2025 Reading List

January

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

Cilka's Journey: A Novel by Heather Morris

Three Sisters: A Novel by Heather Morris

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2023-2024 Reading List

Non-Fiction

Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS by Joby Warrick

Policing in the Pacific Islands by Danielle Watson, Loene Howes, Sinclair Dinnen, Melissa Bull, and Sara N. Amin

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? by Graham Allison

The National Security Enterprise: Navigating the Labyrinth, Second Edition by Roger Z. George, Harvey Rishikof, Jon J. Rosenwasser, et al.

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

Policing the Globe: Criminalization and Crime Control in International Relations by Peter Andreas and Ethan Nadelmann.

"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury

The New Rules of War: How America Can Win--Against Russia, China, and Other Threats by Sean McFate

The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West by David Kilcullen

First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11 by Toby Harden

Military Strategy in the 21st Century: People, Connectivity, and Competition by Charles Cleveland, Benjamin Jensen, Susan Bryant, and Arnel David

Spreading Hate: The Global Rise of White Power Terrorism by Dr. Daniel Byman

Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel by Tom Wainwright

The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State by Lawrence Wright

Everything You Have Told Me Is True: The Many Faces of Al Shabaab by Mary Harper

Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State by Mary Harper

How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Dr. Barbera Walter 

It Could Happen Here: Why America Is Tipping from Hate to the Unthinkable—And How We Can Stop It by Jonathan Greenblatt

Destroying a Nation: The Civil War in Syria by Nikolaos Van Dam

No Turning Back: Life, Loss, and Hope in Wartime Syria by Rania Abouzeid

World Order by Dr. By Henry Kissinger

The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations by Daniel Yergin

Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid Jessica Alexander

Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump By Joseph S. Nye, Jr.

A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout & S. Corbett

The Heart And The Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL by Eric Greitens

On Leadership by John W. Gardner

Discover Your True North by Bill George

In Search of Ethics: Conversations with Men and Women of Character by Len Marrella

Fiction

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

Everybody’s Son: A Novel by Thrifty Umrigar

Honor by Thrifty Umrigar

The Space between Us by Thrifty Umrigar

The Color of Our Sky: A Novel by Amita Trasi

When the Moon Is Low: A Novel by Nadia Hashimi

Sparks Like Stars: A Novel by Nadia Hashimi

A House Without Windows: A Novel by Nadia Hashimi

The Story Hour: A Novel by Thrity Umrigar

The House in the Pines: A Novel by Ana Reyes

The Women by Kristin Hannah

2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackermand and Admiral James Stavridis, USN

Never by Ken Follett