Books Every conservative should read

* Author is Foundation Alumni

** Author is available through Young America’s Foundation’s Campus Lecture Program

High School Recommended Reading

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Constitution of the United States
• Excuse Me Professor by Lawrence W Reed and Ron Robinson **
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Great American Conservative Women: A Collection of Speeches compiled by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
• Letters to a Young Conservative by Dinesh D’Souza **
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Ronald Reagan by Libby Highes
• The Bible
• The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, Jay
• The Law by Frederic Bastiat
• The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
• The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton W Folsom, Jr. **
• The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek

General Recommended Reading

Biographies

• A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell
• Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words by Michael Pack
• Miles Gone By by William F. Buckley
• Nofziger by Lyn Nofziger
• Radical Son by David Horowitz **
• The Last Lion by William Manchester
• The Prince of Darkness by Robert Novak
• Two Lucky People by Milton and Rose Friedman

Communism

• Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism by Dr. Paul Kengor **
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism by Peter Schweizer **
• Witness by Whittaker Chambers

Conservatism

• Excuse Me Professor by Lawrence W Reed and Ron Robinson **
• Funding Fathers: The Unsung Heroes of the Conservative Movement by Nicole Hoplin and Ron Robinson **
• Great American Conservative Women: A Collection of Speeches by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
• In Defense of Freedom by Frank Myers
• Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement by Wynton Hall **
• Letters to a Young Conservative by Dinesh D’Souza **
• Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto by Mark Levin
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
• The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America by Dr. George Nash
• The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk
• The Portable Conservative Reader by Russell Kirk
• The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America by George Nash
• The City on a Hill by Michael Reagan **
• Why We Whisper: Restoring our Right to Say It’s Wrong by Jim DeMint

Culture

• Chinese Girl in the Ghetto by Ying Ma * **
• Christianity and Culture by T.S. Eliot
• Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World by Lila Rose
• Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier
• It Takes a Family: Conservatism and the Common Good by Rick Santorum **
• Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution by Carl Trueman
• What’s So Great About America by Dinesh D’Souza **
• What Is a Woman? by Matt Walsh
• When Harry Became Sally by Dr. Ryan Anderson

Economics

• A History of Money and Banking in the United States by Murray Rothbard
• America’s Great Depression by Murray Rothbard
• Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
• Can A Catholic Be A Socialist? by Trent Horn
• Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
• Crapitalism by Jason Mattera **
• Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
• How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas DiLorenzo
• Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
• In Defense of Global Capitalism by Johan Norberg
• Liberty vs. the Tyranny of Socialism: Controversial Essays by Dr. Walter Williams **
• Man, Economy, and State by Murray Rothbard
• The Capitalist Comeback by Andy Puzder
• The Case Against Socialism by Senator Rand Paul
• The End of Prosperity by Steve Moore **
• The Power of Economic Thinking by Mark Skousen
• The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
• The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
• Two Lucky People by Milton and Rose Friedman

Education

• Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth by Ben Shapiro
• God and Man at Yale by William F. Buckley
• Illiberal Education: Political Correctness and the College Experience by Dinesh D’Souza
• Intellectuals by Paul Johnson
• Professors by David Horowitz
• The Shadow University by Alan Kors and Harvey Silvergate
• The Academy in Crisis edited by John Somme

Environment / Global Warming

• Climate Confusion by Roy Spencer
• Fossil Future by Alex Epstein
• Green Fraud: Why The Green New Deal is Even Worse Than You Think by Marc Morano
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and the Environment by Chris Horner** (We recommend any books from the Politically Incorrect Guide series)
• The Really Inconvenient Truths by Iain Murray
• The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World by Bjorn Lomborg
• Unstoppable Global Warming by Fred Singer and Dennis Avery

Feminism

• Feminist Fantasies by Phyllis Schlafly
• Great American Conservative Women: A Collection of Speeches by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
• The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers **
• Who Stole Feminism by Christina Hoff Sommers **

Foundation Speakers

• The Authoritarian Moment: How the Left Weaponized America’s Institutions Against Dissent by Ben Shapiro
• Death of the West by Patrick Buchanan **
• Creating Equal by Ward Connerly **
• Grace Canceled by Dana Loesch
• Hating Whitey by David Horowitz **
• Hollywood vs America by Michael Medved **
• How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps by Ben Shapiro
• Illiberal Education by Dinesh D’Souza **
• Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity by John Stossel **
• Never Again by Attorney General John Ashcroft **
• Showdown by Larry Elder
• Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds by Michael Knowles
• Ten Things You Can’t Say in America by Larry Elder
• The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton W. Folsom, Jr. **
• The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro
• Uncivil Wars by David Horowitz **
• What’s So Great About America by Dinesh D’Souza **

Gun Rights

• First Freedom by David Harsanyi
• Guns Save Lives by Robert Waters
• Hands Off My Gun: Defeating the Plot to Disarm America by Dana Loesch
• More Guns, Less Crime by John R. Lott Jr.
• That Every Man Be Armed by Stephen Halbrook
• The Best Defense by Robert Waters
• The Bias Against Guns by John R. Lott Jr.

