O Muses! O High Genius! Be my aid!
O Memory, recorder of the vision,
here shall your true nobility be displayed!
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Quote from Dante's
The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, Canto II
Posted by Larry at View From the Right
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Lawrence Auster dared to make a reading list. In this day and age of internet reading, where our attention span is good enough to look for (and click on) links), Larry gave us close to 150 books to read. He has read all of them (he calls his list "personal favorites and recommended books.") He made the list in 2006, as an "unfinished draft," so we can assume that the list is much longer.
I've posted below the titles and authors of the books. If you want to read Larry's commentaries on the books and the authors, his impressions, when he read the books, etc., you can find them at The View From the Right, under the simple title: Reading List.
It is interesting that Larry start his list with the classics, and end it with race and immigration, the transformative powers which are changing the classics of Western, and American, civilization.
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Literature/Classics/fiction
Edith Hamilton
- Mythology
Mary Renault
- The King Must Die
- The Bull from the Sea
Aeschylus
- The Oresteia
Sophocles
- The Oedipus plays
- Ajax
- Philoctetes
Homer
- The Iliad
Dante Alighieri
- The Divine Comedy
-- Inferno
-- Purgatorio
-- Paradiso
Chaucer
- The Canterbury Tales
Shakespeare
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Hamlet
- King Lear
- Richard II
- Henry IV Part I
- The Tempest
- Julius Caesar
- As You Like it
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Macbeth
- Antony and Cleopatra
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Sonnets
Charlton Ogburn
- The Mysterious William Shakespeare.
John Donne
- Woman’s Constancy
- The Sun Rising
Milton
- Paradise Lost
Jane Austen
- Pride and Prejudice
Wordsworth
- Intimations of Immortality
- She was a phantom of delight
- I wandered lonely as a cloud
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Kubla Khan
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Ode to the West Wind
Keats
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
Victor Hugo
- Les Misérables
Herman Melville
- Moby Dick
Walt Whitman
- Leaves of Grass
Mark Twain
- Huckleberry Finn
Dostoevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov
Tolstoy
- Anna Karenina
Bernard Shaw
- Man and Superman
- Caesar and Cleopatra
- Pygmalion
- Saint Joan
Oscar Wilde
- The Importance of Being Ernest
Henry James
- The American
- The Bostonians
Thomas Mann
- The Magic Mountain
Yeats
- Collected Poems
T.S. Eliot
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- The Waste Land
- Ash Wednesday
- The Four Quartets
Hemingway
- The Collected Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
- The Sun Also Rises
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Short Stories
Ayn Rand
- The Fountainhead
- Atlas Shrugged
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
- One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich
- The First Circle
- The Gulag Archipelago, vol I
Philosophy
Plato
- The Republic
Aristotle
- Nichomachean Ethics
Cicero
- The Republic
Augustine
- The City of God, Books XI and XII
Machiavelli
- The Prince
Leo Strauss
- Natural Right and History
Eric Voegelin
- The New Science of Politics
- Israel and Revelation
- The World of the Polis
- Reason: The Classic Experience
Irving Babbitt
- Democracy and Leadership
C.S. Lewis
- The Abolition of Man
Allan Bloom
- The Closing of the American Mind
Nietzsche
- The Birth of Tragedy
- The Gay Science
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra
- The Twilight of the Idols
- Geneaology of Morals
Seraphim Rose
- Nihilism: The Revolution of the Modern Age
Mircea Eliade
- Cosmos and History
The Bible
The King James and the Revised Standard Version
The Torah
The Prophets
The Four Gospels and the Revelation
Genesis
The Book of Common Prayer
- 1928 edition.
William Neil
- Harper’s Bible Commentary
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs
- Ed. J.H. Hertz
Consciousness; alternative and non-Western religions
P.D. Ouspensky
- In Search of the Miraculous
- A New Model of the Universe
- Tertium Organum
- The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution
Rodney Collin
- The Theory of Celestial Influence
Maurice Nicoll
- The New Man
- The Mark
Meher Baba
- God Speaks
- Discourses
The Upanishads, trans. by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood
The Bhagavad Gita
Mary Baker Eddy
- Science and Health
History and civilization
Henry Bamford Parkes
- Gods and Men: The Origins of Western Culture
- The Divine Order
H.G. Wells
- The Outline of History
Arnold Toynbee
- A Study of History
Thucydides
- The Peloponessian War
- Thucydides
Polybius
- The Rise of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Plutarch
- Lives
Will Durant
- Story of Civilization
- In Caesar and Christ
- In The Age of Reason
- The Age of Voltaire
Winston Churchill
- History of the Second World War
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples
Paul Johnson
- Modern Times
Bede
- A History of the English Church and People
Paul Murray Kendall
- Richard the Third
American history and biography
James Thomas Flexner
- George Washington
Willard Sterne Randall
- George Washington
George Washington
- Circular letter to the States
- First Inaugural
- Farewell Address
Thomas Jefferson
- First Inaugural
Joseph Ellis
- Founding Brothers
- American Sphinx
Willard Stern Randall
- Benedict Arnold
James McPherson
- Battle Cry of Freedom
Steven Oates
- With Malice Toward None
- Selected Writings and Speeches of Lincoln
Lloyd Lewis
- Sherman: Fighting Prophet
Conservatism
James Burnham
- The Suicide of the West
- The Machiavellians
Burke
- Reflections on the Revolution in France
Ed. by Russell Kirk
- The Portable Conservative Reader
Raoul Berger
- Government by Judiciary
Liberalism
Rousseau
- Essay on Inequality
Locke
- The Second Treatise of Government
James Kalb
- The Tyranny of Liberalism
Science
Darwin
- The Origin of Species
Francis Hitching
- The Neck of the Giraffe
Norman Macbeth
- Darwin Retried
Arthur Koestler
- Janus
Richard Rhodes
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Race and immigration
Wilmot Robertson
- The Dispossessed Majority
John Higham
- Strangers in the Land
Madison Grant
- The Passing of the Great Race
Jared Taylor
- Paved with Good Intentions
William McDougall
Is America Safe for Democracy?
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Posted By: Kidist P. Asrat
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