A friend, wanting books to buy for Christmas, asked me for a list of 15—20. Well, here are 18 of my favorites. N.B.: I limited myself to one book per author (otherwise it would be all Murray!). Of course, I ignore a vast number of important works, many of which I love. But any of these 18 will enlighten and inform, and can change a life. May they do so. Merry Christmas!

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace
by Harry Elmer Barnes
$108.77

Defending the Undefendable
by Walter Block
$15.00

A Century of War
by John V. Denson
$13.00

The Real Lincoln
by Thomas DiLorenzo
$10.85

Wartime
by Paul Fussell
$13.59

Resurgence of the Warfare State
by Robert Higgs
$11.01

Democracy: The God that Failed
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
$17.96

Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism
by Jörg Guido Hülsmann
$50.00

The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal
by Robert Murphy
$13.57

Our Enemy, the State
by Albert J Nock
$17.00

End the Fed
by Ron Paul
$9.56

The State
by Franz Oppenheimer
$24.95

For a New Liberty
by Murray N. Rothbard
$27.00

The Roman Revolution
by Ronald Syme
$18.73

Market for Liberty
by Morris and Linda Tannehill
$12.00

The Rise and Decline of the State
by Martin van Creveld
$20.90

Liberalism
by Ludwig von Mises
$13.05

Meltdown
by Thomas E. Woods Jr.
$18.45