Roger Scruton bibliography

This is a list of the published works of English philosopher Roger Scruton.

Non-fiction

 * Art and Imagination (1974)
 * The Aesthetics of Architecture (1979)
 * The Meaning of Conservatism (1980)
 * The Politics of Culture and Other Essays (1981)
 * A Short History of Modern Philosophy (1981)
 * A Dictionary of Political Thought (1982)
 * The Aesthetic Understanding (1983)
 * Kant (1983)
 * Untimely Tracts (1985)
 * Thinkers of the New Left (1985)
 * Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic (1986)
 * Spinoza (1986) republished as Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction (2002)
 * A Land Held Hostage: Lebanon and the West (1987)
 * The Philosopher on Dover Beach and Other Essays (1989)
 * Conservative Texts (1992)
 * Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey (1994)
 * The Classical Vernacular: Architectural Principles in an Age of Nihilism (1995)
 * Animal Rights and Wrongs (1996)
 * An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy (1996); republished in 2005 as Philosophy: Principles and Problems
 * The Aesthetics of Music (1997)
 * An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (1998)
 * On Hunting (1998)
 * England: An Elegy (2001)
 * The West and the Rest: Globalisation and the Terrorist Threat (2002)
 * Death-Devoted Heart: Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (Oxford University Press, 2004)
 * News from Somewhere: On Settling (2004)
 * The Need for Nations (2004)
 * Gentle Regrets: Thoughts from a Life (Continuum, 2005)
 * Animal Rights and Wrongs (2006)
 * A Political Philosophy: Arguments for Conservatism (2006)
 * Immigration, Multiculturalism and the Need to Defend the Nation State (2006)
 * Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged (Encounter Books, 2007)
 * Dictionary of Political Thought (2007)
 * Beauty (2009)
 * I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine (2009)
 * Understanding Music (2009)
 * The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope (2010)
 * Green Philosophy (2011)
 * The Roger Scruton Reader (2011)
 * How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism (2012)
 * The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures (2012)
 * Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England (2012)
 * The Soul of the World (2014)
 * How to Be a Conservative (2014)
 * Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left (2015)
 * The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung (2016)
 * Conversations with Roger Scruton (2016)
 * Confessions of a Heretic: Selected Essays (2016)
 * On Human Nature (2017)
 * Conservatism: Ideas in Profile (2017)
 * The State of Britain Now (2017)
 * Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition (2018)
 * Music as an Art (2018)
 * Wagner's Parsifal: The Music of Redemption (2020)
 * Against the Tide: The best of Roger Scruton's columns, commentaries and criticism (2022)

Fiction

 * Fortnight's Anger: a novel (1981)
 * Francesca: a novel (1991)
 * A Dove Descending and Other Stories (1991)
 * Xanthippic Dialogues (1993)
 * Perictione in Colophon (2000)
 * Notes from Underground (2014)
 * The Disappeared (2015)
 * Souls in the Twilight (2018)

Opera

 * The Minister (1994)
 * Violet (2005)

Television

 * Why Beauty Matters (BBC 2009).