Essay:Greatest Conservative Novels

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

1. The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2. Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
3. Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
4. The First Circle, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
5. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
6. Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
7. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
8. The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton
9. Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler
10. The Camp of the Saints, by Jean Raspail
11. Saving the Queen and the other Blackford Oakes novels, by William F. Buckley
12. State of Fear by Michael Crichton
13. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway U.S. Senator and 2004 presidential candidate John McCain cited this as his favorite novel.
14. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
15. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
16. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
17. Nuremberg: The Reckoning by William F. Buckley, Jr
18. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
19. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
20. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
21. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
22. Midcentury by John Dos Passos
23. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
24. American Pastoral by Philip Roth - winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
25. Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
26. Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy
27. Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
28. 300 by Frank Miller
29. The Bridges at Toko-Ri by James Michener
30. Animal Farm by George Orwell
31. 1984 by George Orwell
32. A Midnight Clear by William Wharton
33. The Thin Red Line by James Jones