23 books
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17 voters
Combat Books
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A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as combat)
avg rating 3.94 — 63,898 ratings — published 1645
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as combat)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,791,341 ratings — published 2023
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as combat)
avg rating 3.94 — 587,300 ratings — published -500
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as combat)
avg rating 3.99 — 17,050 ratings — published 1716
Tao of Jeet Kune Do (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as combat)
avg rating 4.36 — 8,527 ratings — published 1975
On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as combat)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,559 ratings — published 2004
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as combat)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,445,468 ratings — published 2011
Bravo Two Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as combat)
avg rating 4.13 — 16,480 ratings — published 1991
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as combat)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,813,473 ratings — published 2010
A Hard Place: A Sergeant's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as combat)
avg rating 3.70 — 33 ratings — published 2007
Network Effect (The Murderbot Diaries, #5)
by (shelved 5 times as combat)
avg rating 4.46 — 134,291 ratings — published 2020
Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as combat)
avg rating 4.23 — 182,174 ratings — published 2018
Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as combat)
avg rating 4.24 — 227,256 ratings — published 2018
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as combat)
avg rating 4.11 — 393,390 ratings — published 2017
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as combat)
avg rating 4.22 — 326,447 ratings — published 2006
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as combat)
avg rating 4.48 — 1,038,555 ratings — published 2006
Matterhorn (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as combat)
avg rating 4.28 — 48,524 ratings — published 2010
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as combat)
avg rating 4.11 — 12,433 ratings — published 1995
Red Storm Rising (Audio Cassette)
by (shelved 5 times as combat)
avg rating 4.21 — 85,650 ratings — published 1986
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as combat)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,262,777 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as combat)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,130,764 ratings — published 2008
Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as combat)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,491,888 ratings — published 1985
Medieval Combat: A Fifteenth-Century Illustrated Manual of Swordfighting and Close-Quarter Combat (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 4.10 — 310 ratings — published 1467
Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 4.36 — 160,386 ratings — published 2018
A Fighter's Heart: One Man's Journey Through the World of Fighting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,840 ratings — published 2006
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 4.15 — 352,144 ratings — published 1990
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 4.16 — 524,456 ratings — published 2018
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 4.03 — 142,785 ratings — published 2012
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 4.32 — 431,711 ratings — published 2016
The Battle of the Tanks: Kursk, 1943 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 3.96 — 916 ratings — published 2011
Helmet for My Pillow: From Parris Island to the Pacific (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,704 ratings — published 1957
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,182,785 ratings — published 2007
What It is Like to Go to War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as combat)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,963 ratings — published 2011
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,215,110 ratings — published 2025
This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.68 — 111,191 ratings — published 2024
The Eye of the Bedlam Bride (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.65 — 135,038 ratings — published 2023
The Butcher's Masquerade (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.69 — 158,352 ratings — published 2022
The Gate of the Feral Gods (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.54 — 185,199 ratings — published 2021
The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.41 — 225,661 ratings — published 2021
Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.50 — 276,964 ratings — published 2021
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.46 — 420,794 ratings — published 2020
Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.31 — 7,675 ratings — published 2019
System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.25 — 80,640 ratings — published 2023
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,776,642 ratings — published 2023
The Combat Codes (The Combat Codes Saga, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,957 ratings — published 2021
The Well of Ascension (Mistborn, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.38 — 698,335 ratings — published 2007
Fugitive Telemetry (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.29 — 110,663 ratings — published 2021
Bushido: The Soul of Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 3.83 — 10,603 ratings — published 1899
Living the Martial Way: A Manual for the Way a Modern Warrior Should Think (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as combat)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,413 ratings — published 1992
“. . . the sole aim of Okinawa Karate is to teach A person to handle violence and violent individuals; whether it is tactile, mental or spiritual”
― KARATE POWER Lethal power of Fajin
― KARATE POWER Lethal power of Fajin
“Red had a deep loathing of the night before them. He had been through so much combat, had felt so many kinds of terror, and had seen so many men killed that he no longer had any illusions about the inviolability of his own flesh. He knew he could be killed; it was something he had accepted long ago, and he had grown a shell about that knowledge so that he rarely thought of anything further ahead than the next few minutes…”
― The Naked and the Dead
― The Naked and the Dead













