Reading about Afghanistan

For people who are interested in learning more about Afghanistan, we have compiled a list of suggested readings both fiction and nonfiction. The books are listed alphabetically by author.

Ahmad, Aisha & Boase, Roger - Pashtun Tales (2003)

Amiri, Mousa M - Classic Afghan Cookbook (2002)

Ansary, Tamim - West of Kabul, East of New York (2002)

Ansary, Tamim - The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl (2005)

Canter, Ergun Mehmet and Emir, Fethi Caner - Unveiling Islam (2002)

Capisani, G. - The Handbook of Central Asia: A Comprehensive Survey of Republics (2000)

Chavis, Melody - Meena, Heroine of Afghanistan (2003)

Chayes, Sarah - The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan after the Taliban (2006)

Clammer, Paul - Lonely Planet Afghanistan (2007)

Coll, Steven - Ghost Wars (2004)

Djan, Nosha - Afghan Food and Cookery (2000)

Dokey, Cameron - The Storyteller's Daughter (2002)

Doubleday, Veronica - Three Women of Heart (2006)

Dupree, Louis - Afghanistan (1973)

Ellis, Deborah - The Breadwinner (2000)

Ellis, Deborah - Mud City (2003)

Ellis, Deborah - Parvana's Journey (2002)

Emadi, Hafizullah - Culture and Customs of Afghanistan (2005)

Ewans, Martin - Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics (2002)

Girardet, E. - Afghanistan: The Soviet War (1985)

Goodson, Larry P. - Afghanistan's Endless War (2001)

Goodson, Larry P. - Rise of the Taliban (2001)

Goodwin, Jan - Price of Honor (2003)

Goodwin, Jan - Caught in the Crossfire (1987)

Griffen, M. - Reaping the Whirlwind (2001)

Hosseini, Khaled - The Kite Runner (2004)

Hosseini, Khaled - A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)

Howard, Terrence & Mojadidi, Sedika - Motherland Afghanistan (2007)

Hyder Akbar, Said & Burton, Susan - Come Back to Afghanistan: Trying to Build a County with My Father, My Brother, My one-Eyed Uncle, Bearded Tribesmen and PR (2006)

Jones, Ann - Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace (2006)

Kaplan, Bob - Soldiers of God (2001)

Khan, Rukhsana - The Roses in My Carpet (1998)

Klaits, Alexander - Love & War in Afghanistan (2006)

Klass, R. - Afghanistan: The Great Game Revisited (1987)

Lamb, Christina - The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan (2002)

Lamb, Christina - Waiting for Allah (1991)

Latifa - My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young woman's Story (2001)

Loseby, Richard - Blue is the Colour of Heaven: A Journey in Through Afghanistan (2002)

Magnus, Ralph H Afghanistan - Mullah, Marx & Mujahed (2004)

Majrouh, Sayd Bahodine, De Jager, Marjolijn & Vleter, Andre - Songs of Love and War: Afghan Women's Poetry (2006)

Marsden, Peter - The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan (1998)

McDermott, Terry - The Unknown Soldier (2005)

Mehta, Sunita - Women for Afghan Women: Shattering Myths and Claiming the Future (2002)

Meyer, Karl - The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland (2003)

Mortenson, Greg - Three Cups of Tea (2007)

Newell, N & R - The Struggle for Afghanistan (1981)

Omrani, Bijan and Lemming, Matthew - Afghanistan: A Companion and Guide (2005)

Pazira, Nelfer - A Bed of Red Flowers (2005)

Rasanayagam, Angelo - Afghanistan: A Modern History (2003)

Rasid, Ahmed - Taliban (2000)

Rotberg, Robert I - Building a New Afghanistan (2007)

Rubin, Barnett R. - The Fragmentation of Afghanistan (1995)

Saikal, A. & Maley, W. - Regime Change in Afghanistan (1991)

Seierstad, Asne - The Bookseller of Kabul (2003)

Sekandari, Nafisha - Afghan Cuisine: Cooking for Life (2003)

Shah, Saira - The Storyteller's Daughter: One Women's Return to Her Lost Homeland (2004)

Shakib, Siba - Afghanistan: Where God Only Comes to Weep (2002)

Stewart, Rory - The Places in Between (2006)

Sumser, John - A Land Without Time (2006)

Urban, M. - War in Afghanistan (1988)

Van Dyk - In Afghanistan (1983)

Wilson, Steven E. - Winter in Kandahar (2003)