This list is by no means comprehensive, so please feel free to add to it.

GENERAL/CONSERVATIVE PHILOSOPHY:
"The Federalist Papers" edited by Alexander Hamilton
"Reflections on the Revolution in France" by Edmund Burke.
"Second Treatise of Government" by John Locke
"On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill
"John Stuart Mill on Liberty and Control" by Joseph Hamburger
"John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity" by Linda Raeder
"The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot" by Russell Kirk
"The Theory of Moral Sentiments" by Adam Smith
"The Constitution of Liberty" by Friedrich von Hayek
"The Road to Serfdom" by Friedrich von Hayek
"The Fatal Conceit" by Friedrich von Hayek
"Free to Choose: A Personal Statement" by Milton Friedman
"Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea" by Irving Kristol
"The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America" by George H. Nash
"Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand" by Leonard Peikoff
"Happy Days Were Here Again : Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist" by William F. Buckley
"Keeping The Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought" by William F. Buckley
"History of Political Philosophy" edited by Leo Strauss
"The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy" by James M. Buchanan & Gordon Tullock
"Conscience of a Conservative" by Barry Goldwater
"The Law" by Frederic Bastiat
"The Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom
"South Park Conservatives: The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias" by Brian C. Anderson
"The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America" by John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge
"Slouching Towards Gomorrah" by Robert Bork
"Will" by G.Gordon Liddy
"Standing Firm" by Dan Quayle
"Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader" by Dinesh D'souza
"The Illusions of Egalitarianism" by John Kekes


CAPITALISM/ECONOMICS:
"Inquiry Into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
"Capitalism & Freedom" by Milton Friedman
"Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal" by Ayn Rand
"Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt
"The Art of Selfishness" by Ayn Rand
"The Fountainhead" by Ayn Rand
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand
"Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt
"Basic Economics: A Citizens Guide to the Economy, Revised and Expanded" by Thomas Sowell


COMMUNISM/SOCIALISM:
"Socialism" by Ludwig von Mises
"Witness" by Whittaker Chambers
"The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
"Commies" by Ronald Radosh


BUSH ADMINISTRATION:
"Impostor : How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy" by Bruce Bartlett.
"Conservatives Betrayed : How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause" by Richard A. Viguerie


THE WAR ON TERROR/IRAQ WAR/MIDDLE EAST:
"The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades)" by Robert Spencer
"Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis" by Bat Ye'Or
"An Autumn Of War : What America Learned From September 11 and the War on Terrorism" by Victor Davis Hanson
"The Middle East" by Bernard Lewis
"Between War & Peace : Lessons From Afghanistan To Iraq" by Victor Davis Hanson


DEFENSE/SECURITY/MILITARY:
"American Soldier" by Tommy Franks
"Under Fire" by Oliver L. North
"The Greatest Generation" by Tom Brokaw
"Useful Idiots - How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still
Blame America" by Mona Charen
"The Might of the West" by Lawrence R. Brown
"Carnage & Culture : Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power" by Victor Davis Hanson
"Ripples of Battle : How Wars of the Past Still Determine How We Fight, How We Live, and How We Think" by Victor Davis Hanson
"The Soul of Battle : From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny" by Victor Davis Hanson
"A War Like No Other : How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War" by Victor Davis Hanson


SUPREME COURT:
"Men In Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America" by Mark R. Levin


2ND AMENDMENT RIGHTS:
"God, Guns & Rock'n'Roll" by Ted Nugent
"More Guns, Less Crime" by Dr. John Lott
"Armed and Female" by Paxton Quigley


GLOBALISM:
"Inside the Asylum: Why the United Nations and Old Europe Are Worse
Than You Think" by Jed Babbin

INTELLIGENT DESIGN/RELIGION:
"Modern Physics Ancient Faith" by Stephen M. Barr
"Rationalism in Politics, and the new The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Skepticism" by Michael Oakeshott
"The Turning Tide" by Pat Robertson


IMMIGRATION:
"Mexifornia : A State of Becoming" by Victor Davis Hanson


GENETICS RESEARCH:
"Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World" by Wesley J. Smith

