A Random Walk Down Wall Street (Burton G. Malkiel)
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk (Peter L. Bernstein)
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (Amity Shlaes)
2008
The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce (Deirdre N. McCloskey)
State of Fear (Michael Crichton)
The Revolt of the Elites: And The Betrayal of Democracy (Christopher Lasch)
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Lawrence Wright)
Call it Sleep (Henry Roth)
2007
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)
The Roots of American Communism (Theodore Draper)
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Steven Pinker)
Farewell To Reform: The Rise, Life and Decay of the Progressive Mind in America (John Chamberlain)
The Roosevelt Myth (John T. Flynn)
2006
The Future And Its Enemies (Virginia Postrel)
Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe (Henri Pirenne)
Disney War (James Stewart)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The De-Moralization Of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values (Gertrude Himmelfarb)
The New Dealers' War: F.D.R. And The War Within World War II (Thomas Fleming)
The Poverty of Historicism (Karl Popper)
2005
I Am Charlotte Simmons (Tom Wolfe)
The Arab Mind (Raphael Patai)
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Richard Dawkins)
Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas (Isaiah Berlin)
Why Orwell Matters (Christopher Hitchens)
Letters to a Young Contrarian (Christopher Hitchens)
Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies (Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit)
The Cross and the Crescent (Richard Fletcher)
Wittgenstein's Poker: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers (David Edmonds and John Eidinow)
24 Days: How two Wall Street Journal reporters unconvered the lies that destroyed faith in corporate America (Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller)
Courting Failure: How Competition For Big Cases Is Corrupting The Bankruptcy Courts (Lynn Lopucki)
Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism (F. Carolyn Graglia)
1421: The Year China Discovered America (Gavin Menzies)
Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America (David A. Skeel)
The Origins of Modern Science (Herbert Butterfield)
Darwin on Trial (Phillip E. Johnson)
To Rule the Waves (Arthur Herman)
The Birth of Plenty (William J. Bernstein)
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Bown)
Eat What You Kill (Milton C. Regan Jr.)
Dreamland: Europeans And Jews In The Aftermath Of The Great War (Howard M. Sachar)
Marriage And Morals Among The Victorians (Gertrude Himmelfarb)
The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas S. Kuhn)
2004
Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Joseph A. Schumpeter)
The "Shabbes Goy": A Study in Halakhic Flexibility (Jacob Katz)
Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World (Jack Weatherford)
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (Samuel P. Huntington)
The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience (Jane S. Gerber)
The Pirenne Thesis: Analysis, Criticism and Revisions (Alfred F. Havighurst)
A World Lit Only By Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance--A Portrait of an Age (William Manchester)
French or Foe?: Getting the Most out of Visiting, Living and Working in France (Polly Platt)
Encunters and Reflections: Conversations with Seth Benardete: With Robert Berman, Ronna Berger, and Michael Davis
Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800 (Fernand Braudel)
Marx and the Intellectuals: A Set of Post-Ideological Essays (Lewis S. Feuer)
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Michael Lewis)
The Rise of David Levinsky (Abraham Cahan)
Peace Kills: America's Fun New Imperialism (P.J. O'Rourke)
The World the Slaveholders Made: Two Essays in Interpretation (Eugene D. Genovese)
The Middle Ages (Morris Bishop)
The Missing Peace: The Insider Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace (Dennis Ross)
How To Talk To A Liberal If You Must (Ann Coulter)
2003
The Importance of Living (Lin Yutang)
A Short History of Modern Philosophy (Roger Scruton)
Open Society and Its Enemies (Volume 1) (Karl Popper)
The Collapse of the Third Republic: An Inquiry into the Fall of France in 1940 (William Lawrence Shirer)
The Hitler of History (John Lukacs)
How the Reformation Happened (Hilaire Belloc)
The Pity of War: Explaining World War 1 (Niall Ferguson)
The Great Transformation (Karl Polanyi)
The Mind and the Market: Capitalism and the Market (Jerry Z. Muller)
The Roots of American Order (Russell Kirk)
Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, And Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom And Iluminated The Dark Ages (Richard E. Rubenstein)
Ravelstein (Saul Bellow)
The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis (Robert P. George)
2002
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics (Christopher Lasch)
Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Peter Berkowitz)
Public Morality, Civic Virtue, and the Problem of Modern Liberalism (T. William Boxx & Gary M. Quinlivan)
