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This list contains selected books that I've read, in reverse
chronological order, which pertain to the subject material of my blog.
The intent of including this list is to show shaping influences on my thinking.
1948 by Benny Morris
The Accidental Guerrilla by David Kilcullen
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway
Drood by Dan Simmons
The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
The Gamble by Tom Ricks
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Faith Beyond Despair by Elias Chacour
Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Fiasco by Tom Ricks
Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace by Daniel Kurtzer and Scott Lasensky
The Much Too Promised Land by Aaron David Miller
The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
The Lost History of Christianity by Philip Jenkins
Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen
We Belong to the Land by Elias Chacour
Dereliction of Duty by H.R. Mcmaster
This Man's Army by Andrew Exum
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism by Andrew J. Bacevich
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam by John Nagl
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
Blood Brothers by Elias Chacour
1776 by David McCullough
The Yacobian Building by Alaa Al Aswany
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Milestones by Seyyid Qutb
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Bush at War by Bob Woodward
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything by Dan Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
Scheherazade Goes West by Fatima Mernissi <p class="style19">
Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
Lonely Planet Jordan by Bardley Mayhew
The Case for Israel by Alan Dershowitz
Peace Not Apatheid by Jimmy Carter
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole by Benjamin R. Barber
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey Sachs
The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace by Ali Allawi
A Border Passage: From Cairo to America--A Woman's Journey by Leila Ahmed
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Once an Eagle by Anton Myer
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror by Michael Scheuer
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishamel Beah
Writing to Change the World by Mary Pipher
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the 21st Century by Thomas Barnett
America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy by Francis Fukayama
Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
Glocalization by Patrick Mendis
Political Analysis by Louise White
The Scramble for Africa by M.E. Chamberlain
The Shia Revival by Vali Nasr
Al-Jazeera by Hugh Miles
Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
Contemporary Political Ideologies by Lyman Tower Sargent
International Relations Theory by Cynthia Weber
The Mighty and the Almighty by Madeline Albright
Logics of American Foreign Policy by Patrick Callahan
Journey of the Jihadist by Fawaz A. Gerges
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time by Jeffrey Sachs
Left to Tell by Immaculee Ilibagiza
The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Night by Elie Wiesel
International Economics by Robert J. Carbaugh
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Introduction to the Study of the Holy Qur'an by Maulana Muhammad 'Ali
Approaching the Qur'an by Michael Sells
The Odyssey by Homer (Fagles translation)
Pretty Birds by Scott Simon
In Defense of Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati
World on Fire by Amy Chua
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Dallaire
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity by Philip Jenkins
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington
Arguing About War by Michael Walzer
Surrender or Starve by Robert Kaplan
Islam Today: A Short Introduction to the Muslim World by Akbar S. Ahmed
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis
A Bed for the Night by David Rieff
The Great Philosophers by Bryan Magee
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Soldiers of God by Robert Kaplan
The Iliad by Homer (Fagles translation)
War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
Leadership by Rudolph W. Giullani
The Threatening Storm by Kenneth Pollack
Warrior Politics by Robert Kaplan