Show Us Your Liberty Bookshelves!

[BuddyRey]

After my family's recent foreclosure, most of my Ron Paul/liberty-related books are in storage for the moment. :( But I've decided that at the next available opportunity, I'm going to build up my own shelf and give it the royal treatment, with bookends and maybe even that Rothbard bust they're selling at LvMI right now. So I could use a bit of inspiration, as well as seeing some new and interesting titles I haven't acquired yet. I'll also upload a pic of what I've got going right now, even though it's a pretty puny effort.

[BuddyRey]

Apologies for the lackluster quality of my camera phone, but as promised, here is what I've got so far.

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From left to right:
The Science of Society by Stephen Pearl Andrews
Men Against the State by James J. Martin
Molon Labe! by Boston T. Party
No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner (it's so slim you might just miss it!)
Individual Liberty by Benjamin R. Tucker
Instead of a Book by a Man Too Busy to Write One... also by Benjamin R. Tucker

Missing from this shelf but not from my collection are:
The Revolution: A Manifesto by Ron Paul
Liberty Defined also by Ron Paul
The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
The Freedom Outlaw's Handbook by Claire Wolfe
33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask by Tom Woods
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History also by Tom Woods
The Frederic Bastiat Collection two hardcover volumes published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
Two Treatises on Government by John Locke
Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
For a New Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard

[heavenlyboy34]

Most of my books are .pdf because I don't have enough cash or shelf space for dead tree editions. :( I can tell you I have Atlas Shrugged and We in print.

[Slutter McGee]

I will try to get a picture of mine posted soon. Included are
Nullification: How to resist federal tyranny - Woods,
Free to Choose - Friedman,
Atlas Shrugged - Rand,
Basic Economics - Sowell,
End the Fed - Paul,
Revolution - a Manifesto - Paul,
The Suicidal Corporation - Weaver,
The State - Oppenheimer,
Money Mischief - Friedman
,Capitalism and Freedom - Friedman,
Economics in One Lesson - Hazlitt,
Liberty vs the tyranny of socialism - W. Williams,
Dear America - Hess

I have the rest of Ayn Rand's books somewhere but I am not really a big fan of them.

Sincerely,

Slutter McGee

And I don't know how I forgot it. Road to Serfdom of course.

[messana]

Nullification and Rollback by Tom Woods

How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes and Crash Proof by Peter Schiff if that counts.

[ForLiberty2012]

Cool! I needed some book ideas for this winter break. I have a kindle so I can't supply you with a sweet picture but I've read:

The Revolution: A Manifesto, Ron Paul
Liberty Defined, Ron Paul
End the Fed, Ron Paul
How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashe, Peter Schiff

Currently reading:
Economics in one lesson, Henry Hazlitt

[Jingles]

All my books are in some kind of digital format because I don't have the money to constantly buy books. I will one day, but I can't afford it at the moment. Lots Austrian Economics, Ron Paul, and all the various things you would assume one of us would have.

[Jingles]

Cool! I needed some book ideas for this winter break. I have a kindle so I can't supply you with a sweet picture but I've read:

The Revolution: A Manifesto, Ron Paul
Liberty Defined, Ron Paul
End the Fed, Ron Paul
How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashe, Peter Schiff

Currently reading:
Economics in one lesson, Henry Hazlitt

Get For A New Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard.

[Wesker1982]

I'll take some pics soon, but for now:

http://www.shelfari.com/wesker1982/shelf

[BuddyRey]

Get For A New Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard.

I, BuddyRey, endorse this endorsement!

[Occam's Banana]

The "top shelf" of my (dead tree) library:

- Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
- The Bastiat Collection - Frederic Bastiat
- Man, Economy and State with Power and Market - Murray Rothbard (w/study guide by Robert Murphy)
- Human Action - Ludwig von Mises (w/study guide by Robert Murphy)
- Crisis and Leviathan - Robert Higgs
- Against Politics: On Government, Anarchy and Order - Anthony de Jasay
- Radicals for Capitalism - Brian Doherty
- Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism - Jorg Guido Hulsmann

Related "dead tree" items:
- The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
- Two Treatises of Government - John Locke
- Debate on the Constitution (Vols. 1 & 2) - various
- Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
- A Pen Warmed Up in Hell: Mark Twain in Protest - Mark Twain **
- various - Ayn Rand
- every print isssue of R.W. Bradford's Liberty magazine
- anthologies w/items such as Thomas Hobbes' "Leviathan" & J.S. Mill's "On Liberty"

** The Twain is excellent - highly recommended. Especially his essay "To the Person Sitting in Darkness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_the_Person_Sitting_in_Darkness)" (which IMO is one of the greatest anti-imperialist polemics ever written).
His reworking of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is also priceless.

[kuckfeynes]

I didn't have a huge collection to start with, but ever since I got the kindle, I started giving away my books to interested parties, with the stipulation that they do the same when they're done. I realized the bookshelf was not getting much love anymore so I boxed it and saved myself a thing to dust. Thanks to Mises Institute I have material on there to last me a decade...

[BuddyRey]

Dangit....I'm probably the last bookworm in America who still doesn't have a Kindle yet.

[Wesker1982]

Dangit....I'm probably the last bookworm in America who still doesn't have a Kindle yet.

I don't have one yet, but I am getting one for Christmas :D

Mises.org FTW

[LoneWolf]

Dangit....I'm probably the last bookworm in America who still doesn't have a Kindle yet.
Don't have one. Don't plan on getting one. Got the wife a nook color for christmas.Personally I enjoy a real book to read.

[Dreamofunity]

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Public Sector Economics - Randall Holcombe (Cut off the picture)
The Ultimate Resource 2 - Julian Simon
Learning and Liberty - About Friedman and Vouchers
The Creature from Jekyll Island - G. Edward Griffen
The Ethics of Liberty - Rothbard
The Market for Liberty - Linda and Morris Tannehill
Strictly Confidential - Private Volker fund memos from Rothbard
Imperial Hubris - Anonymous (Michael Scheuer)
Meltdown - Tom Woods
Economics in One Lesson - Hazlitt
The Revolution, End the Fed, and Liberty Defined - Ron Paul (All signed copies, woot)
From Subsistence to Exchange - Peter Thomas Bauer
The Libertarian Reader - David Boaz (although it's really just a mix of essays from practically everyone)
Boundaries of Order - Butler Shaffer
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Society - T. J. B. Hoff
Human Action - Mises
For a New Liberty - Rothbard
Radicals for Capitalism - Brian Doherty
Ludwig Von Mises: The Man and His Economics - Israel Kirzner
Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market - Rothbard
The Economics of Non-Human Societies - Gordon Tullock
The Free Market and Its Enemies - Ludwig von Mises
The Law - Bastiat
The Place of Economics in Learning - Mises

I also have some random 'free' ones (Morality of Capitalism, The Economics of Freedom, Atlas Shrugged and Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal) as well as random ones on presidents and such.

[Original_Intent]

The Law - Bastiat
An Enemy Hath Done This - Ezra Taft Benson
Latter-Day Liberty - Connor Boyack (I did some editting/proofreading on this book for the author.) It just sold out it's first printing (released three weeks ago) and it is the top selling new/future release on Amazon under Mormonism. Also has great endorsements from Ron Paul and several other liberty luminaries.
Creature from Jekyll Island - Griffin
End The Fed - Paul
2nd Treatise on government - Locke
Economics in One Lesson (have read it, don't own it)
The Naked Communist/ The Naked Capitalist/ 5,000 year Leap / The Majesty of God's Law - Skousen
The Proper Role of Government - can't remember the author

I'll add to this when I can get home and peruse my bookshelf :)

[ForLiberty2012]

Don't have one. Don't plan on getting one. Got the wife a nook color for christmas.Personally I enjoy a real book to read.

That's the beauty of a kindle... reads like a book yet you are not inconvenienced with the page turning, bookmarking, etc. And it's very portable and you can instantly buy books, not to mention the space saved. Furthermore, if you are an Amazon Prime member (best technology deal ever) there are hundreds of bestsellers you can "rent" for free.