The April 2005 revision of the U.S. Navy Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy reading list

(source) The following books comprise the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy's Naval Heritage/Core Values Reading Guide as prepared in March 1997 and revised April 2005. This list is updated periodically as part of the Chief Petty Officer Initiation Season. The books are available through the Navy Exchange or the Uniform Center toll-free ordering system.

This revision

"A" list: required reading list

Book cover for A Most Fortunate Ship: A Narrative History of Old Ironsides

Book cover for A Sailor's Log : Recollections of Forty Years of Naval Life

Book cover for A Voice from the Main Deck: Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech

Book cover for Battleship Sailor

Book cover for Brave Ship, Brave Men

Book cover for Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket's Odyssey in World War II

Book cover for Descent into Darkness: Pearl Harbor, 1941A Navy Diver's Memoir

Book cover for Devotion to Duty: A Biography of Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague

Book cover for Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War

Book cover for Every Other Day: Letters from the Pacific

Book cover for Good Night Officially: The Pacific War Letters of a Destroyer Sailor : The Letters of Yeoman James Orvill Raines

Book cover for In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors

Book cover for In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years

Book cover for IWO

Book cover for Life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy

Book cover for The Naked Warriors: The Elite Fighting Force that became the Navy Seals

Book cover for Nimitz

Book cover for Quiet Heroes: Navy Nurses of the Korean War 1950-1953

Book cover for Raiders from the Sea: The Story of the Special Boat Service in WWII

Book cover for Raiders of the Deep

Book cover for Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War

Book cover for Ship's Doctor

Book cover for Submarine Diary

Book cover for The Battle of Cape Esperance: Encounter at Guadalcanal

Book cover for The Fast Carriers: The Forging of an Air Navy

Book cover for The Fighting Liberty Ships: A Memoir

Book cover for The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers

Book cover for The Last Patrol

Book cover for Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II

Book cover for Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945

Book cover for We Will Stand by You: Serving in the Pawnee, 1942-1945

Book cover for What a Way to Spend a War: Navy Nurse POWs in the Philippines

"B" List: Reference

Book cover for American Naval History: an Illustrated Chronology of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps 1775-Present

Book cover for The Book of Navy Songs

Book cover for Sea Power: A Naval History

Book cover for Air Raid: Pearl Harbor!  Recollections of a Day of Infamy

Book cover for E-Boat Alert: Defending the Normandy Invasion Fleet

Book cover for Heroes in Dungarees: The Story of the American Merchant Marine in World War II

Book cover for Unsung Sailors: The Naval Armed Guard in World War II

Book cover for The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway

Book cover for The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942

Book cover for Admiral John H. Towers: The Struggle for Naval Air Supremacy

Book cover for The Magnificent Mitscher

Book cover for At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Book cover for Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific

Book cover for The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War

Book cover for History of the U.S. Navy: Volumes 1 (1775-1941) and 2 (1942-1991)

Book cover for Clash of Titans: World War II at Sea

Book cover for Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II

Book cover for War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II

Book cover for War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II

Book cover for Miracle at Midway

Book cover for Authors at Sea: Modern American Writers Remember Their Naval Service

Book cover for Rocks & Shoals: Naval Discipline in the Age of Fighting Sail

Book cover for The Unsinkable Fleet: The Politics of U.S. Navy Expansion in World War II

Book cover for Run Silent Run Deep

Book cover for PT 105

Book cover for Submarine Commander: A Story of World War II and Korea

Book cover for We Pulled Together ... And Won! Personal Memories Of The World War Ii Years From Over The Seas & Back At Home

Book cover for Submarine Admiral: FROM BATTLEWAGONS TO BALLISTIC MISSILES

Book cover for All at Sea: Coming of Age in World War II

Book cover for This People's Navy: The Making of American Sea Power

Book cover for Longitude

Book cover for U-Boat Commander: A Periscope View of the Battle of the Atlantic

Book cover for Kinkaid of the Seventh Fleet: A Biography of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, U.S. Navy

Book cover for Assault from the Sea: The Amphibious Landing at Inchon

Book cover for Cordon of Steel: The US Navy and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Book cover for Revolt of the Admirals: The Fight for Naval Aviation, 1945-1950

Book cover for Quest for Glory: A Biography of Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgren

Book cover for One Hundred Years of Sea Power: The U. S. Navy, 1890-1990

Book cover for Great American Naval Battles

Book cover for The Quiet Warrior: A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance

Book cover for Honor Bound: The History of American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973

Book cover for Crossed Currents: Navy Women from Wwi to Tailhook

Book cover for History of United States Naval Operations in World War II