My Cool Book List
Cool fiction books
Cool nonfiction books
- Somalia
- The accidental guerrilla : fighting small wars in the midst of a big one / David Kilcullen
- Adios, America / Ann Coulter
- After Action : The True Story of a Cobra Pilot's Journey / Dan Sheehan
- After America : get ready for Armageddon / Mark Steyn
- America alone : the end of the world as we know it / Mark Steyn
- The anatomy of revolution / Crane Brinton
- The Armed Forces officer
- The book of war / introduction by Ralph Peters
- The Bluejacket's manual / Thomas J. Cutler
- Bobos in Paradise : The New Upper Class and How They Got There / David Brooks
- Brothers forever : the enduring bond between a Marine and a Navy SEAL that transcended their ultimate sacrifice / Tom Sileo and Col. Tom Manion, USMCR (Ret.) ; foreword by Gen. John Allen, USMC (Ret.).
- Bush at War / Bob Woodward
- The canons of jihad : terrorist's strategy for defeating America / edited by Jim Lacey
- The case for democracy : the power of freedom to overcome tyranny and terror / Natan Sharansky with Ron Dermer
- The Chief Petty Officer's guide / John Hagan and J.F. Leahy
- Cicero : the life and times of Rome's greatest politician / Anthony Everitt
- Citizen Soldiers : The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945 / Stephen E. Ambrose
- Climate change : the facts / edited by Alan Moran.
- Coming apart : the state of white America, 1960-2010 / Charles Murray
- Communication and organizational crisis / Matthew W. Seeger, Timothy L. Sellnow, and Robert R. Ulmer.
- Confessions of A Failed Slut eBook / Kathy Shaidle
- The conscience of a conservative / by Barry Goldwater ; with a new introduction by Patrick J. Buchanan
- Conservatism Inc. / James Kirkpatrick
- Cost and value management in projects / Ray R. Venkataraman and Jeffrey K. Pinto
- Dangerous / Milo Yiannopoulos
- Dangerous nation / Robert Kagan
- Defending identity : its indispensable role in protecting democracy / Natan Sharansky with Shira Wolosky Weiss
- Diabolical / Milo Yiannopoulos
- The Dilbert Principle / Scott Adams
- Division officer's guide : a handbook for junior officers and petty officers of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard afloat, in the air, under the sea, ashore / James Stavridis and Robert Girrier
- Doing Battle : The Making of a Skeptic / Paul Fussell
- Down range : to Iraq and back / Bridget C. Cantrell & Chuck Dean
- Dude, Where's My Country? / Michael Moore
- Eternal Iran : continuity and chaos / Patrick Clawson and Michael Rubin
- Ethnicity Kills? : The Politics of War, Peace, and Ethnicity in Subsaharan Africa (International Political Economy Series)
- Ethnonationalism / Walker Connor
- The Evolution of Us Peacekeeping Policy Under Clinton : A Fairweather Friend? / Michael G. MacKinnon
- Faith of My Fathers / John McCain and Mark Salter
- Finding the target : the transformation of American military policy / Frederick W. Kagan
- The Finish : The Killing of Osama Bin Laden / Mark Bowden
- The Future and Its Enemies : The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress / Virginia Postrel
- Geek Silicon Valley: The Inside Guide to Palo Alto, Stanford, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, San Jose, San Francisco / Ashlee Vance
- God and gold : Britain, America, and the making of the modern world / Walter Russell Mead
- The grand Jihad : how Islam and the left sabotage America / Andrew C. McCarthy
- Heart of A Lion: The Leadership of LT. Michael P. Murphy, U.S. Navy SEAL / Gary Williams
- Henry M. Jackson : a life in politics / Robert G. Kaufman
- Hog pilots, blue water grunts : the American military in the air, at sea, and on the ground / Robert D. Kaplan
- House to house : an epic memoir of war / David Bellavia ; with John R. Bruning
- How did this happen? : terrorism and the new war / edited by James F. Hoge, Jr., and Gideon Rose
- How to Win Friends & Influence People / Dale Carnegie, Dorothy Carnegie, and Arthur R. Pell
- The human factor : inside the CIA's dysfunctional intelligence culture / Ishmael Jones
- In the shadow of greatness : voices of leadership, sacrifice, and service from America's longest war : the U.S. Naval Academy Class of 2002 / edited by Joshua Welle
- In Trump Time : My Journal of America's Plague Year / Peter Navarro
- In Trump We Trust : E Pluribus Awesome! / Ann Coulter
- Infidel / Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Innovate or die : a personal perspective on the art of innovation / Jack V. Matson
- The Iranian Puzzle Piece: Understanding Iran In The Global Context
- Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World / Benjamin R. Barber
- Joseph Sobran : The National Review years / Joseph Sobran ; Fran Griffin, editor ; foreword by Patrick J. Buchanan ; preface by Tom Bethell ; afterward by Ann Coulter.
- Killing Pablo : The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw / Mark Bowden
- Leadership skills for project managers / [editors, Jeffrey K. Pinto, Jeffrey W. Trailer]
- Learning to eat soup with a knife : counterinsurgency lessons from Malaya and Vietnam / John A. Nagl
- The Lexus and the Olive Tree / Thomas L. Friedman
- Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them : A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right / Al Franken
- Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong / James W. Loewen
- Lone survivor : the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10 / Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson
- The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11 / Lawrence Wright
- Loserthink : How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America / Scott Adams
- Love, sex, and lasting relationships / Chip Ingram
- The management of projects / Peter W.G. Morris
- Managing strategic surprise : lessons from risk management and risk assessment / edited by Paul Bracken, Ian Bremmer, David Gordon.
