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• 1948 - Codes and Secret Writing by Herbert S. Zim - Children's book on codes and ciphers which inspired Phil Zimmermann to pursue cryptography as an interest
• 1967 (and 1996) - The Codebreakers – The Story of Secret Writing by David Kahn - this book is a complete chronicle of codebreaking and code making since Ancient Egypt and assisted Whitfield Diffie in his quest to break the government's monopoly on cryptographic information. (A PDF of the abridged first edition is available via google search, but as it's not the full version, and doesn't include infromation about Alan Turing's work on Enigma, I'm not including it)
• Jul 1968 - The Broken Seal by Ladislas Farago - This details pre-Pearl Harbor cryptanalytic work against Japanese naval codes
• 19-Sep-1982 - The Puzzle Palace: A Report on America's Most Secret Agency by James Bramford - An exposé on the workings of the US National Security Agency, which had traditionally sought to monopolise cryptographic information and talent within its own walls - scribd link
• 16-Apr-2001 - Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias - A colletion of essays from the same era as the cypherpunk mailing list; some of them from the list itself. A favourite book of Cody Wilson - pdf link
• 31-Dec-2001 - Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government Saving Privacy in the Digital Age by Steven Levy - I personally recommend this book as it provides a lot of contextual information about the world the cypherpunks of the 90s lived in