(Updated: October 22, 2023)
After a bit of time and effort, here it is! A list of the books covered on the Jocko Podcast, in order, with the author and episode number. If Amazon is willing, they’ll allow me to be part of their affiliate program (Nigerian IP is iffy to a lot of companies) is the way you shop for things, great, but otherwise, support your local brick-and-mortar, mom-and-pop shop. Or subscribe to Audible to listen to the ones that are available there.
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- About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior, by David Hackworth (Episode 2)
- The Last Hundred Yards, by H.J. Poole (Episode 3)
- Battle Leadership, by Adolf Von Schell (Episode 4)
- Assignment Jaffna, by S.C. Sardeshpande (Episode 7)
- War As I Knew It, by George S. Patton (Episode 9)
- With the Old Breed, by Eugene Sledge (Episode 10)
- The Forgotten Highlander, by Alistair Urquhart (Episode 12)
- Storm of Steel, by Ernst Junger (Episode 14)
- Henry V, by William Shakespeare (Episode 15)
- Machete Season: The Killers Speak, by Jean Hatzfeld (Episode 16)
- Beyond Band of Brothers, by Dick Winters (Episode 17)
- One Soldier’s War, by Arkady Babchenko (Episode 18)
- Red Blood, Black Sand, by Chuck Tatum (Episode 19)
- On Guerrilla Warfare, by Mao Tse Tung (Episode 20)
- Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick (Episode 22)
- The Art of War, by Sun Tzu (Episode 23)
- Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper, by Jody Mitic (Episode 24 and 25)
- Omaha Beach and Beyond: The Long March of Sgt. Bob Slaughter, by Bob Slaughter (Episode 26)
- I Remember the Last War, by Bob Hoffman (Episode 27)
- How to be Strong, Healthy and Happy, Bob Hoffman (Episode 27)
- Steel My Soldiers’ Heart, by David Hackworth (Episode 28)
- Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat, by James R. McDonough (Episode 29)
- Four Hours in My Lai, by Michael Bilton and Kevin Sim (Episode 31)
- The Killing Zone, by Fredreick Downs (Episode 33)
- The Maneuver Warfare Handbook, by William S Lind (Episode 35)
- Brave Men, by Ernie Pyle (Episode 39)
- The Glory of the Trenches, by Coningsby Dawson (Episode 43)
- Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer, by Thomas Marquis (Episode 45)
- I Fought with Custer: The Story of Sergeant Windolph, Last Survivor of the Battle of Little Big Horn, by Charles Windolph (Episode 48)
- Tool of Titans, by Tim Ferriss (Episode 50)
- The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea, by Jim Brady (Episode 51)
- Colder Than Hell, by Joseph R. Owen (Episode 53)
- The Armed Forces Officer, US Department of Defense (Episode 54)
- Strategikon: Handbook of Byzantine Military Strategy, by Maurice (Episode 57)
- Heart for the Fight, by Brian Stann (Episode 59)
- The Rape of Nanking, by Iris Chang (Episode 60)
- The Woman Who Could Not Forget, by Dr. Ying Ying Chang (Episode 60)
- Battle Studies: Ancient and Modern Battle, by Ardand Du Picq (Episode 62)
- Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam, by Colonel William Reeder (Episode 63)
- Company Commander, by Charles MacDonald (Episode 67)
- I Said No: A Kid-to-Kid Guide to Keeping Private Parts Private, by Kimberly King and Zack King (Episode 70)
- A Helmet For My Pillow, by Robert Leckie (Episode 71)
- Brothers Forever: The Enduring Bond Between a Marine and a Navy SEAL That Transcended Their Ultimate Sacrifice, by Tom Manion (Episode 72)
