Revolutionary Reads
Here’s a list (consistently updated) of what I’ve personally read and would recommend:
Black Radical Tradition
Revolutionary Suicide - Huey P. Newton
Assata - Assata Shakur
By Any Means Necessary - Malcolm X
Blood In My Eye - George Jackson
Freedom is a Constant Struggle - Angela Davis
Are Prisons Obsolete - Angela Davis
Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
Let This Radicalize You - Mariame Kaba
We Do This Till We Free Us - Mariame Kaba
History
Settlers - J Sakai
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
An Indigenous People's History of the United States - Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
The Unwomanly Face of War - Svetlana Alexivich
Fiction
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Dispossessed - Ursula K Le Guin
Parable of the Sower and Talents both by Octavia Butler
Kindred - Octavia Butler
The Trial - Franz Kafka
Classics
The Principles of Communism - Frederich Engles
Why Socialism - Albert Einstein
The Proletarian’s Pocketbook - Various Authors
Socialism Utopian and Scientific - Frederich Engles
The Conquest of Bread - Peter Kropotkin
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution - Peter Kropotkin *note* this has a chapter on “savages” that is embarrassingly out of date, keep in mind this was published in 1902
What Is To Be Done? - VI Lenin
The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Fredrich Engles
Marx’s Capital Illustrated - David Smith
The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
Black Shirts and Reds - Michael Parenti
State and Revolution - VI Lenin
Guerrilla Warfare - Che Guevara
Society of the Spectacle - Guy Debord
Che Guevara Speaks
Combat Liberalism - Mao Zedong
The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State - Frederick Engles *same notes as Kropotkin above, out of date language using, “savage”
Colonization
Open Veins of Latin America - Eduardo Galeano
Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
Lord Leverhulme’s Ghosts - Jules Marchal
CIA Mass Murder and Coups
The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins
Indigenous
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall-Kimmerer
Becoming Kin - Patty Krawec
Labor
The Long Deep Grudge - Toni Gilpin
Class War USA - Brandon Weber
Education
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
Gender
Whipping Girl - Julia Serano
Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
Making Space: Women and the Man Made Environment - Matrix
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love - bell hooks
Self Care
Rest is Resistance - Tricia Hersey
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
Youth Liberation
We Grow the World Together - Multiple Authors
Palestine
Apartheid Israel - Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs
On Antisemitism - Jewish Voice for Peace
Except for Palestine - Marc Lamont Hill and Mitchell Plitnick
The Hundred Years War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi
Light in Gaza - Various Authors
Poetry
The Collected Poems of - Audre Lorde
Poems 1968-2020 - Nikki Giovanni
Post Colonial Love Poem - Natalie Diaz
The World Keeps Ending and the World Goes On - Franny Choi
Hustling Verse - Various Authors
Blood Orange - Yaffa
Ecology
Finding the Mother Tree - Suzanne Simard
Gathering Moss - Robin Wall-Kimmerer
Zapatistas
Our Word is Our Weapon - Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos


















