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Kurt Schlichter Books in Order

See all Kurt Schlichter books in order, from the Kelly Turnbull thrillers to his nonfiction, with book lists, summaries, and guidance on where to start reading.

Last updated: June 7, 2026

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I Am a Conservative

by Kurt Schlichter

2012

I Am a Conservative is a humor heavy manifesto about what conservatives believe and what makes them angry. Schlichter swings at Democratic leaders, Hollywood celebrities, and cautious Republican insiders, inviting readers to laugh along while venting about politics.

I Am A Liberal

by Kurt Schlichter

2012

I Am A Liberal bills itself as a field guide for dealing with liberals rather than a call to compromise. Through exaggerated portraits of progressive activists, media figures, and academics, Schlichter mocks their arguments, tactics, and habits in an intentionally confrontational style.

Fetch My Latte

by Kurt Schlichter

2013

Fetch My Latte collects short, sharp pieces aimed at what Schlichter sees as the soft spots of modern culture, from hipsters to professional activists. The tone is closer to a late night rant than a policy paper, with punch lines aimed squarely at perceived wimps.

50 Shades of Liberal

by Kurt Schlichter

2014

50 Shades of Liberal is a short, over the top parody that turns progressive romance into a running joke. Through the misadventures of activist couple Amanda and Liam, Schlichter spoofs identity politics, performative sensitivity, and the language of fashionable activism.

Conservative Insurgency

by Kurt Schlichter

2014

Conservative Insurgency is told as an oral history from the year 2041, looking back on how constitutional conservatives supposedly clawed their way back to cultural and political dominance. Through interviews with politicians, activists, soldiers, and artists, it sketches a long campaign to reclaim institutions from the left.

People's Republic

by Kurt Schlichter

2016

People's Republic launches the Kelly Turnbull series in a United States that has split along political lines. Sent into the decaying blue stronghold of Los Angeles, Turnbull must infiltrate a surveillance state to complete one last extraction mission and confront what the revolution has done to ordinary lives.

Indian Country

by Kurt Schlichter

2017

This prequel to People's Republic sends Kelly Turnbull back into the blue states to help trapped citizens resist a tightening, politically correct police state. Training ordinary people into a fighting force, he clashes with his former Special Forces mentor and a regime willing to use escalating violence.

Militant Normals

by Kurt Schlichter

2018

Militant Normals argues that everyday Americans who work, raise families, and serve in the military are pushing back against a smug ruling class. Through stories, jokes, and blunt commentary, Schlichter explains why he thinks that backlash is reshaping politics and culture.

Wildfire

by Kurt Schlichter

2018

Blue America is on the brink of chaos when retired operator Kelly Turnbull is pulled back in for a supposedly simple job in Siberia that turns out to be a setup. To stop a massive jihadi plot, he infiltrates the People's Republic's secret police, fighting from Mexico City and Germany to a ruined Pentagon.

Collapse

by Kurt Schlichter

2019

As the socialist People's Republic starts to fall apart under shortages and unrest, Collapse sends Turnbull and an elite team deep into blue territory to help end the war. Chinese meddling, internal purges, and a climactic fight for San Francisco push the fractured country toward possible reunification.

Crisis

by Kurt Schlichter

2020

Set just before the final split, Crisis brings Kelly Turnbull back from overseas to work with a small task force trying to stop the slide toward open civil war. He hunts a hard left terrorist leader behind attacks on Capitol Hill, radical enclaves in Minneapolis, and a last stand in the California desert.

The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump

by Kurt Schlichter

2020

The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump takes on the media and political narratives Schlichter sees as most unfair to Trump and his supporters. Each chapter targets a familiar accusation, mixing legal style argument, statistics, and cutting jokes aimed at progressive critics.

The Split

by Kurt Schlichter

2021

In the sixth Kelly Turnbull novel, America has fully broken into a constitutional red republic and an authoritarian blue People's Republic. Turnbull must smuggle out an unstable math genius whose election software could decide who rules, dragging him into heists, guerrilla fights, and double crosses from Cuba to Canada.

Inferno

by Kurt Schlichter

2022

In Inferno, the seventh Kelly Turnbull book, the war between red America and the People's Republic burns across the continent. From the new capital in Dallas to occupied San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest, Turnbull leads brutal campaigns meant to decide whether the country can ever be reunited.

We'll Be Back / The Fall and Rise of America

by Kurt Schlichter

2022

Schlichter looks at how the United States went from overwhelming victory in the Gulf War to failures abroad and unrest at home, and argues that decline is a choice rather than a fate. Mixing history, polemic, and dark jokes, he sketches the dangers ahead and how a renewed America might push back.

Overlord

by Kurt Schlichter

2023

Overlord finds Turnbull chasing a rogue general who has fled into blue territory seeking revenge and power. With his dog Gibson and a small team, he fights through West African jungles, postwar London, flooded highways near New Orleans, and a high risk mission tied to an invasion of Manhattan.

