Reading List

Bookstore

As well as providing for a Reading List, the Young Britons’ Foundation has set up an online Amazon bookstore through which you can purchase books that you are recommended to read.

All you need to do is click on this link and you will be taken through to YBF’s Amazon bookstore where you can browse books covering American & British Conservatism, Campaigning, Core Texts, Culture, New Labour & The Left and Novels.

History of Conservatism

  • Kenneth Minogue - Politics: A Very Short Introduction
  • Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations
  • Friedrich Hayek - The Road to Serfdom
  • Alan Duncan - Saturn’ Children
  • Alan Clark - The Tories
  • Alan Ebenstein - Friedrich Hayek: A Biography
  • E H H Green - Ideologies of Conservatism
  • Andrew Roberts - A History of the English Speaking Peoples since 1900

Conservatism

  • Adrian Wooldridge & John Micklethwait- The Right Nation
  • Dinesh D’Souza - Letters to a Young Conservative
  • Barry Goldwater - The Conscience of a Conservative
  • Russell Kirk - The Conservative Mind
  • Friedrich Hayek - The Conservative Mind
  • John Redwood- Stars & Strife
  • John Redwood- The Death of Britain
  • John Redwood- Just Say No
  • Boris Johnson - Lend Me Your Ears
  • Gerald Frost - Anthony Fisher: Champion of Liberty
  • Douglas Murray - Neoconservatism: Why We Need It
  • Douglas Carswell MP & Dan Hannan MEP - The Plan
  • Norman Fowler - A Political Suicide
  • David Willetts MP - Modern Conservatism
  • John Biffen - Inside the House of Commons
  • John Kekes - A Case for Conservatism
  • Nigel Fletcher - How to be in Opposition: Life in the political shadows
  • Jesse Norman - The Big Society

Biography

  • Margaret Thatcher – The Path to Power
  • Margaret Thatcher – The Downing Street Years
  • Ronald Reagan - An American Life
  • Dinesh D’Souza - Ronald Reagan
  • Stephen Hayward - The Age of Reagan
  • Norman Lamont - In Office
  • Norman Tebbit – Upwardly Mobile
  • Sir George Gardiner – A Bastard’s Tale
  • Sir Winston Churchill - The Second World War
  • G Gordon Liddy - Will
  • Jean Lucas - The Wandsworth Story
  • Anthony Seldon - Major: A Political Life
  • Anthony Seldon - Blair
  • Dean Godson - Himself Alone: David Timble & The Ordeal of Unionism
  • John O’Sullivan - The President, The Pope & The Prime Minister
  • William Hague - William Pitt
  • Robert O Caro - The Years of Lyndon Johnson
  • Tom Bower - Gordon Brown
  • Douglas Hurd - Robert Peel
  • Conor Cruise O’Brien - The Great Melody: A Thematic Biography of Edmund Burke
  • George Macaulay Trevelyan - The Life of John Bright
  • Robert Blake - Disraeli
  • Sir Winston Churchill - My Early Life
  • William Hague - William Wilberforce: the Life of a Great Anti-Slave Campaigner
  • Matt Drudge - Drudge Manifesto
  • Iain Dale - Margaret Thatcher: In her own words
  • Peter Mandleson - The Third Man
  • Gyles Brandreth - Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries

Free Markets and Thatcherism

  • Margaret Thatcher – Statecraft
  • Margaret Thatcher – Capitalism & Freedom
  • Richard Crockett - Thinking the Unthinkable
  • James Bartholomew - The Welfare State We’re In
  • Matthew Elliott & Lee Rotherham - The Bumper Book of Government Waste
  • P J O’Rourke - Republican Party Reptile
  • Thomas Friedman - The World is Flat
  • Allan Bloom - The Closing of the American Mind

From the US

  • Ann Coulter - Treason
  • Ann Coulter – Slander
  • Ann Coulter – How to Talk to a Liberal: If you must
  • Ann Coulter – Godless: The Church of Liberalism
  • Ann Coulter – High Crimes & Misdemeanours
  • Rudy Giuliani - Leadership
  • P J O’Rourke - Give War A Chance
  • George W Bush - We Will Prevail
  • David Frum - The Right Man
  • Mona Charen - Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War
  • Oliver North - Under Fire: An American Story
  • Oliver North - One More Mission
  • G Gordon Liddy - When I Was A Kid This Was A Free Country
  • Robert Bork - Slouching Towards Gommorah
  • Dan Flynn - Why the Left Hates America
  • Dinesh D’Souza - The End of Racism
  • Mark Steyn - America Alone
  • David Horrowitz - The Professors
  • Peter Robinson - How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life
  • Mark W Smith - The Official Handbook of the Vast Right – Wing Conspiracy
  • J C Watts - What Color is a Conservative?
  • Dinesh D’Souza - The Enemy at Home
  • Gregg Jackson - Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies
  • Lee Edwards - The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America
  • Lee Edwards - The Power of Ideas
  • Lee Edwards - A Brief History of the American Conservative Movement
  • Lee Edwards - Reading the Right Books: A Guide for the Intelligent Conservative
  • Dr Robin Harris - Beyond Friendship: The Future of Anglo-American Relations
  • Robert Novak - The Prince of Darkness
  • Peter Schweizer - Reagan’s War
  • Rush Limbaugh - See, I Told You Son
  • Fred Barnes - Rebel In Chief
  • Bill O’Reilly - Culture Warrior
  • Humberto Fontova - Exposing the Real Che Guevara
  • Newt Gingrich - Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America
  • Christopher Horner - The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming & Environmentalism
  • Amanda Carpenter - The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy’s Dossier on Hilary Clinton
  • P J O’Rourke - Republican Party Reptile
  • P J O’Rourke - Parliament of Whores
  • Ronald Reagan - An American Life
  • Dan Hannan MEP - The New Road to Serfdom
  • Barry Goldwater - The Conscience of the Conservative
  • Jonah Goldberg - Proud to be Right: Voices of the Next Conservative Generation
  • Jonah Goldberg - Liberal Fascism
  • Niall Ferguson - Empire: How Britain Made The Modern World
  • Paul Kengor - The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism
  • Dinesh D’Souza - Letters to a Young Conservative

