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| Welcome to the Liberty Tools Book list! This is our official book recommendations for the best books across a wide range of liberty topics. We do not specifically endorse every idea in these books or by these authors, but we do recommended them as a good place to learn about the topics at hand. Not all of these books are specifically libertarian, but they contain valuable information that could benefit anyone regardless of political philosophy. | Find these books here: [Anna's Archive](https://annas-archive.org/) and [Libgen](https://libgen.gs/index.php) If you enjoy any of these books please considering purchasing. |
| Category                                                     | Author                                                       |
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| **Agorism**                                                  |                                                              |
| Community Technology                                         | Karl Hess                                                    |
| New Libertarian Manifesto                                    | Samuel Edward Konkin III                                     |
| Agorist Class Theory                                         | Wally Conger                                                 |
| How to Opt Out of the Technocratic State                     | Derrick Broze                                                |
| Anti-Politics                                                | Sal Mayweather                                               |
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| **Anarchy in Practice - Stateless Solutions**                |                                                              |
| Community Technology                                         | David Freidman                                               |
| New Libertarian Manifesto                                    | Walter Block                                                 |
| Agorist Class Theory                                         | Ryan McMaken                                                 |
| How to Opt Out of the Technocratic State                     | Hans Herman Hoppe                                            |
| Anti-Politics                                                | Robert Murphy                                                |
| The Market for Liberty                                       | Morris/Linda Tannehill                                       |
| The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism                   | J. Michael Oliver                                            |
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| **Crypto Anarchy**                                           |                                                              |
| The Genesis Book                                             | Aaron Van Wirdun                                             |
| Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency | Andy Greenberg                                               |
| This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, The Cypherpunks, and their fight to Empower Whistleblowers | Andy Greenberg                                               |
| Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age | Steven Levy                                                  |
| The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age | James Dale Davidson, Michael David Axtel                     |
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| **Cryptocurrency**                                           |                                                              |
| Digital Gold                                                 | Nathaniel Popper                                             |
| How Money got Free                                           | Patrick Eha                                                  |
| Understanding Bitcoin                                        | Robert Muprhy and Silas Barta                                |
| The Bitcoin Standard                                         | SaifeDean Ammous                                             |
| The Internet of Money                                        | Andreas Antonopolous                                         |
| Understanding Bitcoin                                        | Andreas Antonopolous                                         |
| Understanding Ethereum                                       | Andreas Antonopolous                                         |
| Hacking Bitcoin                                              | Roger Ver                                                    |
| The Blocksize War                                            | Jonathan Bier                                                |
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| **Conspiracies**                                             |                                                              |
| Filthy Rich                                                  | James Patterson                                              |
| All The Shahs Men                                            | Steven Kinzer                                                |
| JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters      | James W. Douglass                                            |
| Chaos                                                        | Tom O'Neill                                                  |
| Inventing the AIDS Virus                                     | Peter Duesberg                                               |
| The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire             | Charlie Robinson & Jeff Berwick                              |
| A Warning from History                                       | Corey Hughes                                                 |
| The Octopus of Global Control                                | Charlie Robinson                                             |
| One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that gave Rise the Jeffrey Epstein | Whitney Webb                                                 |
| The Creature From Jekyll Island                              | G Edward Griffin                                             |
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| **Covid**                                                    |                                                              |
| The Real Anthony Fauci                                       | Robert F. Kennedy Jr.                                        |
| The War on Ivermectin                                        | Pierre Kory                                                  |
| The Courage to Face Covid-19                                 | Peter McCullough                                             |
| A Plague Upon Our House                                      | Scott Atlas                                                  |
| Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19                 | Matt Ridley                                                  |
| Diary of A Psychosis                                         | Tom Woods                                                    |
| The Pfizer Papers                                            | Naomi Wolf                                                   |
| **Vaccines**                                                 |                                                              |
| Turtles All the Way Down                                     | Anonymous, Tim Vadnar                                        |
| The Moth in the Iron Lung                                    | Forrest Moready                                              |
| Crooked: Manmade Disease Explained                           | Forrest Moready                                              |
| Dissolving Illusions                                         | Susan Humphries                                              |
| Vaccines, Autoimmunity and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness | Thomas Cowan                                                 |
| Drug War and Prohibition                                     |                                                              |
| The Economics of Prohibition                                 | Mark Thornton                                                |
| American Kingpin                                             | Nick Bilton                                                  |
| High Price                                                   | Dr. Carl Hart                                                |
| Chasing the Scream                                           | Johann Hari                                                  |
| Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic        | Sam Quinones                                                 |
| Drug War Addiction                                           | Sheriff Bill Masters                                         |
| Gang Leader for A Day                                        | Sudhir Venkatesh                                             |
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| **Economics and History of Economics**                       |                                                              |
| Economics in One Lesson                                      | Henry Hazlitt                                                |
