Tolstoy, Count Leo ANNA KARENINA (The tragic consequences of a woman's decision in 1870's Russia)
Gironella, Jose Maria THE CYPRESSES BELIEVE IN GOD ( Spain, during the period of the Republic, from 1931 to outbreak of the devastating Civil War, 1936)
Collins and LaPierre O JERUSALEM (The gaining of independance of the State of Israel: the story of the Arab-Israeli struggle for possession of Jerusalem from 1948 to the Six Day War in 1967; a history of Israel as a nation with a discussion of the religious significance of the Holy City from both Moslem and Judaic perspectives.
Solzenythsn, Alexander ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF IVAN DENISOVICH (Struggle for life in a Stalinist labor camp)
Solzentisyn, Alexander THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO (The pathetic life of inmates in the slave labor camps of the Stalin era)
Truth to Ponder 