Books

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For books recommended by Tom Woods, see here.

For Kevin's current personal book wish list, see here.

Business/Finance/Investing:

• 100 Baggers (Mayer, 2015)
• Adventure Capitalist (2003, Rogers)
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits (1958, Fisher)
• Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation (1999, Chancellor)
• Empire of Debt (2006, Bonner and Wiggin)
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841, Mackay)
• Financial Reckoning Day (2003, Bonner and Wiggin)
• Infectious Greed (2003, Partnoy)
• Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (5th Edition, 2005, Kindleberger)
• Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets (2007, Bonner and Rajiva)
• Quality of Earnings: The Investor's Guide to How Much Money a Company Is Really Making (1987, O'Glove)
• Security Analysis (1934, Graham & Dodd)
• The Craft of Investing (1994, Train)
• The Intelligent Investor (1973, Graham)
• The Only Three Questions That Count (2007, Fisher)
• The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (2003, McLean and Elkind)
• The Trouble With Prosperity (1996, Grant)
• Tomorrow's Gold (2003, Faber)
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (2000, Lowenstein)

Economics/Government:

• A Critique of Interventionism (Mises)
• A Humane Economy (Röpke)
• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776, Smith)
• Bureacracy (Mises)
• Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966, Rand, description)
• Economics in One Lesson (1946, Hazlitt, description)
• For a New Liberty (1973, Rothbard)
• Human Action (1949, Mises, description)
• Liberalism (1927, Mises)
• Man, Economy and State (1962, Rothbard, description)
• Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism (2007, Hulsmann)
• Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles (1998, de Soto)
• Omnipotent Government (1944, Mises)
• Planned Chaos (Mises)
• The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality (Mises)
• The Failure of the New Economics (1959, Hazlitt)
• The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936, Keynes)
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism (2007, Murphy)
• The Theory of Money and Credit (1912, Mises)
• The Road to Serfdom (1944, Hayek, description)
• Socialism (1922, Mises, description)

Environment:

• An Anti-environmentalist Manifesto (1990, Rockwell)
• Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming (2007, Lomborg, description)
• Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse (1993, Bailey)
• The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century (2015, Bailey)

Foreign Policy:

• Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire (2006, Bandow)
• Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq (2006, Kinzer)
• The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War (2014, Kinzer)
• The Zimmermann Telegram (1958, Tuchman)
• Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Stalin and World War II (2005, Powell)

History:

• A Short History of Man: Progress and Decline (2015, Hoppe)
• America's Counter-Revolution (2016, Richman)
• America's Great Depression (1963, Rothbard)
• Bible and Sword: England and Palestine from the Bronze Age to Balfour (1956, Tuchman)
• Bully Boy: The Truth About Theodore Roosevelt's Legacy (2006, Powell)
• Crisis and Leviathan (1987, Higgs)
• FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression (2003, Powell)
• Hamilton's Curse (2009, DiLorenzo)
• How Capitalism Saved America (2004, DiLorenzo)
• Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse (2009, Woods)
• The Birth of the Modern (1991, Johnson)
• The Causes of the Economic Crisis; And Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression (1978, Mises)
• The Creature from Jekyll Island; A Second Look at the Federal Reserve (2002, Griffin)
• The Great Depression (1934, Robbins)
• The Guns of August (1962, Tuchman)
• The Industrial Revolution and Free Trade (1996, Folsom)
• The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam (1984, Tuchman)
• The Myth of the Robber Barons (1991, Folsom)
• The Panic of 1819 (1962, Rothbard)
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (Woods)
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal (Murphy)
• The Real Lincoln (2002, DiLorenzo)
• The Roosevelt Myth (1948, Flynn)
• The Story of Civilization (Durant)
• The Triumph of Liberty (2000, Powell)
• The Victory of Reason (2005, Stark)

Humor:

• Stay Interesting (2017, Goldsmith)

Philosophy:

• Defending the Undefendable (1976, Block)
• The Virtue of Selfishness (1964, Rand)
• The Bed of Procrustes (2010, Taleb)

Probability/Randomness/Behavioral Finance:

• Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder (2013, Taleb)
• Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2001, Taleb)
• How Do You Know? (2018, Mayer)
• The Art of Thinking Clearly (2011, Dobelli)
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007, Taleb)
• Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition (2009, Mauboussin)
• Thinking Fast and Slow (2011, Kahneman)

Social/Political:

• A Nation of Sheep (2007, Napolitano)
• Democracy in America (1835, de Tocqueville)
• Libertarianism in One Lesson (1984, Bergland)
• Notes on Democracy (Mencken)
• The Betrayal of the American Right (Rothbard)
• The Conscience of a Conservative (Goldwater)
• The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America (2013, Stockman)
• The Revolution: A Manifesto (2008, Paul)
• Trumped! (2016, Stockman)

Biography:

• Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism (2007, Hülsmann)
• The Irrepressible Rothbard (Rothbard)

Fiction:

• Atlas Shrugged (1957, Rand)

Fiction - dystopias:

• 1984 (1949, Orwell)
• Facial Justice (1960, Hartley)
• Hunger Games (2008, Collins)

Forecasting/future/technology:

• Megatrends (Naisbitt)
• Looking Forward: The Next Forty Years (1993, Templeton)
• The Third Wave (Toffler)
• Microcosm (Gilder)
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (Epstein)
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Gardner, Tetlock)
• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future (2016, Kelly)

Future - cracked crystal balls:

• Are You Missing The Real Estate Boom? (2005, Lereah)
• Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse (2007, Schiff)
• Dow 36,000 (1999, Glassman & Hassett)
• The Communist Manifesto (1848, Marx & Engels)
• The Cooling (1976, Ponte)
• The Great Depression of 1990 (1985, Batra)
• The Population Bomb (1968, Ehrlich)
• Trading Places (1988, Prestowitz)

Self Actualization/Relationships/Spiritual:

• How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936, Carnegie)
• Man's Search For Meaning (1959, Frankl)
• The Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1980, Millman)
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism (2006, Lukas)
• The Power of Positive Thinking (Peale)
• The Road Less Traveled (1978, Peck)