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This list of books is only a sampling of the best books available to help you balance your education with conservative ideas. The titles listed represent a wide range of topics and difficulty levels, but all are worth reading.
Many of the books purchased through the Foundation's website help support our cause. In association with the Conservative Book Service and Amazon.com, please use the below links to some of the Conservative Movement's most influential books.
Young America's Foundation often recommends conservative books to students, as it did during this Great Books to Read In College Panel during the National Conservative Student Conference.
View the list of panelist recommendations
The participants were Marjory Ross, President and Publisher, Regnery Gateway Publishing; Adam Bellow, Executive Editor, Doubleday Books; Mitchell Muncy, Publisher, Spence Publishing; and author Daniel Flynn was the moderator.
High School Recommended Reading
- The Bible
- The Declaration of Independence
- Constitution of the United States
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Great American Conservative Women: A Collection of Speeches compiled by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
- The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
- The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
- The Myth of the Robber Barrons by Burton W. Folsom, Jr.
- The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison, Jay
- The Law by Frederic Bastiat
- Letters to a Young Conservative by Dinesh D'Souza
- Ronald Reagan by Libby Highes
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
- A Personal Odyssey by Thomas Sowell
- Creating Equal: My Fight Against Racial Preferences by Ward Connerly
- Miles Gone By by William F. Buckley
- Two Lucky People by Milton and Rose Friedman
- Nofziger by Lyn Nofziger
- The Prince of Darkness by Robert Novak
- Please see the Ronald Reagan section.
- Suicide of the West by James Burnham
- Witness by Whittaker Chambers
- Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism by Peter Schweizer
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- Great American Conservative Women: A Collection of Speeches by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
- Letters to a Young Conservative by Dinesh D'Souza
- The American Conservative Movement: The Philosophical Founders by Senator John P. East
- The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
- The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk
- The Portable Conservative Reader by Russell Kirk
- See, I Told You So by Rush Limbaugh
- The Way Things Ought To Be by Rush Limbaugh
- In Defense of Freedom by Frank S. Meyer
- The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America by George Nash
- The City on a Hill by Michael Reagan
- Death of the West by Patrick Buchanan
- The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in An Age of Techno-Affluence by Dinesh D'Souza
- What's So Great About America by Dinesh D'Souza
- Christianity and Culture by T.S. Eliot
- America's Real War by Rabbi Daniel Lapin
- Hollywood vs America by Michael Medved
- Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats by Star Parker
- The Seven Fat Years by Robert Bartley
- Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School by Gene Callahan
- Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
- The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
- Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
- Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
- Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
- In Defense of Global Capitalism by Johan Norberg
- A History of Money and Banking in the United States by Murray Rothbard
- America's Great Depression by Murray Rothbard
- Man, Economy, and State by Murray Rothbard
- The Power of Economic Thinking by Mark Skousen
- The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
- 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 Diversity Myth by David Sacks and Peter Thiel
- The Academy in Crisis edited by John Somme
- Great American Conservative Women: A Collection of Speeches by the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
- Feminist Fantasies by Phyllis Schlafly
- The War Against Boys by Christina Hoff Sommers
- Who Stole Feminism by Christina Hoff Sommers
- Why the Left Hates America by Daniel J. Flynn
- Intellectual Morons by Daniel J. Flynn
- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
- Buck Wild by Stephen Slivinski
- New Ideas from Dead CEOs by Todd Buchholz
- Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism by Peter Schweizer
- Victory: The Reagan Administration's Secret Strategy that Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Peter Schweizer
- Death of the West by Patrick Buchanan
- Creating Equal by Ward Connerly
- Godless by Ann Coulter
- Slander by Ann Coulter
- Never Again by Attorney General John Ashcroft
- Crossfire by Major John Krenson
- Fighting Back by Deena Burnett
- Saddam's Secrets by Iraqi General Georges Sada
- Illiberal Education by Dinesh D'Souza
- What's So Great About America by Dinesh D'Souza
- Showdown by Larry Elder
- Ten Things You Can't Say in America by Larry Elder
- The Myth of the Robber Barons by Burton W. Folsom, Jr.
