There was a question from a year ago that got one answer. Are there any recommended books to outline how US-Middle Eastern relations have evolved over the last 30-50 years, especially in re: terrorism?
Regarding U.S.-Saudi relations and US-Mid East relations, you might like these books:
Steve Yetiv, The Absence of Grand Strategy: The United States in the Persian Gulf, 1979-2005
Rachel Bronson, Thicker than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia
Robert Vitalis, America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
Douglas Little American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945
Ussama Makdisi, Faith Misplaced: The Broken Promise of U.S.-Arab Relations, 1820-2001
Lawrence Freedman, A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East
In regards to terrorism and US-Middle East relations see the following:
Paul Thomas Chamberlin, The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order
Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Steve Coll, Ghost Wars
Steve Yetiv, The Petroleum Triangle