Best finance/econ textbooks?

I am coming from a humanities background and don't have the finance or econ background I'd like but want to read everything I can.

What are some of the best books or textbooks to check out? Particularly free ones available on Libgen. 

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Order from basic to complex

For econ textbooks: 

Mankiw's Principals of economics (This is one of the most popular courses at Harvard) 

Mishkin's Money and Banking and financial markets

Spivak's Calculus (A primer on calculus)

Econometrics (Not sure what the best book is right now) YouTube would probably be a better source than a textbook.  

Microeconomics with calculus by Hal Varian 

Macroeconomics  (Rudi Dornbusch's book)

Advance Macroeconomics - Romer (Graduate text) 

Microeconomic Theory - Mas Colell (Graduate text)

 Economics books:

Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell.

Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman   

 

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