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The best books on Yugoslavia and the Balkans, and why these topics matter -
The best travel memoirs for those who love to wander -
The best books with funny, wiseass narrators and ridiculously dysfunctional families -
The best international spy thrillers for understanding cultural differences -
The best books about finding peace amid conflict -
The best books to take you to another world -
The best books with underlying and self-made conflicts -
The best books about construction projects, literal and metaphysical -
The best books by women about women, beyond romance, motherhood, or emulating men
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The best books about English women and men in Eastern Europe (ignoring spies for once) -
The best books that tell complex, hopeful stories about migration -
The best unconventional books on US national security -
The best books about mass violence in history -
The best books for thoughtful travel -
The best books about how culture makes us do crazy self-destructive things (that seem like good ideas at the time) -
The best books that explain why the First World War happened -
The best books on war and society -
The best books to experience college without going into student loan debt -
The best books to get to know Romania and her people -
The best campus novels that mix poignancy with humor