Reading Recommendations
Though the ages and reading levels at which some of the listed works may be best appreciated will vary, all of the following material should be consumed by the well-rounded student before the age of 18. There are, of course, countless other wonderful works to be enjoyed in addition to these selections, which are chosen mainly on the basis of their support for a love and understanding of liberty, or to fill in gaps typical in a contemporary education.
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible by Ken Schoolland
Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
The Complete Works of Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophicles and Aristophanes
The Divine Comedy by Cervantes
The Lord Of The Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
State of Fear by Michael Crichton
Next by Michael Crichton
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Weapon Shops Of Isher by A. E. Van Vogt
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose by Dr. Seuss
Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss
The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss
Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss
Bartholomew and the Oobleck by Dr. Seuss
Cracking the Code by Peter E. Hendrickson
Upholding the Law by Peter E. Hendrickson
Was Grandpa Really a Moron? by Peter E. Hendrickson
The Worm In The Apple by Peter Brimelow
JFK and the Unspeakable by James W. Douglass
Whatever Happened To Justice by Richard J. Maybury
Whatever Happened To Penny-Candy by Richard J. Maybury
A Parliament of Whores by P. J. O'Rourke
The Rights Of Man by Tom Paine
The Real Lincoln by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Lincoln Unmasked by Thomas DiLorenzo
Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray
Democracy In America by Alexis DeToqueville
Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
Selected Essays On Political Economy by Frederick Bastiat
The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
The Constitution Of Liberty by F. A. Hayek
The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto
The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
Those Dirty Rotten Taxes by Charles Adams
Samuel Adams: America's Revolutionary Politician by John K. Alexander
Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations by Craig Nelson
The Day the Universe Changed by James Burke
The Pinball Effect by James Burke
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