| Basic Economics                                              | Thomas Sowell                                                |
| The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes | Mark Skousen                                                 |
| History of Money and Banking in the United States            | Murray Rothbard                                              |
| End the Fed                                                  | Ron Paul                                                     |
| Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles                      | Jesus Huerta de Soto                                         |
| The Fiat Standard                                            | SaifeDean Ammous                                             |
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| **Environment**                                              |                                                              |
| American Serengeti                                           | Dan Flores                                                   |
| Fossil Future                                                | Alex Epstein                                                 |
| Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism | Robert Zubrin                                                |
| Apocalypse Never                                             | Michael Shellenberger                                        |
| The Wizard and The Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World | Charles C. Mann                                              |
| Sacred Cow: Why Well-Raised Meat Is Good for You and Good for the Planet | Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf                                  |
| Running With Rhinos                                          | Ed Warner                                                    |
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| **Extremist Politics**                                       |                                                              |
| The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics  | Michael Malice                                               |
| SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police              | Vox Day                                                      |
| The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure | Greg Lukianoff and Johnathan Haidt                           |
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| **Fiction**                                                  |                                                              |
| Brave New World                                              | Aldous Huxley                                                |
| 1984                                                         | George Orwell                                                |
| Animal Farm                                                  | George Orwell                                                |
| Molon Labe!                                                  | Kenneth Royce (Boston T Party)                               |
| Alongside Night                                              | J. Niel Schulman                                             |
| Freehold                                                     | Michael Z. Williamson                                        |
| The Moon is a Harsh Mistress                                 | Robert Heinlen                                               |
| The Handmaid’s Tale                                          | Margaret Atwood                                              |
| Anthem                                                       | Ayn Rand                                                     |
| The Fountainhead                                             | Ayn Rand                                                     |
| The Giver                                                    | Lois Lowery                                                  |
| Red Rising                                                   | Pierce Brown                                                 |
| Unintended Consequences                                      | John Ross                                                    |
| The Probability Broach                                       | L. Neil Smith                                                |
| The High Ground Series                                       | Doug Casey                                                   |
| Enemy of the State                                           | F. Paul Wilson                                               |
| Financial Crisis                                             |                                                              |
| Meltdown                                                     | Tom Woods                                                    |
| Deep Freeze: Iceland's Economic Collapse                     | Phillip Bagus and David Howden                               |
| Americas Great Depression                                    | Murray Rothbard                                              |
| The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century | Mark Thornton                                                |
| End the Fed                                                  | Ron Paul                                                     |
| Gun Rights                                                   |                                                              |
| Come and Take it: The Gun Printers Guide to Thinking Free    | Cody Wilson                                                  |
| The 10 Myths of Gun Control                                  | Jose Nino                                                    |
| More Guns Less Crime                                         | John Lott                                                    |
| Health and Nutrition                                         |                                                              |
| Death by Food Pyramid                                        | Denise Minger                                                |
| Death by Regulation: How We Were Robbed of a Golden Age of Health and How We Can Reclaim It | Mary Ruwart                                                  |
| The Primal Prescription                                      | Doug Mcguff and Robert Murphy                                |
| Fat for Fuel                                                 | Dr. Joseph Mercola                                           |
| Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health | Casey Means and Calley Means                                 |
| Sacred Cow: Why Well-Raised Meat Is Good for You and Good for the Planet | Diana Rodgers and Robb Wolf                                  |
| Blind Spots: The Medicine Gets it Wrong and What it Means For our Health | Marty Makary                                                 |
| Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity                    | Peter Attia                                                  |
| History - General                                            |                                                              |
| A Renegade History of the United States                      | Thaddeus Russell                                             |
| A Peoples History of the United States                       | Howard Zinn                                                  |
| Albions's Seed                                               | David Hackett Fischer                                        |
| The Dawn Of Everything: A New History of Humanity            | David Graber                                                 |
| A Little History of the World                                | EH Gombrich                                                  |
| Debt: The First 5000 Years                                   | David Graber                                                 |
| History of Government Institutions                           |                                                              |
| Legacy of Ashes: A history of the CIA                        | Tim Weiner                                                   |
| Enemies: A history of the FBI                                | Tim Weiner                                                   |
| The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and their Secret World War | Steven Kinzer                                                |
| Overthrow: Americas Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq | Steven Kinzer                                                |
| **History of Socialism**                                     |                                                              |
| The Almost Nearly Perfect People                             | Michael Booth                                                |
| The Longest Romance: The Mainstream Media and Fidel Castro   | Humberto Fontova                                             |
| The Case Against Socialism                                   | Rand Paul                                                    |
| **History of War and Military**                              |                                                              |
| The Strategic Logic of Suicide Bombers                       | Robert Pape                                                  |
| Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terror                | Scott Horton                                                 |
