John Derbyshire shares his list of the five best curmudgeonly books:
- Gulliver’s Travels, by Jonathan Swift
- Life of Johnson, by James Boswell
- A Mencken Chrestomathy, edited by H.L. Mencken
- The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Donat Gallagher
- Collected Poems, by Philip Larkin