| #2 |  The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
| 4.13 | 14 reads | |
| #3 |  Zinky Boys Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War
| 4 | 5 reads | |
| #4 |  The Arabs: A History
| 3.8 | 6 reads | |
| #5 |  All the Shah's Men
| 4.33 | 16 reads | |
| #6 |  A Peace to End All Peace
| 3.8 | 6 reads | |
| #7 |  The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
| 4.44 | 55 reads | |
| #8 |  Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
| 4.31 | 28 reads |