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Here was my list:
http://foseti.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/books-that-influenced-me/

Did you follow the "favorite books" threads from some months ago?

Isegoria, myself, and a bunch of the Masonomists posted lists. I'd recommend anything on my list. Current top of my Amazon queue is a Robin Hanson recommendation: Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths, and Total Nonsense -- Robert Sutton.

I was going to suggest an interesting fiction series I've been reading, but instead decided to head over to Amazon and get the Kindle version of the Pfeffer/Sutton book.

I presume it won't suck.

And thanks for the link to Burnham, found the PDF.

Joseph Fouché has discussed The Machiavellians at length, and I recall a link to the entire document in PDF format.

Isegoria - thanks but you're too late to influence the spending on this spree.

I've read Piper, Space Viking, Lord Kalvan, Little Fuzzy and more. (did you hear that John Scalzi has a little fuzzy reboot coming out?). He's always been a favorite. If you go back to the main page you can see which suggestions I did take, and an updated list of my favorite sf.

Although in light of your comment, I think space Viking is worth another read. It's in the public domain, I believe. I'll go find it...

Heck, while I'm here and the Kindle page is open in the other tab, the series I was going to recommend happens to be the top three items in the Kindle best sellers right now (not the reason I'm reading it).

Stieg Larsson's three book series is interesting so far, perhaps more so because it was all published post mortem, no mean trick. If anyone does get them, be sure to read them in chronological order.

@Foseti, from your list, I've already read Moldbug (obviously), some Mencken, Whitaker Chambers' Witness, Shelby Foote, most of the Bell Curve (it was someone else's, I had to give it back), Understanding Humna History, and all of Stephenson.

I didn't read the Machiavellians, but I have read The Prince, and a quite nice biography of Nicky, Machiavelli in Hell. I haven't read Spillane, but I've read all of Raymond Chandler.

Whenever I think of Moldbug, I picture the Neo-Victorians from the Diamond Age.

I added Burnham to the list, but Amazon's asking $40 for a used paperback. Bit steep. Oh, and I bought The Return of the Great Depression that you recommended the other day. I'll get the 10000 year explosion, too, I think.

@Aretae, your first list - I've read all of Heinlein, in fact the first big book without pictures that I read all by myself was Red Planet. I've read Road to Serfdom, but nothing else from Hayek. Some of that will get on the list. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was a huge influence on me, along with Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminati and Schroedinger's Cat trilogy; I read all of that at about the same time.

I've read a metric buttload of sf - I have a top list somewhere around here - but I haven't read Halperin.

Strauss' The Game is fantastic, well written and just blew me away. From that I found Roissy, Ferdinand and some of the other blogs of that ilk, fascinating stuff. There's a blog post in there somewhere. My aunt runs a matchmaking service, I gave The Game to her, she's about halfway through and says it's going to change the way she thinks about how she does a lot of things.

You and others keep talking about de Soto and de Mesquita, they're on the list. I've read van Creveld's Supplying War, Technology and War and Command in War, but surprisingly not Transformation. That's on the list.

Brin's Transparent Soceity was a mind opener. As is most of his fiction. Great stuff. I should probably put some Nock and Rothbard on the list, too.

I've read all the sf and fantasy on your list. Hadn't thought about Dragonlance in a long while - but one bit, survived mostly without context in my head - the Gully Gnomes, who count, "One, Two, Many." Lots of people think like that.

A while back, I did a list of my favorite sf novels, you can look at it here. Reading it over, I can see that it needs some update. Another blog post!

As Aretae mentioned, I've already compiled a list of books that have influenced me, and those books might interest you.

Also, if you're a long-time SF fan just turned reactionary, you should find a copy of H. Beam Piper's Space Viking and get reading.

Just finished "A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America's Last Years in Vietnam" (from the library because I am a cheapskate).

A very eye-opening examination of Vietnam from Abrams' takeover in '68 to the '73 cease-fire. Abrams recognized that Westmoreland's bif battalion battles were not the way to win. It was control of the hamlets and logistics.

How we won the war, built up South Vietnam, then went home and let the whole thing burn.