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| 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 |