What to Read After Afghanistan
Readers who loved Afghanistan by Thomas J. Barfield keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Afghanistan is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Afghanistan
Ghost Wars
Taliban
Descent Into Chaos
The Great Game
Arabs
A History of the Modern Middle East
The return of a king
Taliban
Games Without Rules
Pakistan
Iran: Empire of the Mind
No good men among the living
The Arabs
Tribe
A history of Iran
The Logic of Violence in Civil War
Monsoon
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife
The One Percent Doctrine
Way of the Knife
Balkan ghosts
A savage war of peace
Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
The assassins' gate