The Show-Me Institute sponsors a biweekly book club primarily directed to Saint Louis–area college students (and college-age non-students) who are interested in exploring a broad spectrum of the ideas of liberty. The institute and its scholars do not necessarily agree with or advocate the ideas contained in the books selected for use in the club; rather, the institute hopes to encourage critical analysis, debate, and discussion of a wide range of thought about freedom and free-market economic perspectives.

To date, the club has read and discussed the following books:

2008:

Thomas Sowell, Economic Facts and Fallacies
Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, The State: A Study of Social Power vs. State Power and of The State in Colonial America
Tibor R. Machan, ed., Individual Rights Reconsidered: Are the Truths of the U.S. Declaration of Independence Lasting?
Robert Higgs, Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
Carl Watner, ed., I Must Speak Out: The Best of The Voluntaryist, 1982-1999
James M. Buchanan and Gordon Tullock, The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy
Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative
Randy Barnett, Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty
Bertrand de Jouvenel, The Ethics of Redistribution
Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy
F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom

2007:

Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine
Johan Norberg, In Defense of Global Capitalism
Leon Kass, Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics
Ronald Bailey, Liberation Biology: The Scientific and Moral Case for the Biotech Revolution
David Boaz, Libertarianism: A Primer
Virginia Postrel, The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress
W. Michael Cox and Richard Alm, Myths of Rich and Poor: Why We're Better Off Than We Think
Richard Epstein, How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution
Larry Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia

2006:

Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness
David Schoenbrod, Saving Our Environment From Washington: How Congress Grabs Power, Shirks Responsibility, and Shortchanges the People
F.A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty
Frederic Bastiat, What is Seen and What is Not Seen
Hernando de Soto, The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
David Friedman, Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do With Law and Why It Matters
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

Anybody interested in participating in the book club should contact the Show-Me Institute's editor to receive announcements about upcoming book selections and meeting times.