What are the best books to read before attending Army OCS?

As to literature, classics are always good to start for mil history, Thucydides history of the Peloponnesian War, Caesar's Pumoc War, Clausewitz On War, Nicolo amachiavelli, then later !material, incl biography and autobiography, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, also get Nimitz by E N Potter...also a book on pre WW1 called The Rpod Tower....

Also, have you considered Army direct commission cyber, USCH direct commission engineer? USPHS Commissiomed Cross as an engineer? Other OIS indpc program!s, like NOAA BOTC, apart from OCS type program!s?

Have you considered Army WOCS, as an alternate, as only high school is needed, at minimum, as an alternate to a regular

Also, any flight interests? I may not have sent this, which branch or range of branches?

Look up USAF AFIT, and USN Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), all senior enlisted, as well as all warrant and commissioned of any grade can apply, even from other svcs, also civil servants and contractors, though you'd likely need to have to wait a cpl of tours to be taken seriously...

Also, what major are you on your bachelor's? Grades? GPA? You're gonna need to start a masters even of only part time from day one after you'd be commissioned, expect it, also PME from all svcs, not just your own, I assure you....

Sorry Encyclopedia Britannica I'd left that out....

Get the Encyclopedia Great Books series, read the first called The great Conversation, on the growth of Western thought, trust me....

Elaborate as to hobbies, reading interests, technical, literary, also sports, incl any martial arts...look esp at aikiod and iaido, I think you'd find them to your tastes, maybe also judo and jujitsu, I prefer the first two....

Look up the officer guides by Stackpole Books, I read the one for USAF while at USAF OTS, I'd switched from Army ROTC....