| Liberty Tools Book List | ||
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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. | ||
| Category | Book | Author |
| 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 | |
| Anarchy in Practice - Stateless Solutions (Market Solutions to State Problems) | ||
| The Machinery of Freedom | David Freidman | |
| The Privatization of Roads and Highways | Walter Block | |
| Breaking Away: The Case for Succession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities | Ryan McMaken | |
| The Private Production of Defense | Hans Herman Hoppe | |
| Chaos Theory | Robert Murphy | |
| The Market for Liberty | Morris/Linda Tannehill | |
| The New Libertarianism: Anarcho-Capitalism | J. Michael Oliver | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 (Parts 1 & 2) | Whitney Webb | |
| The Creature From Jekyll Island | G Edward Griffin | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 Catasrophe 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, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone | 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 | 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 | ||
| The Roosevelt Myth | John T. Flynn | |
| The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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