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. The First Circle, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
4. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
5. Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
6. Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
7. The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton
8. Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler
9. The Camp of the Saints, by Jean Raspail
10. Saving the Queen and the other Blackford Oakes novels, by William F. Buckley
11. State of Fear by Michael Crichton
12. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway U.S. Senator and 2004 presidential candidate John McCain cited this as his favorite novel.
13. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
14. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
15. The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
16. Nuremberg: The Reckoning by William F. Buckley, Jr
17. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
18. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
19. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
20. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
21. Midcentury by John Dos Passos
22. Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
23. American Pastoral by Philip Roth - winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
24. Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy
25. Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy
26. Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy
27. The Bridges at Toko-Ri by James Michener
28. Animal Farm by George Orwell
29. 1984 by George Orwell
30. The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
31. A Midnight Clear by William Wharton
32. The Thin Red Line by James Jones
33. Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero by Henryk Sienkiewicz
34. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
35. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
36. To the White Sea by James Dickey
37. Edge of Danger by Jack Higgins
38. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
39. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
40. The Overton Window by Glenn Beck
41. The Fountainhead By Ayn Rand
42. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald