Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World: A Concise History with 174 Recipes

5 best books like Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World: A Concise History with 174 Recipes (Lilia Zaouali): Citizen: An American Lyric, Zone One, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, While England Sleeps, Thunderstruck & Other Stories

Citizen: An American Lyric

Author	Claudia Rankine
ISBN	1555976905

A provocative meditation on race, Claudia Rankine's long-awaited follow up to her groundbreaking book Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric.

Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media....

Zone One

Author	Colson Whitehead
ISBN	0385528078

In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.

Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuild­ing civilization under...

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Author	Richard Rothstein
ISBN	1631492853

In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading authority on housing policy, explodes the myth that America’s cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the...

While England Sleeps

Author	David Leavitt
ISBN	0349109532

Leavitt has earned high praise for his empathetic portrayal of human sexuality and the complexities of intimate relationships. In While England Sleeps, available for the first time in two years, he moves beyond precisely controlled domestic drama to create a historical novel, set against the rise...

Thunderstruck & Other Stories

Author	Elizabeth McCracken
ISBN	0385335776

From the author of the beloved novel The Giant’s House—finalist for the National Book Award—comes a beautiful new story collection, her first in twenty years. Laced through with the humor, the empathy, and the rare and magical descriptive powers that have led Elizabeth McCracken’s fiction...