A note of gratitude from a reader:

Dear Jonah,
Despite the other Cornerites moaning about yet another meme about “The Best
Conservative Something-or-other”, I want to thank you for asking for good
conservative fiction. At my college, the usual tripe that the English
department feeds us is of the postmodernist bent and it has had the effect
of turning my off of fiction for some time(I also wanted to spend my reading
time shoring up my conservative roots i.e Kirk, Buckley, subscribing to
National Review, etc.) Now, this troublesome meme has given me some leads to
sniff out some cool, hopefully non-postmodern books. Oh, and I recommend
T.S. Eliot to other conservative readers, with the overall approval of
Russell Kirk. Kirk praised him in his “Enemies of the Permanent Things” for
his search for normative ethics and also called Eliot “the greatest man of
letter of this century”. If you have any more recommendations from other
readers, please send them along. Thank you for your time and keep up the
good work!