It will take about a year of ready about 300 books. ~half are on this site. Rest are on Online Library of Liberty. Some must be bought, or are very rare:
I’ll list these, of the last category, since your into history:
This is good business histories.
George Selgin’s: Good Money. Buy it.
David Landes’: Revolution in Time. Rare.
This outlines an exact replica of today’s crisis: banks, governments, fiat money, and expectations of bailouts.
David Landes’: Bankers and Pashas. Rare.
These show what totalitarian economic planning has done in the non-western world.
Karl Wittfogel’s: Oriental Despotism. (Actually the title is misleading, as he goes from China to other societies; it’s a joke on Marx’s misuse of the term.) Very rare book, however. Very powerful.
Ettiene Balaz’: Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy is a winner.
Boris Brutzkus: Economic Planning in Soviet Russia. Very rare, but written while Mises wrote on economic calculation.
Victor’s Suvorov’s (Vladimir Rezun’s): Icebreaker, Inside the Soviet Army, etc. Very rare, except in Russian. But very powerful, and since then, many historians have agreed with him. Great counterpart to Mises’ Planned Chaos. Most new stuff on topic is in Russian, so you’ll need that to read it. But for your purposes it’ll do.
These are theory:
Hayek et al: Collectivist Economic Planning. Very rare.
David Landes’: What do Bosses Really Do? This is article, Landes’s response to an incredibly idiotic essay by an economic historian in his department. Quickly break all historical myths advanced since 1970’s by pro-socialist American historians.
Yves Guyot’s essays.
John Craig’s: Remarks on Political Economy. Rare.
Hermann Gossen. 1983 translation. Great translation, but skip the long intro, because the buddy of the translator dislikes Menger enough to twist interpretations. Very rare.
These are histories written by people living under communism:
Jung Chang’s: Wild Swans.
Nien Chang’s: Life and Death in Shanghai.
Anatoly Kuznetov’s Babi Yar. Very rare. Soviet Union border 1917-1960. Definite companion for ready any economic comparison of Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Most powerful account on the list of life under these regimes. Read after Boris Brutzkus.