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Lately I've read the first five books of Isaac Asimov's Foundation series (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation, Foundation's Edge, Foundation and Earth). I got a little burned out with Foundation stuff after reading the fourth and fifth books, and so I wanted to read something else.
I've been reading on and off Jack Rakove's Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America and Gerard Russell's Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms. That last title is particularly topical these days, as it is about persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East.
I'm now halfway through Nelson Demille's The Charm School. It's a very engrossing read, a thriller set in the mid-1980's Soviet Union.
It's got me wanting to follow this with something else about Russia and/or the Soviet Union. Fiction or non-fiction would do.
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