Essential Rightist Reading List

Topics include Western Civ, history, mythology, race, culture, religion, philosophy, family, gender, nationalism, geopolitics, globalism, Judaism, Islam, war in the Middle East, and immigration. Many of these texts conflict and contradict. Read critically.

History, Mythology, Religion, and Culture:

– The History of the World – J.M. Roberts

– The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell

– The Masks of God (vol 1-4) – Joseph Campbell

– History of Religious Ideas (vol 1-3) – Mircea Eliade

– Patterns in Comparative Religion – Mircea Eliade

– Myth and Reality – Mircea Eliade

– Comparative Mythology – Jaan Puhvel

– The Indo-Europeans – Jean Haudry

– The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans – Hans F.K. Günther

– Mythology – Edith Hamilton

– The Greek Way – Edith Hamilton

– The Roman Way – Edith Hamilton

– Gods and Myths of Northern Europe – H.R. Ellis Davidson

– Celtic Myths and Legends – Peter Berresford Ellis

– Teutonic Mythology – Viktor Rydberg

– Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths – Lawrence J. Hatab

– Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture (vol. 1-3) – Werner Jaeger

– Roman Honor: The Fire in the Bones – Carlin A. Barton

– Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials, and Myths – R.I. Page

– Myth and Religion of the North: The Religion of Ancient Scandinavia – E. O. G. Turville-Petre

– The Culture of the Teutons (vol. 1-2) – Vilhelm Grønbech

– The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity – James C. Russell

– History of the Catholic Church – James Hitchcock

– The Orthodox Church – Timothy Ware

– Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth – Joseph Campbell

– The Passion of the Western Mind – Richard Tarnas

– Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post Modernism – Bruce Cole

– The Uniqueness of Western Civilization – Ricardo Duchesne

– Faustian Man in a Multicultural Age – Ricardo Duchesne

Race and Civilization:

– Heaven, Heroes, and Happiness: The Indo-European Roots of Western Ideology – Shan Winn

– The Indo-Europeans: Their Origins and Achievements – Charles Morris

– The Indo-Europeans: In Search of the Homeland – Alain de Benoist

– The Passing of the Great Race – Madison Grant

– Conquest of a Continent – Madison Grant

– Racial Realities in Europe – T Lothrop Stoddard

– The Rising Tide of Color – T Lothrop Stoddard

– The Revolt Against Civilization – T Lothrop Stoddard

– Re-Forging America: The Story of Our Nationhood – T Lothrop Stoddard

– The Racial Elements of European History – Hans F.K. Günther

– The Races of Europe – Carleton Stevens Coon

– Essential Writings on Race – Samuel T. Francis

– Race – John R. Baker

– The Anglo-Saxon World – M.J. Ryan and Nicholas Higham

– A Brief History of the Celts – Peter Berresford Ellis

– The Origin of the English Nation – H. Munro Chadwick

– The Races of Britain: A Contribution to the Anthropology of Western Europe – John Beddoe

– Four Flags: The Indigenous People of Great Britain – Arthur Kemp

– Our Empire Story – H.E. Marshall

– America’s British Culture – Russell Kirk

– The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America – Eric P. Kaufmann

– The WASP Question – Andrew Fraser

Judaism, Zionism, Middle East, and the Jewish Question:

– A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy – Kevin B. MacDonald

– Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism – Kevin B. MacDonald

– The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Intellectual and Political Movements – Kevin B. MacDonald

– The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit: And Its Impact on World History – E. Michael Jones

– The Track of the Jew Through the Ages – Alfred Rosenberg

– Three Aspects of the Jewish Problem – Julius Evola

– Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World – Patrick J. Buchanan

– The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy – John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt

– The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy – Murray Friedman

– Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency – Patrick J. Buchanan

– The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War – Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

– The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel – Stephen J. Sniegoski and Paul Gottfried

– War and Democracy – Paul Gottfried

– Zionism, Islam, and the West – Kerry Bolton

Political Correctness, Multiculturalism, Immigration, and Islam:

– The Shock of History: Religion, Memory, Identity – Dominique Venner

– Homo Americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age – Tomislav Sunic

– Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt – Paul Gottfried

– Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left – Roger Scruton

– Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education – Roger Kimball

– The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art – Roger Kimball

– The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order – Samuel P. Huntington

– The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization – Patrick J. Buchanan

– State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America – Patrick J. Buchanan

– The Perils of Diversity: Immigration and Human Nature – Byron M. Roth

– The New World of Islam – T Lothrop Stoddard

– Understanding Islam – Guillaume Faye

– Islam in the Modern World – Seyyed Hossein Nasr

– Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West – Christopher Caldwell

– The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam – Douglas Murray

– Dark Albion: A Requiem for the English – David Abbott

– The Camp of the Saints – Jean Raspail

– Submission – Michel Houellebecq

Gender, Sexuality, and Family:

– Family and Civilization – Carle C. Zimmerman

– Manliness – Harvey C. Mansfield

– Sex and Deviance – Guillaume Faye

– Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female – Ashley McGuire

– Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine – Joseph Campbell

– Plato and the Hero: Courage, Manliness and the Impersonal Good – Angela Hobbs

– Aspects of the Masculine – Carl Jung

– Aspects of the Feminine – Carl Jung

– Sexual Utopia in Power: The Feminist Revolt Against Civilization – F. Roger Devlin

– The Subversive Family: An Alternative History of Love and Marriage – Ferdinand Mount

– The Flipside of Feminism: What Conservative Women Know – and Men Can’t Say – Suzanne Venker

– What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster – Jonathan V. Last

Old Right and New Right:

– The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot – Russell Kirk

– The Concept of the Political – Carl Schmitt

– Clashing Tides of Color – T Lothrop Stoddard

– The Myth of the Twentieth Century – Alfred Rosenberg

– Fascism Viewed From the Right – Julius Evola

– Notes on the Third Reich – Julius Evola

– Artists of the Right – Kerry Bolton

– Fascism: The Career of a Concept – Paul Gottfried

– Pulp Fascism – Jonathan Bowden

– View From the Right (vol. 1-3) – Alain de Benoist

– Carl Schmitt Today: Terrorism, Just War, and the State of Emergency – Alain de Benoist

– On the Brink of the Abyss – Alain de Benoist

– Money Power: A Force for Freedom or Slavery? – Isac Boman

– The Great Purge: The Deformation of the Conservative Movement – Paul Gottfried

– Some Thoughts on Hitler and Other Essays – Irmin Vinson

– New Right vs. Old Right – Greg Johnson

Philosophy, Metapolitics, and Worldview:

– On the Genealogy of Morals – Friedrich Nietzsche

– Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche

– The Will to Power – Friedrich Nietzsche

– The Decline of the West (vol 1-2) – Oswald Spengler

– Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life – Oswald Spengler

– Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics – Francis Parker Yockey

– Virtue Ethics – Richard Taylor

– On Being a Pagan – Alain de Benoist

– After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory – Alasdair MacIntyre

– Revolt Against the Modern World – Julius Evola

– The Fourth Political Theory – Alexander Dugin

– Martin Heidegger: The Philosophy of Another Beginning – Alexander Dugin

– New Culture, New Right – Michael O’Meara

– Archeofuturism – Guillaume Faye

– The Inner Reaches of Outer Space – Joseph Campbell

– Can Life Prevail?: A Revolutionary Approach to the Environmental Crisis – Pentti Linkola

– How to Think Seriously About the Planet – Roger Scruton

– The Biocentric Worldview – Ludwig Klages

– The Problem of Democracy – Alain de Benoist

– Beyond Human Rights: Defending Freedoms – Alain de Benoist

– Manifesto for a European Renaissance – Alain de Benoist

– Suprahumanism – Daniel S. Forrest

– Fighting for the Essence – Pierre Krebs

Essential Classics and Fiction:

WESTERN CANON

– Theogony – Hesiod

– Works and Days – Hesiod

– The Iliad – Homer

– The Odyssey – Homer

– The Aeneid – Virgil

– Metamorphoses – Ovid

– The Poetic Edda – (trans. Lee M. Hollander)

– The Prose Edda – Snorri Sturluson

– The Saga of the Volsungs – (trans. Jesse L. Byock)

– The Sagas of the Icelanders

– The Saga of the Jómsvikings – (trans. Lee M. Hollander)

– Njal’s Saga – (trans. Lee M. Hollander)

– Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway – Snorri Sturluson

– Germania – Tacitus

– Early Irish Myths and Sagas – (trans. Jeffrey Gantz)

– Táin Bó Cuailnge – (trans. Thomas Kinsella)

– The Mabinogion – (trans. Sioned Davies)

– The Catholic Study Bible

– The Orthodox Study Bible

– Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary – (trans. J.R.R. Tolkien)

– Le Morte d’Arthur: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table – Thomas Malory

– The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri

– The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

– Lays of Ancient Rome – Thomas Babington Macaulay

INDO-ARYAN EAST

– The Vedas

– The Upanishads

– The Ramayana

– The Mahabharata

– The Bhagavad Gita

– The Puranas

– The Gathas of Zarathustra

– The Avesta

– The Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

FICTION

– The Silmarillion – J.R.R. Tolkien

– The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien

– The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien

– The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis

– The Once and Future King – T.H. White

– Elric of Melniboné (Elric Saga) – Michael Moorcock

– Dune Chronicles – Frank Herbert

– Starship Troopers – Robert A. Heinlein

– Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

– Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsun

– Klondike Tales – Jack London

– Storm of Steel – Ernst Jünger

– The Camp of the Saints – Jean Raspail

– Submission – Michel Houellebecq

Health, Fitness, Beauty, and Aesthetics:

– A History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education: From Ancient Civilizations to the Modern World – Robert Mechikoff

– Ancient Greek Athletics – Stephen G. Miller

– Arete: Greek Sports from Ancient Sources – Stephen G. Miller

– The Olympics and Philosophy – Heather L. Reid, Michael W. Austin, Milan Hosta

– Aretism: An Ancient Sports Philosophy for the Modern Sports World – Heather Reid

– In Praise of Athletic Beauty – Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

– Meditations on the Peaks – Julius Evola

– The Destiny of the Warrior – Georges Dumézil

– The Stakes of the Warrior – Georges Dumézil

– Shaping the Superman: Fascist Body as Political Icon – J A Mangan

– Survival of the Prettiest: The Science of Beauty – Nancy Etcoff

– Sandow’s System: Sandow on Physical Training – Eugen Sandow

– Strength and How to Obtain It – Eugen Sandow

– Life is Movement: The Physical Reconstruction and Regeneration of the People – Eugen Sandow

– The Natural Method: Georges Hébert’s Practical Guide to Physical Education (vol. 1-5) – Georges Hébert

– Women’s Physical Education: Shaping Muscle & Beauty – Georges Hébert

– The Harvard Medical School Guide to Men’s Health – Harvey B. Simon

– The New Harvard Guide to Women’s Health – Karen J. Carlson

– The Harvard Medical School Guide to a Good Night’s Sleep

– The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health – John Durant

– The Big Book of Health and Fitness: A Practical Guide to Diet, Exercise, Healthy Aging, Illness Prevention, and Sexual Well-Being – Philip Maffetone

– Beauty – Roger Scruton

– Philosophies of Art and Beauty: Selected Readings in Aesthetics from Plato to Heidegger – Albert Hofstadter, Richard Kuhns

– The Aesthetics of Architecture – Roger Scruton

– Philosophy of Beauty – Francis J. Kovach

Recommended Authors:

MAJOR HISTORICAL INFLUENCES ON “OLD RIGHT” THINKING:

Friedrich Nietzsche

Martin Heidegger

Oswald Spengler

Georges Dumézil

Francis Parker Yockey

Carl Schmitt

Ernst Jünger

Jean Haudry

Mircea Eliade

Joseph Campbell

Thomas Carlyle

Jack London

Ludwig Klages

Julius Evola

Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Alfred Rosenberg

Madison Grant

T Lothrop Stoddard

Hans F.K. Günther

Samuel T. Francis

Ezra Pound

H.P. Lovecraft

Knut Hamsun

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Anthony M. Ludovici

Jean Raspail

Revilo P. Oliver

H.L. Mencken

Enoch Powell

Oswald Mosley

Benito Mussolini

Giovanni Gentile

Richard Wagner

Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck

Gottfried Feder

Adolf Hitler

Leni Riefenstahl

Savitri Devi

Leon Degrelle

David Irving

George Lincoln Rockwell

MAJOR CONTEMPORARY “NEW RIGHT” and “ALT-RIGHT” WRITERS:

Alain de Benoist

Tomislav Sunic

Paul Gottfried

Kevin MacDonald

Alexander Jacob

Ricardo Duchesne

Jonathan Bowden

Dominique Venner

Guillaume Faye

Alexander Dugin

Kerry Bolton

Jared Taylor

Peter Brimelow

F Roger Devlin

Greg Johnson

Arthur Kemp

Pierre Krebs

Irmin Vinson

Keith Preston

Troy Southgate

Collin Cleary

Tito Perdue

Ilana Mercer

Daniel S. Forrest

Jason Reza Jorjani

Isac Boman

TRADITIONALIST / CONSERVATIVE / CLASSICIST / REACTIONARY OVERLAPS:

Edith Hamilton

H.R. Ellis Davidson

Werner Jaeger

Viktor Rydberg

Vilhelm Grønbech

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Alasdair MacIntyre

Patrick J. Buchanan

James Burnham

Roger Scruton

J.R.R. Tolkien

C.S. Lewis

T.S. Eliot

E. Michael Jones

Michael Hoffman

Hilaire Belloc

Russell Kirk

Charles Murray

Martin van Creveld

Christopher Lasch

Harvey Mansfield

Carle C. Zimmerman

Robert Nisbet

Richard M. Weaver

12 Southerners

Roger Kimball

Neil Postman

Theodore J. Kaczynski

Lewis Mumford

Jacques Ellul

Yukio Mishima

E.M. Cioran

Carl Gustav Jung

Corneliu Codreanu

Huston Smith

Frithjof Schuon

René Guénon

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Ananda Coomaraswamy

Note: This list is not comprehensive. A handful of these authors contradict each other and some have influenced the entire political spectrum beyond rightism, but they are all significant.