- Hard-Core: Life of My Own, by Harley Flanagan (Episode 74)
- Conversations With Dick Winters, by Dick Winters (Episode 75)
- I’m No Hero, by Capt. Charlie Plumb (Episode 76)
- A Man’s Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl (Episode 78)
- The Book of Five Rings, by Musashi (Episode 80)
- Serve to Lead: The British Army’s Anthology on Leadership, by Winston Churchill (Episode 81)
- And We Go On, by Will R. Bird (Episode 82)
- A Rumor of War, by Philip Caputo (Episode 82)
- China Marine, by E.B Sledge (Episode 82)
- 18 Platoon, by Sydney Jary (Episode 84)
- Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, by Christopher R. Browning (Episode 85)
- The Clay Pigeons of St. Lo, by Glover Johns (Episode 87)
- Excursion to Hell, by Vince Bramley (Episode 88)
- By Honor Bound, by Tom Norris, Mike Thornton, Dick Couch (Episode 89)
- Tough as They Come, by Travis Mills (Episode 90)
- Men at Arnhem, by Geoffrey Powell (Episode 94)
- The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (Episode 97)
- The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier, by Jakob Walter (Episode 97)
- Mind Games by Michael Powell (mentioned in many episodes)
- Maps of Meaning, by Jordan Peterson (Episode 98)
- Musashi: An Epic Novel of the Samurai Era, by Eiji Yoshikawa (Episode 100)
- Tribe of Mentors, by Tim Ferriss (Episode 100)
- The Hundred Rules of War, by Tsukahara Bokuden (Episode 101)
- Recollections of Rifleman Harris, by Benjamin Randell Harris (Episode 103)
- We Were Soldiers Once… And Young, by Gen. Hal Moore and Joe Galloway (Episode 105 and 106)
- Hal Moore on Leadership: Winning When Outgunned and Outmanned (Episode 107)
- Stalingrad Memories of Hell, by Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel (Episode 109)
- Reveries on the Art of War, by Maurice De Saxe (Episode 110)
- Everyday Heroes, by Jody Mitic (Episode 111)
- 12 Rules for Life, by Jordan Peterson (Episode 112)
- Mike Ritland’s Books (Episode 113) Team Dog/Trident K9 Warriors/Navy Seal Dogs
- Extreme Ownership, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin (Episode 114)
- Into the Fire, by Dakota Meyer (Episode 115)
- Rob Jones Journal (Blog) (Episode 116)
- The 11th Day, by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (Episode 119)
- Mind Over Muscle: Writings From the Founder of Judo, by Jigoro Kano (Episode 119)
- Marine! The Life of Chesty Puller, by Burke Davis (Episode 121)
- The Fortunate Son, by Lewis Puller Jr (Episode 122)
- Hell Yes, I’d Do it Again, by T. Fred Harvey (Episode 127)
- Instructions for his General, by Fredrick the Great (Episode 129)
- Concerning Military Affairs, by Flavius Vegetius (Episode 130)
- The 36 Strategems, (Episode 132)
- Testimony Unit 731, By Hal Gold (Episode 133)
- Unit 731, by Pete Williams (Episode 133)
- He Was No Coward, by Janet Booth and James White (Episode 136)
- The Dichotomy of Leadership, by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin (Episode 138)
- A Soldier’s Journal, by James Bollich (Episode 139)
- If, by Rudyard Kipling (Episode 140)
- Men Against Fire, by SLA Marshall (Episode 142)
- A Vietnam Diary, by Peter Nash Swisher (Episode 143)
- Marine Rifle Company Manual: The Principles of War, (Episode 145)
- Valleys of Death: Memoirs of the Korean War, by Bill Richardson (Episode 148)
- The Nightingale’s Song, by Robert Timberg (Episode 149)
- I Heard My Country Calling: A Memoir, by James Webb (Episode 149)
- Fields of Fire, by James and Jim Webb (Episode 149)
