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Books set in Washington D.C.:
Title Author Year Written Time Period Genre
1Abraham Lincoln

A brief scholarly and highly readable biography of A. Lincoln. As per the author, "a brief biography that captures the e...

McPherson, James M.20091809-1865Memoir or Biography
2Amanda Bright@Home

In Washington DC, thirty-five years old Amanda wonders if that is all there is in life. Currently, she is a mom rai...

Crittendon, Danielle20032003Novel
3The Android's Dream

As far as light-hearted farces go, this book is about as light and farcical as you can get. Scalzi really has everything...

Scalzi, John200621st CenturyScience Fiction
4Another Woman's Son

Isabel Barker has known for months that her estranged husband Will and her married sister Faith were having an affai...

Adams, Anna20052005Romance
5Ariel

This is an interesting fantasy novel from a few years ago - the settings are all recognizable real world ones, but there...

Boyett, Steven R.19831980sFantasy
6The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq

Packer writes about the war in Iraq in great detail, and from personal experience in the area. The first few chapters ar...

Packer, George20051991-2005History
7The Attack on the Liberty

A riveting account by the son of a survivor of the attack on June 8, 1967, by the Israeli Air Force and Navy on the USS ...

Scott, James20091967-presentHistory
8The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

The book's protagonist is an Ethiopian immigrant who owns a small neighborhood market in DC's Logan Circle. The descript...

Mengestu, Dinaw20072000sNovel
9Bee Season

An intriguing and intense novel about a girl who goes to the national competitive spelling bee. Eliza Naumann wins her d...

Goldberg, Myla20002000Novel
10Better

This book is subtitled A Surgeon's Notes on Performance, and so has more detail about the current state of medicine and ...

Gawande, Atul20082000sReference - Other
11The Big Bad Wolf

Another Alex Cross thriller by Patterson sends the new FBI agent across the country tracking a serial kidnapper. The pl...

Patterson, James2003presentMystery
12Blowback

This book was written in 2000, and it is a harrowing account of all the things that were already going wrong with Americ...

Johnson, Chalmers200020th CenturyHistory
13Blue Diamonds

The action is fast and furious in this mystery suspense thriller as a bag of Blue Diamonds stolen from Greek Jews during...

Dane, Spencer2006Present DayMystery
14Body of Lies

A fast paced story of intrigue about a CIA agent and Jordanian secret police with events occuring throughout the Middle ...

Ignatius, David2007early 21st centuryThriller
15Bold Sons of Erin

A great read! Abel Jones, a veteran of Queen Victoria's imperial wars in India and Afghanistan, takes on the detective t...

Parry, Owen20031861-1865Mystery
16The Bourne Identity

One of Ludlum's classics. A man is found in the Mediterranean near Marseilles, shot up, with no memory of how he got the...

Ludlum, Robert19801970sThriller
17Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet

Ms. Niven writes a wonderful biography for children of Carl Sandburg. She ably shows the many places and forces that sha...

Niven, Penelope20031878-1967Children's Non-Fiction
18Charlie Wilson's War

Subtitled The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History. Crile writes about the efforts of Charlie ...

Crile, George20031980sHistory
19The Clan Corporate

The saga of the The Merchant Princes continues, with book three in the series. The Clan Corporate shows us some of the m...

Stross, Charles20062006Science Fiction
20Code to Zero

In this book, Follett goes behind the scenes of the real-life two-day delay on the launch of an American rocket in Janua...

Follett, Ken20001941; January 1958Thriller

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