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Terrorism Books
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 240 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.36 — 38,766 ratings — published 2006
An Ishmael of Syria (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.82 — 635 ratings — published 2016
Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS (ebook)
by (shelved 104 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,579 ratings — published 2016
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.32 — 19,446 ratings — published 2004
Bel Canto (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.94 — 332,036 ratings — published 2001
Little Brother (Little Brother, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.93 — 53,840 ratings — published 2008
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.47 — 184,354 ratings — published 2018
The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,955 ratings — published 2011
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.43 — 13,587 ratings — published 2013
Isis: The State of Terror (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 47 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.77 — 1,997 ratings — published 2015
ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,819 ratings — published 2015
Inside Terrorism (Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare)
by (shelved 46 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,088 ratings — published 1998
The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,753 ratings — published 2004
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 44 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.72 — 46,699 ratings — published 2019
Home Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,899 ratings — published 2017
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.31 — 26,028 ratings — published 2014
Rainbow Six (John Clark, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #10)
by (shelved 39 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.14 — 59,108 ratings — published 1998
I Am Pilgrim (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.30 — 205,411 ratings — published 2013
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.30 — 12,954 ratings — published 2005
The Terror Years: From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,634 ratings — published 2016
The Lion's Game (John Corey, #2)
by (shelved 36 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.23 — 40,708 ratings — published 2000
Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, #13)
by (shelved 34 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.19 — 118,829 ratings — published 2009
The Association of Small Bombs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.57 — 14,720 ratings — published 2016
The Lion (John Corey, #5)
by (shelved 33 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.27 — 34,305 ratings — published 2010
Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.87 — 685 ratings — published 2005
Incendiary (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.62 — 14,020 ratings — published 2005
Patriot Games (Jack Ryan, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.17 — 215,503 ratings — published 1987
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.18 — 4,668 ratings — published 2008
Against All Enemies : Inside America's War on Terror (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,936 ratings — published 2004
Think Fast or Die (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.12 — 144 ratings — published 2019
Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.91 — 23,094 ratings — published 1997
Anatomy of Terror: From the Death of bin Laden to the Rise of the Islamic State (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.17 — 780 ratings — published 2017
The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,524 ratings — published 2015
The Triple Agent: The al-Qaeda Mole who Infiltrated the CIA (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,121 ratings — published 2011
The Siege: 68 Hours Inside The Taj Hotel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,409 ratings — published 2013
Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad (Audio)
by (shelved 29 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,683 ratings — published 2012
No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.04 — 58,857 ratings — published 2012
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,876 ratings — published 2000
Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,501 ratings — published 2023
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,623 ratings — published 2018
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,790 ratings — published 2015
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,710 ratings — published 2007
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.67 — 7,959 ratings — published 2019
The President Is Missing (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.86 — 129,577 ratings — published 2018
United States of Jihad: Investigating America's Homegrown Terrorists (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.06 — 920 ratings — published 2015
Extreme Measures (Mitch Rapp, #11)
by (shelved 25 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.34 — 57,238 ratings — published 2008
3rd Degree (Women's Murder Club, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.08 — 105,098 ratings — published 2004
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,068,874 ratings — published 2013
American Assassin (Mitch Rapp, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as terrorism)
avg rating 4.25 — 103,296 ratings — published 2010
Dead or Alive (Jack Ryan Jr, #2; Jack Ryan Universe, #13)
by (shelved 24 times as terrorism)
avg rating 3.92 — 20,755 ratings — published 2010
“The fundamentalist seeks to bring down a great deal more than buildings. Such people are against, to offer just a brief list, freedom of speech, a multi-party political system, universal adult suffrage, accountable government, Jews, homosexuals, women's rights, pluralism, secularism, short skirts, dancing, beardlessness, evolution theory, sex. There are tyrants, not Muslims.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that we should now define ourselves not only by what we are for but by what we are against. I would reverse that proposition, because in the present instance what we are against is a no brainer. Suicidist assassins ram wide-bodied aircraft into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and kill thousands of people: um, I'm against that. But what are we for? What will we risk our lives to defend? Can we unanimously concur that all the items in the preceding list -- yes, even the short skirts and the dancing -- are worth dying for?
The fundamentalist believes that we believe in nothing. In his world-view, he has his absolute certainties, while we are sunk in sybaritic indulgences. To prove him wrong, we must first know that he is wrong. We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love. These will be our weapons. Not by making war but by the unafraid way we choose to live shall we defeat them.
How to defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized. Don't let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared.”
― Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said that we should now define ourselves not only by what we are for but by what we are against. I would reverse that proposition, because in the present instance what we are against is a no brainer. Suicidist assassins ram wide-bodied aircraft into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and kill thousands of people: um, I'm against that. But what are we for? What will we risk our lives to defend? Can we unanimously concur that all the items in the preceding list -- yes, even the short skirts and the dancing -- are worth dying for?
The fundamentalist believes that we believe in nothing. In his world-view, he has his absolute certainties, while we are sunk in sybaritic indulgences. To prove him wrong, we must first know that he is wrong. We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love. These will be our weapons. Not by making war but by the unafraid way we choose to live shall we defeat them.
How to defeat terrorism? Don't be terrorized. Don't let fear rule your life. Even if you are scared.”
― Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
― 1984
― 1984
