I like books. There is something about holding one in your hands, turning the pages and dropping a bookmark between two pages that will never get old (sorry iPad.) Here are some I recommend. Others will certainly follow.

Road to Serfdom

By F.A. Hayek

Liberty Defined

By Ron Paul

Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Toleration

By John Locke

Nullification

By Thomas E. Woods Jr.

Thinking With Type

By Ellen Lupton

The Designer and the Grid

By Julia Thrift & Lucienne Roberts

Do you matter?

By Robert Brunner

Visual Grammar

By Christian Leborg

Graphic Design in the Netherlands

By Otto Treumann

Lella and Massimo: Design is One

By Lella and Massimo Vignelli

Graphic Design in The Netherlands

By Walter Herdeg

100 Habits of Successful Graphic Designers

By Sarah Dougher & Joshua Berger

Making and Breaking the Grid

By Timothy Samara

Tell Me Why

By Karlssonwilker Inc.

The Design Concept

By Allen Hurlburt

The History of Graphic Design

By Phillip B. Meggs

Graphic Design a New History

By Stephen J. Eskilson

Typographic Desk Reference

By Theodore Rosendorf

Art Directors Annual 87

By Art Directors Club

Layout

By Allen Hurlburt

Revolutionary Wealth

By Alvin & Heidi

Reimagine

By Tom Peters

Lords of Finance

By Liaquat Ahamed

Theory of Money and Credit

By Ludwig von Mises

An Empire of Wealth

By John Steele Gordon

Rickenbacker

By Eddie Rickenbacker

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

By Edmund Morris

John Adams

By David McCullough

The Early Years

By C.H. Spurgeon

Endurance

By Alfred Lansing

Vocation

By Douglas Schuurman