 | Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: £6.96 / Used from: £4.00 The best collection of essays out there. Worth buying for the takedowns of Chomsky, Moore & Mel Gibson alone. Also has a great post-9/11 essay 'FOR PATRIOT DREAMS'.
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 | God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: £5.36 / Used from: £3.60 A book he says he has been writing in his head all his life. Much more sophisticated, historically literate and theologically accurate than Dawkins diatribe.
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 | The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £4.86 A bombshell of a polemic when it first came out. A scathing critique of a "thieving Albanian dwarf". Not pleasing for Catholic readers.
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 | The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
Buy used from: £6.99 His infamous attack on "Dr" Kissinger. Easily the best critique on the foreign policy blunders and 'crimes' of that era. Controversial.
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 | No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £1.46 One of my personal favourites. Hitchens was right about both of them, when so many liberals and leftists were apologists and sychophants. Intellectual honesty.
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 | Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: £5.89 / Used from: £3.79 Wonderful short book from the "Art Of Mentoring" series. This is when he finally decided to give up calling himself a Marxist or socialist.
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 | Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Eminent Lives) by Christopher Hitchens
Buy used from: £12.90 A great admirer of Jefferson, he contributed this fine slim volume for the "Eminent Lives" series.
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 | Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man": A Biography (Books That Shook the World) by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: £6.06 / Used from: £2.74 One of his political heroes, this is a celebration and defense of Paine's classic "Rights Of Man".
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 | Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £3.35 Originally published in 1990, during his Marxist days, this is a critical examination of the 'special relationship'.
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 | The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £7.19 A new and updated edition of the short polemical book originally published in 1987.
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 | For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: £12.00 / Used from: £5.13 Another superb collection of essays from 1993. Everything from his opposition to the First Gulf War, to attacks on Paul Johnson, and defenses of Grahame Greene, P.G. Woodhouse and C.L.R. James.
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 | Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: £6.97 / Used from: £6.26 My second favourite collection of essays, articles and literary criticism. The defense of Salman Rushdie, and demolition of Martin Amis, is worth the price of the book alone. A classic.
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 | Regime Change by Christopher Hitchens
Buy used from: £5.80 A short pamphlet in defense of the liberation of Iraq. It also debunks many of the Left's hysterical claims, its anti-Americanism, and its avoidance of responsibility and solidarity.
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 | Orwell's Victory by Christopher Hitchens
Buy used from: £6.54 One of his finest short books on his hero Orwell. Debunks the Left, the Right, the Feminists and the Post-Modernists. Simply superb stuff.
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 | A Matter of Principle: Humanitarian Arguments for War in Iraq by T Cushman
Buy new: £13.56 / Used from: £2.40 Hitchens essay opens this fine collection by liberals and leftists who support regime-change. Excellent book and contribution,
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 | Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left
Buy new: £10.60 / Used from: £11.44 A fine collection of articles, essays and debates, about the post-9/11 world and Iraq. The no.1 intellectual in the world today (sorry Chomsky fans).
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