Recommended Reading

These are my favorite and most enthusiastically recommended books organized by topic.  In some cases the topics are further ordered as introductory or scholarly.  The links take you to the Ludwig von Mises Institutes's store, the author or publisher's site, or Amazon.  For those that prefer digital over hard copy, many of these books can be found for free in .pdf and .epub format at the Mises Institute's library.  For those that prefer audio books, there are many Austrian classics for free at the Mises Institute's Audio Book page.

American History that Public Schools Forgot to Mention
Introductory

• Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution - and What it Means for Americans Today by Thomas DiLorenzo
• Hologram of Liberty: The Constitution's Shocking Alliance With Big Government by Kenneth W. Royce
• How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present by Thomas DiLorenzo
• Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
• The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War by Thomas DiLorenzo

Scholarly

• America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones by Antony C. Sutton
• Conceived in Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard
• Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer
• The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates (Signet Classics) edited by Ralph Ketcham
• The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
• War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black

Economics, Money, and Business Cycles
Introductory

• Economics for Real People: An Introduction to the Austrian School by Gene Callahan
• Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
• How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes by Peter D. Schiff and Andrew J. Schiff
• Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts will Make Things Worse by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Scholarly

• Human Action: A Treatise on Economics by Ludwig von Mises
• Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market by Murray N. Rothbard
• Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles by Jesús Huerta de Soto
• Principles of Economics by Carl Menger
• The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve by G. Edward Griffin

Education: Get'em While They're Young

• Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
• Education: Free & Compulsory by Murray N. Rothbard
• The Theory of Education in the United States by Albert Jay Nock
• Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto

Fiction: Dystopias and Prophetic Warnings

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Molon Labe! by Kenneth W. Royce
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• State of Fear by Michael Crichton
• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
• This Perfect Day by Ira Levin
• We (Modern Library Classics) by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Globalism and the New World Order
Introductory

• Brave New World Revisited (P.S.) by Aldous Huxley
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
• How The World Really Works by Alan B. Jones
• The Naked Capitalist by W. Cleon Skousen
• The Secret History of the American Empire: The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals, and How to Change the World by John Perkins

Scholarly

• Anglo-American Establishment by Carrol Quigley
• The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives by Zbigniew Brzezinski
• Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carrol Quigley

Government: The #1 Cause of Unnatural Death

• Death by Government by R. J. Rummel
• Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 by Frank Dikötter
• The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation (P.S.) by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer

Gun Ownership: a Natural Right and a Check on Tyranny

• More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, Third Edition (Studies in Law and Economics) by John R. Lott, Jr.
• The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms by Stephen P. Halbrook
• Boston's Gun Bible by Kenneth W. Royce

Health, Food, and the Environment

• Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories From the Local Food Front by Joel Salatin
• Folks, This Ain't Normal: A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World by Joel Salatin
• Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage) by Gary Taubes
• Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies About the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating by Jeffrey M. Smith
• The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There by Paul Connett, James Beck, and H. S. Micklem
• The Fluoride Deception by Christopher Bryson
• The Hundred-Year Lie: How to Protect Yourself from the Chemicals That Are Destroying Your Health by Randall Fitzgerald
• World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17 by G. Edward Griffin

Intellectual Property: Artifical Scarcity at its Worst

• Against Intellectual Monopoly by Michele Boldrin and David K. Levine
• Against Intellectual Property by N. Stephan Kinsella

Investing for the Dollar Crash

• Becoming Your Own Banker: Unlock the Infinite Banking Concept by R. Nelson Nash
• How Privatized Banking Really Works - Integrating Austrian Economics with the Infinite Banking Concept by L. Carlos Lara and Robert P. Murphy
• The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments by Charles Goyette
• The Real Crash: America's Coming Bankruptcy - How to Save Yourself and Your Country by Peter D. Schiff

Libertarianism and the Philosophy of Freedom
Introductory

• Defending the Undefendable by Walter Block
• Good to be King: the Foundation of Our Constitutional Freedom by Michael Badnarik
• How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty by Harry Browne
• Liberty Defined: the 50 Urgent Issues that Affect Our Freedom by Ron Paul
• The Discovery of Freedom: Man's Struggle Against Authority by Rose Wilder Lane
• The Mainspring of Human Progress by Henry Grady Weaver
• The Most Dangerous Superstition by Larken Rose
• The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul

Scholarly

• Boundaries of Order: Private Property as a Social System by Butler Shaffer
• Democracy: The God that Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
• For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto by Murray N. Rothbard
• Let's Abolish Government by Lysander Spooner
• The Ethics of Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard
• The Man Versus the State by Herbert Spencer

War: Who it Serves (Not You!)
Introductory

• War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most Decorated Soldier by Smedley D. Butler

Scholarly

• IBM and the Holocaust : The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation by Edwin Black
• Wall Street & the Bolshevik Revolution by Antony C. Sutton
• Wall Street and FDR by Antony C. Sutton
• Wall Street & the Rise of Hitler by Antony C. Sutton
• The Best Enemy Money Can Buy by Antony C. Sutton
• The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb by Gar Alperovitz

Warning: Travel Down the Rabbit Hole at Your Own Risk

• Cracking the Code: The Fascinating Truth About Taxation in America by Peter Eric Hendrickson
• Pawns in the Game by William Guy Carr
• Report from Iron Mountain: On the Possibility and Desirability of Peace introduced by Leonard Lewin
• The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska by John W. DeCamp
• The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal by Nick Bryant
• Thiaoouba Prophecy by Michael Desmarquet