Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
by Thomas Ricks

Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq
by Larry Diamond

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
by Anthony Shadid

The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
by George Packer

Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq (Vintage)
by James Fallows

The Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq
by Fouad Ajami

The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War Without End
by Peter W. Galbraith

The Occupation of Iraq: The Official Documents of the Coalition Provisional Authority by Stefan Talmon

Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor

Inventing Iraq: The Failure of Nation Building and a History Denied
by Toby Dodge

The Shi'is of Iraq
by Yitzhak Nakash

My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope
by L. Paul Bremer III and Malcolm McConnell

Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco
by David L. Phillips

In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat
by Rick Atkinson

No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah
by Bing West

DESERT QUEEN: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
by Janet Wallach

Modern History of Iraq
by Phebe Marr

A History of Iraq
by Charles Tripp

The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
by Rory Stewart

The Fall of Baghdad
by Jon Lee Anderson

Iraq blogs I recommend:

www.juancole.com

baghdadtreasure.blogspot.com

twentyfourstepstoliberty.blogspot.com

riverbendblog.blogspot.com

healingiraq.blogspot.com

aviraqi.blogspot.com

iraqthemodel.blogspot.com

nabilsblog.blogspot.com

Further Reading