9/11 literature (To go with 9/11 triggers cascade of books)
September 7th, 2011 - 3:31 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) Here are some books that chronicled and responded to the tragedy, mania and mayhem of 9/11:
Non-Fiction:
Steve Coll: “Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden”
Bob Woodward: “Bush at War”
Joan Didion: “Fixed Ideas: America Since 9/11″
Susan Faludi: “The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America”
Seymour M. Hersh: “Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib”
John Gray: “Al Qaeda and What it means to be Modern”
Ahmed Rashid: “Descent Into Chaos”
Malise Ruthven: “A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America”
Gilles Kepel: “Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam”
Peter L. Bergen: “Holy War, Inc: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden”
Tariq Ali: “The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity”
Fiction:
Don Le Lillo: “Falling Man”
Ian McEwan: “Saturday”
John Updike: “The Terrorist”
Claire Messud: “The Emperor’s Children”
Martin Amis: “The Last Days of Muhammad Atta”
Lynne Sharon Schwartz: “The Writing on the Wall”
Jonathan Safran Foer: “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
Lawrence Wright: “The Looming Tower”
Ken Kalfus: “A Disorder Peculiar to the Country”
Mohsin Hamid: “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”
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