CARTA'S GUIDE TO ISRAEL AND JORDAN (1980)

SURRENDER OR STARVE: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea1988)

SOLDIERS OF GOD: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan (1990)

BALKAN GHOSTS: A Journey Through History (1994)

ARABISTS: The Romance of an American Elite (1995)

THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy (1996)

AN EMPIRE WILDERNESS: Travels into America's Future (1998)

THE COMING ANARCHY: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War (2000)

EASTWARD TO TARTARY: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus (2001)

WARRIOR POLITICS: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos (2003)

AMERICA AND THE TRAGIC LIMITS OF IMPERIALISM (2003)

MEDITERRANEAN WINTER: The Pleasures of History of Landscape in Tunisia, Sicily, Dalmatia, and Greece (2004)

IMPERIAL GRUNTS: One the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond (2006)

HOG PILOTS, BLUE WATER GRUNTS:  The American Military in the Air, at Sea, and on he Ground (2007)

MONSOON: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (2010)

THE REVENGE OF GEOGRAPHY: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate (2012)

IN EUROPE'S SHADOW: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond (2016)