Difference between revisions of "Essay:Greatest Conservative Novels"

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Conservative novels exist, and some are immensely influential. Here is our growing list. Please add to it.

The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
The First Circle, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton
Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler
The Camp of the Saints, by Jean Raspail
Saving the Queen and the other Blackford Oakes novels, by William F. Buckley
State of Fear by Michael Crichton
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway U.S. Senator and 2004 presidential candidate John McCain cited this as his favorite novel.
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Road by Cormac McCarthy - winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Nuremberg: The Reckoning by William F. Buckley, Jr
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Midcentury by John Dos Passos
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
American Pastoral by Philip Roth - winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy
Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
300 by Frank Miller
The Bridges at Toko-Ri by James Michener
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
A Midnight Clear by William Wharton

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 #''The Bonfire of the Vanities'' by [[Tom Wolfe]]
 #''Midcentury'' by [[John Dos Passos]]
-#''Atlas Shrugged'' by [[Ayn Rand]]
 #''Advise and Consent'' by [[Allen Drury]]
 #''American Pastoral'' by [[Philip Roth]] - winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction