I originally planned on creating a specific page (and writing a review) for each of the books I've read that I thought others might find useful. After creating four of these pages (one for Economics in One Lesson, The Creature from Jekyll Island, Money, Bank Credit & Economic Cycles and Tragedy and Hope)  I realized it would take a very long time to go through my whole list.

I've decided to just go ahead and list the titles with a short quote from the book itself. I'll add titles periodically, so be sure to check back.  If you'd like more information, click on the link and check out the reviews at Amazon. (Most of the books have plenty of thoughtful reviews already written by Amazon's customers.)

• Economics in One Lesson: This is one of those books that I wish I would have read years ago. Even if you don't know anything about "economics," I believe you will take priceless insights away from this short and well-written book.  A quick look at some of the contents will give you an idea of what's in store.  --More Info

• The Creature from Jekyll Island: --The bottom line: The Creature from Jekyll Island is a "must have" addition to your library. Written in easy / clear language, it reads like a novel. Even if you're already up to speed on The Federal Reserve System, The Creature from Jekyll Island is STILL mandatory reading. It is guaranteed to deepen your understanding of the "Federal Reserve" fraud and its impact on our world. --More Info

• Money, Bank Credit & Economic Cycles: Who better to present a point by point "academic case" for HONEST MONEY than a professor of economics? Though this book is not written for the beginner, it is far more "beginner friendly" than most of the other scholarly efforts I've read. If you have a fairly decent grasp of economic terminology and concepts, you will definitely walk away with a deeper understanding of the fraud known as "fractional reserve banking." --More Info

• Tragedy and Hope: This book is NOT a "light read." As a matter of fact, it is a painfully tedious, dry, and mostly dull read. But the insights it provides into the "nature of power" in modern history are priceless. --If you're not quite ready to "snuggle up to" a 1,300 page dissertation, you can "wet your whistle" with any number of other books that draw on Tragedy and Hope as a reference. Books like The Naked Capitalist or The Shadows of Power will be plenty to get you started. --More Info

• Our Enemy The State: "It is certainly true that the business of government, in maintaining 'freedom and security,' and 'to secure these rights,' is to make a recourse to justice costless, easy and informal; but the STATE, on the contrary, is primarily concerned with injustice, and its function is to maintain a regime of injustice; hence, as we see daily, its disposition is to put justice as far as possible out of reach, and to make the effort after justice as costly and difficult as it can. One may put it in a word that while government is by its nature concerned with the administration of justice, the State is by its nature concerned with the administration of law - law, which the State itself manufactures for the service of its own primary ends." --More info here
  

• Lords of Poverty: "Of course, the ugly reality is that most poor people in most poor countries most of the time never receive or even make contact with aid in any tangible shape or form: whether it is present or absent, increased or decreased, are thus issues that are simply irrelevant to the ways in which they conduct their daily lives. After the multi-billion-dollar 'financial flows' involved have been shaken through the sieve of over-priced and irrelevant goods that must be bought in the donor countries, filtered again in the deep pockets of hundreds of thousands of foreign experts and aid agency staff, skimmed off by dishonest commission agents, and stolen by corrupt Ministers and Presidents, there is really very little left to go around. This little, further more, is then used thoughtlessly, or maliciously, or irresponsibly by those in power - who have no mandate from the poor, who do not consult with them and who are utterly indifferent to their fate." --More info here

• A Century of War: (Description taken from Amazon.com) "This book is a gripping account of the murky world of the international oil industry and its role in world politics. Scandals about oil are familiar to most of us. From George W. Bush's election victory to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, US politics and oil enjoy a controversially close relationship. The US economy relies upon the cheap and unlimited supply of this single fuel. William Engdahl takes the reader through a history of the oil industry's grip on the world economy. His revelations are startling." --More info here

• Diplomacy: "The success of a policy of raison d’état depends above all on the ability to assess power relationships. --if...reaching the goals he sets for himself is a test, Richelieu must be remembered as one of the seminal figures of modern history. --'In matters of state,' wrote Richelieu, 'he who has the power often has the right, and he who is weak can only with difficulty keep from being wrong in the opinion of the majority of the world' --a maxim rarely contradicted in the intervening centuries. --In the world inaugurated by Richelieu, states were no longer restrained by the pretense of moral code. If the good of the state was the highest value, the duty of the ruler was the aggrandizement and promotion of his glory." (Side note: Kissinger, throughout this book, shows unapologetic admiration for practitioners of Realpolitik / raison d’état.) --More info here