The Rise and Fall of Athens: Nine Greek Lives (Plutarch)
Saying Kaddish: How to Comfort the Dying, Bury the Dead & Mourn As a Jew (Anita Diamant)
Why I Am Not a Muslim (Ibn Warraq)
Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization (Paul A. Cantor)
What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response (Bernard Lewis)
The Old Regime and the French Revolution (Alexis de Tocqueville)
Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
The Sabbath (Abraham Joseph Heschel)
The Abolition of Man (C.S. Lewis)
The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice (Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton)
The Screwtape Letters (C.S. Lewis)
The Origins of the Second World War (A.J.P. Taylor)
The Jewish State: The Sruggle for Israel's Soul (Yoram Hazony)
How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe (Thomas Cahill)
The Waning of the Middle Ages (Johan Huizinga)
The Origins of Modern Science (Herbert Butterfield)
Structure and Change in Economic History (Douglass C. North)
The Origin of Humankind (Richard Leakey)
City Life: Urban Expectations in a New World (Witold Rybczynski)
The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader (Arthur Hertzberg)
Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform (Diane Ravitch)
Six Days of War: June 196 and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Michael Oren)
Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution (Forrest McDonald)
The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges)
The End of Order: Versailles 1919 (Charles L. Mee, Jr.)
The Age of Reform (Richard Hofstadter)
The Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century (Francois Furet)
What Is Political Philosophy: And Other Studies (Leo Strauss)
Ancient Slavery & Modern Ideology (M.I. Finley)
The Pursuit of the Millenium (Norman Cohn)
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among The Converted Peoples (V.S. Naipaul)
2001
The Great Disruption (Francis Fukuyama)
To the Finland Station (Edmund Wilson)
City Boy (Herman Wouk)
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Hannah Arendt)
Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! (Richard Feynman)
Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voeglin, & the Search for a Postliberal Order (Ted V. McAllister)
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 (David S. Wyman)
The Greek Way (Edith Hamilton)
The American Political Tradition & the Men Who Made It (Richard Hofstadter)
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class And How They Got There (David Brooks)
Mohammed and Charlemagne (Henri Pirenne)
Origins of the Medieval World (William Carroll Bark)
Freedom: Freedom in the Making of Western Culture (Orlando Patterson)
Israelis and the Jewish Tradition: An Ancient People Debating Its Future (David Hartman)
The Betrayal of Liberalism: How The Disciples Of Freedom And Equality Helped Foster The Illiberal Politics Of Coercion And Control (Hilton Kramer and Roger Kimball)
The CEO of the Sofa (P.J. O'Rourke)
The Rest of Us : The Rise of America's Eastern European Jews (Steven Birmingham)
The Last European War: September 1939 - December 1941 (Jon Lukacs)
The Face of Battle (John Keegan)
2000
The Killing of History : How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past (Keith Windschuttle)
Men and Marriage (George Gilder)
On Human Nature (E.O. Wilson)
History of the Jews (Abram Leon Sachar)
Civilization and its Discontents (Sigmund Freud)
Miracle at Philadelphia (Catherine Drinker Bowen)
Ten Philosophical Mistakes (Mortimer Adler)
Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
How We Got Here: The 70s -- The Decade That Brough You Modern Life - For Better Or Worse (David Frum)
The Will to Live On (Herman Wouk)
The Majors: In Pursuit of Golf's Holy Grail (John Feinstein)
For Relief of Unbearable Urges (Nathan Englander)
Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story (Michael Isikoff)
Marjorie Morningstar (Herman Wouk)
The History of Classical Physics ( )
1939: The Lost World of the Fair (David Gelernter)
Inside Outside (Herman Wouk)
The Revolt of the Elites And the Betrayal of Democracy (Christopher Lasch)
Diary of a Yuppie (Louis Auchincloss)
In Defense of Elitism (William Henry)
The Jesus Quest: The Third Search for the Jew of Nazareth (Ben Witherington III)
Boychiks in the Hood: Travels in the Hasidic Underground (Robert Eisenberg)
Race and Culture (Thomas Sowell)
The Revolt of the Elite (Jose Ortega y Gassett)
The Good Years (Walter Lord)
Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (Isiah Berlin)
The World of Yesterday (Stefan Zweig) (Amazon review: If, like me, you are interested in the European world that was crippled by WWI and then finished by WWII, you will love this book. Zweig was fully aware that the world of his youth was gone forever, and he wanted to describe that world, the good and the bad, for future generations. While it is generally not a good idea to romanticize the past, Zweig's book forces us to recognize that, in many respects, we are less free, less cultured, and less sophisticated than our great-grandparents. I am certain I will read this book again to reminisce about a world I never knew.)
1999
The Lord Will Gather Me In: My Journey to Jewish Orthodoxy (David Klinghoffer)
The Book And The Sword: A Lifetime Of Learning In The Shadow Of Destruction (David Weiss Halivni)
Revelation Restored : Divine Writ and Critical Responses (Radical Traditions) (David Weiss Halivni)
History of Political Philosphy (Leo Strauss)
Leo Strauss and the American Right (Shadia Drury)
A Man in Full: A Novel (Tom Wolfe)
From Plato to Nato: The Idea of the West and its Opponents (David Gress)
Literature Lost : Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities (John Ellis)
The Laws of Return (Cameron Stracher)
1998
The Closing Of The American Mind (Allan Bloom)
The Excuse Factory: How Employment Law is Paralyzing the American Workplace (Walter Olson)
Bankruptcy: A Feast For Lawyers (Sol Stein)
Objections Sustained: Subversive Essays on Evolution, Law, Culture (Phillip Johnson)
Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court (Edward Lazarus)
Science On Trial: The Clash of Medical Evidence and the Law in the Breast Implant Case (Marcia Angell)
High Crimes and Misdemeanors; The Case Against Bill Clinton (Ann Coulter)
As The Driven Leaf (Milton Steinberg)
Eat The Rich (P.J. O'Rourke)
Jewish Philosophy And The Crisis Of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought (Suny Series in the Jewish Writings of Leo Strauss) (ed. Kenneth Hart Green)
The Essential Talmud (Adin Steinsaltz)
Jew And Gentile In The Ancient World (Louis Feldman)
Jews, God and History (Max I. Dimont)
The Europeans (Luigi Barzini)
Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair (Cameron Stracher) (Amazon review: As a senior associate at a large corporate law firm in Los Angeles who began his career at a large firm in New York, I can vouch for the unerring accuracy of the detail of the life of a junior associate at a large firm (right down to the smell of the Chinese food delivered late at night). Notwithstanding that every recent law school graduate appears to be an aspiring writer, Mr. Stracher is the first to actually write knowingly about the life of the junior associate. His book deserves to be read by every person considering law school and a legal career. My only criticism is that Mr. Stracher's pervasively pessimistic account, while not unwarranted, fails to give an inkling of the intellectual (and physical) rush of complex transactions and litigations that attracts a certain type of individual who is "addicted to the deal." But that is a minor criticism. Four stars.)
