NIGHTLY READING THREAD: Welcome to Edition #47 of #GMGReads. Every night through this weird time, I'm tweeting out a list of my five favorite books around a general theme—and a link to an indie bookstore where you can order them online....
Last night, for my @AvidReaderPress book club, I featured my favorite novels about 9/11 and promised tonight I'd share the most important books about the 9/11 attacks itself—all available from @BookPeople in Austin, to honor @lawrence_wright's new novel: bookpeople.com/book/978052565…
1) Steve Coll's (@stevecollny) GHOST WARS is a sweeping history of the US involvement in Afghanistan, from the 1980s up to September 10th, a book he followed up with a biography of THE BIN LADENS: bookpeople.com/book/978014303…
2) Lawrence Wright's (@lawrence_wright) THE LOOMING TOWER remains the classic, definitive story of the lead-up to 9/11 and what went wrong inside the US government: bookpeople.com/book/978140003…
3) The 9/11 Commission Report itself might just be the most readable and dramatic government report of all time—and I worry regularly now that we're ignoring its lessons: bookpeople.com/book/978039332…
4) Peter Bergen's (@peterbergencnn) HOLY WAR INC., about the rise of bin Laden, was uniquely prescient—in part because Bergen produced the first TV interview with bin Laden himself. He started the book long before 9/11 and published just two months after: bookpeople.com/book/978074323…
5) John Miller, who also interviewed bin Laden pre-9/11, worked with two other authors to tell the story of THE CELL, about the strand of Islamic extremism that aimed at New York City beginning with the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993: bookpeople.com/book/978078688…
Those are tonight's #GMGReads. What's on your reading list for this weekend? Share! I'm midway through @lmillernpr's WHY FISH DON'T EXIST and am *loving* it. #avidreadersunite bookshop.org/books/why-fish…
