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Books recommended by Jocko Willink

Jocko Willink recommends 99 books, among them Platoon Leader, Psychology For The Fighting Man and Red Blood, Black Sand.

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Platoon Leader

James R. McDonough

History

Psychology For The Fighting Man

C.N.R.C.

Psychology

Red Blood, Black Sand

Chuck Tatum

Biography & memoir

Reveries on the Art of War

Maurice de Saxe

History

Serve to Lead

Winston Churchill

Economics & politics

SOG Chronicles

John Stryker Meyer

History

Stalingrad

Joachim Wieder

History

Steel My Soldiers' Hearts

David H. Hackworth & Eilhys England

Biography & memoir

Storm of Steel

Ernst Jünger

History

Team Dog

Mike Ritland & Gary Brozek

Nonfiction

The Armed Forces Officer

U.S. Department of Defense

Economics & politics

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

Psychology

The Book of Five Rings

Miyamoto Musashi

Philosophy

The Clay Pigeons of St. Lô

Glover S. Johns Jr. & Joseph Balkoski

History

The Coldest War

James Brady

Economics & politics

The Eleventh Day

Anthony Summers

Economics & politics

The Glory of the Trenches

Coningsby Dawson

History

The Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

History

The Hundred Rules of War

Tsukahara Bokuden

History

The Killing Zone

Frederick Downs

History

The Knock at the Door

Ryan Manion, Heather Kelly & Amy Looney

Psychology

The Nightingale's Song

Robert Timberg

Biography & memoir

The Recollections of Rifleman Harris

Benjamin Harris

History

The Road (Vintage International)

Cormac McCarthy

Fiction

The Terminal List

Jack Carr

Fiction

The Trident

Jason Redman

History

The Woman Who Could Not Forget

Ying-Ying Chang

Biography & memoir

Through the Valley

William Reeder Jr.

History

Tools of Titans

Tim Ferriss

Business & management

Tough As They Come

Travis Mills

History