T.REX Reading List

T.REX ARMS is a bookstore now! Unfortunately, we don’t have enough room to sell all of our favorite books, but we do want to recommend them to you. In our goal to equip serious citizens, we want to provide as much information as possible, and that’s going to involve finding the best books, the best ideas, the best information on the world that we live in, and that has resulted in this reading list.

Topics include firearm rights and gun-control studies, but also the ideas that preceded the Second Amendment. There are sections for American history, world history, and then of course economics, technology, and business books. There are some philosophy and theology books that undergird these ideas, a list of some of the worst books you should be aware of, and even children’s books that teach good lessons about the past and present.

FULL LIST

Click the button above to read/download the PDF that outlines why each of these books is important and worthwhile. Scroll through the list below for an easy summary list:

THE SECOND AMENDMENT

  • In Defense of the Second Amendment – Larry Correia
  • The Second Amendment Manifesto – John Paine
  • That Every Man Be Armed – Stephen Holbrook
  • Aiming For Liberty – David B. Kopel

PRE-AMERICAN LIBERTY AND INTERPOSITION

  • Slaying Leviathan – Dr. Glenn Sunshine
  • The Christian and the Magistrate – Pierre Viret
  • The Magdeberg Confession – the Pastors of Magdeburg
  • Vindiciea Contra Tyrannos – Stephen Junius Brutus
  • Lex Rex – Samuel Rutherford
  • The Great Christian Revolution – Otto Scott

AMERICAN HISTORY

  • Plymouth Plantation – William Bradford
  • The Matchlock Gun – Walter D. Edmonds
  • Paul Revere’s Ride – David Hacket Fischer
  • 1776 – David McCullough
  • Origin and Principles of the American Revolution – Frederich von Gentz

GENERAL WORLD HISTORY

  • The White Horse King – Dr. Ben Merkle
  • Modern Times – Paul Johnson
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

ECONOMICS

  • Biblical Economics in Comics – Vic Lockman
  • Economics in One Lesson – Hazlitt
  • Basic Economics – Thomas Sowell

INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY

  • Diary of an Early American Boy – Eric Sloane
  • Wealth and Poverty of Nations – David S. Landes
  • Connections – James Burke
  • Skunkworks – Ben Rich

BUSINESS

  • The Goal – Eliyahu Goldrat
  • Two Second Lean – Paul Akers
  • Entreleadership – Dave Ramsey
  • The Advantage – Pat Lencioni
  • Good to Great – Jim Collins

POLITICS

  • The Law – Frederic Bastiat
  • Parliament of Whores – PJ O’Rourke
  • The War on Guns – John R. Lott, Jr.
  • The Dying Citizen – Victor Davis Hanson

PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY

  • Live Not by Lies – Rod Dreher
  • Rules for Reformers – Doulas Wilson
  • How Should We Then Live? – Francis Schaefer
  • By What Standard? – R.J. Rushdoony
  • By This Standard – Greg Bahnsen

ROGUE’S GALLERY

  • The Prince – Niccoli Machiavelli
  • The Communist Manifesto – Marx & Engels
  • Rules for Radicals – Saul Alinsky

MILITARY STUDIES

  • Counterinsurgency Warfare – David Galula
  • Tactics in Counterinsurgency – US Army Manual
  • Americans at War – Stephen Ambrose
  • Hazardous Duty – Maj. Gen. John K. Singlaub
  • War in Peace – Marshall Cavendish

FICTION

  • Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
  • Animal Farm – George Orwell
  • 1984 – George Orwell
  • The Screwtape Letters – CS Lewis
  • The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

  • The Ox Cart Man – Donald Hall, Barbara Cooney
  • Sam the Minute Man – Nathaniel Benchley, Armold Lobel
  • The Little House Books – Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Little Britches Series – Ralph Moody
  • Two Little Savages – Earnest Thompson Seaton
  • My Side of the Mountain – Jean Craighead George
  • Bored Nothing to Do – Peter Spier
  • What Do People Do All Day – Richard Scarry