Book Recommendations

A list of books for a radical, non-mainstream understanding of our world. Most of these books can be found on Anna’s Archive.
-last updated on December 14th, 2025-

Philosophy

1. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (1981) by Scottish philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre

2. Ideas Have Consequences (1948) by Richard M. Weaver, arguing that the West’s decline stems from abandoning absolute truth for nominalism and relativism

3. Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life (1931) by Oswald Spengler, arguing that Western technology spreading to colored races means it will be used against us

4. Magic: History, Theory, Practice (1923) by Ernst Schertel

5. Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939 by Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung

6. Revolt Against the Modern World (1934) by Julius Evola

7. The Executioner (1821) by Joseph de Maistre, portrays the executioner as an essential figure who upholds social order

8. The Quest for Community: A Study in the Ethics of Order and Freedom (1953) by Robert Nisbet

9. The Reactionary Mind: Why “Conservative” Isn’t Enough (2021) by Michael Warren Davis

10. Various books by Ernst Jünger, the German World War I hero who promoted an aristocratic masculinity:

    • Storm of Steel (1920), the World War I diary

    • War as an Inner Experience (1922)

    • The Worker: Dominion and Form (1932)

    • On Pain (1934)

    • The Forest Passage (1951), a guide for guerrillas

11. Western Civilization Bites Back (2014) by Jonathan Bowden, who argues that the ultimate root of Western decline is a collapse in moral self-confidence

History

1. Across the Atlantic Ice: The Origin of America’s Clovis Culture (2012) by Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley

2. Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters: White Slavery in the Mediterranean, the Barbary Coast, and Italy, 1500-1800 (2004) by Robert C. Davis

3. God’s Battalions: The Case for the Crusades (2009) by American sociologist Rodney Stark

4. Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (2003) by Charles Murray

5. Ship of Fools: An Anthology of Learned Nonsense about Primitive Society (2018) by C.R. Hallpike

6. Sparta and Its Law (2021) by Eduardo Velasco

7. The Ascent of Mind: Ice Age Climates and the Evolution of Intelligence (1991) by William H. Calvin explains why Nordic hominids developed superior intelligence

8. The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988) by archaeology Professor Joseph Tainter

9. The Emotional Life of Nations (2002) by psychoanalyst and social historian Lloyd deMause

10. The Fates of Nations: A Biological Theory of History (1980) by Ohio State professor of ecology Paul Colinvaux

11. The Passing of the Great Race: Or, The Racial Basis of European History (1916) by Madison Grant, promotes the theory of Nordic racial supremacy

12. Those Terrible Middle Ages!: Debunking the Myths (1977) by Régine Pernoud

Politics

1. Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad (2014) by Stephen Coughlin

2. Genius and the Mobocracy (1947) by architect Frank Lloyd Wright

3. God and Golk: Soldierly Affirmation (1940) by an anonymous German author (likely Kurt Eggers)

4. Harassment Architecture (2019) by Mike Ma(haney), suggests violence is the only answer to modernity

5. Might Is Right or The Survival of the Fittest (1896) by Ragnar Redbeard (Arthur Desmond)

6. Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power (1957) by former communist Karl A. Wittfogel who explains why the West is unique and the rest is despotic

7. Prussianism and Socialism (1919) by Oswald Spengler (the author of The Decline of the West)

8. Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism (1964) by James Burnham

9. The Coming Caesars (1957) by Amaury de Riencourt about the end of democracy

10. The Concept of the Political (1927) by German political thinker Carl Schmitt

11. The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World (1941) by James Burnham, foreboding the rise of Woke technocrats

12. The Third Reich (1921) by Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, called for an authoritarian German state

13. Traditionalism: The Only Radicalism (2014) by John Dunn, emeritus Professor at King’s College, Cambridge

14. Which Way Western Man? (1978) by William Gayley Simpson, argues Western civilization is in decline due to internal decay and external threats

Sociology

1. A New Nobility of Blood and Soil (1930) by R. Walther Darré

2. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (1987) by Keith Johnstone on status and spontaneity

3. Jews and the New American Scene (1995) by Seymour M. Lipset and Earl Raab

4. The Case for Patriarchy (2021) by Timothy J. Cordon

5. The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization (2001) by Pat Buchanan

6. The Global Bell Curve (2008) by Richard Lynn

7. The Dispossessed Majority (1972) by Wilmot Robertson

8. The Ethnostate (1992) by Wilmot Robertson

9. The Rising Tide of Color: The Threat Against White World-Supremacy (1920) by Lothrop Stoddard

10. Thinking Black: 22 Years Without a Break in the Long Grass of Central Africa (1912) is a memoir by Dan Crawford, a British missionary who spent over two decades in the Congo

11. White America: The American Racial Problem as Seen in a Worldwide Perspective (1922) by Earnest Sevier Cox

Novels

1. Dark Millennium (2000), a novel by Gerald G. McManus

2. Growth of the Soil (1917) by Norwegian author Knut Hamsun, which won him the Nobel Prize

3. Hold Back This Day (2001), a novel by Ward Kendall

4. Northwest Independence, a series by H.A. Covington that comprises five books about a White ethno-nationalist guerilla warfare against the U.S. government:

   • The Hill of the Ravens (2003)

   • A Distant Thunder (2004)

   • A Mighty Fortress (2005)

   • The Brigade (2007)

   • Freedom’s Sons (2013)

5. Siege (1992), a novel by James Mason

6. Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein

7. The Turner Diaries (1978) by William Pierce, writing as Andrew Macdonald

8. Unintended Consequences (1996), a novel by John Ross

Religion

1. The Great Heresies (1938) by Hilaire Belloc, examines five major heresies that threatened Catholic civilization

2. The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (2012) by Brad S. Gregory

Biographies

1. For My Legionaries (1936) by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

2. Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky (1988) by British historian Paul Johnson

3. Sun & Steel (1968) by Yukio Mishima

4. The Burning Souls (2021) by Léon Degrelle

Conspiracy

1. Death Object: Exploding the Nuclear Weapons Hoax (2017) by Akio Nakstani

2. Erectus Walks Amongst Us: The Evolution of Modern Humans (2008) by Richard D. Fuerle (Chinese blogger Meng Hu updated the book with 2025 science)

3. One Small Step?: The Great Moon Hoax and the Race to Dominate Earth from Space (2005) by Gerhard Wisnewski

4. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1903), an apparent forgery but why did its predictions come true?

5. Vaccination: Proved Useless & Dangerous (1898) by Alfred Russel Wallace. See also pamphlets by William Tebb and J.T. Biggs

Unavailable in English

1. Mossad Base Italia: Le azioni, gli intrighi, le verità nascoste (Mossad Base Italy: The Actions, the Intrigues, the Hidden Truths) is a 2010 non-fiction book by American-Italian journalist Eric Salerno about the foundation of the Israeli Mossad

2. Saudivapen: Hycklande politiker, ljugande tjänstemän och hemliga spioner (Saudi Weapons: Hypocritical Politicians, Lying Officials, and Secret Spies) is a 2014 non-fiction political thriller co-authored by Swedish journalists Bo-Göran Bodin and Daniel Öhman

Enemy Literature

1. Capitalist Nigger: The Road to Success, a Spider-Web Doctrine (2000) by Dr. Chika Onyeani

2. Guerrilla Warfare (1961) by Ché Guevara

3. Reflections on Violence (1908) by Georges Sorel who died supporting Bolshevism and supported violent class struggle

4. The Rhetoric of the Reaction: Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy (1991) by theorist Albert O. Hirschman