The November 2008 revision of the Marines reading list

(source) The Marine Corps Professional Reading Program Began as the Commandant's Reading List in 1988, although recommended reading lists have been generated for Marines since the 19th century. Each Commandant since 1988 has placed his personal stamp on the program, but many of the books have remained constant.

Other revisions

May 2017

March 2016

January 2013

September 2009

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Book cover for A Message to Garcia

Book cover for Ender's Game

Book cover for First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

Book cover for Rifleman Dodd

Book cover for The Soldier's Load and the Mobility of a Nation

Book cover for The Ugly American

Corporal

Book cover for Battle Leadership

Book cover for First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

Book cover for Flags of Our Fathers

Book cover for Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

Book cover for Imperial Grunts: The American Military on the Ground

Sergeant

Book cover for Attacks

Book cover for The Art Of War

Book cover for The Village

Book cover for Tip of the Spear: U.S. Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War

Book cover for With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Staff Sergeant

Book cover for A Bell for Adano

Book cover for Band of Brothers : E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

Book cover for Face of Battle

Book cover for First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

Book cover for This Kind of War

Book cover for Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa

Gunnery Sergeant

Book cover for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Book cover for First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

Book cover for On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace

Book cover for The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

Book cover for We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam

Master Sergeant

Book cover for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Book cover for Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America

Book cover for First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

Book cover for On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society

Book cover for Reminiscences of a Marine

Book cover for Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

Master Gunnery Sergeant

Book cover for Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character

Book cover for First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

Book cover for No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal The Memoir of Gen. Merrill B. Twining, USMC

Book cover for The Arab Mind

Book cover for The General

Book cover for The Mask of Command

Officer Candidate

Book cover for A Message to Garcia

Book cover for Ender's Game

Book cover for First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

Book cover for Rifleman Dodd

Book cover for The Soldier's Load and the Mobility of a Nation

Warrant Officer

Book cover for Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice

Book cover for Fields of Fire

Book cover for First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

Book cover for On Infantry

Book cover for The Anatomy of Courage: The Classic WWI Study of the Psychological Effects of War

Book cover for The Art Of War

Book cover for The Soldier's Load and the Mobility of a Nation

Chief Warrant Officer 2

Book cover for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Book cover for Face of Battle

Book cover for First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

Book cover for Reminiscences of a Marine

Book cover for The Bridge at Dong Ha

Chief Warrant Officer 3

Book cover for First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

Book cover for For the Common Defense

Book cover for On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace

Book cover for The Arab Mind

Book cover for The Mask of Command

Book cover for The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power

Chief Warrant Officer 4

Book cover for First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

Book cover for Grant Takes Command: 1863 - 1865

Book cover for Once An Eagle

Book cover for The Guns of August

Book cover for The History of the Peloponnesian War

Book cover for The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization

Chief Warrant Officer 5

Book cover for Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power

Book cover for Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945

Book cover for First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

Book cover for Supplying War: Logistics from Wallenstein to Patton

Book cover for Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965

Colonel to General

Book cover for Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam

Book cover for Diplomacy

Book cover for Feeding Mars: Logistics In Western Warfare From The Middle Ages To The Present

Book cover for First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps

Book cover for Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime

Book cover for The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror