30 Books for the Right Revival [podcast #56]

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I’ve read a bit over 1,200 books in my life and although that’s nowhere near the 30,000 some other guy read, I have reduced my reading list to 30 favorites I believe may be helpful to the Right Revival. In my live stream episode, I discussed a summary of these books and what I find useful about them. These books have certainly influenced my thinking. Find the original TikTok video here.

1. James C. Scott’s Against the Grain (and also Seeing Like a State)

2. Murray N. Rothbart’s Anatomy of the State

3. William Coopers’s Behold a Pale Horse

4. Angelus Silesius’s Cherubinic Wanderer

5. Joseph Goebbels’ Communism with the Mask Off

6. Akio Nakatani’s Death Object

7. Ernst Jünger’s The Forest Passage

8. Harold Innis’ Empire and Communications

9. Anonymous author’s God and Folk: Soldierly Affirmation

10. Rodney Stark’s God’s Battalions

11. Desiderius Erasmus’ Handbook for the Militant Christian

12. Paul Johnson’s Intellectuals

13. Ernst von Salomon’s It Cannot Be Stormed

14. Seymour Lipset & Earl Raab’s Jews and the New American Scene

15. Ernst Schertel’s Magic

16. Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations

17. Joseph Campbell’s Myths to Live By

18. Robert Glover’s No More Mr. Nice Guy

19. Karl Wittfogel’s Oriental Despotism

20. Oswald Spengler’s Prussianism and Socialism

21. C. Hallpike’s Ship of Fools

22. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five

23. Ted Kaczynski’s The Unabomber Manifesto

24. William H. Calvin’s The Ascent of Mind

25. Amaury de Riencourt’s The Coming Caesars

26. Stephan Grundy’s The Cult of Odin

27. Paul Colinvaux’s The Fates of Nations

28. David Anthony’s The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

29. Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer

30. John Dunn’s Traditionalism

And I would add Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of Complex Societies as well.