Books of 2006
Every year I read books for school, books recommended by friends or books that I have wanted to read for a long time.
I also write them down every year and go back and think about their ideas, and how they influenced my thinking.
In 2006, I read a good sampling of literature, history, politics and biography. Here is the list. I have abbreviated some titles, and probably misspelled some as well. Forgive me.
Kurt Vonnegut- Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons.
Gary Gallagher- Lee and His Confederate Army
Russell Kirk- Roots of American Order
Douglas Hyde- Dedication and Leadership
Frederic Bastiat- The Law
Nathaniel Hawthorne- Scarlet Letter
Robert Louis Stevenson- Treasure Island
Thomas More- Utopia
ISI’s Guide to the Classics
David Horowitz- Left Illusions
Walter Lippman- Public Relations
Tony Blankely- The West’s Last Chance
The Call of the Wild- Jack London
Russell Kirk- The Politics of Prudence
Voltaire- Candide
Sigmund Freud- On Dreams
Ayn Rand- We the Living
C.S. Lewis- Mere Christianity
H.G. Wells- War of the Worlds
Marc Henrie- The ISI Student’s Guide to the Core Curriculum
General Josiah Bunting- U.S. Grant
John Lukacs- Student’s Guide to History
Robert F. Kennedy- 13 Days
Beowulf
Homer- The Oddyssey
David Halberstam- War in a Time of Peace
Hans Zeiger- Reagan’s Children
William Golding- Lord of the Flies
Russell Kirk- The Conservative Mind
Aristotle- Ethics
Common Truths (Natural Law)
St. Augustine- City of God
Marcus Aurelius- Meditations
Jacques Maritain- Natural Law
Alberto Piedra- Nutural Law
Robert Kagan- Of Paradise and Power
Christopher Dawson- Dividing Christendom
Michael Walzer- Just and Unjust Wars
Sun Tzu- The Art of War
Alexis de Tocqueville- Democracy in America
Richard Tuck- Rights of War and Peace
Hugo Grotius- The Rights of War and Peace
Andrew Sullivan- The Conservative Soul
Lance Armstrong- It’s Not About the Bike