Two Lucky People (Milton and Rose Friedman)
The Indestructible Jews (Max I. Dimont)
1997
Why Johnny Can't Read (Rudolf Flesch)
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon)
Edge City: Life on the New Frontier (Joel Garreau)
Hit & Run (Nancy Griffin and Kim Masters)
What It Means To Be A Libertarian (Charles Murray)
Hello, He Lied (Lynda Obst)
The Proud Tower (Barbara W. Tuchman)
On Human Nature (Edward O. Wilson)
Vindicating the Founders (Thomas G. West)
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers (Carl L. Becker)
Hawaii (James A. Michener)
The Anatomy of Antiliberalism (Stephen Holmes)
1996
Dumbing Down Our Kids (Charles J. Sykes)
Slouching Towards Gomorrah (Robert H. Bork)
Backward and Upward: The New Conservative Writing (David Brooks)
Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away With Murder (Vincent Bugliosi)
The Portable Conservative Reader (Russell Kirk)
Inventing the AIDS Virus (Peter H. Duesberg)
A Good Walk Spoiled: Days and Nights on the PGA Tour (John Feinstein)
What's Right (David Frum)
A Civil Action (Jonathan Harr)
American Tragedy: The Uncensored Story of the Simpson Defense (Lawrence Schiller)
The Run of his Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson (Jeffrey Toobin)
1995
The Vision of the Anointed (Thomas Sowell)
The Truth about the Truth (Walter Truett Anderson)
The Late Shift: Letterman Leno & The Network Battle For The Night (Bill Carter)
The End of Racism (Dinesh D'Souza)
Life After Television (George Gilder)
In Defense of Elitism (William A. Henry III)
Hyperspace (Michio Kaku)
Neo-Conservatism: Selected Essays 1949-1995 (Irving Kristol)
The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat (Steven Lukes)
Shelley's Heart (Charles McCarry)
Hollywood vs. America (Michael Medved)
Explaining the Inexplicable: The Rodent's Guide to Lawyers (The Rodent)
Miss America (Howard Stern)
The Agenda (Bob Woodward)
Fatherless America (David Blankenhorn)
The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS (Michael Fumento)
Tales of the South Pacific (James A. Michener)
1994
Who Stole Feminism (Christina Hoff Sommers)
Hole in our Soul (Martha Bayles)
Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (James Bovard)
Thank You For Smoking (Christopher Buckley)
Debt of Honor (Tom Clancy)
The Heterodoxy Handbook: How to Survive the PC Campus (David Horowitz and Peter Collier)
Mouse Tales: A Behind-the-Ears Look at Disneyland (David Koenig)
Dead Right (David Frum)
On Looking into the Abyss (Gertrude Himmelfarb)
The Death of Common Sense (Philip K. Howard)
A Piece of the Action: How The Middle Class Joined The Money Class (Joseph Nocera)
And the Band Played On (Randy Shilts)
1993
Unequal Verdicts (Timothy Sullivan)
The Moral Sense (James Q. Wilson)
The Creators (Daniel J. Boorstin)
Impostors in the Temple (Martin Anderson)
For Good and Evil: The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization (Charles Adams)
Undue Process: A Story of How Political Differences are Turned into Crimes (Elliott Abrams)
The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story (David Brock)
The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS (Michael Fumento)
Science Under Siege (Michael Fumento)
Accidental Empires: How The Boys Of Silicon Valley Make Their Million, Battle Foreign Competition, And Still Can't Get A Date (Robert X. Cringley)
Disclosure (Michael Crichton)
The Myth of Male Power (Warren Farrell)
They All Laughed (Ira Flatow)
Adventures in Porkland (Brian Kelly)
SeinLanguage (Jerry Seinfeld)
Private Parts (Howard Stern)
1992
A Nation of Victims (Charles J. Sykes)
Paved With Good Intentions (Jared Taylor)
The Conservative Crack-Up (R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.)
The Seven Fat Years (Robert L. Bartley)
The Pelican Brief (John Grisham)
A History of the Jews (Paul Johnson)
The Money Culture (Michael Lewis)
With Reagan (Edwin Meese III)
Give War a Chance (P.J. O'Rourke)
Turning Right: The Making of the Rehnquist Supreme Court (David G. Savage)
The Bridges of Madison County (Robert James Waller)
The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality (Ludwig Von Mises)
1991
Giants & Dwarves (Allan Bloom)
The Fair Trade Fraud (James Bovard)
Why Americans Hate Politics (E.J. Dionne, Jr.)
Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus (Dinesh D'Souza)
The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power and the Pursuit of Office (Alan Ehrenhalt)
The Firm (John Grisham)
Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man (David Lehman)
Prior Convictions (Lia Matera)
What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (Peggy Noonan)
Parliament of Whores (P.J. O'Rourke)
Compassion Versus Guilt and Other Essays (Thomas Sowell)
Den of Thieves (James B. Stewart)
Primary Justice (William Bernhardt)
1990
Beyond the Boom (Terry Teachout)
The Tempting of America (Robert H. Bork)
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco (Bryan Burrough & John Helyar)
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the '60s (Peter Collier and David Horowitz)
Notes of a Hanging Judge (Stanley Crouch)
The Rise of American Civilization (Charles Beard)
Blood in the Streets: Investment Profits In A World Gone Mad (James Dale Davidson and Sir William Rees-Mogg
From Beirut to Jerusalem (Thomas L. Friedman)
1989
Curses ! Broiled Again !: The Hottest Urban Legends Going (Jan Harold Brunwald)
Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties (Peter Collier and David Horowitz)
The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority (Rose Wilder Lane)
In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government (Charles Murray)
Hammer of the Gods (Stephen Davis)
1988
The Closing of the American Mind (Allan Bloom)
Goldwater (Barry M. Goldwater)
Russian and the West (George F. Kennan)
The Rise and Decline of Nations (Mancur Olson)
Holidays in Hell (P.J. O'Rourke)
The Nightmare Years (William L. Shirer)
Democracy in America (Alexis de Tocqueville)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe)
To Jerusalem and Back (Saul Bellow)
Advise and Consent (Allen Drury)
A Shade of Difference (Allen Drury)
Preserve and Protect (Allen Drury)
Come Nineveh, Come Trye (Allen Drury)
The Promise of Joy (Allen Drury)
1987
Wealth and Poverty (George Gilder)
Saturday Night: A Backstate History of Saturday Night Live (Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad)
The Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder)
Passion Play (Jerzy Kosinski)
Klass: How Russions Really Live (David K. Willis)
Dezinformatsia (Richard H. Shultz and Roy Godson)
Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth)
Restoring the American Dream (Robert J. Ringer)
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Tom Wolfe)
The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake Steamline Baby (Tom Wolfe)
Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981-1987 (Bob Woodward)
Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
Democracy Ancient and Modern (M.I. Finley)
Reason in History (Georg Hegel)
The Constitution of Liberty (Friedrich Hayek)
The Sociological Imagination (C. Wright Mills)
Power, Politics & People (C. Wright Mills)
The Power Elite (C. Wright Mills)
1986
Tyranny of the Status Quo (Milton and Rose Friedman)
Two Cheers for Capitalism (Irving Kristol)
Cutting Edges: Making Sense of the 80's (Charles Krauthammer)
The Next American Frontier (Robert B. Reich)
Democracy at Risk: The Politics of Economic Renewal (Kenneth M. Dolbeare)
The New Politics of Inequality (Thomas Byrne Edsall)
The Russians (Hedrick Smith)
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine (Tom Wolfe)
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing The Flak Catchers (Tom Wolfe)
The Right Stuff (Tom Wolfe)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
Looking Backward (Edward Bellamy)
Democracy (Joan Didion)
Play It As It Lays (Joan Didion)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion)
The White Album (Joan Didion)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Dangerous Visions (Harlan Ellison)
Two Cheers for Capitalism (Irving Kristol)
Albert Camus (The Stranger)
1985
The Discoverers (Daniel J. Boorstin)
Capitalism and Freedom (Milton Friedman)
The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (Michael Novak)
Pamela (Samuel Richardson)
Beyond Freedom & Dignity (B.F. Skinner)
The Roots of Capitalism (John Chamberlain)
Central America: Anatomy of Conflict (Robert Leiken)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Joseph Andrews (Henry Fielding)
The Prince (Machiavelli)
1984
Free to Choose (Milton and Rose Friedman)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
An American Renaissance: A Strategy for the 1980's (Jack Kemp)
Statecraft as Soulcraft: What Government Does (George F. Will)
None Dare Call It Conspiracy (Gary Allen)
The Worldly Philosophers (Robert L. Heilbroner)
The Making of Economic Society (Robert L. Heilbroner)
1983
Up From Liberalism (William F. Buckley Jr.)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
1982
The Source (James A. Michener)