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http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov12/index.html
Actually quite topical given russias recent escapades - this details pretty well the society and the power dynamics that gave birth to the current situation. Also reads like an alternate version of "Catch-22" except the content should be 100% autobiographical.
Capitalism - A Treatise on Economics - George Reisman. http://www.capitalism.net/Capitalism/CAPITALISM_Internet.pdf
The Works of Lysander Spooner. http://lysanderspooner.org/node/2
The Machinery of Freedom David Friedman. - http://daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf
Democratizing Innovation - Eric Von Hippel. http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/democ1.htm
The Sources of Innovation - Eric Von Hippel. http://web.mit.edu/evhippel/www/sources.htm
Introduction to Information Retrieval - http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/html/htmledition/irbook.html
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms - David MacKay. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.html
Introduction to Cybernetics - William Ross Ashby. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/books/IntroCyb.pdf
"Man-Computer Symbiosis" and "The Computer As A Communication Device" - J.C.R. Licklider. http://memex.org/licklider.pdf
Design For A Brain - William Ross Ashby. https://archive.org/details/designforbrainor00ashb
The Writings of Douglas Engelbart. http://www.dougengelbart.org/library/library.html
and if you like maths, don't miss this great list of free maths texts by George Cain: https://people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.h...
How to Design Programs 2E http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/ This book is much more than the intro to programming that it appears to be. It is a foundational approach for producing robust programs, regardless of your implementation language or level of experience.
The writings of Mencius Moldbug: http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/ Mind-bending writings on politics, history and economics.
I do not at all get neoreactionaries but I find their movement fascinating.
Ethics of liberty http://anarcho-capitalist.org/wp-content/pdfs/Rothbard%20%28...
For a new liberty https://mises.org/sites/default/files/For%20a%20New%20Libert...
If those are to your liking they contain some great reading lists. A lot of the books in those lists are also available for free at mises.org
Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality http://hpmor.com/
Some classic poems, they're short, but you'll find yourself rereading the ones that really engage you occasionally throughout your life. Here's some I found to be immediately accessible, to get you going. Poe's Raven - http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178713 Dulce et Decorum Est - http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html The Charge of the Light Brigade - http://poetry.eserver.org/light-brigade.html
Now I enjoy reading both Coleridge and Tennyson quite a lot (as well as a few other poets, although it will never be my primary interest).
And people used to say that heavy metal was bad for kids... feh.