Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watch Officer’s Guide, Fifteenth Edition | 1992 | James Stavridis | Buy |
| 2 | Destroyer Captain | 2008 | James Stavridis | Buy |
| 3 | Partnership for the Americas | 2010 | James Stavridis | Buy |
| 4 | The Accidental Admiral | 2014 | James Stavridis | Buy |
| 5 | The Leader’s Bookshelf | 2017 | James Stavridis | Buy |
| 6 | Sea Power | 2017 | James Stavridis | Buy |
| 7 | Sailing True North | 2019 | James Stavridis | Buy |
| 8 | The Sailor’s Bookshelf | 2021 | James Stavridis | Buy |
| 9 | To Risk It All | 2022 | James Stavridis | Buy |
James Stavridis has nine non-fiction titles listed here, published between 1992 and 2022. The earliest is Watch Officer’s Guide, Fifteenth Edition (1992), followed by Destroyer Captain (2008) and Partnership for the Americas (2010). His output picked up through the 2010s with The Accidental Admiral (2014), two books in 2017 (The Leader’s Bookshelf and Sea Power), and Sailing True North (2019).
The more recent entries are The Sailor’s Bookshelf (2021) and To Risk It All (2022). These non-fiction works can be read in any order, though readers may find it natural to follow them in publication sequence.