What to Read After Achilles in Vietnam
Readers who loved Achilles in Vietnam by Jonathan Shay keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Achilles in Vietnam 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 Achilles in Vietnam
On killing
On Combat
Once a Warrior King
First to fight
Dereliction of Duty
Breakout
What It Is Like to Go to War
Defeat into Victory
Blood rites
If I die in a combat zone box me up and ship me home
Odysseus in America
Dear America
The lost books of the Bible
Vietnam, a history
Dispatches
A rumor of war
The Things They Carried
The areas of my expertise
War
We Were Soldiers Once... and Young
Portnoy's Complaint
Gates of fire
Then We Came to the End
Desert solitaire