Please try to maintain alphabetical sorting in this list. When it is a mature list we will move it to the wiki where articles can be written and linked together.

[Note: the following list was developed from memory by John Marshall and is not currently alphabetized or sorted in any manner. This will be done at a later time when the list is more mature. Please also make use of this other fantastic list of counterrevolutionary, traditionalist, monarchist, conservative, paleoconservative, and reactionary authors. I believe the other list was substantially developed by James Kalb, an important contemporary reactionary author who was the principal writer at the Turnabout website and who has been published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. Where our list departs from his is in the inclusion of some Protestant theologians, Christian reconstructionists, and theonomists. Please correct any spelling errors as you see them. This is a group-maintained list and is not owned by anyone, so add to it or correct it as you find the time to do so. You will not be able to edit the original post, so make additions or corrections in subsequent posts and I will combine them from time to time.]

R.J. Rushdoony
      -The Institutes of Biblical Law
      -The Politics of Guilt and Pity
R.L. Dabney
      -A Defense of Virginia and the South
Cornelius Van Til
      -A Survey of Christian Epistemology
Groen Van Prinsterer
Abraham Kuyper
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Rene Guenon
      -The Crisis of the Modern World
      -East and West
      -The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times
      -Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power
Julius Evola
      -Revolt Against the Modern World
Phillip Rieff
      -My Life Among the Deathworks
Richard Weaver
  -Ideas Have Consequences
  -Visions of Order: The Cultural Crisis of Our Times
  -The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver
Robert Nisbet
  -History of the Idea of Progress
  -The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom
  -The Twilight of Authority  
  -The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America
  -Conservatism: Dream and Reality
James Burnham
      -The Managerial Revolution
Russell Kirk
      -Eliot and His Age
      -The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
Joseph de Maistre
      -Enlightenment on Sacrifices
      -Study on Sovereignty
      -Considerations on France
      -The St. Petersburg Dialogues
      -Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions
      -Against Rousseau: “On the State of Nature” and “On the Sovereignty of the People.”
      -Examination of the Philosophy of Bacon.
Wyndham Lewis
      -Time and Western Man
      -Rotting Hill
      -The Apes of God
Bertrand de Jouvenal
Alain de Benoist
Jean Raspail
      -Camp of the Saints
J.R.R Tolkien
      -Beowulf (trans.)
      -The Lord of the Rings
      -The Silmarillion
G.K. Chesterton
      -What’s Wrong with the World
      -Orthodoxy
Francis Parker Yockey
      -Imperium
    -The Enemy of Europe: The Enemy of Our Enemies
Edmunde Burke  
  -Reflections on the Revolution in France
Alexis de Tocqueville
      -Democracy In America
Ortega y Gasset
      -Revolt of the Masses
Thomas Molnar
      -Utopia, the Perennial Heresy
Josef Pieper
      -Leisure as the Basis of Culture
Wilhelm Ropke
  -The Moral Foundations of Civil Society
  -The Humane Economy
  -The Social Crisis of Our Time
    -Against the Tide
Allen Tate
      -I’ll Take My Stand
Donald Davidson
      -I’ll Take My Stand
John Crowe Ransom
      -I’ll Take My Stand
Robert Penn Warren
      -I’ll Take My Stand
Orestes Brownson
      -The American Republic
Frank Lawrence Owsley
      -I’ll Take My Stand
John Gould Fletcher
      -I’ll Take My Stand
Lyle H. Lanier
      -I’ll Take My Stand
Herman Clarence Nixon
      -I’ll Take My Stand
Andrew Nelson Lytle
      -I’ll Take My Stand
John Donald Wade
      -I’ll Take My Stand
Henry Blue Kline
      -I’ll Take My Stand
John Calhoun
William Remington
Stark Young
Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
Louis-Gabriel-Amboise de Bonald
Frederic le Play
Emile Keller
Rene de la Tour du Pin
T.S. Eliot
      -The Idea of a Christian Society
John Attarian
      -Economism and the National Prospect
Hilaire Belloc
      -The Crisis of Civilization
Miguel de Unamuno
      -The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations
John Randolph
Nicolas Gomez Davila
      -Aphorisms
C.S. Lewis
      -The Abolition of Man
Erik Voeglin
Neil Postman
      -Technopoly
      -Amusing Ourselves to Death
Francis Schaeffer
      -The God Who is There
Christopher Olaf Blum
Garet Garrett
