6 must-read politics books like Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism by Russell Kirk

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Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism

By: Russell Kirk

4.25

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern conservative intellectual movement began in 1953 with Russell Kirk’s groundbreaking book…

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1. Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism (American Ideals & Institutions) (Volume 1)

By: Robert P. George

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Collection of previously published essays on cultural and legal issues relating to the marriage deb… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • cultural
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2. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more

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3. The Great Divorce

By: C.S. Lewis

4.31

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0-00-746123-3 C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is a classic Christi… read more

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  • philosophy
"Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

"I cannot love a lie," said the Lady. "I cannot love the thing which is not. I am in Love, and out of it I will not go."

-C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

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4. Till We Have Faces

By: C.S. Lewis

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this timeless tale of two mortal princesses- one beautiful and one unattractive- C.S. Lewis rewo… read more

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5. Between Heaven & Hell

By: Peter Kreeft

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Combining logical argument with literary imagination, Peter Kreeft uses a dialogue between C.S. Lew… read more

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  • philosophy
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6. Orthodoxy

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Chesterton (The Man Who Knew Too Much) capped his brilliant literary career with this exploration o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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7. The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For the first time, an edition of Lewis's classic fantasy fiction packaged specifically for adults.… read more

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"My sister Susan,"

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

"Do you think I care if Aslan dooms me to death?"

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

"But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan."

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

". . .[W]e have all been blind. We are only beginning to see. . . ."

-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)

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8. The Weight of Glory

By: C.S. Lewis

4.38

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The classic Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century,… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Have courage, dear heart, for there is nothing to be afraid of and never has been."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

"Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."

-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

9. The Machine Stops

By: E.M. Forster

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial… read more

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10. On the Incarnation

By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more

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11. Beauty

By: Roger Scruton

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

"Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane," writes Roger Scruton. "It can be exhilarati… read more

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12. The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is

By: N.T. Wright

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Today a renewed and vigorous scholarly quest for the historical Jesus is underway. In the midst of … read more

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13. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

By: C.S. Lewis

3.93

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more

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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."

-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)

14. Heretics

By: G.K. Chesterton

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays… read more

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15. Shoeless Joe

By: W.P. Kinsella

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“If you build it, he will come.” These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfi… read more

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"I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

"Any game becomes important when you know and love the players."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

"Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

"I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

16. Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

By: C.S. Lewis

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Lifeis a partial autobiography describing Lewis' conversion… read more

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17. How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity

By: Rodney Stark

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Finally the Truthabout the Rise of the West Modernity developed only in the West--in Europe and Nor… read more

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18. The Abolition of Man

By: C.S. Lewis

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more

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19. The Naked Communist

By: W. Cleon Skousen

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

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20. What Would the Founding Fathers Think: A Young American's Guide to Understanding the Mess Our Country is in and How We Get Out

By: David Bowman

4.19

Format: 45 pages, Paperback

History, politics, government they're not just for grown-ups anymore. Today's teens are about to be… read more

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21. Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

By: C.S. Lewis

4.00

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

The second book in C. S. Lewis's acclaimed Space Trilogy, which also includes Out of the Silent Pla… read more

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"Say a child’s prayer if you can’t say a man’s."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"It is not for nothing that you are named Ransom,"

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"The joy came from finding at last what hatred was made for."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

"About this time tomorrow, you will have done the impossible."

-C.S. Lewis, Perelandra (The Space Trilogy, #2)

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22. It's Good to Be a Man: A Handbook for Godly Masculinity

By: Michael Foster

4.30

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

“Men were made to rule. They always have and always will. Nothing can change that. Nothing will. It… read more

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  • cultural
  • nonfiction
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23. Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

By: Joe Rigney

4.54

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Who are you when the teeth come out? For every true act of leadership, there is an equal and mo… read more

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  • cultural
  • nonfiction
"The Scriptures regularly use the metaphor of a body to speak about human social life. The church is the body of Christ, with many members (1 Cor. 12). Marriage is a “one flesh"

-Joe Rigney, Leadership and Emotional Sabotage: Resisting the Anxiety That Will Wreck Your Family, Destroy Your Church, and Ruin the World

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24. How to Read a Book: Advice for Christian Readers

By: Andrew David Naselli

4.56

Format: 106 pages, ebook

When people ask me what I do for a living, sometimes I reply, “I teach people how to read.” My paid… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

By: Matthew Continetti

4.08

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A magisterial intellectual history of the last century of American conservatism When most people t… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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26. Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism

By: Russell Kirk

4.25

Format: 105 pages, Kindle Edition

The modern conservative intellectual movement began in 1953 with Russell Kirk’s groundbreaking book… read more

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  • cultural
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  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • government
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27. How to Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises

By: Spencer Klavan

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A book to let you know you're not the wisdom of the ages can guide us through the struggles of the… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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28. Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

By: Roger Scruton

3.84

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“…one of the most eloquent and even moving evocations of the conservative tradition in Western poli… read more

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  • cultural
  • history
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"The American liberal is certainly not averse to the power of the state, provided it is exerted by liberals, and exerted against conservatives."

-Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

"What makes a political order legitimate, in the conservative view, is not the free choices that create it, but the free choices that it creates."

-Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

"The lesson of history for Hume is that the established order, founded on customs that are followed and accepted, is always to be preferred to the ideas, however exultant and inspiring, of those who w…"

-Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

"When society is organised from above, either by the top-down government of a revolutionary dictatorship, or by the impersonal edicts of an inscrutable bureaucracy, then accountability rapidly disappe…"

-Roger Scruton, Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition

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29. God Doesn't Whisper

By: Jim Osman

4.56

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

It is woven into the fabric of modern evangelicalism. The subject of numerous books, conferences, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Was Jesus a Socialist?: Why This Question Is Being Asked Again, and Why the Answer Is Almost Always Wrong

By: Lawrence W. Reed

4.24

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"If anyone was ever a socialist, it was Jesus."—Kelley Rose, Democratic Socialists of America Econ… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

9 Best philosophy books like Russell Kirk's Concise Guide to Conservatism by Russell Kirk

Transform Your Habits

Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism (American Ideals & Institutions) (Volume 1)

Robert P. George

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Great Divorce

C.S. Lewis

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Between Heaven & Hell

Peter Kreeft

3.38

Transform Your Habits

Orthodoxy

G.K. Chesterton

4.11

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7 best-selling classics books like The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis

Transform Your Habits

The Cost of Discipleship

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Great Divorce

C.S. Lewis

4.31

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Confessions

Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler

3.41

Transform Your Habits

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G.K. Chesterton

4.11

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