Recommended Reading

Thomas Woods' page on Austrian Economics

Classical Political Philosophy (Best Read in this Order)
1)   The Trial and Death of Socrates, Plato
2)   Republic, Plato
2)   The Politics, Aristotle
3)   Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
4)   Second Treatise of Government, John Locke
5)   On The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
6)   On Liberty, John Stuart Mill
7)   The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
8)   Reflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund Burke
9)   Common Sense, Thomas Paine
10) The Federalist Papers, John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison
11) Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville

Economics

1)   Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt

2)   Meltdown, Thomas Woods 

3)   How and Economy Grows and Why it Crashes, Peter and Andrew Schiff

4)   End The Fed, Ron Paul

5)   Human Action, Ludwig von Mises

6)   The Law, Fredric Bastiat

7)   Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman

8)   What Has Government Done to our Money, Murray Rothbard

9)   The Case Against the Fed, Murray Rothbard

10) The Case For Gold, Ron Paul

Liberty

1)   Conscience of a Conservative, Barry Goldwater

2)   The Road to Serfdom, F.A. Hayek

3)   The Fatal Conceit, F.A. Hayek

4)   Liberty Defined, Ron Paul
5)   The Revolution, Ron Paul

6)   For A New Liberty, Murray Rothbard

7)   The Constitution of Liberty, Friedrich A. Hayek

8)   Left, Right and the State, Llwellyn Rockwell

9)   Free To Chose, Milton and Rose Friedman

10) The Ethics of Liberty, Murray Rothbard

Foreign Policy

1)   A Foreign Policy For All Americans, Robert Taft

2)   The Empire Has No Clothes, Ivan Eland

3)   Blowback, Chalmers Johnson

4)   A Foreign Policy of Freedom, Ron Paul

5)   Dismantling the Empire, Chalmers Johnson

6)   Omnipotent Government, Ludwig von Mises

History

1)   Madison and Jefferson, Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg

2)   The Conservative Intellectual Movement Since 1945, George Nash

         a. Reappraising the Right, George Nash

3)   Woodrow Wilson and The Roots of Modern Liberalism, Ronald Pestritto

4)   The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, Gordon Wood

5)   Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, Gordon Wood

6)   The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Gordon Wood

7)   The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecearry War, Thomas  DiLorenzo

8)   1776, David McCullough

9)   Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, Gordon Wood

10) Recarving Rushmore, Ivan Eland

11) Hamilton’s Curse: How Jefferson’s Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution and What it Means for Americans Today, Thomas DiLorenzo

12) Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, Pauline Maier

13) Grover Cleveland, Henry Graff

14) Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation, Harlow Unger

15) American Lion, Jon Meachum

Political Philosophy

1)   Liberalism, Ludwig von Mises

2)   Socialism, Ludwig von Mises

3)   The Conservative Mind: From Burke To Eliot, Russell Kirk

4)   Witness, Whitaker Chambers

5)   Ideas Have Consequences, Richard Weaver

6)   Democracy: The God That Failed, Hans-Hermann Hoppe

7)   Realizing Freedom, Tom G. Palmer

8)   American Progressivism, Ronald Pestritto

9)   What is Conservatism, Frank Meyer

Classical Literature

1)   Animal Farm, George Orwell

1)   The Crucible, Arthur Miller

2)   1984, George Orwell

3)   Brave New World, Aldus Huxley

4)   The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand

5)   Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand

6)   The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne

7)   Homage to Catalona, George Orwell

8)   The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank

9)   The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

10) Lord of the Flies, William Golding

11) To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

12) Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

13) The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane