A Voluntaryist Bibliography, The Short List

Prepared by Carl Watner, July 2009
(With suggestions by subscribers)

I. Books that helped me evolve into a voluntaryist

Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED

Ayn Rand, FOR THE NEW INTELLECTUAL

Leonard Read, GOVERNMENT - AN IDEAL CONCEPT

Murray Rothbard, MAN, ECONOMY, AND STATE

Lysander Spooner, NO TREASON, NO. 6

William Graham Sumner, THE FORGOTTEN MAN, THE CHALLENGE OF FACTS, WAR, EARTH-HUNGER AND OTHER ESSAYS (4 vols.)

Morris and Linda Tannehill, THE MARKET FOR LIBERTY

Ludwig von Mises, HUMAN ACTION

William Wooldridge, UNCLE SAM, THE MONOPOLY MAN

II. Other books that I would recommend to those interested in voluntaryism

Bruce Benson, THE ENTERPRISE OF LAW: Justice Without the State

Etienne de La Boetie, THE POLITICS OF OBEDIENCE

Robert LeFevre, THE FUNDAMENTALS OF LIBERTY

Albert Jay Nock, OUR ENEMY, THE STATE

Jim Payne, PRINCESS NAVINA VISITS VOLUNTARIA

Robert Ringer, RESTORING THE AMERICAN DREAM

Murray Rothbard, FOR A NEW LIBERTY

Mary Ruwart, HEALING OUR WORLD IN AN AGE OF AGGRESSION

Lysander Spooner, THE LYSANDER SPOONER READER

Henry David Thoreau, "Civil Disobedience"

Benjamin Tucker, INSTEAD OF A BOOK

Carl Watner, I MUST SPEAK OUT

III. Economics for those interested in voluntaryism

Walter Block, DEFENDING THE UNDEFENDABLE

Elgin Groseclose, MONEY AND MAN

Henry Hazlitt, ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSON

Murray Rothbard, POWER AND MARKET

Murray Rothbard, THE CASE FOR A 100 PER CENT GOLD DOLLAR

Murray Rothbard, WHAT HAS GOVERNMENT DONE TO OUR MONEY?

IV. Reading Lists

www.mises.org/story/1830: David Gordon, "The Meaning and History of Liberty: An In-Print Bibliography"

www.tolfa.us/read.htm: Jim Davies, The On Line Freedom Academy

"The Literature of Liberty," by Tom G. Palmer in David Boaz (ed.), THE LIBERTARIAN READER (1997), pp. 415-453.

V. Suggestions added by subscribers since June 2012

Mark Kurlansky, NONVIOLENCE

Michael Huemer, THE PROBLEM OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY

Ayn Rand, THE VIRTUE OF SELFISHNESS

Larken Rose, THE MOST DANGEROUS SUPERSTITION

Butler Shaffer, BOUNDARIES OF ORDER

Gene Sharp, THE POLITICS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION

Marc Stevens, ADVENTURES IN LEGAL LAND

Carl Watner, RENDER NOT: THE CASE AGAINST TAXATION