What to Read After The Looming Tower
Readers who loved The Looming Tower by Lawrence Wright keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Looming Tower 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 The Looming Tower
Ghost Wars
All the Shah's Men
Imperial Life in the Emerald City
Guests of the Ayatollah
Taliban
The assassins' gate
The Triple Agent
The black banners
Arab and Jew
Going Clear
Black Flags
The dead hand
The Years of Extermination, 1939–1945 (Nazi Germany and the Jews, Volume 2)
The One Percent Doctrine
The siege of Mecca
The Guns of August
Black Hawk, Down
Legacy of Ashes
Truman
Paris 1919
Battle Cry of Freedom Part 1 of 3
Game Change
A Problem from Hell
No Place to Hide