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David Lamb
"Vietnam, Now: A Reporter Returns"
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Martin Windrow
"The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam"
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Anthony Bourdain
"A Cook's Tour" (Vietnam sections)
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Du Nguyên
"The Tale of Kieu"
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Frances Fitzgerald
"Fire in the Lake"
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Eric Wolf
"Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century"
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Stanley Karnow
"Vietnam: A History"
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Philip Caputo
"A Rumor of War"
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Tim O'Brien
"The Things They Carried"
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Gustav Hasford
"The Short-Timers"
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David Maraniss
"They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967"
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A.J. Langguth
"Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975"
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Michael Norman
"These Good Men: Friendships Forged from War"
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Tom Mangold
"The Tunnels of Cu Chi"
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Duong Van Mai Elliott
"The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family"
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Tim O'Brien
"Going After Cacciato"
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Elinor Burkett
"So Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in all the Wrong Places"
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Colin Thubron
"The Lost Heart of Asia"
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Babur
"The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor"
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Hovhannes Toumanian
"Selected Works"
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Murasaki Shikibu
"The Tale of Genji"
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David Mitchell
"Number 9 Dream"
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Haruki Murakami
"The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle"
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Kobo Abe
"The Woman in the Dunes"
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Kobo Abe
"The Ruined Map"
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Shusaku Endo
"The Sea and Poison"
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Richard Brautigan
"Tokyo Montana Express"
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William Gibson
"Neuromancer"
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Karl Taro Greenfeld
"Speed Tribes"
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Robert Twigger
"Angry White Pyjamas"
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Dave Barry
"Dave Barry Does Japan"
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Junichiro Tanizaki
"The Makioka Sisters"
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Guy Delisle
"A Journey in North Korea"
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Yvonne Vera
"Nehanda"
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Chenjerai Hove
"Bones"
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Charles Mungoshi
"Waiting for the Rain"
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Bruce Moore-King
"White Man, Black War"
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James Joyce
"Ulysses"
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Flann O'Brien
"The Poor Mouth"
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Flann O'Brien
"Further Cuttings: From Cruiskeen Lawn"
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Thomas Flanagan
"The Year of the French"
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Juanita Casey
"The Horse of Selene"
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Gore Vidal
"Vidal in Venice"
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John Julius Norwich
"A History of Venice"
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Sarah Dunant
"In the Company of the Courtesan"
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Anthony Beevor
"The Fall of Berlin 1945"
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Peter Schneider
"The Wall Jumper"
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Alexandra Richie
"Faust's Metropolis"
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James Kunstler
"The City in Mind"
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Albert Speer
"Inside the Third Reich"
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Wladimir Kaminer
"Russian Disco"
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Fergus Fleming
"Killing Dragons"
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Bryher
"The Colors of Vaud"
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Alexandre Dumas
"Travel Impressions: In Switzerland"
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Giovanni Verga
"Little Novels of Sicily"
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George Washington Cable
"Grandissimes"
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Robert Olen Butler
"A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain"
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John Folse
"The Encyclopedia of Cajun & Creole Cuisine"
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Frank Waters
"The Book of Hopi"
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Alfredo Vea
"La Maravilla"
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Terri Windling
"The Wood Wife"
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Charles Bowden
"Blue Desert"
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"Desierto"
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Charles Bowden
"Mezcal"
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"Blues for Cannibals"
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Zane Grey
"Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon"
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"To the Last Man"
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Peggy Pond Church
"The House at Otowi Bridge"
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Frank Waters
"The Woman at Otowi Crossing"
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"The Man who Killed the Deer"
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N. Scott Momaday
"House Made of Dawn"
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John Nichols
"The Milagro Beanfield War"
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Leslie Marmon Silko
"Ceremony"
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"Almanac of the Dead"
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Willa Cather
"Death Comes to the Archbishop"
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Rex Dobbins Jr.
"Swimming Upstream"
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"A Different Plain: Contemporary Nebraska Fiction Writers"
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Pamela Joern
"The Floor of the Sky"
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Jim Harrison
"Dalva"
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"The Road Home"
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George Santayana
"The Last Puritan"
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Mark Twain
"A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court"
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John Irving
"A Prayer for Owen Meany"
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John Thorne
"Serious Pig"
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Jack Kerouac
"Visions of Lowell"
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Eugene O'Neill
"Desire Under the Elms"
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Thornton Wilder
"Our Town"
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Tracy Kidder
"Hometown"
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Paul Auster
"The Brooklyn Follies"
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William Styron
"Sophie's Choice"
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Harvey Swados
"Nights in the Garden of Brooklyn"
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Thomas Wolfe
"Only the Dead Know Brooklyn"
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Billy Q. Pickett
"The Jolly Rancher"
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Mark Jenkins
"The Hard Way"
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Caroline Marwitz
"Naming the Winds"
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David Romtvedt
"Red Politics and Blue in Wyoming"
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Jean Toomer
"Cane"
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Garrett Epps
"The Floating Island"
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Kim Stanley Robinson
"Fifty Degrees Below"
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John Fahey
"How Bluegrass Music Destroyed My Life"
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Laura Lippman
"Baltimore Noir"
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H.L. Mencken
"The Vintage Mencken"
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Alejo Carpentier
"The Chase"
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G. Cabrera Infante
"Infante's Inferno"
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Pedro Juan Gutierrez
"Dirty Havana Trilogy"
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"Tropical Animal"
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"The Insatiable Spiderman"
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Thomas Sanchez
"King Bongo"
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Migene Gonzalez-Wippler
"Santeria: The Religion"
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Alfredo Jose Estrada
"Welcome to Havana, Senor Hemingway"
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Lea Aschkenas
"Es Cuba: Life and Love on an Illegal Island"
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Carlos Fuentes
"Christopher Unborn"
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"Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Mayas"
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Luis Zapata
"El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma"
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Ray Bradbury
"The Halloween Tree"
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Vincent Eri
"The Crocodile"
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Paul Carter
"Road to Botany Bay"
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Patrick White
"Voss"
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Sarah Murgatroyd
"The Dig Tree"
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Patrick White
"Riders in the Chariot"
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Peter Carey
"Tax Inspector"
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Robert Hughes
"The Fatal Shore"
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Murray Bail
"Eucalyptus"
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Murray Bail
"The Brush Off"
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Ned Kelly
"The Jerilderie Letter"
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Tom Gilling
"The Sooterkin"
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Vicente Blasco Ibanez
"The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse"
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Ernesto Sabato
"On Heroes and Tombs"
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Tomas Eloy Martinez
"The Peron Novel"
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William Henry Hudson
"Green Mansions"
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