Arabia and the Arabs

10 best books like Arabia and the Arabs (Robert G. Hoyland): Cycle of the Werewolf, The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the Us Military, Shiver: Selected Stories, Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection, Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947, The Electric State, Akira, Vol. 6, The Greek World 479-323 BC

Cycle of the Werewolf

Author	Stephen King
ISBN	0451822196

The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The next month there was a scream of ecstatic agony from the woman attacked in her snug bedroom.

Now scenes of unbelieving horror come each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker...

The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

Author	Robert E. Howard
ISBN	0345483855

Poem and first 13 tales, in order written, plus Miscellanea drafts, notes, maps by author.
Cimmeria poem
1 The Phoenix on the Sword 1932
2 The Frost-Giant's Daughter 1976
3 The God in the Bowl 1952
4 The Tower of the Elephant 1933
5 The Scarlet Citadel 1933
6 Queen of the Black...

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

Author	William L. Shirer
ISBN	0671728687

Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 years contained some of the most catastrophic events Western civilization has ever known.No other powerful empire ever bequeathed such mountains of evidence about its birth and destruction as the Third...

Conduct Unbecoming: Gays and Lesbians in the Us Military

Author	Randy Shilts
ISBN	5551973522

So I read this book not necessarily because the topic particularly interests me, but because I read And the Band Played On and fell in love with Shilt's journalistic style. He is one of the many people our society lost because of AIDS and working my way through his three books has brought to my mind again...

Shiver: Selected Stories

Author	Junji Ito
ISBN	1421596938

A best-of story selection by the master of horror manga.

This volume includes nine of Junji Ito’s best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary. An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a sick girl’s window… After an idol...

Smashed: Junji Ito Story Collection

Author	Junji Ito
ISBN	1421598469

Thirteen Chilling Nightmares Presented by the Master of Horror.

Try not to be noticed when you eat the secret nectar, otherwise you'll get smashed... What horrific events happened to create the earthbound-people tied to a certain place for the rest of their short lives? A strange haunted...

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600–1947

Author	Christopher Clark
ISBN	0674023854

Iron Kingdom traces Prussia's involvement in the continent's foundational religious and political conflagrations: from the devastations of the Thirty Years War through centuries of political machinations to the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, from the enlightenment of Frederick the Great...

The Electric State

Author

Simon Stålenhag

In 1997, a runaway teenager and her yellow toy robot travel west through a strange USA. The ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, heaped together with the discarded trash of a high tech consumerist society in decline. As their car approaches the edge of the continent, the world outside...

Akira, Vol. 6

Author	Katsuhiro Otomo
ISBN	1569715289

The explosive finale to one of graphic fiction's greatest achievements is here! The mad psychic colossus Tetsuo, the world's military, and the remaining psychics of The Project face off -- with the child psychic god, Akira, the wild card -- in what may not only decide the fate of mankind, but may determine...

The Greek World 479-323 BC

Author	Simon Hornblower
ISBN	0415153441

The Greek World 479-323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication. Now Simon Hornblower has comprehensively rewritten and revised his original text, bringing it up to date for a new generation of readers. The extensive changes made include the addition...

Conan and the Spider God

Author	L. Sprague de Camp
ISBN	0441116094

Conan is back, and at the top of his form!

SFWA Grand Master L. Sprague de Camp was revered in the genre of fantasy for both his fiction and nonfiction. Booklist praised his novel The Honorable Barbarian, saying: “The action is brisk, and the worlds and characters are described with de...