- Cannibal Island, by Nicolas Werth (Episode 155)
- The Gulag Archipelago, by Aleksandr Soltzhenitsyn (Episode 156)
- Panzram: A Journal of Murder, (Episode 158)
- The Art of War, by Niccolo Machiavelli (Episode 159)
- The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli (Episode 161)
- The Trident, by Jason Redman (Episode 163)
- And We Go On, by Will R Bird (Episode 164)
- Psychology For the Fighting Man (Episode 164-166)
- 1951, FM22-10, by the Department of the Army Field Manual (Episode 172)
- Military Leadership, transcript by Bernard ‘Monty’ Montgomery (Episode 175)
- The Code Kamikaze Pilots (Episode 178)
- SOG Chronicles, by John Stryker Meyer (Episode 180)
- Across the Fence, by John Stryker Meyer (Episode 180)
- On the Ground, by John Stryker Meyer (Episode 181)
- Books by Jack Carr (Episode 183) Terminal List/True Believer/Savage Son/
- Outlaw Platoon, by Sean Parnell (Episode 192) Man of War/All Out War
- Truppenfuhrung (Episode 197)
- The Knock at the Door, by Ryan Manion, Heather Kelly, and Amy Looney Heffernan (Episode 201)
- Faithful Warriors, by Dean Ladd (Episode 202)
- The Stress Effect, by Henry Thompson (Episode 204-206)
- You Are Worth It: Building a Life Worth Fighting For, by Kyle Carpenter (Episode 207)
- Appel: A Canadian in the French Foreign Legion with Joel Struthers (Episode 209)
- Leadership Strategy and Tactics, by Jocko Willink (Episode 210-211)
- The Memory Endures, by Reg Curtis (Episode 216)
- Grateful American, by Gary Sinise (Episode 217)
- Two Who Survived, by Rose and Max Schindler (Episode 219)
- No Tougher Duty, No Greater Honor, by Chris Bussler (Episode 220)
- Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage, by Dan Crenshaw (Episode 222)
- The Code. The Evaluation. The Protocols, by Jocko Willink, Dave Berke, and Sarah Armstrong (Episode 226)
- Top Gun, by Dan Pederson (Episode 230-231)
- The Boer War, by Jay Stone and Erwin Schmidl (Episode 232-233)
- The Ride of Our Lives, by John Gronski (Episode 235)
- Wuzi, by Wu Chee (Episode 238)
- Combat Lessons, by the US War Department (Episode 239-240, 245,283)
- Perfectly Wounded, by Mike Day (Episode 241)
- The Talent War, by Mike Sarraille and George Randle, with Josh Cotton, PhD (Episode 244)
- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, by Lynne Black (Episode 247)
- SOG Chronicles, by John Stryker Meyer (Episode 248)
- Guidelines for the Leader and Commander, by General Bruce Clarke (Episode 251-256)
- Tip of the Spear, by Ryan Hendrickson (Episode 257)
- The Discipline Equals Freedom Field Manual MK1-MOD1, by Jocko Willink (Episode 260)
- Fighting on Guadalcanal, by Russel Reeder (Episode 262)
- 1984, by George Orwell (Episode 263)
- The Squad Leader Makes a Difference, (Episode 268-269)
- Relentless, by Dean Stott (Episode 270)
- Only Cry for the Living, by Hollie McKay (Episode 271)
- Soldier, and the Making of a Soldier, by Anthony Herbert (Episode 273-274)
- Undaunted Valor series, by Matt Jackson (Episode 275)
- Camp Pozzi: GROM in Iraq, by Naval (Episode 276)
- The Art of Exploration, by Levison Wood (Episode 279)
- Armenian Golgotha, by Grigoris Balakian (Episode 280)
- Strategy, by BH Liddell Hart (Episode 285-287)
- Make Your Bed/The Hero Code/Sea Stories, by William McRaven (Episode 290)
- Breathe, by Rickson Gracie (Episode 293)
- The Mayhem and Critical Lessons of Lam Son 719, by Jay Tate (Episode 294)
- By Water Beneath the Walls, by Ben Milligan (Episode 298, 330-331)