History (U.S.)

• 48 Liberal Lies (That You Probably Learned in School) by Dr. Larry Schweikart **
• A History of the American People by Paul Johnson
• A Patriot’s History of the United States by Dr. Larry Schweikart **
• Constitution of the United States
• Congress and the American Tradition by James Burnham
• Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs
• Declaration of Independence
• Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
• New Deal or Raw Deal by Dr. Burt Folsom, Jr. **
• Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
• The Right Side of History by Ben Shapiro
• The Roosevelt Myth by John T. Flynn
• The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton W. Folsom, Jr. **
• The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, Jay

History (World)

• Greatness: Reagan, Churchill and the Making of Extraordinary Leaders by Steven Hayward *
• Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism by Joshua Muravchik
• Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg **
• Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
• The Last Lion by William Manchester
• The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
• The Triumph of Liberty by Jim Powell
• The President, The Pope, and The Prime Minister by John O’Sullivan

Immigration

• Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s Borders by Jim Gilchrist and Jerome R. Corsi
• In Mortal Danger by  Tom Tancredo*
• Whatever it Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security and the War on Terror by J.D. Hayworth

Liberalism

• Do As I Say, Not As I Do by Peter Schweizer **
• Getting it Right by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Hating Whitey by David Horowitz **
• Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert Bork
• Up from Liberalism by William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Why the Left Hates America by Daniel J. Flynn **

Media

• Bias by Bernard Goldberg
• A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (and Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media by Bernard Goldberg
• South Park Conservatives by Brian Anderson

Militant Islam

• Hatred’s Kingdom by Dore Gold
• Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes
• The Cube and the Cathedral by George Weigel
• Islam Unveiled by Robert Spencer **
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam by Robert Spencer **
• Al Qaeda’s Armies by Jonathan Schanzer **

National Security and Military

• Breakdown by Bill Gertz
• Making the Corps by Thomas Ricks
• Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose
• Cloak and Gown by Robin Winks
• On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan
• AWOL by Frank Schaeffer and Kathy Roth-Douquet
• Dereliction of Duty by H.R. McMaster
• American Military History: Volumes 1 & 2 by Richard Stewart
• America’s Victories: Why the U.S. Wins Wars and Will Win the War on Terror by Larry Schweikart **
• Red Handed by Peter Schweizer **

Novels

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Black List by Brad Thor
• Blowback by Brad Thor
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Foreign Influence by Brad Thor
• Full Black by Brad Thor
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Path of the Assassin by Brad Thor
• Scratch Beginnings by Adam Shepard
• State of the Union by Brad Thor
• Takedown by Brad Thor
• The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Lion’s Game by Nelson DeMille
• The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
• The Lions of Lucerne by Brad Thor
• The First Commandment by Brad Thor
• The Last Patriot by Brad Thor
• The Apostle by Brad Thor
• The Athena Project by Brad Thor

Race

• The End of Racism by Dinesh D’Souza **
• Creating Equal: My Fight Against Racial Preferences by Ward Connerly *
• Uncivil Wars by David Horowitz **
• Race and Culture by Thomas Sowell
• He Talk Like a White Boy by Joseph Phillips **
• Race Marxism by Dr. James Lindsay
• Debunking the 1619 Project by Mary Grabar

Ronald Reagan

• A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan by Michael K. Deaver
• God and Ronald Reagan by Dr. Paul Kengor **
• How Ronald Reagan Changed my Life by Peter Robinson **
• I Love You, Ronnie by Nancy D. Reagan
• Ronald Reagan: How An Ordinary Man Became An Extraordinary Leader by Dinesh D’Souza **
• Ronald Reagan and His Ranch, The Western White House by Peter Hannaford
• Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism by Peter Schweizer **
• Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign that Saved America
• The Age of Reagan by Steven F. Hayward *
• The Greatest Communicator by Dick Wirthlin and Wynton Hall **
• With Reagan: The Inside Story by Edwin Meese III **
• When Character Was King by Peggy Noonan