The Atheist Conservative’s (Starter) Reading List 0
Conservative Politics
The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said And Meant by Robert G Natelson,
The Founding Fathers’ Guide To The Constitution by Brion McClanahan
Nullification by Thomas E. Woods Jr.
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich Hayek
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich Hayek
The Open Society and Its Enemies (2 volumes) by Karl Popper
The Vision of the Annointed by Thomas Sowell
The Quest for Cosmic Justice by Thomas Sowell
Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
More Liberty Means Less Government by Walter Williams
Do the Right Thing by Walter Williams
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
The Victims’ Revolution by Bruce Bawer
Liberty and Tyranny by Mark R. Levin
Destructive Generation by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
The Black Book of the American Left (9 volumes) by David Horowitz
The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party by David Horowitz and Richard Poe
Progressive Racism by David Horowitz
Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And The American Left by David Horowitz
Understanding Trump by Newt Gingrich
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Hitler’s Children: The Story of the Baader-Meinhof Terrorist Gang by Jillian Becker
Life at the Bottom by Theodore Dalrymple
Our Culture, What’s Left Of It by Theodore Dalrymple
The Complete Infidels’ Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies) by Robert Spencer
The Red Prussian by Leopold Schwarzschild
The Totalitarian Temptation by Jean Francois Revel
Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler by Peter Viereck
Conservative Thinkers: From John Adams to Winston Churchill by Peter Viereck
Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology by Peter Viereck
Witness by Whittaker Chambers
The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism by Henry Olsen
A Torch Kept Lit by William F. Buckley and James Rosen
The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray
Conservatism by Roger Scruton
Fools Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
Atheism
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker: Why Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins.
Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens
The Atheist Manifesto by Michel Onfray
Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? by Daniel C. Dennett
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast by Lewis Wolpert
Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World by Tim Whitmarsh
Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God by Armin Navabi and Nicki Hise
Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith
God & Philosophy by Antony Flew
The Swerve by Stephen Greenblatt
Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by David Hume
The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers: The Complete Extant Writings of Epicurus, Epictetus, Lucretius and Marcus … by Whitney Oates
The Art of Happiness by Epicurus
The Best of Robert Ingersoll by Robert G. Ingersoll and Roger E. Greeley
A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age by Steven Nadler
Theological-Political Treatise by Benedictus de Spinoza
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker
The Enlightenment (2 volumes) by Peter Gay
Jesus – A Myth by Georg Brandes
The Genius of Paul by Samuel Sandmel
The Myth Maker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity by Hyam Maccoby
Free Market Economics
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
The Pure Theory of Capital by Friedrich Hayek
A Free-Market Monetary System and The Pretense of Knowledge by Friedrich Hayek
Free to Choose by Milton Friedman
Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell
Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes by Peter D Schiff & Andrew J Schiff
Economics In One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
It Didn’t Have to Be This Way: Why Boom and Bust Is Unnecessary—and How the Austrian School of Economics Breaks the Cycle by Harry C. Veryser
The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality by Ludwig von Mises
Crony Capitalism In America by Hunter Lewis
The Law by Frederic Bastiat — https://mises.org/library/law (Download and save; provided free for private use by The Ludwig von Mises Institute.)
Anatomy of the State by Murray N. Rothbard
What Has Government Done to Our Money? and The Case for a 100% Gold Dollar by Murray N.Rothbard
The Mystery of Banking by Murray N.Rothbard
The Origins of the Federal Reserve by Murray N. Rothbard
The Case Against the Fed by Murray N. Rothbard
The Creature from Jekyll Island : A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G Edward Griffin
End The FED by Ron Paul
Set Money Free: What Every American Needs To Know About The Federal Reserve by Chris Rossini
Free Prices Now by Hunter Lewis
Where Keynes Went Wrong: And Why World Governments Keep Creating Inflation, Bubbles, and Busts by Hunter Lewis
The Forgotten Depression – 1920: The Crash That Cured Itself by James Grant
Marxism Unmasked by Ludwig von Mises
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth by Ludwig von Mises
Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis by Ludwig von Mises
Profit and Loss by Ludwig von Mises
The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises
Capital and Interest by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Pictures of the Socialistic Future by Eugene Richter
Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution–and What It Means for Americans Today by Thomas J. Dilorenzo
Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government by Thomas DiLorenzo
The Roosevelt Myth: 50th Anniversary Edition by John T. Flynn
Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse by Thomas E. Woods
The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America by Burton W. Folsom and Forrest McDonald
New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America by Burton W. Folsom Jr
Uncle Sam Can’t Count: A History of Failed Government Investments, from Beaver Pelts to Green Energy by Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom
Fiction
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Tristan by Thomas Mann
The Possessed [or The Demons or The Devils] by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
We The Living by Ayn Rand
L : A Novel History by Jillian Becker
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail
Candide by Voltaire