- Top secret America, the rise of the new American security state, Dana Priest and William M. Arkin
- The choice, global domination or global leadership, Zbigniew Brzezinski
- The 9/11 Commission report, final report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
- Power and principle, memoirs of the national security adviser, 1977-1981, Zbigniew Brzezinski. --
- The end of America, letter of warning to a young patriot, Naomi Wolf
- The fight, a Secret Service agent's inside account of security failings and the political machine, Dan Bongino
- The shield and the cloak, the security of the commons, Gary Hart
- The assassination complex, inside the government's secret drone warfare program, Jeremy Scahill and the staff of The Intercept
- The fourth power, a grand strategy for the United States in the twenty-first century, Gary Hart
- America the vulnerable, inside the new threat matrix of digital espionage, crime, and warfare, Joel Brenner
- The day the presses stopped, a history of the Pentagon papers case, David Rudenstine
- Imperial America, reflections on the United States of amnesia, Gore Vidal
- Drift, the unmooring of American military power, Rachel Maddow
- The big stick, the limits of soft power and the necessity of military force, Eliot A. Cohen
- The inheritance, the world Obama confronts and the challenges to American power, David E. Sanger
- Treachery, how America's friends and foes are secretly arming our enemies, Bill Gertz
- Playing to the edge, American intelligence in the age of terror, Michael V. Hayden
- How safe are we?, homeland security since 9/11, Janet Napolitano with Karen Breslau
- The threatening storm, the case for invading Iraq, Kenneth M. Pollack
- In the shadow of the Oval Office, profiles of the National Security Advisors and the Presidents they served, from JFK to George W. Bush, Ivo H. Daalder and I.M. Destler
- Fortress America, on the front lines of homeland security - an inside look at the coming surveillance state, Matthew Brzezinski
- Twilight warriors, the soldiers, spies, and special agents who are revolutionizing the American way of war, James Kitfield
- Irreparable harm, a firsthand account of how one agent took on the CIA in an epic battle over secrecy and free speech, Frank Snepp
- The superpower myth, the use and misuse of American might, Nancy Soderberg
- The watchers, the rise of America's surveillance state, Shane Harris
- Eyes on the horizon, serving on the front lines of national security, Richard B. Myers ; with Malcolm McConnell
- Trump and his generals, the cost of chaos, Peter Bergen
- The new war, the web of crime that threatens America's security, John Kerry
- The terrorist next door, how the government is deceiving you about the Islamist threat, Erick Stakelbeck ; [foreword by Michelle Malkin]
- Blood and oil, the dangers and consequences of America's growing petroleum dependency, Michael T. Klare
- The fifth domain, defending our country, our companies, and ourselves in the age of cyber threats, Richard A. Clarke and Robert K. Knake
- Monsoon, the Indian Ocean and the future of American power, Robert D. Kaplan
- The assault on intelligence, American national security in an age of lies, Michael V. Hayden
- Surprise, security, and the American experience, John Lewis Gaddis
- Failures of imagination, the deadliest threats to our homeland--and how to thwart them, Michael McCaul
- Nation of secrets, the threat to democracy and the American way of life, Ted Gup
- Kill chain, the rise of the high-tech assassins, Andrew Cockburn
- My country versus me, the first-hand account by the Los Alomos scientist who was falsely accused of being a spy, by Wen Ho Lee with Helen Zia
- The naked crowd, reclaiming security and freedom in an anxious age, by Jeffrey Rosen
- The emergency state, America's pursuit of absolute national security at all costs, David C. Unger
- The assault on intelligence, American national security in an age of lies, Michael V. Hayden
- Killing Reagan, the violent assault that changed a presidency, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
- Preventing surprise attacks, intelligence reform in the wake of 9/11, Richard A. Posner
- Your government failed you, breaking the cycle of natural security disasters, Richard A. Clarke