 | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $6.31 Gourevitch is an amazing writer, but it's his examination of the genocide in Rwanda that is so enlightening. A powerful book, it highlights many of the continuing problems of Africa
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 | A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa by Howard W. French
Buy used from: $5.68 French, a NY Times journalist, details his travels through the heart of Africa over a number of years. An intense and powerful book.
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 | Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe by Martin Meredith
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $3.94 Zimbabwe has one of the most violent modern histories and has been in the news with the recent elections. Meredith's book is detailed look at the destruction caused by Mugabe's reign.
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 | King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.48 An alarming and heart wrenching history of the Congo; the history of King Leopold's abuse of an entire nation, all in the search for profits from rubber. You'll want to reread "Heart of Darkness."
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 | Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness by Jeffrey Tayler
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $6.50 Tayler's traveloque takes the reader deep into the heart of Africa and one writer reexamines his assumptions about the powerful river.
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 | The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Buy new: $10.39 / Used from: $1.63 Probably the most eloquent book about Afghanistan in print. Seirestad gives us a glimpse into another world without conferring judgement on the Khan family
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 | Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 Both one woman's memoirs and a discussion of the great literature of the last century, this books details the fall of the Shah of Iran and the realization of the country as an Islamic repulic.
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 | Walking the Bible: A Journey by Land Through the Five Books of Moses by Bruce Feiler
Buy used from: $0.01 In a time when religions are fighting over the same small patches of land, Feiler's book underscores why place is so important to people's notions of faith.
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 | Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths by Karen Armstrong
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $4.95 Armstrong provides a clear concise history of the city, explaining it's importance to the three major faiths.
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 | The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy by Robert D. Kaplan
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.90 Kaplan's traverse across central asia and the middle east shows how much of the current conflicted started and why it continues to rage on. An important work that eveyone in America should read.
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 | Tea: Addiction, Exploitation, and Empire by Roy Moxham
Buy new: $21.00 / Used from: $5.50 Moxham has written a fascinating, and easy to read, history of tea, including the exploitation it has caused. Interesting observations about Sri Lanka and the Tamil rebels of today.
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 | Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
Buy used from: $0.01 Before this year's tsunami, there was the volcanic erruption of Krakatoa; Winchester's book gives us both a detailed scientific account and a historical perspective of colonized southeast Asia.
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 | City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi by William Dalrymple
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $6.40 Combinations memoir and history of both old and new Dehli; Dalrymple is an excellent storyteller
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 | In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran by Christopher De Bellaigue
Buy used from: $0.01 A brielf look at present day Iran with a bit of history about the creation of the first Islamic Republic.
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