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  1. Nancy Pearl _ Book Lust: Recommended Reading

    John le Carré's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in many ways defines the spy genre; it introduces the grand theme of ferreting out the Russian agent high up in British intelligence.
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  2. Nancy Pearl _ Book Lust: Recommended Reading

    Richard Rhodes's exceptionally readable The Making of the Atomic Bomb is the place to start. This sweeping chronicle of the difficult and sobering history of the endeavor called the Manhattan Project is marked by Rhodes's insightful studies of the complicated people who were most involved in the creation of the bomb, from Niels Bohr to Robert Oppenheimer. Rhodes followed this book with Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.
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  3. Nancy Pearl _ Book Lust: Recommended Reading

    If you read no other work of what's known as "cyberpunk" {which looks at the ever-thinner line between humans and machines}, at least read the novel that began it all: William Gibson's Neuromancer, which won every major science fiction award {the Nebula, the Hugo, and the Philip K. Dick award} in 1984, the year it was published. Gibson introduced words {including "cyberpunk" itself}, themes, and a dystopic vision of the future that have been liberally reworked in the writings of many other authors.
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  4. Nancy Pearl _ Book Lust: Recommended Reading

    There are also some moving sections about World War II in Anthony Burgess's Any Old Iron, Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, Kit Reed's At War As Children, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard, and Nancy Willard's Things Invisible to See.
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  5. Nancy Pearl _ Book Lust: Recommended Reading

    Before David McCullough went on to fame, fortune, and literary awards with books like John Adams and Mornings on Horseback, he wrote a tragic and riveting account of the great 1889 flood in Pennsylvania, The Johnstown Flood. Kathleen Cambor describes the same disaster in a novel, In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden.
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  6. Nancy Pearl _ Book Lust: Recommended Reading

    In Breaking Clean, Judy Blunt looks back on her childhood and early married life in the 1950s and '60s on cattle ranches in northeastern Montana, and explores what it meant to be female in that place and time.
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  7. Nancy Pearl _ Book Lust: Recommended Reading

    Pueblo, Colorado, a corrupt and decaying mining town high in the Rockies, is the setting for Heidi Julavits's The Mineral Palace, a story of motherhood, a troubled marriage, and the unveiling of long-held secrets.
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  8. Nancy Pearl _ Book Lust: Recommended Reading

    A. B. Guthrie's 1947 novel The Big Sky {even better than its sequel, The Way West, which won the Pulitzer Prize}, The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark {1940}, and Jack Schaefer's Shane {1949} were all made into well-regarded movies, but these three classics of Western fiction continue to make for wonderful reading.
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  9. Nancy Pearl _ Book Lust: Recommended Reading

    Amy Wilentz's Martyrs' Crossing is set against the ongoing tension of Israeli-Palestinian relations. When a Palestinian woman is turned back at the checkpoint at Ramallah as she attempts to take her sick child to an Israeli hospital, she and the young Israeli soldier who's guarding the crossing find their lives altered forever.
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  10. Nancy Pearl _ Book Lust: Recommended Reading

    James Buchan's The Persian Bride combines a moving love story, a political thriller, and a history of modern Iran in a beautiful novel about the relationship of two people caught up in the Iranian revolution: John Pitt, a young man from England who arrives in Isfahan, Iran, in 1974, and seventeen-year-old Shirin, one of John's students, whose father is a general in the shah's army.
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  11. Nancy Pearl _ Book Lust: Recommended Reading

    Cracking India by Bapsi Sidhwa reveals the upheaval of partition through the eyes of a child, "Lame Lenny," a young Parsi girl crippled from polio. Lenny's world is her beloved and beautiful Hindu ayah and her ayah's many Muslim admirers, the cook Imam Din, and the Untouchable gardener.
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  12. Nancy Pearl _ Book Lust: Recommended Reading

    In Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan, the bloody violence sweeping India after partition has not yet touched Mano Majra, a small village of Muslims and Sikhs on the India-Pakistan border. But in the summer of 1947, the murder of a Hindu moneylender and the arrival of a trainful of dead Sikhs set off a tragic chain of events.
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