New Nick Recommendations

Most notable works by the authors Nick mentioned in episode 1632 that weren't already on the list:
The State Against Blacks by Walter E. Williams
The Firm, the Market, and the Law by Ronald Coase
Human Capital by Gary Becker
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Human Action by Ludwig von Mises
Capital and Interest: A Critical History Of Economical Theory by Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
Principles of Economics by Carl Menger
Natural Value by Friedrich von Wieser
Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall

The American System by Henry Clay (mentioned in the Keith Woods collab)

New Groyper Recommendation
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

Someone unearthed some 2017 Nick mentions from the archive that were not previously on the list:

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
By The People by Charles Murray
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The New Tsar By Steven Lee Myers
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
You Gentiles by Maurice Samuel

New Groyper Recommendations:
On Divine Revelation: The Teaching of the Catholic Faith by Father Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange
The Power and Aims of International Jewry by US War Department
River of Darkness of Buddy Levy
Unspoken Alliance by Sasha Polakow-Suransky

4/10/26 Update

Revised Nick Recommendation:
Added volumes 2-4 of the The Years of Lyndon Johnson series by Robert Caro

New Groyper Recommendations:
Consecration to St. Joseph by Father Donald Calloway
Essays on Catholicism, Liberalism, Socialism by Juan Donoso Cortes
St Petersburg Dialogues by Joseph de Maistre
The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail
The Manipulated Man by Esther Vilar
The Pope by Joseph de Maistre
To Eliminate the Opiate by Marvin Stuart Antelman

NEW FEATURE: Reader ratings aggregated from Goodreads, Amazon, The StoryGraph, Book Marks, and BookBrowse.

Nick Recommendations (from older AF episodes):
The Lightning and the Sun by Savitri Devi
Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault by Stephen Ronald Craig Hicks

New Groyper Recommendations:
How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas E. Woods Jr
Sun and Steel by Yukio Mishima

NEW FEATURE: Items on Nick's list now have a "Priority Tier" ranking based on frequency mentioned, recency of when the item was mentioned, and foundational alignment.

Essential: Highest priority; must-read core works
Foundational: Extremely important building blocks
Contextual: Valuable supporting material or useful context
Supplementary: Historical interest or older influences

6/12/26 Update
I know I just did an update 3 days ago, but I got hit with nearly 40 new Groyper-recommended books over the past 2 days. I won't list all of them here, but you can sort the tab by "Date Added" to see the newest additions.

Also added the book Nick mentioned earlier this week:
The Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises

8/11/26 Update

Nick Recommendations
Aquinas by Edward Feser
Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell
Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
Rediscover Catholicism by Matthew Kelly

New Groyper Recommendations
Doing Good Better by William MacAskill
Hitler's Revolution by Richard Tedor
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer Jr.
The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
The Art of Memory by Frances A. Yates
The Book of Memory by Mary Carruthers
The Enemy at the Gate by Andrew Wheatcroft
The Governance of China by Xi Jinping
Wall Street and FDR by Antony C. Sutton
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution by Antony C. Sutton
Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Antony C. Sutton

New Substacks
America First Literary Society - newly launched project by a trusted friend of mine, provides reading guides for the "essential" books on Nick's list.
Steve Edward Farley - Investigative commentary on MAGA/America First topics with a focus on Florida politics.

10/23/26 Update

NEW FEATURE: AF Allies List
Features books by Alex Jones, Keith Woods, Joel Webbon, Michelle Malkin, Myron Gaines, and Timothy Gordon.

Nick's Recommendations/Mentions
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Natural Right and History by Leo Strauss
A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s by Oded Yinon

Groyper Recommendations
A Map of Life by Frank Sheed
African Notebook by Albert Schweitzer
Door Knocking Academy by Steve Edward Farley
Know Thy Enemy by Father James Mawdsley
Pocket Apologetic by Reverend J.A. Kilian
Race, Evolution, and Behavior by J. Philippe Rushton
Richard Nixon: The Lifeby John A. Farrell
Sex and Culture by J. D. Unwin
Situational Awareness by Leopold Aschenbrenner
The Pope, the Council, and the Mass by James Likoudis and Kenneth D. Whitehead
The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan
The Power of the Powerless by Václav Havel
The True Story of the Bilderberg Group by Daniel Estulin