Culture

  • The Bible (King James Version)
  • The Book of Common Prayer
  • Melanie Phillips - Londonistan
  • James Delingpole - How to be Right
  • Richard Littlejohn - To Hell in a Handcart
  • Robert Spencer - Religion of Peace?
  • Tony Blankley - The West’s Last Chance
  • Brian  C Anderson - South Park Conservatives
  • Nigel Lawson - An Appeal to Reason
  • Peter Huber - Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists
  • Christopher Booker’s - Scared to Death
  • Alex Deane - Big Brother Watch: The State of civil liberties in Britain
  • Francis Beckett - The Prime Ministers Who Never Were

Novels

  • Ayn Rand - Shrugged
  • George Orwell - Animal Farm
  • George Orwell - 1984
  • C S Lewis - The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe
  • Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn - One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
  • Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

New Labour and the British Left

  • Alastair Campbell - The Blair Years
  • Andrew Rawnsley - Servants of the People
  • Alan Finlayson - Making Sense of New Labour
  • Francis Bennion - The Blight of Blairism
  • Colin Hay - The Political Economy of New Labour
  • Richard North & Christopher Booker - The Great Deception: The Secret History of the European Union
  • Stephen Savage & Rob Atkinson - Public Policy Under Blair
  • Peter Stothard - 30 Days: A Month at the Heart of Blair’s War
  • Philip Gould - Unfinished Revolution
  • Anthony Giddens - Where Now for New Labour?
  • Will Hutton - The State We’re In
  • Peter Oborne - The Rise of Political Lying

Philosophy and Economics

  • Maurice Cowling - Mill and Liberalism
  • Tom Friedman - Hot, Flat and Crowded
  • Robert Axelrod - The Evolution of Co-operation
  • Edmund Burke - Reflections on the Revolution in France
  • Karl Popper - The Open Society and it’s Enemies
  • Richard Cockett - Thinking the Unthinkable: Think-tanks and the Economic Counter-revolution, 1931-83
  • Robert Nozik - Anarchy, State and Utopia
  • William Blackstone - Commentaries on the Laws of England
  • Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
  • Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate
  • Plato - The Republic
  • Christopher Hill - The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution
  • Ludwig von Mises - Socialism; 
  • Ludwig von Mises - Liberalism; 
  • Ludwig von Mises - Human Action
  • FA Hayek - The Fatal Conceit
  • FA Hayek - The Constitution of Liberty
  • FA Hayek - Individualism and Economic Order
  • Henry Hazlitt - Economics in One Lesson
  • Milton Friedman - Capitalism and Freedom
  • Milton Friedman - Free to Choose
  • David Friedman - The Machinery of Freedom
  • Eamonn Butler - Adam Smith – A Primer
  • Eamonn Butler - Austrian Economics – A Primer
  • Eamonn Butler - Ludwig von Mises – A Primer
  • Eamonn Butler - The Best Book on the Market: How to stop worrying and love the free economy
  • Mark Pennington - Robust Political Economy
  • Frederic Bastiat - The Law
  • David Boaz - Libertarianism – A Primer
  • Madsen Pirie – Freedom 101
  • Kevin Williamson - The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism
  • Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner - Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

War on Terror

  • Natan Sharansky, Ron Dermer - The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror
  • Ed Husain - The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, What I Saw Inside and why I Left
  • Larbi Sadiki - Rethinking Arab Democratisation

European Union

  • Christopher Booker and Richard North - The Great Deception: Can the European Union Survive?
  • Roger Helmer MEP - Sceptic At Large

Candidate, Campaign Skills and Techniques

  • Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince
  • Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends & Influence People
  • Sun Tzu - The Art of War
  • Andrew Lansley - Do The Right Thing
  • David Horrowitz - How To Beat the Clinton Democrats ( A Guide on Beating the ‘Third Way’)
  • Richard Heller - High Impact Speeches: How to Write and Deliver Words That Move Minds
  • Nicholas Comfort - How To Handle the Media
  • Sir Bernard Ingham - Wages of Spin
  • Peggy Noonan - On Speaking Well
  • Bernard Goldberg - Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News

Newspapers, Magazines & Periodicals

  • The Spectator
  • The Daily Telegraph
  • The Daily Mail
  • Human Events
  • National Review
  • Total Politics
  • The Weekly Standard
  • The Washington Times
  • The Economist

Websites & Blogs