MISC:
"Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey" (David Horowitz) edited by Jamie Glazov (Editor)
"The Death of Right & Wrong" by Tammy Bruce
"My Correct Views on Everything" by Leszek Kolakowski
"The War Against Boys" by Christina Hoff-Sommers
"Fear & Loathing in America" by Hunter S. Thompson
"Parliament of Whores" by P.J. O'Rourke
"Why Orwell Still Matters" by Christopher Hitchens
"Ideas Have Consequences" by Richard Weaver
"Liberalism and the Limits of Justice" by Michael Sandel
"Resurrection The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas" by John C. Danforth
"The Things That Matter Most" by Cal Thomas
"Pick a Better Country" by Ken Hamblin
"Plain Talk and Common Sense" by Ken Hamblin
"Sexual Personae" by Camille Paglia
"Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems" by Camille Paglia
"The Land Was Everything : Letters From an American Farmer" by Victor Davis Hanson
"The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators" by William J. Bennett
"The Book of Virtues " by William J. Bennett
"The De-Valuing of America " by William J. Bennett


FICTION:
"1984" by George Orwell
(The "Lost Regiment" series) by William R. Forstchen
(The "Canopus" series) by Doris Lessing

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Hey Q where did you compile this list?
BTW have you ever been to Pennsic?
What arms are you trained in?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp92vkXcC0w

Most of these books are in my library and have made a profound effect on my thinking. The ones I don't own I have been able to find in the libraries, either public or university. A few are added recommendations by friends to whom I showed the list, which is why I posted it here-->to collect more titles under the specific headings.

Yes, I have been to several Pennsics and Estrella Wars (here in the Outlands). I am Betuiros mapos Romani, a 5th century Romano-Brit who fights with a gladius & a scutum (sword & shield) as pictured below. I love killing glaivesmen and greatswordsmen, and Saxon personaes of any variety. There's an old video of me killing one of the latter devils on my MySpace site. I get a little off balance trying to avoid his much longer sword when he's on his knees, but manage to stab him in the face in the end.

And yourself? Might we have crossed swords in 1988, 1992 or 1996?

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No probably not, though I was there in 96'. Due to my epilisy they wouldn't let me fight in heavy combat, only in Rapier. I do know how to fight with a sword and shield as well as dual weapon style though. I did fight some in the Rapier but was still new at it so I wasn't very good. I was Corradin de Riminaldo a 15th century Italian that fought with the rapier and main gauche here in Ansteorra.
I left the SCA because of funding (it is not cheap) then I got married and life got in the way of coming back. Me and my wife plan to rejoin in the not to distance future (depending again on finances)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp92vkXcC0w

I'm actually reading "City of Falling Angels". I also just got done with "one more day". I don't need to read books to tell me how to think.

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Excellent list

I would love to go to Venice. My brother wouldn't shut up about it when he got back. Not sure how it fits in with conservative thinking, but I'd probably check it out because I liked John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil so much. It even made a fair movie.


Do you mean "to tell me what to think"?
Because, hopefully, you've always known how to think.

So, then, do you prefer to obtain your info/facts by television or by osmosis?
Why, then, read a book like One More Day (by Steven Dale Jones, Bobby Tomberlin & Diamond Rio) if not to learn something and improve your relationships with people?

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Thanks. Do you have any titles to add?

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Here are two recent titles that I highly recommend:

"Mellon: An American Life" by David Cannadine

"Carnegie" by David Nasaw


I have read things here and there about these men, but these two books revealed so much more about them and really put their beliefs and actions into perspective.
The books made it clearer to me why it is so important in capitalism to always be in competition, but never to win.

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Qurmudjin,

I read a post earlier by you which commented ont he fact that your reading list did not have very many posts after it and it indicated that people on here didn't read very much. While that may be true, you didn't really ask for any responses. You asked for people to add some titles, but I am not sure what you are looking for. I have read several of the titles on your list, including all the Ayn Rand you had plus titles of the Enlightenment authors such as Hobbes, Mill, and Locke. There are others on your list such as Mona Charen on your list which I have read and I am sure that I have read more than a few that were not on your list which you would enjoy. Maybe you are just looking for a list, but I would want to know why they enjoyed the book or thought someone else would find it valuable.

What exactly do you want? Is it just a book title or something like people telling you what a book is about and why is it good? I think that The World is Flat is a good book for recent political/social/economic history, and that is one that I would add. Tell us what you want and then you may see some responses. I think just a generic list may have been the reason why you received so little responses. Plus, if you asked for someone to tell you why they recommended it, it would mean more. Anyone can search for some political/philosophical books on the net and give a blurb - it doesn't prove anything. Perhaps if you ask people to tell why they recommend the book you would get more responses.

By the way, I think The City of God took me longer to read than any other book ever did.