Hannah Arendt
Anthony M. Ludovici
Jaques Ellul
Oswald Spengler
  -Decline of the West
  -Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life  
  -The Hour of Decision: Germany and World-Historical Evolution  
Bradley J. Birzer
J. Gresham Machen
      -Christianity and Liberalism
John Ruskin
Thomas Carlyle
  -Past and Present
      -Sartor Resartus
      -The French Revolution
Karl Polanyi
  -The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
F.A. Hayek
  -The Road to Serfdom
  -The Constitution of Liberty
Frederique Bastiat
  -Economic Sophisms
Ludwig Von Mises
    -Human Action: A Treatise on Economics
Murray Rothbard
    -America’s Great Depression
  -The Case Against the Fed
    -A History of Money and Banking in the United States: The Colonial Era to World War II
  -The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays
  -Education: Free & Compulsory
  -Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays
Sam Francis
  -Shots Fired
Peter Brimelow
  -Alien Nation
Patrick Buchanan  
  -A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America’s Destiny  
  -Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency
Thomas Dilorenzo
Allain de Benoist (Caveat Emptor)
  -On Being a Pagan
Larry Abraham
  -Call it Conspiracy
G. Edward Griffin
Michael Andrew Grissom
Caroll Quigley (Caveat Emptor)
  -Tragedy and Hope
  -The Anglo-American Establishment
  -Evolution of Civilizations
Henry Hazlitt
  -Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
C. Vann Woodward (Caveat Emptor)
Nikola Tesla
Carlton S. Coon
  -Adventures & Discoveries: The Autobiography of Carlton S. Coon  
  -The Hunting Peoples
Luigi Luca Cavalli Sforza
  -The Great Human Diasporas: The History Of Diversity And Evolution (Helix Books)
Eric Voegelin
  -The Political Religions
  -The New Science of Politics
  -Science, Politics, and Gnosticism
Michael Oakshott
  -On Human Conduct
  -Experience and its Modes
  -The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism
  -Rationalism in Politics and other essays
Arthur De Gobineau (Caveat Emptor)
      -The Inequality of Human Races
Michael P. Federici
  -Eric Voegelin: The Restoration of Order  
Michael O’Meara
  -New Culture, New Right: Anti-Liberalism in Postmodern Europe
Eustace Mullins
  -This Difficult Individual Ezra Pound
      -Secrets of the Federal Reserve
Daniel J. Mahoney
      -Bertrand De Jouvenel: Conservative Liberal & The Illusions Of Modernity (Library of Modern Thinkers)
Richard J. Herrnstein (Author), Charles Murray (Author)
      -Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book)
Vincent Sarich, Frank Miele
      -Race: The Reality of Human Differences
Richard Lynn
      -Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis  
J. Philippe Rushton
      -Race, Evolution, and Behavior: A Life History Perspective (3rd Edition)
Max Weber
      -Ancient Judaism
      -The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Kevin B. MacDonald (Author) 
      -A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism As a Group Evolutionary Strategy, With Diaspora Peoples  
      -Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism
      -Understanding Jewish Influence
      -The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements
Robert S. Griffin (Author)
      -The Fame of a Dead Man’s Deeds: An Up-Close Portrait of White Nationalist William Pierce
      -One Sheaf, One Vine: Racially Conscious White Americans Talk About Race
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Kevin Coogan (Author)   
      -Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International
Chilton Williamson
  -The Conservative Bookshelf: Essential Works That Impact Today’s Conservative Thinkers
Milton Friedman
Jacques Rueff
Raymond Aron?
Isaiah Berlin?
Leo Strauss (Caveat Emptor)
Norman G. Finkelstein
      -The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, New Edition 2nd Edition by
Lenni Brenner
      -51 Documents: Zionist Collaboration With the Nazis
Michael A. Hoffman
      -Judaism’s Strange Gods
      -Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare
Antony C. Sutton
      -America’s Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones
      -Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler
      -Wall Street & the Bolshevik Revolution
David Ray Griffin (Author), Richard Falk (Foreword)
      -The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11
W. Cleon Skousen (Author)
      -The Naked Capitalist
Jose M. Delgado (Author), Ruth Nanda Anshen (Editor)
      -Physical Control of the Mind: Toward a Psychocivilized Society (Caveat Emptor)
Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen
      -IQ and the Wealth of Nations