The Attack

by Kurt Schlichter

2024

The Attack is a near future thriller about a three day Iranian backed terror offensive on American soil, combining mass shootings, infrastructure strikes, and cyber attacks. Schlichter follows politicians, special operators, police, and ordinary citizens as they struggle to survive the onslaught and organize a ruthless response.

American Apocalypse: The Second American Civil War

by Kurt Schlichter

2025

American Apocalypse: The Second American Civil War tells a sprawling story of assassinations and power grabs that push the United States into open conflict. Through soldiers, political prisoners, mountain communities, and sailors on patrol, it shows what daily life in a modern civil war might cost.

Lost Angeles: Silver Bullets On The Sunset Strip

by Kurt Schlichter

2025

Lost Angeles: Silver Bullets On The Sunset Strip opens a fantasy noir series co written with Irina Moises. In 1940s Los Angeles, private eyes Eddie Loud and Trixie Gamble hunt the kidnapped son of a demigod through a city packed with mobsters, crooked cops, movie stars, Nazis, and vampires.

Panama Red

by Kurt Schlichter

2025

Panama Red sends Turnbull after a mysterious assassin known as Circe, a blue operative who leaves dead Americans behind around the world. The hunt takes him from Dublin and Texas to Panama City and a radicalized town inside the People's Republic, blending nonstop firefights with grim humor.

Where should I start?

If you want to start his dystopian thrillers: People's RepublicIndian CountryWildfireCollapse.
If you want the full civil war arc: CrisisThe SplitInfernoOverlordPanama Red.
If you prefer sharp political commentary: We'll Be Back / The Fall and Rise of AmericaMilitant NormalsThe 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump.
If you like short, punchy humor pieces: I Am a ConservativeI Am A LiberalFetch My Latte50 Shades of Liberal.

Author bio

Kurt Schlichter was born on December 24, 1964, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and grew up in San Mateo, California, after his family moved west when he was six. The mix of Midwestern roots and California turbulence gave him plenty to argue about early.

At the University of California, San Diego, he studied communications and political science and gravitated to campus journalism. He edited a conservative student paper, wrote a regular column for the student humor paper, and figured out that he liked sharp jokes, clear arguments, and pushing back against campus orthodoxy.

Law school came next. Schlichter graduated from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1994, where he served on the law review, and soon helped start a civil litigation firm. As a trial lawyer he has represented companies and individuals in everything from routine business disputes to confidential entertainment and political cases, and he has earned membership in a national group for attorneys who have won seven figure jury verdicts.

In parallel with his legal career, he spent more than two decades in uniform. After enlisting in the United States Army and earning his commission through Officer Candidate School, he served on active duty and in the California Army National Guard, eventually retiring as an infantry colonel. He commanded the 1st Squadron, 18th Cavalry Regiment, earned his paratrooper jump wings, and saw deployments that included the Gulf War and Operation Enduring Freedom in Kosovo, along with stateside mobilizations during the Los Angeles riots, the Northridge earthquake, and the 2007 San Diego fires.

He did not stay in one lane.

In the late 2000s conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart pulled him into the world of opinion writing. Schlichter began filing pieces for Breitbart outlets and then became a regular columnist for the political site Townhall, where he built a following for columns that mixed legal analysis, military experience, and aggressive humor. Television and radio followed, with frequent appearances on national news channels and talk shows to discuss politics, culture, and national security.

His first books grew out of that commentator role. Short e books like I Am a Conservative, I Am A Liberal, Fetch My Latte, and 50 Shades of Liberal used rapid fire jokes and sketches to poke at progressive culture, Republican infighting, and the media. With Conservative Insurgency and later Militant Normals, he shifted into longer form political writing, imagining how grassroots conservatives might fight their way back into influence and arguing that ordinary Americans are often better grounded than the people who govern them.

Fiction opened up another track. Starting with People's Republic in 2016, Schlichter launched the Kelly Turnbull series, a run of near future thrillers set in an America that has broken into red and blue nations. Across books like Indian Country, Wildfire, Collapse, Crisis, The Split and beyond, Turnbull moves through civil conflict, insurgency, and open war, carrying the blunt outlook of a veteran who has seen too much and a dark sense of humor about ideology gone wrong.

Alongside the Turnbull novels he has written stand alone thrillers such as The Attack and American Apocalypse: The Second American Civil War, which imagine large scale terror attacks and internal conflict on American soil, as well as Lost Angeles: Silver Bullets On The Sunset Strip, a fantasy noir co written with his wife Irina Moises that drops a pair of private detectives into a supernatural version of 1940s Los Angeles.

His nonfiction continued with The 21 Biggest Lies about Donald Trump and We'll Be Back / The Fall and Rise of America, books that combine polemics, dark jokes, and worries about foreign rivals, cultural change, and the possibility of unrest at home. Schlichter now splits his time between the Los Angeles area and Texas, still practicing law, still writing columns and books, and still showing up on air to argue about politics, military affairs, and what might come next for the country.

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