Tuesday, September 09, 2014
My Reading List
A Consequential Library
In order to obtain a solid background in conservatism, I decided to develop a comprehensive library of books by important writers, both for conservatism itself and for the deeper philosophy it entails, as well as other issues that came to me as I read. As of now, that library has the following list of books and their authors. I heartily recommend all of them for they each have an important message to give.
The problem this list presents is endemic to any textbooks of deep significance; to master the material requires reading and rereading perhaps two or three times. Even then, a further time is needed to absorb the work more fully, and relate it to the rest of your thinking. In my case, this list took the better part of 14 years of study for several hours daily for me to feel comfortable with the material.
All but one of these books are now in my private collection. The list follows:
1.
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
2.
Aftershock, David Wiedemer
3.
A History of God, Karen Armstrong
4.
A History of Knowledge, Charles Van Doren
5.
A Nation under God, Krannwitter and Palm
6.
Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow
7.
A Primer on Formal Logic, John Cooley
8.
A Short History of Nearly Everything,
Bill Bryson
9.
America Alone, Mark Steyn
10. American Conservatism (An encyclopedia)
11. Applied Economics, Thomas Sowell
12. Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell
13. Blueprint for Action, Thomas Barnett
14. By Design, Larry Witham
15. Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen Meyer
16. Collapse, Jared Diamond
17. Conflict
of Visions, Tom Sowell
18. Constitutional Chaos, Andrew Napolitano
19. Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
20. Emerson, F. I. Carpenter
21. Emile, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Allan Bloom,
Trans.
22. Empire, Niall Ferguson
23. Ethics in Theory and
Practice, Thomas E.
Hill
24. Encyclopedia Britannica, 1953 Edition
25. Free to Choose, Milton Friedman
26. Future Shock, Alvin Toffler
27. Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
28. History of Political
Philosophy, Third
Edition, Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
29. Holy Bible, King James Version
30. How Now Shall We Live, Charles Colson
31. Ideas of the Great
Philosophers,
Sahakian and Sahakian
32. In Defense of Natural
Law, Robert George
33. Intellectuals
and Society, Tom Sowell,
1st and 2nd Editions
34. In the Words of Our
Enemies, Jed Babbin
35. Imperial Hubris, Michael Scheuer
36. Inside The Asylum, Jed Babbin
37. Introduction to
Mathematical Logic,
Alonzo Church
38. Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
39. Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
40. Mind Siege, Tim LaHaye
41. Natural Law and Natural Rights, John
Finnis
42. Natural Law and Human
Nature, Father
Joseph Koterski, SJ
43. Natural Law and Natural
Rights, Robert
George
44. Natural Rights & the
Right to Choose,
Hadley Arkes
45. Objectivism, Leonard Peikoff
46. On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
47. On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
48. Operationalism, Percy Bridgman
49. Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark
50. Postmodernism, Glen Ward
51. Power Shift, Alvin Toffler
52. Power to the People, Laura Ingraham
53. Programming the Universe, Seth Lloyd
54. Religion of Peace, Robert Spencer
55. Revolutionary Wealth, Alvin Toffler
56. Right from the Heart, Phil Valentine
57. Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer
58. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
59. The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis
60. The Age of Analysis, Morton White, Editor
61. The Age of Belief, Anne Fremantle, Editor
62. The Basic Works of
Aristotle, Richard
McKeon
63. The Big Questions, Nils Rauhut
64. The
Clash of Orthodoxies, Robert George
65. The Closing of the
American Mind, Allan
Bloom
66. The Complete Works of
Plato, John N.
Cooper, Editor
67. The Concise Conservative
Encyclopedia, Brad
Minor
68. The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk
69. The Constitution of the United States
of America
70. The Dancing Wu Li
Masters, Gary Zukav
71. The Declaration of Independence
72. The Edge of Evolution, Michael Behe
73. The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
74. The Fabric of the Cosmos,
Brian Greene
75. The Federalist Papers, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay
76. The 5000 Year Leap, W. Cleon Skousen
77. The Greening of America, Charles Reich
78. The Information,
James Gleick
79. The Koran, N. J. Dawood, translator
80. The Laws of Power, Robert Greene
81. The Lexus and the Olive
Tree, Thomas
Friedman
82. The Liberty Amendments, Mark R. Levin
83. The Meditations of Marcus
Aurelius, Gregory
Hayes
84. The Pentagon’s New Map, Thomas Barnett
85. The Philosophy of As If, Hans Vaihinger (Public Library)
86. The Politically Incorrect
Guide to Islam,
Robert Spencer
87. The Prince, Machiavelli
88. The Republic, Plato
89. The Science of God, Gerald L. Schroeder
90. The Science of Good and
Evil, Michael
Shermer
91. The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis
92. The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
93. The Third Wave, Alvin Toffler
94. The Tocqueville Reader, Edited by Zunz and Kahn
95. The West’s Last Chance, Tony Blankley
96. The Will to Believe, William James
97. The Wisdom of the Ancient Greeks, Steven Stavropoulos
98. Thomas Jefferson, Basic Writings
99. Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
100.
War, and Anti-War, Alvin Toffler
101.
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
102.
Who Needs God? Harold Kushner
103.
Winning the Future, Newt Gingrich
104.
Why Us? James Le Fanu
105.
