While there are many courses and tutorials online, learning from a book is still one of the best ways to greatly improve your skills. Below I have selected top Sniper books.
- Special Forces Sniper School (formerly Special Operations Target Interdiction Course (SOTIC)) Manual (2017)
- The Official US Army Sniper Training and Operations Manual: Full Size Edition: The Most Authoritative & Comprehensive Long-Range Combat Shooter’s Book … / TC 3-22.10) (Carlile Military Library) (2017)
- Long Range Shooting Handbook: The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Precision Rifle Shooting (2016)
- Swamp Sniper (A Miss Fortune Mystery) (Volume 3) (2013)
- Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills (1988)
- I, Sniper (Bob Lee Swagger Novels) (2010)
- Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight’s Cross (2016)
- Gods & Snipers (2019)
- Red Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Joseph Pilyushin (2018)
- Ghost Sniper: A World War II Thriller (2014)
- Sniper’s Honor (Bob Lee Swagger) (2014)
- The Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers (2006)
- The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle: American Sniper, Navy SEAL (2015)
Special Forces Sniper School (formerly Special Operations Target Interdiction Course (SOTIC)) Manual (2017)
The Special Forces Sniper Course (formerly the Special Operations Target Interdiction Course – SOTIC) is the premier sniper training course in the world. Top members of all branches of special operations are able to attend this prestigious course on a limited selection basis. This book is the official manual for the course.
The Official US Army Sniper Training and Operations Manual: Full Size Edition: The Most Authoritative & Comprehensive Long-Range Combat Shooter’s Book … / TC 3-22.10) (Carlile Military Library) (2017)
THE MOST AND LONG-RANGE COMBAT SHOOTING BOOK (FM 3-22.10 / FM 23-10 / TC 3-22.10) Since 1987 the US Army Sniper School at Fort Benning, Georgia, has trained Active Duty, Reserves and National Guard soldiers to become long-range marksmen par excellence, capable of eliminating high-value targets, gathering intelligence, and protecting their comrades with a mixture of stealth, patience, situational awareness, cunning, and mastery of the long-range rifle.
Long Range Shooting Handbook: The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Precision Rifle Shooting (2016)
This book is the complete beginner's guide to long range shooting written in simple every-day language so that it's easy to follow.
Swamp Sniper (A Miss Fortune Mystery) (Volume 3) (2013)
From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jana DeLeon, the third book in the Miss Fortune Mystery series. When only a crack shot will do… In the two weeks CIA assassin Fortune Redding has been hiding in Sinful, Louisiana, she’s been harassed, poisoned, and shot at…and that was the easy part. But now, she’s about to face her biggest challenge since setting foot in the tiny bayou town. When mayoral candidate Ted Williams is murdered, everyone is surprised.
Marine Sniper: 93 Confirmed Kills (1988)
There have been many Marines. There have been many marksmen. But there has only been one Sergeant Carlos Hathcock.He stalked the Viet Cong behind enemy lines—on their own ground. And each time, he emerged from the jungle having done his duty. His record is one of the finest in military history, with ninety-three confirmed kills.This is the story of a simple man who endured incredible dangers and hardships for his country and his Corps.
I, Sniper (Bob Lee Swagger Novels) (2010)
The explosive New York Times bestseller by Stephen Hunter that sends ex-Marine sniper Bob Lee Swagger into the thick of an FBI investigation and features some of the greatest gunfights ever to grace the page.It takes a seasoned killer… Four famed ‘60s radicals are gunned down at long range by a sniper. All the evidence—timeline, ballistics, forensics, motive, means, and opportunity—points to Marine war hero Carl Hitchcock. Even his suicide.
Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight’s Cross (2016)
Josef “Sepp” Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the award of the Knight’s Cross.An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian Front in July 1942.
Gods & Snipers (2019)
Autumn 1944. With the Allies giving chase across France, German forces are in full retreat after the defeat at the Falaise Gap. In the confusion of the fast-moving situation, small squads find themselves on their own or cobbled together from other units, with whichever officer has the highest rank taking command. These units have one goal in mind, which is to move closer to Germany.
Red Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Joseph Pilyushin (2018)
Joseph Pilyushin, a top Red Army sniper in the ruthless fight against the Germans on the Eastern Front, was an exceptional soldier and he has a remarkable story to tell. His first-hand account of his wartime service gives a graphic insight into his lethal skill with a rifle and into the desperate fight put up by Soviet forces to defend Leningrad.Pilyushin, who lived in Leningrad with his family, was already 35 years old when the war broke out and he was drafted.
Ghost Sniper: A World War II Thriller (2014)
June 6, 1944. On the dawn of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, two snipers find themselves fighting a battle all their own. One is a backwoods hunter from the Appalachian Mountains in the American South, while the other is the dreaded German “Ghost Sniper” who earned his nickname on the Eastern Front.
Sniper’s Honor (Bob Lee Swagger) (2014)
In this tour de force—part historical thriller, part modern adventure—from the New York Times bestselling author of I, Sniper, Bob Lee Swagger uncovers why World War II’s greatest sniper was erased from history…and why her disappearance still matters today.Ludmilla “Mili” Petrova was once the most hunted woman on earth, having raised the fury of two of the most powerful leaders on either side of World War II: