reading list

fiction

Assembly of Women by Aristophanes
New Atlantis by Sir Francis Bacon
From These Ashes by Fredric Brown
Sparrowhawk - Book One: Jack Frake by Edward Cline
Sparrowhawk - Book Two: Hugh Kenrick by Edward Cline
Sparrowhawk - Book Three: Caxton by Edward Cline
Sparrowhawk - Book Four: Empire by Edward Cline
Sparrowhawk - Book Five: Revolution by Edward Cline
Sparrowhawk - Book Six: War by Edward Cline
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Ninety-Three by Victor Hugo
Barometer Rising by Hugh MacLennan
Monna Vanna by Maurice Maeterlinck
Calumet "K" by Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
We the Living by Ayn Rand
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Whispering Smith by Frank Spearman
Daughter of a Magnate by Frank Spearman
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Crying Sisters by Mabel Seely
Carry on Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
Right Ho Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse

nonfiction

economics

The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)
Principles of Economics by Carl Menger (1871)
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek (1944)
Human Action: A Treatise of Economics by Ludwig von Mises
     (1949)
Theory of Money and Credit by Ludwig von Mises (1953)
Economics and Freedom by Milton Friedman (1962)
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand (1966)
End the Fed by Ron Paul (2009)

politics and sociology

Second Treatise of Government by John Locke (1689)
Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776)
Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson (1776)
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom by Thomas Jefferson
     (1777)
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (1791)
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (1859)
The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater (1960)
The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul (2008)

religion

The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine (1796)
Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell (1927)
Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith (1974)
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
     by Sam Harris (2004)
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan
     Jacoby (2004)
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins (2006)
Breaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon by
     Daniel C. Dennett (2006)
God Is Not Good: How Religion Poisons Everything by
     Christopher Hitchens (2007)
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris (2008)

science

The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by
     Galileo Galilei
Darwin's Ghost: The Origin of Species Updated by Steve Jones
Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution by Neil
     de Grasse Tyson