| Catagories | Title | Sub-Title | Author | Date | |
| Recent Reads | |||||
| Ike’s Gamble | America’s Rise to Dominence | ||||
| in the Middle East (the Suez Crisis | Doran, Michael | 2016 | |||
| The Coldest Winter | America and the Korean War | Halberstam, David | 2007 | ||
| A World in Disarray | American Foreign Policy and the | ||||
| Crisis of the Old Order | Haass, Richard N. | 2016 | |||
| Playing to the Edge | American Intelligence in the Age of Terror | Hayden, Michael V | 2016 | ||
| The Will to Lead | America’s Indispensible Role | ||||
| in the Global Fight for Freedom | Rasmussen, Anders Foch | 2016 | |||
| United States | |||||
| American Empire | The Realities and Consequences of | ||||
| U.S. Diplomacy | Bacevich, Andrew J. | 2002 | |||
| Colossus | The Rise and Fall of the America Empire | Ferguson, Niall | 2005 | ||
| The Opportunity | America’s Moment to Alter History’s Course | Haase, Richard N. | 2005 | ||
| A World in Disarray | American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of | ||||
| the Old Order | Haase, Richard N. | 2017 | |||
| Playing to the Edge | American Intelligence in the Age of Terror | Hayden, Michael V. | 2016 | ||
| The Powers to Lead | Nye, Joseph S., Jr. | 2008 | |||
| The Accidental Admiral | Memoir – Supreme Commander NATO | Stavridis, James G. | 2013 | ||
| Global Issues | |||||
| The Pentagon’s New Map | War and Peace in the 21st Century | Barnett, Thomas P.M. | 2004 | ||
| War Made New | Technology, Warfare & the Course of History | Boot, Max | 2006 | ||
| The Great War for Civilization | Fisk, Robert | ||||
| The Next 100 Years | A Forecast for the 21st Century | Friedman, George | 2009 | ||
| The World is Flat | A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century | Friedman, Thomas L. | 2005 | ||
| Longitudes and Attitudes | Exploring the World After 9/11 | Friedman, Thomas L. | 1999 | ||
| Hot, Flat & Crowded | Why We Need a Green Revolution | Friedman, Thomas L. | 2008 | ||
| Return of History & The End of Dreams | Kagan, Robert | 2008 | |||
| The Fourth Revolution | The Global Race to Reinvent the State | Micklewait, John et al | 2014 | ||
| Breaking the Real Axis of Evil | How to Oust the World’s Last Dictators by 2025 | Palmer, Mark | 2003 | ||
| Three Billion New Capitalists | The Great Shift of Wealth & Power to the East | Prestowitz, Clyde | 2005 | ||
| The Case for Democracy | Sharansky, Natan | ||||
| The United Nations | |||||
| The UN Exposed | How the UN Sabotages America’s Security | Shawn, Eric | 2006 | ||
| The Beast on the East River | Tabor, Jonathan | ||||
| America Alone | Steyn, Mark | ||||
| Tower of Babble | How the UN Has Fueled Global Chaos | Dore Gold | 2004 | ||
| The International Oil Industry | |||||
| The Prize | The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power | Yergin, Daniel | 1991 | ||
| Twilight in the Desert | Simmons, Matthew | ||||
| The Color of Oil | The History, the Money, and the Politics | ||||
| of the World’s Biggest Business | Economides, Michael | 2000 | |||
| Islamic Countries | |||||
| Afghanistan | |||||
| Charle Wilson’s War | Prelude to Afghanistan | Crile, George | |||
| The Kite Runner (fiction) | Hosseini, Khaled | ||||
| The Wrong War | Grit, Strategy and the Way Out | West, Bing | 2011 | ||
| Central Asia | |||||
| The Second World | Empires and Influence in the New Global Order | Khanna, Parag | 2008 | ||
| Iran | |||||
| Guests of the Ayatollah | The First Battle in America’s War with | Bowman, Mark | 2006 | ||
| Militant Islam | |||||
| All the Shah’s Men | Kinzer, Stephen | ||||
| Iraq | |||||
| The Gamble | David Petraeus and the US | ||||
| Military Adventure in Iraq | Ricks, Thomas E. | 2009 | |||
| War of Necessity | A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars | Haass, Richard N. | 2009 | ||
| Saddam’s Bomb Maker | |||||
| Hide and Seek | The Search for Truth in Iraq | Duelfer, Charles | 2009 | ||
| Jordan | |||||
| The Arab Center | The Promise of Moderation | Muasher, Marwan | 2008 | ||
| Lebanon | |||||
| The Great War for Civilization | The Conquest of the Middle East | Fisk, Robert | 2007 | ||
| Pity the Nation | The Abduction of Lebanon | Fisk, Robert | 1990 | ||
| Mirror of the Arab World | Lebanon in Conflict | Mackey, Sandra | 2008 | ||
| Hezbollah | The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s | ||||
| Party of God | Levitt, Matthew | 2013 | |||
| Palestine | |||||
| The Iron Cage | The Story of Palestinian Struggle | Khalidi, Rashid | 2006 | ||
| For Statehood | |||||
| Saudi Arabia | |||||
| The Kingdom | Lacey, Robert | 1971 | |||
| Yamani | The Inside Story | Robinson, Jeffrey | 1988 | ||
| Islam | |||||
| Infidel | Ali, Ayan Hersi | ||||
| The Arab Mind | Raphael Patai | 1976 | |||
| The Arab Center | The Promise of Moderation | ||||
| The Koran Interpreted | Arberry, R.J. | ||||
| Muhammad: Biography of the Prophet | Armstrong, Karen | ||||
| Wahhabi Islam | Delong-Bas, Natana J. | ||||
| Because They Hate | Gabriel, Brigitte | 2006 | |||
| Islam – A Mosaic,not a Monolith | Gregorian, Vartan | ||||
| Islam Without Extremes | A Muslim Case for Liberty | Akyol, Mustafa | 2013 | ||
| Knowing the Enemy | Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror | Habeck, Mary | 2006 | ||
| Europe & Islam | Lewis, Bernard | ||||
| Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam | Spencer, Robert | ||||
| How to Win a Cosmic War | God, Globalization and the End of the | ||||
| War on Terror | Reza Aslan | 2009 | |||
| Biographies | |||||
| Roger Williams and the Creation of | |||||
| the American Soul | Church, State and the Birth of Liberty | John M. Barry | 2012 | ||
| Destiny and Power | The American Odyssey of | ||||
| George Herbert Walker Bush | Meacham, Jon | 2015 | |||
| 41 | A Portrait of My Father | Bush, George W | 2014 | ||
| Destiny of the Republic | James A. Garfield | Millard, Candice | 2012 | ||
| Classics | |||||
| Seven Pillars of Wisdom | Lawrence, T.E. | 1926 | |||
| Lawrence of Arabia | A Biographical Inquiry | Aldington, Richard | 1955 | ||
| Oman – A History | In Honour of His Majesty, Sultan | ||||
| Said Bin Taimur Alu Said, King | |||||
| of Oman and Dependencies | Phillips, Wendell | 1967 | |||
| The Alexandria Quartet | |||||
| Justine; Balthazar, Mountolive & Clea | Alexandria, Egypt | Durrell, Lawrence | 1958 | ||
| Arabian Sands | Saudi Arabia | Thesiger, Wilfred | 1959 | ||
| A History of the Arab Peoples | “The Best General History of the | Hourani, Albert | 1991 | ||
| Arab World” | |||||
| Inshallah | The War in Beirut | Falacci, Oriana | 1990 | ||
| Caravans | Afghanistan | Michener, James A. | 1963 | ||
