I had been making my own list; but, some people are getting paid to do that!
Newsweek online has published a list of what they call 'must-read' books on what has really happened in Iraq, so far.
My two-cents is that this list is probably too long for most people. To be an informed citizen, my guess would be some competence in understanding radical Islam, some competence in understanding terrorism (political violence) and counterterrorism strategies, and some complex combination of mistakes made (missed opportunities), regional politics, and projection of upcoming choices.
Anyway, here is the list in title form:
- The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End by Peter W. Galbraith (Simon & Schuster)
- Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq by Thomas E. Ricks (Penguin) Generation Kill by Evan Wright (Putnam)
- My War: Killing Time in Iraq by Colby Buzzell (Putnam)
- Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor (Pantheon)
- The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- The One Percent Doctrine by Ron Suskind (Simon & Schuster)
- State of Denial: Bush at War Part III by Bob Woodward (Simon & Schuster)
- Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn (Crown)
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Knopf)
- The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq by Rory Stewart (Harcourt)
- Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer (Times Books)
- Blood Money: Wasted Billions, Lost Lives and Corporate Greed in Iraq by T. Christian Miller (Little, Brown)
- Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq by Riverbend (Feminist Press at CUNY) The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, the Arabs and the Iraqis in Iraq by Fouad Ajami (Free Press)
- The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape the Future by Vali Nasr (Norton)
- Night Draws Near by Anthony Shadid (Holt)
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