| Death by Government: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900     | R.J. Rummel                                                  |
| Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe of Ukraine | Scott Horton                                                 |
| All the Shahs Men                                            | Stephen Kirzner                                              |
| **Property Rights**                                          |                                                              |
| Against Intellectual Property                                | Stephan Kinsella                                             |
| (Property Rights) - Freedom on the Frontier                  | Terry Anderson & Peter J Hill                                |
| How Music Got Free                                           | Steven Witt                                                  |
| Water Capitalism                                             | Walter Block & Peter Nelson                                  |
| Space Capitalism                                             | Walter Block & Peter Nelson                                  |
| Against Intellectual Monopoly                                | Michelle Boldrin & David Levine                              |
| **Intro to Liberty**                                         |                                                              |
| The Law                                                      | Frederic Bastiat                                             |
| The Road to Serfdom                                          | Friedrich Hayek                                              |
| Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom | Ron Paul                                                     |
| The Revolution                                               | Ron Paul                                                     |
| **Intro to Anarchy**                                         |                                                              |
| No Treason: The Constitution of no Authority                 | Lysander Spooner                                             |
| The Most Dangerous Superstition                              | Larken Rose                                                  |
| The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey | Michael Huemer                                               |
| The Anarchist's Handbook                                     | Organized by Michael Malice                                  |
| Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition | Wendy McElroy                                                |
| Individual Liberty                                           | Benjamin Tucker                                              |
| Freedom’s Progress: A History of Political Thought           | Gerard Casey                                                 |
| **Living Freedom**                                           |                                                              |
| The Freedom Outlaw's Handbook: 179 Things to Do 'til the Revolution | Claire Wolfe                                                 |
| 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution: Ideas and Resources for Self-Liberation, Monkey Wrenching and Preparedness | Claire Wolfe                                                 |
| Don't Shoot the Bastards (Yet): 101 More Ways to Salvage Freedom | Claire Wolfe                                                 |
| **Net Neutrality**                                           |                                                              |
| The Fallacy of Net Neutrality                                | Thomas Hazlett                                               |
| The Master Switch                                            | Tim Wu                                                       |
| The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology | Thomas Hazlett                                               |
| Code 2.0                                                     | Lawrence Lessig                                              |
| **Philosophy - General**                                     |                                                              |
| Drive: Understanding the science of Human motivation         | Daniel Pink                                                  |
| Defending the Undefendable                                   | Walter Block                                                 |
| Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder                  | Nassim Taleb                                                 |
| The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion | Johnathan Haidt                                              |
| Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World        | David Epstein                                                |
| **Philosophy - Political**                                   |                                                              |
| The Ethics of Liberty                                        | Murray Rothbard                                              |
| Anatomy of the State                                         | Murray Rothbard                                              |
| An Agorist Primer                                            | Samuel Konkin                                                |
| Our Enemy, the State                                         | Albert J Nock                                                |
| **Police Brutality and the Justice system**                  |                                                              |
| Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces | Radley Balko                                                 |
| A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State   | John Whitehead                                               |
| The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America     | Naomi Murakawa                                               |
| The New Jim Crow                                             | Michelle Alexander                                           |
| Ghettoside                                                   | Jill Leovy                                                   |
| I Can't Breathe: A Killing on Bay Street                     | Matt Taibbi                                                  |
| Justice Before the Law                                       | Michael Huemer                                               |
| **Revisionist History**                                      |                                                              |
| The Myth of the Robber Barons                                | Burt Folsom                                                  |
| The Art of Contrary Thinking                                 | Humphrey B. Neill                                            |
| Why American History is Not What They Say: An Introduction to Revisionism | Jeff Riggenbach                                              |
| Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong | James W. Loewen                                              |
| The Roosevelt Myth                                           | John T. Flynn                                                |
| The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War | Thomas J. DiLorenzo                                          |
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| **Security and Privacy**                                     |                                                              |
| The Art of Invisibility                                      | Kevin Mitnick                                                |
| How to Be Invisible                                          | J. J. Luna                                                   |
| No Place to Hide                                             | Glen Greenwald                                               |
| Public Record                                                | Edward Snowden                                               |
| The Production of Security                                   | Gustave di Molinari                                          |
| Extreme Privacy: How to Disapear on the Internet             | Michael Bazzell                                              |
| Watchman Privacy                                             | Gabriel Custodiet                                            |
| Privacy in Utopia                                            | Gabriel Custodiet                                            |
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| **Schooling and Unschooling**                                |                                                              |
| Radical Unschooling                                          | Dayna Martin                                                 |
| The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money | Bryan Caplan                                                 |
| Weapons of Mass Instruction                                  | John Taylor Gatto                                            |
| The Absorbent Mind                                           | Maria Montessori                                             |
| The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth | Charlie Kirk                                                 |
