Books

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I recommend:
The Worldly Philosophers by Heibroner. Spectaculary writing. Honestly, this single text made me realise that non-fiction reading could be fun.
Money: Whence it came, where it went by Gailbraith. Get it. Everyone needs a history of money, while he does largely ignore the personal political coalitions that come from the privileging of money-handlers it's still very well written and does give you a nice introduction into the concept and understand of the commodity, money.
The Mystery of Banking by Murrary. Written by the founder of the Mises Institute (which actually has free texts as well, www.mises.org) it actually focuses a little bit too much on the political motivations tied to the banking industry but also provides a more thorough history of American banking (whereas Money is more general). The concept, execution and explanation, however, are very biased so you need to watch for this. Not an intermediate text, but you should know your stuff before entering this man's arena.
A Monetary History of the United States by Friedman. Pretty much the text on money's history in America it's over 600 pages so I would recommend reading the other two as he makes certain assumptions about his readers in the book. Overall decent, his train of thought is very good but the writing was dry to me. An amazing piece for reference.
Mankíw's instructional books are generally good, but for intermediate macroeconomics (Macroeconomics) I wouldn't get anything besides the 7th edition. He makes an incorrect display of the CPI which is awful for a book that is suppose to be the foundation of your learning. If he calls the CPI a Lasperyes Index, just ignore it because it's incorrect.

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This thread isn't for economic books, just whatever you're reading or perhaps a hub to request a book for a certain topic. If there's already a thread like this please tell me so I can take this down

Other books I'd recommend:
The Prince By Machiovelli, amazing book on life. When you hear 'Prince' just think person (or rather, yourself), and when you here 'subjects' think other random people and when you hear soldiers/advisors think close/regular friends.
Forever War by Haldeman, favorite fiction book. It's suppose to be a analogue for the Vietnam war but just for casual pleasure it delivers robustly.

I stick to the easy stuff like Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt, The Causes of the Economic Crisis by Mises, Early Speculative Bubbles by French
Tried to read Human Action A Treatise on Economics by Mises and found myself looking up 5 things for every page I read. Way to hard a read for me