Reading List

I figured this was as good a place as any to keep track of the books I've read off the Marine Corps Reading List.

Private to Lance Corporal

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak (Partially read.)
  
• MCDP 1 Warfighting (Finished)
• A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard (Finished)
• Rifleman Dodd by C.S. Forster (Finished and loved it)
  
• The Soldier’s Load by S.L.A. Marshall (Can't find a copy)
  
• The Ugly American by Lederer and Burdick (Finished)
• Ender's Game by O.S. Card (Finished and loved it)
  

Corporal

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak
• MCWP 6-11 Leading Marines
• Battle Leadership by Adolph Von Schell
• Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley
• Gates Of Fire: An Epic Novel Of The Battle Of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (Finished)
• Imperial Grunts by Robert D. Kaplan
• Small-Unit Leaders' Guide to Counterinsurgency

Sergeant

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak
• MCDP 1-3 Tactics
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu (Own it, not read)
  
• Tip of the Spear by Sgt G. J. Michaels (Currently reading)
  
• Infantry Attacks! by Erwin Rommel
• With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge (Finished and loved it)
  
• The Village by Francis West (Finished and loved it)
  

Staff Sergeant

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak
• MCDP 1-2 Campaigning
• This Kind of War by T.R. Fehrenbach
• Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose (Finished)
• The Face of Battle by John Keegan
• A Bell for Adano by John Hersey
• Utmost Savagery : the Three Days of Tarawa by Joseph H. Alexander

Gunnery Sergeant

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak
• MCDP 5 Planning
• The Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot
• We Were Soldiers Once and Young by Moore and Galloway
• On Combat : the Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace by Dave Grossman with Loren W. Christensen
• Breakout by Martin Russ
• Victory at High Tide by Robert Heinl

Master Sergeant / First Sergeant

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak
• MCDP 1-1 Strategy
• Reminiscences of a Marine by John A. Lejeune
• Fields of Battle by John Keegan
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
• On Killing : the Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society by Dave Grossman
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson

Master Gunnery Sergeant / Sergeant Major

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak
• The General by C.S. Forester
• No Bended Knee by Merill Twining
• Achilles in Vietnam : Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character by Jonathan Shay
• The Mask of Command by John Keegan
• The Arab Mind by R. Patai

Officer Candidate / Midshipman

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak
• MCDP 1 Warfighting
• The Armed Forces Officer by S.L.A. Marshall
  
• A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard
• Rifleman Dodd by C.S. Forster
• The Soldier’s Load by S.L.A. Marshall
• Ender's Game by O.S. Card

Second Lieutenant / Warrant Officer

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak
• MCWP 6-11 Leading Marines
• Fields of Fire by James Webb (Finished and loved it)
  
• The Art of War by Sun Tzu
• The Anatomy of Courage by Baron Charles Moran
• On Infantry by John English & Bruce Gudmundsson
• Small-Unit Leaders' Guide to Counterinsurgency
• The Soldier’s Load by S.L.A. Marshall

First Lieutenant / Chief Warrant Officer 2

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak
• The Bridge at Dong Ha by John Miller
• The Face of Battle by John Keegan
• Reminiscences of a Marine by John A. Lejeune
• Counterinsurgency Warfare; Theory and Practice by David Galula
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPherson

Captain / Chief Warrant Officer 3

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak
• For the Common Defense by Millet and Maslowski
• The Mask of Command by John Keegan
• The Savage Wars of Peace by Max Boot
• On Combat : the Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace by Dave Grossman with Loren W. Christensen
• The Arab Mind by R. Patai

Major / Chief Warrant Officer 4

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak
• Once an Eagle by Anton Myrer
• The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
• The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (“The Landmark” version by Strassler recommended)
• The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman
• Grant Takes Command by Bruce Catton

Lieutenant Colonel / Chief Warrant Officer 5

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak
• Masters of War by Michael I. Handel
• Supplying War by Martin Van Creveld
• Carnage and culture : landmark battles in the rise of Western power by Victor Davis Hanson
• Defeat into Victory by William Slim
• Triumph Forsaken : the Vietnam War, 1954-1965 by Mark Moyar

Colonel to General

• First to Fight: An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps by LtGen Krulak
• Dereliction of Duty : Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the lies that led to Vietnam by H. R. McMaster
• Supreme Command : Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime by Eliot Cohen
• Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger
• Feeding Mars : logistics in Western warfare from the Middle Ages to the present by John Lynn
• The Crisis of Islam : Holy War and Unholy Terror by Bernard Lewis