optimistic1) The Philadelphia Reader by Robert Huber (Editor), Benjamin Wallace (Editor)
2) Journey without Maps by Graham Greene
3) Dancing Under the Red Star: The Extraordinary Story of the Only American Woman to Survive Stalin's Gulag
by Karl Tobien
4) Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival by Anderson Cooper
5) Despite the System: Orson Welles Versus the Hollywood Studios by Clinton Heylin
6) Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
