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