Conservative Canon Author Discussion

Bill Buckley

Since his passing is as good a time as any, let us discuss the great works of William Francis Buckley Jr.

Here are his books:

(2008) Flying High: Remembering Barry Goldwater. Perseus Publishing. ISBN 9780465008360.
(2007) Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription; Notes and Asides from National Review Magazine
(2004) Miles Gone By; A Literary Autobiography
(2004) The Fall of the Berlin Wall.
(2001) Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches.
(1998) Buckley: The Right Word.
(1998) The Lexicon: A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word Lover.
(1997) Nearer My God: An Autobiography of Faith.
(1993) Happy Days Were Here Again: Reflections of a Libertarian Journalist.
(1992) In Search of Anti-Semitism.
(1992) WindFall: The End of the Affair.
(1990) Gratitude: Reflections on What We Owe to Our Country.
(1989) On the Firing Line: The Public Life of Our Public Figures.
(1988) Big Game Hunting in Central Africa.
(1987) Racing through Paradise: A Pacific Passage.
(1985) Right Reason: A Collection.
(1984) Airborne: A Sentimental Journey.
(1983) Overdrive: A Personal Documentary.
(1982) Atlantic High: A Celebration.
(1978) Hymnal: The Controversial Arts.
(1966) Unmaking of a Mayor.
(1975) Execution Eve and Other Contemporary Ballads.
(1974) United Nations Journal: A Delegate's Odyssey.
(1973) Four Reforms: A Guide for the Seventies.
(1972) Inveighing We Will Go.
(1971) Cruising Speed: A Documentary.
(1970) The Governor Listeth: A Book of Inspired Political Revelations.
(1969) Odyssey of a Friend: Whittaker Chambers' Letters to William F. Buckley, Jr. 1954-1961.
(1963) Rumbles Left and Right: A Book About Troubling People and Ideas
(1961) Up From Liberalism.
(1954) McCarthy and His Enemies: The Record and Its Meaning.
(1951) God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of Academic Freedom.

Fiction (-his Blackford Oakes series):

(2007) The Rake: A Novel.
(2003) Getting It Right.
(2002) Nuremberg: The Reckoning.
(2001) Elvis in the Morning.
(2001) Spytime: The Undoing of James Jesus Angleton.
(1999) The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy.
(1995) Brothers No More. Harvest/HBJ Book.
(1985) The Temptation of Wilfred Malachey.

Seeing such an incredible number of books makes me wish to reconsider my 3 books per author rule. Here are my picks:

The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy.
God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of Academic Freedom.
Up From Liberalism.
Unmaking of a Mayor.
Let Us Talk of Many Things: The Collected Speeches.
Miles Gone By; A Literary Autobiography

("Nearer My God" was an important book to me personally but this is a conservative canon, not necessarily a Catholic one)

So, which three books go on the canon?

Update: NRO Weighs in (Sorta)

ISI has some stuff on Buckley too.