This list is mostly economics but does consists of some other subjects. This list should be read in a similar order to how they are listed. Life is too short to read bad books. This is not to say you shouldn’t read authors who you disagree with. It is very beneficial to see how others think about certain situations and discovering their errors. You may even change your previously held view. However, it is important to avoid books that may not convey information at all. It may be poorly written, babbling, etc. These types of books will waste your time.

This list doesn’t have to be followed exactly but don’t start with Human Action. The first four are extremely short. After that, you will know more about economics than 99 percent of people—including politicians. It does get a little more difficult after that, but the order is designed to build up knowledge and prepare you for the next on the list. You must first crawl, walk, run, and then fly. Some books may need to be read a few times. Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe have many valuable insights. It is unlikely they can be absorbed and under-stood on the first read. I recommend reading each one of them more than once. In a speech, Rothbard said every time he reads Human Action, Mises gives him new insights. If Mises can give Rothbard new insights, he can most likely give all of us new insights.

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The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

—Mark Twain

•           Petition of the Candlemaker, Frédéric Bastiat

•           Broken Window Fallacy, Frédéric Bastiat

•           The Incredible Bread Machine (poem), R.W. Grant

•           I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read, Leonard E. Read

•           The Law, Frédéric Bastiat

•           Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt

•           The Myth of the Robber Barons: A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America, Burton W. Folsom

•           The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality, Ludwig von Mises

•           The Problem with Socialism, Thomas DiLorenzo

•           Economic Facts and Fallacies, Thomas Sowell

•           33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask, Thomas Woods

•           The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude, Etienne de la Boetie

•           The Essential Rothbard, David Gordon

•           Ludwig von Mises: Scholar, Creator, Hero, Murray N. Rothbard

 •          Marxism Unmasked: From Delusion to Destruction, Ludwig von Mises

•           Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, Murray N. Rothbard

•           Law, Property Rights, and Air Pollution, Murray N. Rothbard

•           What Has Government Done to Our Money?, Murray N. Rothbard

•           The Case Against the Fed, Murray N. Rothbard

•           For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, Murray N. Rothbard

•           America’s Great Depression, Murray N. Rothbard

•           Second Treatise of Government, John Locke

•           The Undiscovered Self, Carl Jung

•           Liberalism: The Classical Tradition, Ludwig von Mises

•           The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism, David D. Friedman

•           The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier, Terry Anderson and Peter Hill

•           A Century of War: Lincoln, Wilson & Roosevelt, John Denison

•           The Mises Reader Unabridged, Ludwig von Mises

•           The Rothbard Reader, Murray N. Rothbard

•           Twilight of the Idols, Friedrich Nietzsche

•           Human, All Too Human, Fredrich Nietzsche

•           Leftism Revisited: From De Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

•           Liberty or Equality: The Challenge of Our Time, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

•           Democracy—The God That Failed: The Economics and Politics of Monarchy Democracy and Natural Order, Hans-Hermann Hoppe

•           Economic Science and the Austrian Method, Hans-Hermann Hoppe

•           Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche

•           The Ethics of Liberty, Murray N. Rothbard

•           Theory and History: An Interpretation of Social and Economic Evaluation, Ludwig von Mises

•           The Economics and Ethics of Private Property: Studies in Political Economy and Philosophy, Hans-Hermann Hoppe

•           Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar’s Edition, Murray N. Rothbard

•           Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, Ludwig von Mises

•           The Theory of Money and Credit, Ludwig von Mises

•           Human Action: The Scholar’s Edition, Ludwig von Mises