This is a priceless list.

I’ve found many books by the authors on Amazon for under $2.

You’ve given us quite the homework assignment Mr. Marshall!

Groen Van Prinsterer

Ebooks, in Dutch, of some of this author’s work, are available at archive.org.

I have added in some book titles to the list of authors.

I have added in some book titles to the list of authors.

Due to word limit restrictions on posts, I have begun a new list here:

Jared Taylor
    -Paved with Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America
    -A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the
Wendell Berry

Should we add Wendell Berry to the list?

Shotgun - 21 July 2010 05:44 PM

Should we add Wendell Berry to the list?

Yes, I think so. I was trying to remember his name the other day and and you’ve come up with the very person I was trying to think of. He’s a central figure for us.

JM,

James Burnham: Thinkers of Our Time by Sam Francis is essential.

Also, G. K. Chesterton. “The Patriotic Idea”. England, a nation : being the papers of the Patriots’ Club. London: R. B. Johnson, 1904.

Chesterton: The Outline of Sanity (1927) & What’s Wrong With the World (1910).

The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The Flying Inn

The Darwin Inheritance as well as Eugenics and Other Evils by Chesterton.

Perseus Tufts for the classics:

De Officiis. Cicero.
De Republica. Cicero.

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Prussian Lutherans.
Afrikaner Calvinists
Anglicans of a certain time period.

Frank - 24 November 2010 07:27 PM

JM,

James Burnham: Thinkers of Our Time by Sam Francis is essential.

Also, G. K. Chesterton. “The Patriotic Idea”. England, a nation : being the papers of the Patriots’ Club. London: R. B. Johnson, 1904.

Chesterton: The Outline of Sanity (1927) & What’s Wrong With the World (1910).

The Napoleon of Notting Hill
The Flying Inn

I tentatively also recommend: The Darwin Inheritance as well as Eugenics and Other Evils by Chesterton.

I’d furthermore recommend at least including Cicero.

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Good references, Frank. I look forward to reading those I can.

Laurel

Don’t just take my word for it though. Read them and see what you think. If they don’t make your list, that should be for you to decide since this is your list. A group list won’t be as effective - such a thing has to be the work of one man, or at least one man must judge with the last word. You might later consider removing some of what you’ve already included too.

You could similarly narrow down this list and recommend an essential 10 or “first ten to read”, with the others following.

Thanks. Actually I see JM wrote:

This is a group-maintained list and is not owned by anyone, so add to it or correct it as you find the time to do so.

I’d still like to see later on a list carefully selected by JM, perhaps some years down the road, though I’m embarrassed I skipped over the introduction paragraph.

Since this is a group list, I’ll expand my recommendations later.

Frank - 24 November 2010 09:15 PM

Thanks. Actually I see JM wrote:

This is a group-maintained list and is not owned by anyone, so add to it or correct it as you find the time to do so.

I’d still like to see later on a list carefully selected by JM, perhaps some years down the road, though I’m embarrassed I skipped over the introduction paragraph.

Since this is a group list, I’ll expand my recommendations later.

Always happy to have your contributions, Frank. Add away!

I’d suggest any of Mildred Lewis Rutherford’s works.