What to Read After Dispatches
Readers who loved Dispatches by Michael Herr keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Dispatches 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 Dispatches
A rumor of war
Chickenhawk
A Bright Shining Lie
If I die in a combat zone box me up and ship me home
Street Without Joy
My War Gone by, I Miss It So
In Pharaoh's army
They marched into sunlight
Nam
Dear America
A Vietcong Memoir
The armies of the night
The Great War and Modern Memory
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
Fields of Fire
Vietnam, a history
best and the brightest.
War
With the old breed, at Peleliu and Okinawa
Black Hawk, Down
The Things They Carried
The Guns of August
Ghost Wars
Hell in a very small place