The Official Air Force Reading List include 23 books from the following six sections:

• Leadership
• Warfighting
• Heritage
• Strategic Environment
• Innovation & exploration
• CMASF  Picks

Leadership

1. Leaders Eat Last: Why some teams pull together and others don’t, by Simon Sinek
2. Chief, by Scott H. Dearduf
3. Team of Teams: New  Rules of Engagement for a complex world, by General Stanley McChrystal 
4. The Effective Executive: The Definitive guide to getting the right things done,by Peter F. Drucker

Air Force Warfighting

1. Cyberspace in Peace and War, by Martin C. Libicke
2. The Second Nuclear Age: Strategy, Danger and the New Power Politics, by Paul Bracken
3. Airpower Reborn, by John Andreas Olsen

Air Force Heritage

1. Shoot like a Girl, by Major Mary Jennings Hegar
2. The Wright Brothers, by David McCullough
3. Beyond Horizons:  A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership
4. by David N. Spires
5. The Strategist, by Bartholomew Sparrow

The Strategic Environment

1. The Accidental Super Power: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the coming global disorder, by Peter Ziehan
2. The New Tsar: The Rise of Vladimir Putin, by Steven Lee Myers
3. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by Barbara Demick
4. On China, by Henry Kissinger

Innovation and Exploration

1. Attitudes Aren’t Free: Thinking Deeply about Diversity in the US Armed Forces, by James E. Parco & David A. Levy
2. Skunk Works, by Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos
3. Thank You for Being Late, by Thomas L. Friedman
4. Big Data, by Victor Mayer-Schonberger & Kenneth Cukier

Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force Reading List   

1. Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, by Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
2. The One Thing, by Gary Keller
3. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, by Angela Duckworth