Written on the Heart, J. Budziszewski
In order to obtain a solid background in conservatism, I decided to develop a comprehensive library of books by important writers, both for conservatism itself and for the deeper philosophy it entails, as well as other issues that came to me as I read. As of now, that library has the following list of books and their authors. I heartily recommend all of them for they each have an important message to give.
The problem this list presents is endemic to any textbooks of deep significance; to master the material requires reading and rereading perhaps two or three times. Even then, a further time is needed to absorb the work more fully, and relate it to the rest of your thinking. In my case, this list took the better part of 14 years of study for several hours daily for me to feel comfortable with the material.
All but one of these books are now in my private collection. The list follows:
1.
A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
2.
Aftershock, David Wiedemer
3.
A History of God, Karen Armstrong
4.
A History of Knowledge, Charles Van Doren
5.
A Nation under God, Krannwitter and Palm
6.
Alexander Hamilton, Ron Chernow
7.
A Primer on Formal Logic, John Cooley
8.
A Short History of Nearly Everything,
Bill Bryson
9.
America Alone, Mark Steyn
10. American Conservatism (An encyclopedia)
11. Applied Economics, Thomas Sowell
12. Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell
13. Blueprint for Action, Thomas Barnett
14. By Design, Larry Witham
15. Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen Meyer
16. Collapse, Jared Diamond
17. Conflict
of Visions, Tom Sowell
18. Constitutional Chaos, Andrew Napolitano
19. Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
20. Emerson, F. I. Carpenter
21. Emile, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Allan Bloom,
Trans.
22. Empire, Niall Ferguson
23. Ethics in Theory and
Practice, Thomas E.
Hill
24. Encyclopedia Britannica, 1953 Edition
25. Free to Choose, Milton Friedman
26. Future Shock, Alvin Toffler
27. Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas Hofstadter
28. History of Political
Philosophy, Third
Edition, Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey
29. Holy Bible, King James Version
30. How Now Shall We Live, Charles Colson
31. Ideas of the Great
Philosophers,
Sahakian and Sahakian
32. In Defense of Natural
Law, Robert George
33. Intellectuals
and Society, Tom Sowell,
1st and 2nd Editions
34. In the Words of Our
Enemies, Jed Babbin
35. Imperial Hubris, Michael Scheuer
36. Inside The Asylum, Jed Babbin
37. Introduction to
Mathematical Logic,
Alonzo Church
38. Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
39. Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
40. Mind Siege, Tim LaHaye
41. Natural Law and Natural Rights, John
Finnis
42. Natural Law and Human
Nature, Father
Joseph Koterski, SJ
43. Natural Law and Natural
Rights, Robert
George
44. Natural Rights & the
Right to Choose,
Hadley Arkes
45. Objectivism, Leonard Peikoff
46. On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
47. On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
48. Operationalism, Percy Bridgman
49. Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark
50. Postmodernism, Glen Ward
51. Power Shift, Alvin Toffler
52. Power to the People, Laura Ingraham
53. Programming the Universe, Seth Lloyd
54. Religion of Peace, Robert Spencer
55. Revolutionary Wealth, Alvin Toffler
56. Right from the Heart, Phil Valentine
57. Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer
58. State of Fear, Michael Crichton
59. The Abolition of Man, C. S. Lewis
60. The Age of Analysis, Morton White, Editor
61. The Age of Belief, Anne Fremantle, Editor
62. The Basic Works of
Aristotle, Richard
McKeon
63. The Big Questions, Nils Rauhut
64. The
Clash of Orthodoxies, Robert George
65. The Closing of the
American Mind, Allan
Bloom
66. The Complete Works of
Plato, John N.
Cooper, Editor
67. The Concise Conservative
Encyclopedia, Brad
Minor
68. The Conservative Mind, Russell Kirk
69. The Constitution of the United States
of America
70. The Dancing Wu Li
Masters, Gary Zukav
71. The Declaration of Independence
72. The Edge of Evolution, Michael Behe
73. The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene
74. The Fabric of the Cosmos,
Brian Greene
75. The Federalist Papers, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay
76. The 5000 Year Leap, W. Cleon Skousen
77. The Greening of America, Charles Reich
78. The Information,
James Gleick
79. The Koran, N. J. Dawood, translator
80. The Laws of Power, Robert Greene
81. The Lexus and the Olive
Tree, Thomas
Friedman
82. The Liberty Amendments, Mark R. Levin
83. The Meditations of Marcus
Aurelius, Gregory
Hayes
84. The Pentagon’s New Map, Thomas Barnett
85. The Philosophy of As If, Hans Vaihinger (Public Library)
86. The Politically Incorrect
Guide to Islam,
Robert Spencer
87. The Prince, Machiavelli
88. The Republic, Plato
89. The Science of God, Gerald L. Schroeder
90. The Science of Good and
Evil, Michael
Shermer
91. The Screwtape Letters, C. S. Lewis
92. The Social Contract, Jean Jacques Rousseau
93. The Third Wave, Alvin Toffler
94. The Tocqueville Reader, Edited by Zunz and Kahn
95. The West’s Last Chance, Tony Blankley
96. The Will to Believe, William James
97. The Wisdom of the Ancient Greeks, Steven Stavropoulos
98. Thomas Jefferson, Basic Writings
99. Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
100.
War, and Anti-War, Alvin Toffler
101.
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary
102.
Who Needs God? Harold Kushner
103.
Winning the Future, Newt Gingrich
104.
Why Us? James Le Fanu
105.
Written on the Heart, J. Budziszewski
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