American Sniper: The Autobiography of the most Lethal Sniper, by Chris Kyle with Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice. William Morrow and Company, 2012

Be Safe, Love Mom: A military mom’s stories of courage and surviving life on the home front, by Elaine Brye with Nan Gatewood Satter. Perseus Book Group, 2015

Charlie Wilson War, by George Crile. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2007

Civilian Warriors: The Inside story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror, by Erik Prince. Portfolio / Penguin Group, 2014

Horse Soldiers, by Doug Stanton. Scribner / A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc, 2009

I am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb. Back Bay Books / Little Brown and Company, 2013

In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan, by Seth G. Jones. W.W. Norton & Company, 2010

Into the Fire: A Firsthand account of the most extraordinary battle in the Afghan War, By Dakota Meyer with Bing West, Random House Trade, 2013

Kabul Beauty School, by Deborah Rodriguez/Kristin Chison. Random House, 2007

Lone Survivor, by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. Back Bay Books /Little, Brown and Company, 2007

The Good Soldier, by David Finkel. Picador / Sarah Crichton Books / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. Riverhead Books an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2013

The Unforgiving Minute, by Craig M. Mullaney. Penguin Group, 2009

Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin. Penguin Books, 2007

War, by Sebastian Junger. Twelve, 2007

What It Is Like To Go To War, by Karl Marlantes. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2011