Below is a list of books we recommend. They've been sorted into the following categories (some titles are repeated in other categories):
Business
- Barbarians Led By Bill Gates: Microsoft From The Inside; Jennifer Edstrom, Marlin Eller
- Breaking Windows: How Bill Gates Fumbled The Future of Microsoft; David Bank
- Diversity Machine, The: The Drive to Change the "White Male Workplace"; Frederick R. Lynch
- Diversity: The Invention of a Concept; Peter Wood
- Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don’t Want You To Know; Arthur Levitt
- U.S. v. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case; Joel Brinkley and Steve Lohr
Conservatism
- Right from the Heart: The ABC's of Reality in America; Phil Valentine
- God and Man At Yale; William F. Buckley Jr.
- Official Handbook of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, The: The Arguments You Need to Defeat the Loony Left; Mark W. Smith
- Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto; Mark R. Levin
Culture/Values
- Bad Trip: How the War Against Drugs is Destroying America; Joel Miller
- Case for Marriage, The: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially; Linda Waite and Maggie Gallagher
- Death of Right and Wrong, The: Exposing the Left’s Assault on Our Culture and Values; Tammy Bruce
- For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health; Jacob Sullum
- Homosexual Agenda, The; Alan Sears, Craig Osten
- Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture; Jack Cashill
- Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences: The Red Queen and the Grand Scheme; Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D.
- Myth Of Mental Illness, The: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct; Thomas Szasz
- New Thought Police, The: Inside The Left’s Assault On Free Speech and Free Minds; Tammy Bruce
- Politics of Deviance, The; Anne Hendershott
- Ready or Not: Why Treating Children As Small Adults Endangers Their Future... And Ours; Kay Hymowitz
- Real America, The: Messages from the Heart and Heartland; Glenn Beck
- Telling The Truth; Lynne V. Cheney
- War Against Boys, The: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming Our Young Men; Christina Hoff Sommers
- What’s So Great About America; Dinesh D’Souza
- Women in the Military: Flirting With Disaster; Brian Mitchell
- You Can’t Say That!: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws; David E. Bernstein
Economy
- Basic Economics; Thomas Sowell
- Conspiracy of Ignorance, The: The Failure of American Public Schools; Martin L. Gross
- Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government; Robert Higgs
- Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment; Dr. Richard Stroup
- Equality, The Third World, And Economic Delusion; Peter Bauer
- Forgotten Man, The: A New History of the Great Depression; Amity Shlaes
- Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything; Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
- Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse; Thomas E. Woods Jr.
- Money For Nothing: Politicians, Rent Extraction and Political Extortion; Fred S. McChesney
- Mystery of Capital, The: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else; Hernando de Soto
- New Deal or Raw Deal: How FDR’s Economic Legacy has Damaged America; Burton Folsom, Jr.
- Take on the Street: What Wall Street and Corporate America Don’t Want You to Know; Arthur Levitt
Education
- Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America’s Youth; Ben Shapiro
- Burden of Bad Ideas, The: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society; Heather MacDonald
- Ed School Follies: The Miseducation of America's Teachers; Rita Kramer
- Language Police, The: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn; Diane Ravitch
- Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform; Diane Ravitch
- No Excuses: Seven Principals of Low Income Schools Who Set the Standard for High Achievement; Samuel Casey Carter
- Ready or Not: Why Treating Children As Small Adults Endangers Their Future… And Ours; Kay Hymowitz
- Worm in the Apple, The: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education; Peter Brimelow
Global Warming/Environmentalists
- Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What Is Endangered: Climate or Freedom?; Václav Klaus
- Challenging Environmental Mythology: Wrestling Zeus; Jack. W. Dini and Jay Lehr
- Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming; Bjorn Lomborg
- Deniers, The: The World Renowned Scientists Who Stood Up Against Global Warming Hysteria, Political Persecution, and Fraud* *And those who are too fearful to do so; Lawrence Solomon
- Eco-nomics: What Everyone Should Know About Economics and the Environment; Dr. Richard Stroup
- Global Warming and Other Eco Myths: How the Environmental Movement Uses False Science to Scare Us to Death; Ronald Bailey and Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them; Steve Milloy
- Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of Global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media; Patrick J. Michaels
- Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism), The; Christopher C. Horner
- Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed; Christopher Horner
- Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming Why Scares Are Costing Us the Earth; Christopher Booker and Richard North
- Skeptical Environmentalist, The: Measuring the Real State of the World; Bjorn Lomborg
- Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years; S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery
Guns
- Guns and Violence: The English Experience; Joyce Lee Malcolm
- More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws; John R. Lott Jr.
