My Name Is Red
1998 · 417 pages
The dead man narrates his own murder, and so do a coin and a tree, in the Istanbul of 1591 where painting a face as the eye sees it is treated as blasphemy.
★ 6.7
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1922 · 550 pages
Lawrence rode with the Arab tribes revolting against the Ottoman Empire, dynamited their trains, and took Aqaba from the desert side. He tells it as epic and never stops accusing himself.
★ 7.2