Books

September 11

• 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (by Jim Dwyer)
• Report from Ground Zero (by Dennis Smith)
• Nine Months at Ground Zero: The Story of the Brotherhood of Workers Who Took on a Job Like No Other (by Glenn Stout)
• Aftermath: World Trade Center (by Joel Meyerowitz)
• Watching the World Change: The Stories Behind the Images of 9/11 (by David Friend)
• Last Man Down (by Richard Picciotto)
• Pentagon 9/11 (by Alfred Goldberg)
• The Pentagon (by Steve Vogel)
• Among the Heroes (by Jere Longman)
• Running Toward Danger: Stories Behind the Breaking News of September 11 (Newseum)

About Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, the hijackers, and planning of the attacks

• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (by Lawrence Wright) - See also: Lawrence Wright on Al Qaeda
• The Cell (by John Miller)
• The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader (by Peter Bergen)
• Perfect Soldiers (by Terry McDermott) - About the hijackers
• Inside Al Qaeda: Global Network of Terror (by Rohan Gunaratna)
• Al-Qaeda: In Search of the Terror Network that Threatens the World (by Jane Corbin), published in 2003
• Inside 9-11: What Really Happened (Der Spiegel), from the editors of Der Spiegel magazine, with details on the Hamburg cell, published in 2002
• Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (by Ahmed Rashid)
• The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror (by Bernard Lewis)
• Terror In the Mind Of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence (by Mark Juergensmeyer), published in 2000
• Dollars For Terror: The United States and Islam (by Richard Labeviere), published in 2000

Conspiracy theories

• Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts (by David Dunbar and Popular Mechanics)

Government response

• Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission (by Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton)
• Against All Enemies (by Richard A. Clarke)
• Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11 (by Amy Zegart)
• Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (by Michael Scheuer)
• Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI (by Richard Gid Powers)

About the World Trade Center

• City in the Sky : The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center (by James Glanz) - History of the World Trade Center, from construction to the events on 9/11
• Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center (by Angus Gillespie)
• Divided We Stand : A Biography of New York City's World Trade Center (by Eric Darton) - about the planning and construction, and urban planning
• Men of Steel: The Story of the Family That Built the World Trade Center (by Karl Koch III)
• Two Seconds Under the World (by Jim Dwyer) - about the 1993 bombing

Rebuilding

• Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York (by Paul Goldberger)
• Sixteen Acres: Architecture and the Outrageous Struggle for the Future of Ground Zero (by Philip Nobel)
• American Ground - Unbuilding the World Trade Center (by William Langewiesche)