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Justinian's Flea: Plague, Empire, and the Birth of Europe by William Rosen (13), The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions by Karen Armstrong (19), American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America by Chris Hedges (14), Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman (19), Annals of the Former World by John McPhee (14), The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer (16), A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World by Tony Horwitz (15), The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy (19), What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East by Bernard Lewis (17), Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (21), Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch (14), Independent People by Halldór Laxness (16), American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips (14), Agricola and Germania by P. Cornelius Tacitus (14), We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang--The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore (15), Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (13), The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong (18), The Reivers by William Faulkner (14), The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek (21), The Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (17), A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East by David Fromkin (13), Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow (20), Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman (14), Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh (14), Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution by Simon Schama (17)