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What books does Candace Owens recommend?
Toward hidden histories, contested narratives, and the machinery behind cultural power run the book recommendations of Candace Owens, a conservative commentator and author of the New York Times bestseller Blackout. She uses her podcast and community to steer audiences toward books she believes challenge official accounts. This list of 8 titles is sourced from her podcast episodes, her Locals community, and her own writing, with themes of history, society and politics, and psychology and human behavior. Her most repeated recommendation is Tom O'Neill's Chaos, which she says she has "told you to read a thousand times" and calls "basically required summer reading." She recalls that Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon "completely blew my mind," and within Blackout itself she points readers to Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery to understand the "zest and zeal" Black Americans held for education, and to Shelby Steele's White Guilt.
Last updated February 2026 · Every recommendation cited to its original source.
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
byTom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
2019528 Pages“I've told you to read Chaos a thousand times I'm gonna tell you a thousand more times. ... It's basically required summer reading.”
— Candace Owens
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Hollywood Babylon
The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets
byKenneth Anger
1981448 Pages“That book Hollywood Babylon completely blew my mind.”
— Candace Owens
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The Assault on Truth
Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory
byJeffrey Moussaieff Masson
1984308 Pages“I'm trying to purchase 'The Assault on Truth' and it appears to be sold out everywhere... Anyone purchased this recently?”
— Candace Owens
Source: Candace Owens Official Community (Locals)
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byDavid Bakan
2004326 Pages“I learned about Sigmund Freud reading in that book by David Bakan about his Kabbalist worship and that is how I learned about what Frankism was.”
— Candace Owens
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Up From Slavery
An Autobiography
byBooker T. Washington
1986400 Pages“If you read Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery, you'll understand the zest and zeal Black people had for education immediately after slavery.”
— Candace Owens
Source: Blackout (Book), Chapter 4
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White Guilt
How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
byShelby Steele
2006181 Pages“I often recommend Shelby Steele’s White Guilt.”
— Candace Owens
Source: Blackout (Book), Chapter 2
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byMilton William Cooper
1991434 Pages“Can [you] please look into the story of former naval intelligence officer William Bill Cooper and his book Behold a Pale Horse which exposes the government's agenda...”
— Candace Owens
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byGeorge Orwell
1949328 Pages(4,800,000)
“It was not 1984 guns and black boots... it's turning humans into cyborgs.”
— Candace Owens
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Frequently asked questions
What books does Candace Owens recommend?
Her 8 recommendations include Chaos by Tom O'Neill, Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger, Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington, White Guilt by Shelby Steele, and George Orwell's 1984.
What is Candace Owens' most recommended book?
Tom O'Neill's Chaos, about Charles Manson and the CIA. She says, "I've told you to read Chaos a thousand times," and calls it "basically required summer reading."
Where do Candace Owens' book recommendations come from?
They come from episodes of the Candace Owens Podcast, her official Locals community, and her own bestseller Blackout, where she cites Up From Slavery and White Guilt directly.
Has Candace Owens written any books?
Yes, two: Blackout, her number-one New York Times bestseller, and Make Him a Sandwich, published in 2025.
What genres does Candace Owens read most?
Her list favors history and society and politics, with a strong pull toward investigative and revisionist accounts, alongside biographies and memoirs and works touching on psychology.
All 8 Books Candace Owens Has Recommended
- Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties · Tom O'Neill
- Hollywood Babylon · Kenneth Anger
- The Assault on Truth · Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
- Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition · David Bakan
- Up From Slavery · Booker T. Washington
- White Guilt · Shelby Steele
- Behold a Pale Horse · Milton William Cooper
- 1984 · George Orwell