Just a list of books that I have enjoyed and re-read. I’ve included links (I don’t get anything from Amazon for linking to their site).
Democracy in America, Vol I & Vol II – Alexis de Tocqueville (free from Project Gutenberg)
On Liberty, John Stuart Mill (free from Project Gutenberg)
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents, F.A. Hayek
Free to Choose: A Personal Statement, Milton & Rose Friedman
Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things & Why They Matter, David Sax
Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms, Nicholas Johnson
The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, Christopher Clark
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, David Fromkin
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, Steven Pinker
Russia: A 1000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East, Martin Sixsmith
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, Anne Applebaum
The Gun, C.J. Chivers
A Renegade History of the United States, Thaddeus Russell
Tocqueville in Arabia: Dilemmas in a Democratic Age, Joshua Mitchell
America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, Andrew Bacevich
Small Wars, Faraway Places: Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965, Michael Burleigh
Understanding China: A Guide to China’s Economy, History, and Political Culture, John Bryan Starr
Merchant of Death: Money, Guns, Planes, and the Man Who Makes War Possible, Stephen Braun & Douglas Farah
A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, William Bernstein
The Clouds, The Birds, and The Frogs, Aristophanes (all free from Project Gutenberg)