- The mind of jihad / Laurent Murawiec
- Moment of truth in Iraq / Michael Yon
- My grandfather's son : a memoir / Clarence Thomas
- National populism : the revolt against liberal democracy / Roger Eatwell and Matthew Goodwin
- The Naval Institute guide to naval writing / Robert Shenk
- The naval officer's guide / William P. Mack, Harry A. Seymour, Jr., and Lesa A. McComas
- Navigating the seven seas : leadership lessons of the first African American father and son to serve at the top in the U.S. Navy / Melvin G. Williams Sr. and Melvin G. Williams Jr.
- Neoconservatism : why we need it / Douglas Murray
- Network-centric warfare : how navies learned to fight smarter through three world wars / Norman Friedman
- Newjack : guarding Sing Sing / Ted Conover
- On Bullshit / Harry G. Frankfurt
- Open Borders Inc. : Who's Funding America's Destruction? / Michelle Malkin
- Open doors : Vietnam POWs thirty years later / Jamie Howren, Taylor Baldwin Kiland
- Persian puzzle : the conflict between Iran and America / Kenneth M. Pollack.
- Phoenix and the birds of prey : counterinsurgency and counterterrorism in Vietnam / Mark Moyar
- Plunder and Deceit / Mark R. Levin
- Politically incorrect guide to socialism / Kevin Williamson
- Project leadership : from theory to practice / Jeffrey K. Pinto
- Project management : achieving competitive advantage / Jeffrey K. Pinto
- A question of command : counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq / Mark Moyar
- The rise and fall of the great powers, economic change and military conflict from 1500 to 2000 / Paul M Kennedy
- Rules for radical conservatives : beating the left at its own game to take back America / David Kahane
- The ruling class : how they corrupted America and what we can do about it / Angelo M. Codevilla
- The run-up to the Punch Bowl : a memoir of the Korean War, 1951 / John Nolan
- Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations / Al Franken
- Safety, liberty, and Islamist terrorism : American and European approaches to domestic counterterrorism / Gary J. Schmitt
- SEAL of honor : Operation Red Wings and the life of Lt. Michael P. Murphy, USN / Gary Williams
- See no evil : the true story of a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism / Robert Baer
- Service etiquette / Cherlynn Conetsco and Anna Hart
- Sex 180 : the next revolution / Chip Ingram and Tim Walker
- Ship killer : a history of the American torpedo / Thomas Wildenberg and Norman Polmar
- Skating on stilts : why we aren't stopping tomorrow's terrorism / Stewart A. Baker
- Sold Out : How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers / Michelle Malkin and John Miano
- The Soldier's Guide Book / Raymond K. Bluhm, Jr. and James B. Motley
- Special providence : American foreign policy and how it changed the world / Walter Russell Mead
- The Strange death of Europe : immigration, identity, Islam / Douglas Murray
- Surrender is not an option : defending America at the United Nations and abroad / John Bolton
- System under stress : homeland security and American politics / Donald F. Kettl
- Taking back Trump's America : why we lost the White House and how we'll win it back / Peter Navarro
- Taliban : Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia / Ahmed Rashid
- Terrorism and counterterrorism : understanding the new security environment : readings & interpretations / [edited by] Russell D. Howard, Reid L. Sawyer
- A terrorist's call to global jihad : deciphering Abu Musab al-Suri's Islamic jihad manifesto / edited by Jim Lacey
- The Terrorist Perspectives Project : strategic and operational views of Al Qaida and associated movements / Mark E. Stout, Jessica M. Huckabey, John R. Schindler with Jim Lacey
- Three Billion New Capitalists : The Great Shift of Wealth and Power to the East / Clyde Prestowitz
- Thunder from the East : Portrait of a Rising Asia / Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl Wudunn
- Too soon old, too late smart : thirty true things you need to know now / Gordon Livingston
- Triumph forsaken : the Vietnam war, 1954-1965 / Mark Moyar
- Voice of America : a history / Alan L. Heil, Jr.
- The [un]documented Mark Steyn : don't say you weren't warned / Mark Steyn
- War made new : technology, warfare, and the course of history, 1500 to today / Max Boot
- Watch officer's guide : a handbook for all deck watch officers / James Stavridis and Robert Girrier
- Wartime : Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War / Paul Fussell
- The Wealth of Choices : How the New Economy Puts Power in Your Hands and Money in Your Pockets / Alan S. Murray
- Welcome to Scranton / Greg Halpin
- What We Owe Iraq : War and the Ethics of Nation Building / Noah Feldman
- Willful blindness : a memoir of the Jihad / Andrew C. McCarthy
- Winning the future : a 21st century Contract with America / Newt Gingrich
- Working knowledge : how organizations manage what they know / Thomas Davenport
- Working With Emotional Intelligence / Daniel Goleman
- World War IV : how it started, what it means, and why we have to win / Norman Podhoretz
- Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends / Peter Schweizer
- The World Is Flat : A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century / Thomas L. Friedman
- The 22 immutable laws of marketing : violate them at your own risk / Al Ries and Jack Trout
Cool technical books
John D. Groenveld <groenveld@acm.org>
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