- Hating Whitey by David Horowitz
- Uncivil Wars by David Horowitz
- Hollywood vs America by Michael Medved
- White Ghetto by Star Parker
- Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity by John Stossel
- That Every Man Be Armed by Stephen Halbrook
- The Bias Against Guns by John R. Lott, Jr.
- More Guns, Less Crime by John R. Lott, Jr.
- God, Guns, and Rock 'N' Roll by Ted Nugent
- The Best Defense by Robert Waters
- Guns Save Lives by Robert Water
- Declaration of Independence
- Constitution of the United States
- Congress and the American Tradition by James Burnham
- 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
- Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs
- A History of the American People by Paul Johnson
- A Patriot's History of the United States by Schweikart and Allen
- Democracy in America by Alexis De Tocqueville
- How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas DiLorenzo
- Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke
- Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism by Joshua Muravchik
- The Last Lion by William Manchester
- The Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan
- The Triumph of Liberty by Jim Powell
- Invasion by Michelle Malkin
- Getting it Right by William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert Bork
- Useful Idiots by Mona Charen
- Treason by Ann Coulter
- The Enemy at Home by Dinesh D'Souza
- Hating Whitey by David Horowitz
- The Final Days by Barbara Olson
- Dereliction of Duty by Robert Patterson
- Do As I Say, Not As I Do by Peter Schweizer
- Shakedown by Kenneth Timmerman
- The Law by Frederic Bastiat
- The Theme is Freedom by Stanton M. Evans
- Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
- The Constitution of Liberty by F.A. Hayek
- The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
- Crisis and Leviathan by Robert Higgs
- The Discovery of Freedom by Rose Wilder Lane
- Our Enemy, The State by Jay Nock
- Property and Freedom by Richard Pipes
- Anything That's Peaceful by Leonard Reed
- The Ethics of Liberty by Murray Rothbard
- The Lysander Spooner Reader by Lysander Spooner
- Hatred's Kingdom by Dore Gold
- The West's Last Chance by Tony Blankley
- Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam by Robert Spencer
- Religion of Peace? by Robert Spencer
- Al Qaeda's Armies by Jonathan Schanzer
- The Truth About Muhammad by Robert Spencer
- Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes
- Accept the Challenge: 101 Strategies for Personal Success by William P. Abram
- Lead the Field by Earl Nightingale (audio)
- Goals by Brian Tracy
- Citizen Soldiers by Stephen Ambrose
- Breakdown by Bill Gertz
- On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace by Donald Kagan
- Dereliction of Duty by H.R. McMaster
- Making the Corps by Thomas Ricks
- Crossfire by Major John Krenson
- AWOL by Schaeffer and Roth-Douquet
- American Military History: Volumes 1&2 by Richard Stewart
- Cloak and Gown by Robin Winks
- Fahrenheit 451by Ray Bradbury
- The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille
- The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Classics from Louis L'Amour
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
- The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
- Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
- The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
- The Second Treatise on Government by John Locke
- The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot by Russell Kirk
- Creating Equal: My Fight Against Racial Preferences by Ward Connerly
- The End of Racism by Dinesh D'Souza
- Uncivil Wars by David Horowitz
- Race and Culture by Thomas Sowell
- Christianity and Culture by T.S. Eliot
- The Theme is Freedom by Stanton M. Evans
- America's Real War by Rabbi Daniel Lapin
- The Cube and the Cathedral by George Weigel
- Ronald Reagan: How An Ordinary Man Became An Extraordinary Leader by Dinesh D'Souza
- A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan by Michael K. Deaver
- Ronald Reagan and His Ranch, The Western White House by Peter Hannaford
- The Quotable Ronald Reagan by Peter Hannaford
- The Age of Reagan by Steven F. Hayward
- With Reagan: The Inside Story by Edwin Meese III
- When Character Was King by Peggy Noonan
- In the Words of Ronald Reagan by Michael Reagan
- Stories In His Own Hand by Ronald Reagan
- I Love You, Ronnie by Nancy Reagan
- Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism by Peter Schweizer
- The Greatest Communicator: What Ronald Reagan Taught Me about Politics, Leadership, and Life by Dick Wirthlin and Wynton Hall
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