Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

First published in France in 1934, but banned in the United States until its publication in 1961 in the United States by Grove Press led to obscenity trials that tested American laws on pornography in the early 1960s. In 1964, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the book non-obscene.

Miller's novel is sexually graphic and was considered quite risque during the late Depression and World War II years in America. Sexual repression was widespread because of the influence of the churches, mostly Catholic denial of the senses and Baptist stoicism.

The book is partly auto-biographical, written during Miller's nomadic period of wandering and seeking in France during the early 1930s.

It is considered a classic work of Western literature and one of the more profound statements of sexual freedom that preceded - and some say caused - the American sexual revolution of the 1960s.

The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek

The Road to Serfdom (German: Der Weg zur Knechtschaft) is a classic work of economics by Austrian-British economist and philosopher Friedrich von Hayek who warned of "the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through central planning." Hayek further argues that the abandonment of individualism and classical liberalism inevitably leads to a loss of freedom, the creation of an oppressive society, tyranny, and a slavish state of affairs for the populace.

Since its publication in 1944, The Road to Serfdom has been popular among liberal and conservative thinkers alike. First published in Britain by Routledge in March 1944, during World War II, it found an accepting audience and was subsequently published in the United States by the University of Chicago Press in September 1944, achieving greater popularity. Editor Max Eastman of Reader's Digest published an abridged version in April 1945, enabling Hayek to reach an audience outside academia.

Hayek's title was probably inspired by the writings of 19th century Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville on the "road to servitude". The London School of Economics, where Hayek worked at the time, offered the ideal background for Hayek's exposition into economic and political debate.

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