A couple months back, I decided to search for libertarian book lists, compiling my own master reading list of both fiction and nonfiction. Be prepared - the list is long (133 books by 89 authors) and in no particular order.





Hans-Hermann Hoppe

A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism



Democracy: The God That Failed



The Economics and Ethics of Private Property



Economic Science and the Austrian Method



The Myth of National Defense

Ludwig von Mises

Human Action



The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science



Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War

Murray N. Rothbard

The Ethics of Liberty



Man, Economy and State (with Power and Market?)



Power and Market: Government and the Economy



For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto



Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature



The Irrepressible Rothbard



Education: Free & Compulsory



America’s Great Depression

Henry Hazlitt

Time Will Run Back



Economics in One Lesson

Llewellyn H. Rockwell

The Free Market Reader: Essays in the Economics of Liberty



The Economics of Liberty



Speaking of Liberty

Frederic Bastiat

The Law

Milton Friedman

Capitalism and Freedom



Free to Choose



Tyranny of the Status Quo

David Friedman

The Machinery of Freedom: Guide to a Radical Capitalism

Linda & Morris Tannehill

The Market for Liberty

Randy Barnett

The Structure of Liberty

Lysander Spooner

No Treason No. VI: The Constitution of No Authority



The Lysander Spooner Reader

James J. Kilpatrick

The Sovereign States: Notes of a Citizen of Virginia

Jan Narveson

The Libertarian Idea

Loren Lomasky

Persons, Rights and the Moral Community

Felix Morley

Freedom and Federalism

Raoul Berger

Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment



The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights



Federalism: The Founder's Design

Bruce Benson

The Enterprise of Law

George Reisman

Capitalism



The Government Against the Economy

Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged



Philosophy: Who Needs It



Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal



The Capitalist Manifesto



The Fountain Head

Robert Heinlein

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress



Starship Troopers



Stranger in a Strange Land

J. Neil Schulman

Alongside Night

L. Neil Smith

The Probability Broach



The Gallatin Divergence

John C. Wright

The Golden Age

David Bergland

Libertarianism in One Lesson

Allan Burris

A Liberty Primer

Mary Ruwart

Healing Our World

Charles Sprading

Liberty and the Great Libertarians

Walter Block

A Lexicon of Economic Thought



Economics & the Environment

Jack Boulogne

The Zoo

Sheldon Richman

Separating School and State

Terry Anderson

Free Market Environmentalism



NAFTA and the Environment

Joseph Bast, Peter Hill & Richard Rue

Eco-Sanity

Poul Anderson

Harvest of Stars



Mirkheim



Orion Shall Rise



The Last of the Deliverers

Rose Wilder Lane

The Discovery of Freedom

Isabel Paterson

The God of the Machine

Henry Grady Weaver

The Mainspring of Human Progress

Richard Epstein

Simple Rules for a Complex World

Ronald Homowy

Dealing with Drugs

Wayne Lapierre

Guns, Crime, and Freedom

John Locke

Two Treatises of Government

Tibor Machan

Individuals and Their Rights



The Liberty of Virtue



Human Rights and Human Liberties: A Radical Reconsideration of the American Political Tradition

Robert Nozick

Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations

Peter Brimelow

Patriot Games

Harry Browne

Why Government Doesn’t Work

Friedrich von Hayek

The Road to Serfdom

Auberon Herbert

The Right & Wrong of Compulsion by the State

Isabella Horry and Michael Walker

Government Spending Facts 2

Francis Kendall and Leon Louw

Let the People Govern

Albert Jay Nock

Our Enemy, the State

Filip Palda

Election Finance Regulation in Canada

Douglas K. Adie

The Mail Monopoly

R.W. Grant

Rent Control and the War against the Poor

Ronald Hamowy

Canadian Medicine: A Study in Restricted Entry

Charles Murray

Losing Ground

Christopher Sarlo

Poverty in Canada

Edmund Opitz

Leviathan at War

R.J. Rummel

Death by Government

Robert Merrill

The Ideas of Ayn Rand

Douglas B. Rasmussen and Douglas J. Den Uyl

Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal Order

Vernor Vinge

A Deepness in the Sky

James P. Hogan

The Multiplex Man



Voyage to Yesteryear



The Mirror Maze

David Boaz

Libertarianism: A Primer

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel

Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War

Larry Elder

The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America

Jacob Sullum

Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use

John R. Lott, Jr.

More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws

Thomas Paine

Collected Writings

James Bovard

Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen



Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil

Justin Raimondo

An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard

Israel Kirzner

Kirzner Ludwig von Mises: The Man and His Economics

John V. Denson

Reassessing the Presidency: The Rise of the Executive State and the Decline of Freedom



The Costs of War

Thomas DiLorenzo

The Real Lincoln : A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War

George Woodcock

Anarchism

Paul Edward Gottfried

After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State

Robert Higgs

Crisis and Leviathan



Depression, War, and Cold War

Ron Paul

The Revolution: A Manifesto

Richard Eberling

The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle

Randall Holcombe

The Great Austrian Economists

Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

Meltdown

Robert Murphy

Chaos Theory

William Morris

News from Nowhere



An Epoch of Rest

H.G. Wells

Men Like Gods

Eric Frank Russell

Late Night Final

Alfred Bester

The Stars My Destination

Jack Vance

Emphyrio

Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia



Left Hand of Darkness

Robert Anton Wilson

The Illuminatus Trilogy



Schroedinger's Cat

Corey Doctorow

Little Brother