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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.

Literature

Non-Fiction

Literature

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

 

Non-Fiction

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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