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Liberty Tools Book List
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 and Libgen If you enjoy any of these books please considering purchasing.
Category 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
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
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 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 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
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