- People Armed & Free, A: The Truth About the Second Amendment; Jack Reynolds, J.D.
- Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America; Gary Kleck
- Seven Myths of Gun Control, The: Reclaiming the Truth About Guns, Crime, and the Second Amendment; Richard Poe
- To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right; Joyce Lee Malcolm
History
- 5000 Year Leap, The: A Miracle That Changed the World; W. Cleon Skousen
- Patriot’s History of the United States, A: From Columbus’s Great Discovery to the War on Terror; Larry Schweikart and Michael Patrick Allen
- Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government; Robert Higgs
- Degradation of American History, The; David Harlan
- Gathering Storm, The; Winston Churchill
- Illusion of Victory, The: America in World War I; Thomas Fleming
- Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler: The Age of Social Catastrophe; Robert Gellately
- Lessons Of History, The; Will & Ariel Durant
- Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong; James Loewen
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong; James Loewen
- People’s History of the United States, A: 1492-Present; Howard Zinn
- Story of Civilization, The; Will & Ariel Durant
- What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East; Bernard Lewis
History/9-11
- Breakdown: How America’s Intelligence Failures Led to September 11; Bill Gertz
- Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up to the Facts; The Editors of Popular Mechanics, John McCain, David Dunbar, and Brad Reagan
- Leadership; Rudolph W. Giuliani
- Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11; Gerald Posner
History/Bush (43) Era
- At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election; Bill Sammon
- Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait; Midge Decter
History/Civil War
- Constitutional History of Secession, A; John Graham
- Myths of American Slavery; Walter D. Kennedy
- Real Lincoln, The: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War; Thomas DiLorenzo
- South Was Right!, The; James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy
- Story of the Confederate States, The; Joseph Tyrone Derry
History/Clinton Era
- Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America’s National Security; Robert Patterson
- Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion & Abuse of Government Power In The Clinton-Gore Years; James Bovard
- Final Days, The: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House; Barbara Olson
- Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton; Barbara Olson
- High Crimes and Misdemeanors, the Case Against Bill Clinton; Ann H. Coulter
- Hillary’s Scheme: Inside The Next Clinton’s Ruthless Agenda to Take the White House; Carl Limbacher
- Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years; Rich Lowry
- Losing Bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleashed Global Terror; Rich Miniter
- Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; R Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
- Sellout: The Inside Story of President Clinton’s Impeachment; David Schippers
- Shadow Party, The: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party; David Horowitz and Richard Poe
- Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the Clinton White House; Gary Aldrich
History/Cold War
- Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies; M. Stanton Evans
- Haunted Wood, The: Soviet Espionage in America in the Stalin Era; Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev
- In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage; John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr
- Soviet World of American Communism, The; Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson
- Verona Secrets, The: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors; Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel
History/FDR Era
- FDR’s Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression; Jim Powell
- Forgotten Man, The: A New History of the Great Depression; Amity Shlaes
- New Deal or Raw Deal: How FDR’s Economic Legacy has Damaged America; Burton Folsom, Jr.
- Roosevelt Myth, The; John T. Flynn
History/Founding
- Founders' Almanac, The: A Practical Guide to the Notable Events, Greatest Leaders & Most Eloquent Words of the American Founding; Matthew Spalding
- Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and The American Founding; Darren Staloff
- Making of America, The: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution; W. Cleon Skousen
- Real George Washington, The; Jay A. Parry
History/Reagan Era
- A Different Drummer: My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan; Michael K. Deaver
- When Character Was King: A Story of Ronald Reagan; Peggy Noonan
Justice/Legal
- Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the Clinton-Reno Justice Department; David Limbaugh
- Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges; Robert H. Bork
- Collapse of the Common Good, The: How America’s Lawsuit Culture Undermines Our Freedom; Philip K. Howard
- Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws; Andrew P. Napolitano
- Constitution in Exile, The: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land; Andrew P. Napolitano
- Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government; Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod
- Men In Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America; Mark R. Levin
- Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People Through Delegation; David Schoenbrod
- Rule of Lawyers, The: How the New Litigation Elite Threatens America’s Rule of Law; Walter K. Olson
- U.S. v. Microsoft: The Inside Story of the Landmark Case; Joel Brinkley and Steve Lohr
Liberalism
- American Progressivism: A Reader; Ronald J. Pestritto
- Dark Side of Liberalism, The: Unchaining the Truth; Phil Kent
- Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocracy; Peter Schweizer
- Godless: The Church of Liberalism; Ann Coulter
- Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning; Jonah Goldberg
- Liberwocky: What Liberals Say and What They Really Mean; Victor Gold
- Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass; Theodore Dalrymple
- New Thought Police, The: Inside The Left’s Assault On Free Speech and Free Minds; Tammy Bruce
- Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN Are Subverting America; Laura Ingraham
- Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right; Ann Coulter
- Terrible Truth About Liberals, The; Neal Boortz
- Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism; Ann Coulter
- Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild; Michelle Malkin
- Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First; Mona Charen
- Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, The: The Untold Story of the Democrats’ Desperate Fight to Reclaim Power; Byron York
- Why The Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation’s Greatness; Daniel J. Flynn
- You Can’t Say That!: The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws; David E. Bernstein
Media/Hollywood
- Arrogance: Rescuing America From The Media Elite; Bernard Goldberg
- Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News; Bernard Goldberg
- Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism; William McGowan
- Give Me A Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media; John Stossel
- Journalistic Fraud: How the New York Times Distorts the News and Why It Can No Longer Be Trusted; Bob Kohn
- Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN Are Subverting America; Laura Ingraham
- Slobbering Love Affair, A: The True (And Pathetic) Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media; Bernard Goldberg
- Tales from the Left Coast: True Stories of Hollywood Stars and Their Outrageous Politics; James Hirsen
Miscellaneous
- A New Kind Of Science; Stephen Wolfram
- Doing Your Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music, and Why We Should, Like, Care; John McWhorter
- No Spin Zone, The: Confrontations with the Powerful and Famous in America; Bill O’Reilly
- O’Reilly Factor, The: The Good, the Bad, and the Completely Ridiculous in American Life; Bill O’Reilly
- Unheavenly City, The; Edward Banfield
- Unheavenly City Revisited, The; Edward Banfield
Philosophy
- Atlas Shrugged; Ayn Rand
- Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs Coddling and the Battle for the Nation’s Future; Michael Barone
- Leadership; Rudolph W. Giuliani
- Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, The; Thomas Sowell
- Why We Fight: Moral Clarity and the War on Terrorism; William Bennett
- Writings on an Ethical Life; Peter Singer (a book for the 'other' side, but it's good to know what they believe)
Politics
- American Alone: The End of the World as We Know It; Mark Steyn
- An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World’s Biggest Problems; Glenn Beck
- Anti-Americanism; Jean-Francois Revel
- Betrayal: How Union Bosses Shake Down Their Members and Corrupt American Politics; Linda Chavez
- Breach of Trust: How Washington Turns Outsiders Into Insiders; Tom A. Coburn, MD and John Hart
- China Threat—How The People's Republic Targets America; Bill Gertz
- Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies: Issue by Issue Responses to the Most Common Claims of the Left from A to Z; Gregg Jackson
- Dangerous Diplomacy: How the State Department Threatens America’s Security; Joel Mowbray
- Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans; Charlotte A. Twight
- Equality, The Third World, and Economic Delusion; Peter Bauer
- How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must): The World According to Ann Coulter; Ann Coulter
- Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas; Daniel J. Flynn
- Money For Nothing: Politicians, Rent Extraction and Political Extortion, Fred S. McChesney
- Mystery of Capital, The: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else; Hernando de Soto
- Partisan Hearts and Minds: Political Parties and the Social Identity of Voters; Donald Green, Bradley Palmquist, and Eric Schickler
- Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People Through Delegation; David Schoenbrod
- Soviet World of American Communism, The; Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson
- Third Terrorist, The: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing; Jayna Davis
- Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos; Dore Gold
- True Believer, The: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements; Eric Hoffer
- Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left; David Horowitz
- Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies; Michelle Malkin
Political Warfare
- Art Of Political War, The; David Horowitz
- Art Of War, The; Sun Tzu
- Rules for Radicals; Saul Alinsky (a book for the 'other' side, but it's good to know what they believe)
Racial/Identity Politics
- Diversity Machine, The: The Drive to Change the "White Male Workplace"; Frederick R. Lynch
- Diversity: The Invention of a Concept; Peter Wood
- Homosexual Agenda, The; Alan Sears, Craig Osten
- Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America; John McWhorter
- Mexifornia: A State of Becoming; Victor Davis Hanson
- Myths of American Slavery; Walter D. Kennedy
- Politics of Deviance, The; Anne Hendershott
- Race and Culture: A World View; Thomas Sowell
- Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America; Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson
- Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson; Kenneth R. Timmerman
- War Against Boys, The: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men; Christina Hoff Sommers
- Women in the Military: Flirting With Disaster; Brian Mitchell