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Beginner Socialist/Communist Reading List

These are all the books for beginner socialists, communists, anarchists, and leftists. Honestly, though, you don't have to have read all the theory to decide that you don't want to live in a system that exploits people for their labour and treats human beings like commodities.
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The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
The Jungle
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Upton Sinclair
The Dispossessed (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Dispossessed
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Ursula K. Le Guin
A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn)
A People's History of the United States
3
Howard Zinn
The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)
The Communist Manifesto
4
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race (Reni Eddo-Lodge)
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race
5
Reni Eddo-Lodge
The New Jim Crow (Alexander)
The New Jim Crow
6
Alexander
Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
Homage to Catalonia
7
George Orwell
Caste (Isabel Wilkerson)
Caste
8
Isabel Wilkerson
The Wretched of the Earth (Franz Fanon)
The Wretched of the Earth
9
Franz Fanon
Ain't I a Woman (Bell Hooks)
Ain't I a Woman
10
Bell Hooks
Women, Race & Class (Angela Davis)
Women, Race & Class
11
Angela Davis
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
12
Malcolm X
The Shock Doctrine (Naomi Klein)
The Shock Doctrine
13
Naomi Klein
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle (Angela Davis)
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
14
Angela Davis
This Bridge Called My Back (Cherrie Moriaga and Gloria Anzaldua)
This Bridge Called My Back
15
Cherrie Moriaga and Gloria Anzaldua
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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Are Prisons Obsolete? (Angela Y. Davis)
Are Prisons Obsolete?
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Angela Y. Davis
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
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How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective (Edit: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor:)
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
20
Edit: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor:
No Logo (Naomi Klein)
No Logo
21
Naomi Klein
Discipline and Punish
Discipline and Punish
22
Capitalism: A Ghost Story (Arundhati Roy)
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
23
Arundhati Roy
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
24
Shoshana Zuboff
Madness and Civilization (Michel Foucault)
Madness and Civilization
25
Michel Foucault
Regarding the Pain of Others (Susan Sontag)
Regarding the Pain of Others
26
Susan Sontag
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Feminity (Julia Serano)
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Feminity
27
Julia Serano
Assata: An Autobiography (Assata Shakur)
Assata: An Autobiography
28
Assata Shakur
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
29
Society of the Spectacle
Society of the Spectacle
30
Women, Culture & Politics (Angela Y. Davis)
Women, Culture & Politics
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Angela Y. Davis
A Colony in a Nation (Hayes)
A Colony in a Nation
32
Hayes
Anarchism and Other Essays (Emma Goldman)
Anarchism and Other Essays
33
Emma Goldman
Don't Touch My Hair (Emma Dabiri)
Don't Touch My Hair
34
Emma Dabiri
The Conquest of Bread (Peter Kropotkin)
The Conquest of Bread
35
Peter Kropotkin
The Black Jacobins
The Black Jacobins
36
Reform or Revolution (Rosa Luxemburg)
Reform or Revolution
37
Rosa Luxemburg
This Changes Everything
This Changes Everything
38
Debt: The First 5000 Years (David Graeber)
Debt: The First 5000 Years
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David Graeber
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Silvia Federici)
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
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Silvia Federici
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