- War is a Racket, by Smedley Bulter (Episode 300)
- Final Spin, by Jocko Willink (Episode 301)
- Iron Sharpened Leadership, by General Gronski (Episode 302)
- On the Psychology of Military Incompetence, by Norman Dixon (Episode 303-308)
- Reaching for the Stars, by Jose Hernandez (Episode 310)
- In the Company of Heroes: The Personal Story Behind Black Hawk Down, by Mike Durant (Episode 312)
- McNamara’s Folly, by Hamilton Gregory (Episode 315)
- Infantry Squad Leader: Combat Leadership, (Episode 317)
- Fix Bayonets, by Joshua Chaimberlain (Episode 323-324)
- The Journey of Crazy Horse, (Episode 325)
- Endure: How to Work Hard, Outlast, and Keep Hammering, by Cameron Hanes (Episode 334)
- The Glass Factory, by Braxton McCoy (Episode 339)
- Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the Taliban, UFC Warriors, and Myself, by Tim Kennedy (Episode 340)
- Extraordinary Valor, by Col. Bill Reeder (Episode 342)
- To Fly and Fight, by Bud Anderson (Episode 346)
- Objective Secure: The Battle-Tested Guide to Goal Achievement, by Nick Lavery (Episode 347)
- Facing Death in Cambodia, by Peter Maguire (Episode 348)
- Thai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade, by Peter Maguire (Episode 348)
- Always Faithful: A Story of the War in Afghanistan, the Fall of Kabul, and the Unshakable Bond Between a Marine and an Interpreter, by Tom Schueman (Episode 350)
- Never Split the Difference, by Chris Voss (Episode 354)
- House to House, by David Bellavia (Episode 357)
- Remember the Ramrods, by David Bellavia (Episode 357)
- Defend Us In Battle: The True Story of MA2 Navy SEAL Medal of Honor Recipient Michael A Monsoor, by George Monsoor and Rose M. Rea (Episode 359)
- Up From Slavery: An Autobiography, by Booker T. Washington (Episode 373)
- The Attributes: 25 Hidden Drivers of Optimal Performance, by Rich Diviney (Episode 374)
- Saving Aziz: How the Mission to Help One Became a Calling to Rescue Thousands from the Taliban, by Chad Robichaux (Episode 375)
- Kimura: The Triumphs and Tragedy of One of Judo’s Greatest and Most Controversial Judo Champions, by Christopher M. Clarke (Episode 378)
- Psychology for the Armed Services (Episode 379)
- Cold War Navy SEAL, by Jim Hawes (Episode 382)
- Wisdom of the Bullfrog, by William McRaven (Episode 383)
- Super Power in Peril, by David McCormick (Episode 389)
- The Pledge to America, by Drago Dzieran (Episode 391)
- Outlive, by Peter Attia, MD (Episode 392)
- Ryan Holiday books (Episode 394)
- City of Death, by Ephraim Mattos (Episode 398)
- The 32 Principles: Harnessing the Power of Jiu-Jitsu to Succeed in Business, Relationships, and Life, by Rener Gracie (Episode 399)
- Transformed, by Remi Adeleke (Episode 400)
- SOG Codename, Dynamite, by Dick Thompson (Episode 401)
- Rainn Wilson books (Episode 403)
- Borderline, by Vincent Rocco Vargas (Episode 408)
- Faith, Family, and Flag, by General James Mukoyama (From episode 411)
- As Many Reps As Possible, by Jason Khalipa (Episode 412)
- Arthur C. Brooks books (Episode 415)
- Alex Honnold books (Episode 420)
- Waiting for the Blessed Light of Dawn, by Ted Hofsiss (Episode 425)
- Be Useful, by Arnold Schwarzenegger (Episode 427)
- Official Workbook for The Dichotomy of Leadership, by Jocko and Leif Babin (Episode 430)
- Send Me: The True Story of a Mother At War, by Joe Kent (Episode 437)
- In Retrospect, by Robert McNamara (Episode 438)
- Drowning in Lemonade, by Lynda MacFarland (Episode 447)
- Warrior Kid books, by Jocko Willink