William Powell’s The Anarchist Cookbook (1971).

John Stubb’s The Discovery of a Gaping Gulf whereunto England is like to be swallowed by another French Marriage, if the Lord forbid not the banns, by letting her Majesty see the sin and punishment thereof) (1579).

Index Liborum Prohibitarum (Index of Forbidden Books) (Rome publication, 1564).

England’s King Charles I’s The judgment and decree of the University of Oxford past in their convocation July 21, 1683, against certain pernicious books and damnable doctrines destructive to the sacred persons of princes, their state and government, and of all humane society (1683).

Galileo Galilei’s Dialogo Sopra i Due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, a Copernicano (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems of Ptolemy, to Copernican) (1632).

Nicolaus Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) (1543).

Upton Sinclair’s Oil! A Novel! (1927).

Marquis de Sade’s Justine, Ou, Les Malheurs de la Vertue (Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue) (1791).

John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1750).

Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928).

Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855).

D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928).

Allen Ginsberg’s Howl (1956).

Madonna’s Sex (1992).

Alfred C. Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953).

John Milton’s Treatice of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: Shrewing That It Is Not Lawful for Any Power on Earth to Compel in Matters of Religion (1790).

George Washington’s personal copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776) that most certainly influenced his views on what democracy could be.