Anything by Thomas Sowell is filled with counterintuitive and extremely controversial ideas.

Economic Facts & Fallacies by @ThomasSowell completely changed my life. I was in middle school and had read Hayek / Friedman / Hazlitt but no one wrote as clearly and powerfully as Sowell IMHO. That book made me want to begin learning for myself in my own time.

If you want to learn real economics, not government wealth transference... Read these: Economic Facts & Fallacies - Sowell