[3] One of the publisher's most controversial titles was The Anarchist Cookbook, released in 1970, which included recipes for making bombs.
The violently racist anti-government novel The Turner Diaries, by Andrew Macdonald, was published in 1996, resulting in criticism.
[5] A bestseller, Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown and originally published by Bernard Geis Associates, was republished by Barricade in 2002.
In 1997, the publisher was forced into bankruptcy by a $3.1 million libel judgment arising from a lawsuit filed by Steve Wynn over the biography Running Scared by John L. Smith.
[8] Other notable titles include a memoir by Avery Corman, My Old Neighborhood Remembered; a memoir by the attorney Raoul Felder, Reflections in a Mirror; Bruce Mowday's Pickett's Charge, The Untold Story; a biography of mob daughter Susan Berman, Murder of a Mafia Daughter, by Cathy Scott; and Bent Corydon's biography/exposé of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, which Corydon titled L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman?