Thanks to all who gave me some great ideas for conservative novels to read this summer.
I compiled a list of the ones mentioned most and some I checked on Amazon.com. I read the Amazon.com reviews and they seem worthwhile. I ranked them purely by what I think would be good. It is totally arbitrary. I have only read a couple ( which I noted). The rest are Freeper recommendations:
1- Everything by W.E.B. Griffin ( He wrote several series of books “Brotherhood of War”;”The Corps” – I read “Semper Fi”; “Badge of Honor” – this is about the Phila. PD, Men at War and some others. His son wrote one too)
2- Anything by Tom Clancy (Actually the stuff he wrote in the 1980’s and early 1990’s like “Red Storm Rising” and “Hunt for Red October” among others).
3- “A Sense of Duty” by Michael P. Tremoglie (A Freeper William Tell 2)
4- “State of Fear” by Michael Crichton
5- Anything by Robert Heinlein (these are science fiction like “Starship Troopers”)
6- “The Caine Mutiny” by Herman Woulk (Is this really conservative?)
7- Anything by Tom Wolfe (other than “The Right Stuff” I don’t know how conservative he is)
8- Unintended Consequences by John Ross (seems interesting)
9- “The Devil is Dead” by John Lafferty
10 - “The Fountainhead” by Ayn Rand ( I’ve read this. I don’t know if I’d characterize it as conservative. Some Freepers did though).
11- The Secret Agent and The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
12- The Reckoning ( no author named)
13- Angels in Iron by J. Prata
14- Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspaill
15- The Devil’s Advocate Taylor Caldwell
16- The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books
17- L. Neil Smith (no novels mentioned)
18 - Neal Stevenson (no books named)
19- Snowcrash ( no author)
20- Crypto-Nomicon: “
21- The Confusion “
22- The System of the World “
23- The Quicksilver: “
24- Interface “
25- Cobweb “
26- Vince Flynn novels
27- September Day
28- Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer.
29- Ninety-three by Victor Hugo
30- Terry Goodkind (no books mentioned)
31- David Gemmel (no books mentioned)
32- John D. McDonald
33- Randy Wayne White
34-Deborah Crombie
35- The Red President, by Martin Gross
36-Ted Dekker
37-William F. Buckley’s spy novels
38- The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
39 - A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge
Also, for you movie goers check the Renaissance Film Festival in Dallas Texas and the Liberty Film Festival in Hollywood. These are strictly for conservative movies.
Maybe we can read these books, find others, and talk about them and some of the conservative movies. It would be kind of cool.