Recommended Reading

Ahmed Rashid, Taliban
John C. Griffiths, Afghanistan: Land of Conflict and Beauty
Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, The Caged Virgin
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Infidel
Kenan Makiya, Cruelty and Silence
Phillip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles
Ahron Bregman, Israel's Wars
Colin Schindler, The Land Beyond Promise: Israel, Likud and the Zionist Dream
Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
Simon Cottee and Thomas Cushman (eds.), Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
Jason Burke, On the Road to Kandahar: Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World
Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens
Tristram Hunt, The Frock-Coated CommunistL The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels
Phillip Bobbitt, Terror and Consent
Steve Coll, Ghost Wars
Peter Bergen, Holy War Inc.
Fawaz A Gerges, The Far Enemy
Colin Schindler, What Do Zionists Believe?
George Jonas, Vengance
Hugh Brogan, The Penguin History of the United States of America
Roy Jenkins, Churchill
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell, 1984
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Benny Morris, Righteous Victims
Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Crisis Revisited
Thomas Asbridge, The Crusades
Benny Morris, One State, Two States
Gilles Kepel, Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
Bennt Morris, 1948
Robert D. Kaplan, Imperial Grunts
Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
Ze'ev Moaz, Defending the Holy Land
George Friedman, America's Secret War
Thomas Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem
Anthony Clayton, The British Army Officer
Patrick Tyler, A World of Trouble
Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell, Hamas: The Islamic Resistance Movement
Arif Jamal, Shadow War
Peter Bergen, The Osama Bin Laden I Know
Kenneth Pollack, The Threatening Storm
Ed Hussein, The Islamist
Charles Allen, God's Terrorists
John Prados, Safe For Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA
Nasrin Alavi, We Are Iran
Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace
Barry Rubin and Judith Colp Rubin, Yassir Arafat
Tim Pat Coogan, The Troubles
Con Coughlin, Saddam: The Secret Life
Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit, Occidentalism
Shirin Ebadi, Iran Awakening
Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong?
Francis Wheen, Karl Marx
Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel
Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
Peter Galbraith, The End of Iraq
Patrick Cockburn, Muqtada Al-Sadr
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Rashid Khalidi, The Iron Cage
Dennis Ross and David Makovsky, Myths, Illusions and Peace
Rohan Gunaratna, Inside Al Qaeda
Itamar Rabinovich, Waging Peace
Gershom Gorenberg, The Accidental Empire
Idith Zertal and Avika Eldar, Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007
Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari, Intifada
Richard English, Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA
Michael Oren, Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present
Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire
Amir Taheri, The Persian Night
Shlomo Ben-Ami, Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
Martin Gilbert, Israel
Yossi Beilin, The Path to Geneva: The Quest for an Permanent Agreement, 1996-2004
Uri Dan, Ariel Sharon
Ian Kershaw, Hitler
Michael Burleigh, The Third Reich
Robert Service, Comrades
Robert Service, Lenin
Robert Service, Stalin
Robert Service, Trotsky
Jeremy Isaacs and Taylor Downing, Cold War
Salam Pax, The Baghdad Blog
David McKittrick and David McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles
Karl Popper, The Poverty of Historicism
Bernard Lewis, The Middle East, 2000 Years of History from the Rise of Christianity to the Present Day
Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor, Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occuption of Iraq
Robert Lacey, The Kingdom
Robert Lacey, Inside the Kingdom
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story
Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism
Tony Judt, Post-War: A History of Europe Since 1945
Mary Habeck, Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terrror
Colin Schindler, A History of Modern Israel
Martin Indyk, Innocent Abroad
Fawaz A. Gergez, Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy
Michael Burleigh, Blood and Rage
Michael Oren, Six Days of War
Robert D. Kaplan, Soldiers of God
Jeffrey Goldberg, Prisoners
Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari, Israel's Lebanon War
Philip H. Gordon, Winning the Right War
Augustus Richard Norton, Hezbollah
Maichael Karpin and Ina Friedman, Murder in the Name of God
Bob Woodward, Bush at War
Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack
Bob Woodward, State of Denial
Bob Woodward, The War Within
Bob Woodward, Obama's Wars
Andy McNab, Bravo Two Zero
Jason Burke, Al Qaeda
Evan Wright, Generation Kill
Lawrence James, Raj
Lawrence James, The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Arthur Hertzberg (eds.), The Zionist Idea
Ervand Abrahamian, A History of Modern Iran
Tom Segev, One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate
George Mitchell, Making Peace
Hans Blix, Disarming Iraq
Con Coughlin, Khomeini's Ghost
T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Ahmed Rashid, Descent into Chaos
Nick Cohen, What's Left?
Niall Ferguson, Empire
Omar Nasiri, Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda
Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism
Charles Tripp, A History of Iraq
Patrick Cockburn, The Occuption
Hilary Synnott, Bad Days In Basra
Sarah Chayes, The Punishment of Virtue
Michael Karpin, The Bomb in The Basement
Saul Friedlander, The Years of Persecution: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1933-1939
Saul Friedlander, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945
Nathaniel Fick, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Bernard Lewis, The Assassins: A Radical Sect in Islam
Thomas E. Ricks, Fiasco
Thomas E. Ricks, The Gamble
Kenan Makiya, Republic of Fear
Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall
Reza Aslan, There Is No God But God
Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas G. Brinkley, Rise to Globalism: American Foreign Policy since 1938
Mahdi Obeidi, The Bomb In My Garden
Mary Anne Weaver, Pakistan: Deep Inside the World's Most Frightening State
Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty and War
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger
Christopher Hitchens, Letters To A Young Contrarian
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great
Christopher Hitchens, Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist
Peter Bergen, The Longest War
David Reynolds, America: Empire of Libety
Thanassis Cambanis, A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel
Anna Badkhen, Waiting for the Taliban: A Journey Through Northern Afghanistan
George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower : U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776
Seth G. Jones, In the Graveyard of Empires: America's War in Afghanistan
Simon Baker, Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi (eds.), The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
Robert Middlekauff, The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 (Oxford History of the United States)
James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era
Bernard Lewis, Islam and the West
Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower
Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, 34 Days: Israel, Hezbollah and the War in Lebanon
Tony Blair, A Journey
Richard Evans, The Coming Of The Third Reich
Richard Evans, The Third Reich In Power
Richard Evans, The Third Reich at War