Here’s a reading list to introduce you to the Dark Enlightenment.*

Introduction to the list here.

* – Already read, no review

** – Read, but plan to re-read and review

*** – Read and reviewed with link to review

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Introduction

The Dark Enlightenment Defined*

The Dark Enlightenment Explained*

The Path to the Dark Enlightenment*

The Essence of the Dark Enlightenment*

An Introduction to Neoreaction*

Neoreaction for Dummies*

Reactionary Philosophy in a Nutshell*

The Dark Enlightenment – Nick Land*

The Neoreactionary Canon

The Cathedral Explained*

When Wish Replaces Thought Steven Goldberg *

Three Years of Hate – In Mala Fide***

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The Decline

We are Doomed – John Derbyshire*

America Alone – Mark Steyn*

After America – Mark Steyn*

Death of the West – Pat Buchanan***

The Abolition of Britain – Peter Hitchens

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Civil Society and Culture

Coming Apart – Charles Murray

Disuniting of America – Arthur Schlesinger

The Quest for Community – Robert Nisbet

Bowling Alone – Robert Putnam

Life at the Bottom – Theodore Dalrymple

Intellectuals and society – Thomas Sowell

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Western Civilization

Civilization: The West and the Rest – Niall Ferguson

Culture Matters – Samuel Huntington

The Uniqueness of Western Civilization – Ricardo Duchesne

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Moldbuggery

Mencius Moldbug is one of the more influential neoreactionaries. His blog, Unqualified Reservations, is required reading; if you have not read Moldbug, you do not understand modern politics or modern history. Start here for an overview of major concepts: Moldbuggery Condensed. Introduction to Moldbuggery has the Moldbug reading list. Start with Open Letter series, then simply go from the beginning.*

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Reactionary Thought

Chartism – Thomas Carlyle

Latter-Day Pamphlets – Thomas Carlyle

The Bow of Ulysses – James Anthony Froude

Popular Government – Henry Summers Maine

Shooting Niagara – Carlyle

The Occasional Discourse – Carlyle

On Heroes, Hero Worship & the Heroic in History – Carlyle

The Handbook of Traditional Living – Raido

Men Among the Ruins – Julius Evola

Ride the Tiger – Julius Evola

Revolt Against the Modern World – Julius Evola

Reflections of a Russian Statesman – Konstantin Pobedonostsev

Popular Government – Henry Maine

Patriarcha (the Natural Power of Kings) – Sir Robert Filmer

Decline of the West – Oswald Spengler

Hour of Decision – Oswald Spengler

On Power – Jouvenel

Against Democracy and Equality – Tomislav Sunic

New Culture, New Right – Michael O’Meara

Why We Fight – Guillaume Faye

The Rising Tide of Color – Lothrop Stoddard

Liberty or Equality – Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Democracy: The God that Failed – Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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Economics

Economics in One Lesson – Henry Hazlitt

Basic Economics – Thomas Sowell

That Which is Seen and That Which is Not Seen – Frederic Bastiat***

Man, Economy, and State – Murray Rothbard

Human Action – Ludwig von Mises

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HBD

Darwin’s Enemies on the Left and Right Part 1, Part 2 (Blog Post)*

The History and Geography of Human Genes (Abridged edition) – Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

The 10,000 Year Explosion – Gregory Cochrane

Race, Evolution, and Behavior – Rushton

Why Race Matters – Michael Levin

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Intelligence and Mind

The Bell Curve – Charles Murray

The Global Bell Curve – Richard Lynn

Human Intelligence – Earl Hunt

Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence – Robert Sternberg

A Conflict of Visions – Thomas Sowell

The Moral Animal – Robert Wright

The Blank Slate – Stephen Pinker

Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature – Murray Rothbard (essay)

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Education

Real Education – Charles Murray

Inside American Education – Thomas Sowell

Illiberal Education – Dinesh D’Sousa

God and Man at Yale – William Buckley

Weapons of Mass Instruction – John Taylor Gatto

The Higher Education Bubble – Glenn Reynolds

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Sex

The Way of Men – Jack Donovan***

Sperm Wars – Robin Baker

Sex at Dawn – Christopher Ryan

Why Men Rule – Steven Goldberg

The Manipulated Man – Esther Vilar

Is There Anything Good About Men? – Roy Baumeister

Demonic Males – Dale Peterson

The Essential Difference – Simon Baron-Cohen

The Mating Mind – Geoffrey Miller

The Red Queen – Matt Ridley

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Government

Mau-mauing the Flak Catchers – Tom Wolfe

Public Choice: An Introduction – Iain McLean

On Government Employment – Foseti (blog post)

Yes, Minister – TV Show

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History

True History of the American Revolution – Sydney George Fisher

Life and Liberty in America – Charles Mackay

Land of the Dollar – George Steevens

Outre-Mer – Paul Bourget

Shall Cromwell Have a Statue? – Charles Francis Adams Jr.

Memoirs of Service Afloat – Adm. Raphael Semmes

The Roving Editor – James Redpath

Democracy and the Party System in the United States – Moisei Ostrogorskiy

A South-Side View of Slavery – Nehemiah Adams

The Origin of the Late War – Lunt

Reflection on the Revolution in France – Edmund Burke

Origins of English Individualism – Alan MacFarlane

The Shortest-Way With The Dissenters – Daniel Defoe

While you Slept – John T. Flynn

The Road Ahead; America’s Creeping Revolution – John T. Flynn

America’s Retreat from Victory – Joseph R. McCarthy

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Fiction/Poetry

Complete Verse – Rudyard Kipling*

Harrison Bergeron – Kurt Vonnegut*

Camp of the Saints – Jean Raspail

Darkness at Noon – Arthur Koestler

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Other Related Reading Lists

A reactionary library

The Neoreactionary Canon

Derbyshire’s list of Dark Enlightenment blogs

The Great Books of The Aristocracy

Library of the Dark Enlightenment

Great Books for Men’s reading list

Foseti’s “Books that influenced me”

Moldbug’s Slow History

The Patrician’s Library

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* Most of the below links are to Amazon hardcopy editions. I generally chose the least expensive versions (books can be expensive). Many of these books, particularly the older ones and the shorter ones can be found online for free, but it was enough work just linking Amazon copies, so you’ll have to find free versions yourself. I prefer reading actual books to reading off a screen, so that’s what I linked to.