHT DRAWS NEAR: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War
by Anthony Shadid (Picador, $24)
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IN THE SHADOW OF NO TOWERS
by Art Spiegelman (Pantheon, $50)
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THE ELEVENTH DAY: The Full Story Of 9/11
by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (Ballantine Books, $20)
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ONE PERCENT DOCTRINE: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11
by Ron Suskind (Simon & Schuster, $24.99)
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COUNTERINSURGENCY FIELD MANUAL
by the U.S. Army with introduction by Sarah Sewall and foreword by John A. Nagl and David H. Petraeus (Echo Point Books & Media, $14.24)
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THE SUBMISSION: A Novel
by Amy Waldman (Picador, $26)
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THE ZERO
by Jess Walter (Harper Perennial, $16.99)
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BUSH AT WAR
by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster, $18)
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THE LOOMING TOWER: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
by Lawrence Wright (Vintage, $18)
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FALL AND RISE: THE STORY OF 9/11
by Mitchell Zuckoff (Harper Perennial, $18.99)
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FOR THE KIDS:
SURVIVOR TREE
by Marcie Colleen (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $18.99)
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30,000 STITCHES: The Inspiring Story of the National 9/11 Flag
30,000 STITCHES: The Inspiring Story of the National 9/11 Flagby Amanda Davis (WorthyKids, $17.99)
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FIREBOAT: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey
by Maria Kalman (Puffin Books, $7.99)
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WITH THEIR EYES: September 11th: The View from a High School at Ground Zero