I won’t be able to read the Silmarillion for a while after all, because apparently I can’t download from bn.com overseas. 
I yearn for it.
I bought A New History of Western Philosophy by Anthony Kenny. This will be by far one of the largest books I’ll ever own.
I started in on the massive eleven-volume history series The Story of Civilization by Will Durant. Starting with the first volume ‘Our Oriental Heritage’, which is about 1200 pages.
I also started reading a bit of David Icke’s The Biggest Secret just for laughs.
Funnily enough, they are both history books and procede in a similar manner and sequence.
I plan to get around to reading the rest of Robin Dunbar’s How Many Friends Does One Person Need? and Idries Shah’s Learning how to Learn, which I just put on my Kindle.
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Finished Hazlitt’s Foundations of Morality. Phew! Now to focus on Hume and Durant…
It’s been about 4 weeks. What are people reading now?
Myself, I just finished Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature on my Nook eReader, as well as Mises’ Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth (the latter of which was my waiting-in-line iPhone read). Both works were incredibly mind-expanding.
I’m going to continue reading Mises’ smaller works on my iPhone: next is Causes of the Economic Crisis. Next up on my Nook is Hoppe’s A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism. I’m about 90% through listening to Our Oriental Heritage, the first volume of Will Durant’s Story of Civilization series. As always, the erudition and insight abounds in Durant’s writings. It was so wonderfully surprising to find that this series is freely available in its entirety online. It is truly a treasure.
Hume’s Treatise is great. I got sidetracked when I first started reading, then returned to it last year and was engrossed. Book III is fantastic.
I’m several chapters into Randy Barnett’s The Structure of Liberty. It’s really good so far; he sees any social order as having to address the problems of knowledge, interest and power, and explains why private property, freedom of contract and the classically liberal conception of justice best deal with these problems. It also starts with a good explanation and defense of natural rights. My only complaint so far is that, in the pursuit for clarity, Barnett repeats himself a whole lot. Still, it’s worth keeping an eye out for an affordable used copy. I got a near-mint hardcover for $8.
The most recent book I read was a re-reading of Spencer’s The Man Versus the State. I am also reading issues of American Affairs.
Finished reading Plato’s Republic for the second time. I’m now reading the first book in the fantasy quadrilogy “The Book of the New Sun” by Gene Wolfe; the first book is Shadow and Claw.
Mises, Human Action
Hazlitt, The Conquest of Poverty
Mises, Human Action
Always worth reading and re-reading. I have gotten throug the audiobook version 4 times, and read the whole book once.
I’m a bit over halfway through this read. I hadn’t thought of trying the audio version - thanks for the tip.
Recently Finished:
- Jeffrey Tucker - Bourbon for Breakfast
- Rothbard - Mystery of Banking
Currently Reading:
- Mises - Human Action (finally!)
Planning to read soon:
- Rothbard - Conceived in Liberty (recently released on Kindle!)
- Garet Garrett - Trilogy (Driver, Cinder Buggy, Satan’s Bushel)
Any other suggestions would be great!
I get sidetracked and rarely finish books consistently, so that’s not good. But I’m currently getting through Bourbon for Breakfast, Sam Harris’ The Moral Landscape, picking and choosing chapters in Thus Spoke Zarathustra (already read it and already my favorite piece of literature), and a book titled Camus and Sartre: A Historic Confrontation.
I like some of Hume’s ideas, but for some reason I’ve never been able to digest him very well. Maybe it’s something about his writing style.
I’m reading Israel Kirzern’s The Economic Point of View; I’ve been reading it for quite some time now, actually. The problem is that I only read every three or four days. I’ve started to read more in between classes. In the mean time, I’ve also decided to read Stephen Cohen’s and Brad DeLong’s The End of Influence, which so far seems taken straight from the mercantilist era.
Speaking of this, I went into a Barnes and Noble today for no other reason than having a couple dollars to spend and being bored. Much to my surprise, I found Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson on a “buy 2 get the third free” shelf. I figured that was too good to pass up, so I bought that in addition to Stephen Hawking’s and Leonard Mlodinow’s A Briefer History of TIme and a theoretical physics book by Micho Kaku.
I’ve read about six books on wolves lately noting the details of territorial boundaries and property disputes among the packs. I’ve amassed about 2500 words of notes and I’m about a 1000 words deep into article/journal. I’ve also been reading Anarchy and The Law again
Please do explain more, Jeremiah.
Great thread, I thought about starting one like this a while ago but didn’t because I’m fairly thread starter averse. I’ve been on a huge reading tear as of late, but am starting to get a bit fatigued and burned out, but still I press on. Mostly Libertarian and AE books. I have a hard time reading fiction, for an activity that takes a lot of time I don’t like to waste it on something that feels frivilous and fleeting.
Books recently finished:
- Rothbard - For a New Liberty
- Oppenheimer - The State
- Nock - Our Enemy the State
- Mises - Theory and History
- Callahan - Economics for Real People
- Block - The Privatization of Roads and Highways
Currently Reading
- Molyneux - Practical Anarchy
Future Reading:
- Mises - Socialism
- Mises - Human Action
- Various - Anarchy and the Law
- Hoppe - Economics and Ethics of Private Property
I can’t decide what to read next or if I’ll still have the stamina for it, but any other suggestions?