Navy 2022 list available!

R141456ZFEB24: I've added the 2022 Navy reading list. The 2022 revision has 12 books and most of them are new material. "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" is a perennial that's still on there though!

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Many military commands publish recommended reading lists, but due to the ephemeral nature of the web these lists can sometimes be lost. This site attempts to capture them for posterity. Here's an overview of all the military reading lists that are available. Enjoy!

Most popular authors

Robert D. Kaplan
John Keegan
Thomas L. Friedman
Max Hastings
Rick Atkinson

Recent reading

  1. On May 26 2022 Dan P read Vietnam: A History by Stanley Karnow
  2. On May 26 2022 Dan P read The River and the Gauntlet by S.L.A. Marshall
  3. On May 26 2022 Dan P read The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
  4. On May 26 2022 Dan P read The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote
  5. On May 26 2022 Dan P read A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
  6. On May 26 2022 Dan P read Anabasis: The March Up Country by Xenophon
  7. On May 26 2022 Dan P read Bridges at Toko-Ri by James A. Michener
  8. On May 26 2022 Dan P read The Mask of Command by John Keegan
  9. On May 26 2022 Dan P read The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
  10. On May 26 2022 Dan P read The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
  11. On May 26 2022 Dan P read Company Commander: The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II by Charles B. MacDonald
  12. On May 26 2022 Dan P read Iliad and Odyssey by Homer
  13. On May 26 2022 Dan P read The Aeneid by Virgil
  14. On May 26 2022 Dan P read A Savage War: A Military History of the Civil War by Williamson Murray
  15. On May 26 2022 Dan P read Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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