A List of 50 Conservative Books
No more, no less.
Introductory
1. The Woven Figure, by George F. Will2. Ronald Reagan, by Dinesh D'Souza
3. The Conservative Tradition in America, by Charles W. Dunn and J. David Woodard
4. Backward and Upward, edited David Brooks
General
5. Conservatism: An Anthology, edited by Jerry Z. Muller6. A Case for Conservatism, by John Kekes
7. Virtue and the Promise of Conservatism, by Bruce Frohnen
8. The Constitution of Liberty, by Friedrich A. von Hayek
9. Rationalism in Politics and other essays, by Michael Oakeshott
10. Black Conservatism, by Peter R. Eisenstadt
11. Neo-Conservatism, by Irving Kristol
12. The Paleoconservatives, edited by Joseph Scotchie
On Liberalism
13. Ideas have Consequences, by Richard Weaver14. Suicide in the West, by James Burnham
15. Modern Times, by Paul Johnson
16. The Road to Serfdom, Friedrich A. von Hayek
17. The Betrayal of Liberalism, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball
18. On Education: The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom
19. God and Man at Yale, by William F. Buckley Jr.
20. Illiberal Education, by Dinesh D' Souza
21. Tenured Radicals, by Roger Kimball
On Economics and Economic Policy
22. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, by Joseph Schumpeter23. Free to Choose, by Milton and Rose Friedman
24. A Critique of Interventionism, by Ludwig von Mises
25. Wealth and Poverty, by George Gilder
26. A Humane Economy, by Wilhelm Ropke
On Social Issues and Society
27. The Economy of Cities, by Jane Jacobs
28. The Unheavenly City Revisited, by Edward Banfield
29. The Quest for Community, by Robert Nisbet
30. The Long March, by Roger Kimball
31. The Demoralization of Society, by Gertrude Himmelfarb
32. Sex, Morality and the law, edited by Lori Gruen and George A. Panichas
33. Ethnic America, by Thomas Sowell
34. Crime and Public Policy, by James Q Wilson
35. Homosexuality and American Public Life, edited by Christopher Wolfe and William Kristol
On Foreign Policy
36. On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace, by Donald Kagan37. Present Dangers, edited by Robert Kagan and William Kristol
38. Freedom Betrayed, by Michael A. Ledeen
39. Good Intentions, by Jeanne J Kirkpatrick
On Religion
40. Christianity and Culture, by T.S. Eliot
41. The Abolition of Man, by C.S. Lewis
42. Orthodoxy, by G.K. Chesterton
43. Protestant-Catholic-Jew, by Will Herberg
On Arts and Literary criticism
44. Selected Essays, by T.S. Eliot
45. An Experiment in Criticism, by C.S. Lewis
46. The Revenge of the Philistines, by Hilton Kramer
47. The Survival of the Adversary Culture, by Paul Hollander
48. Against the Grain, edited by Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball
On Science
49. Anything Goes, by David Stove50. The Counter-Revolution of Science, by Friedrich A. von Hayek
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