Top Books

Top 10:

A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick

Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett

Watchmen, Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Neuromancer, William Gibson

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Eduardo Galeano

Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams 

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Rest:

1984, George Orwell

2312, Kim Stanley Robinson

A Series of Unfortunate Events, Daniel Handler

A Terrible Country, Keith Gessen

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

Art Nouveau, Klaus-Jürgen Sembach

Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert

Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller, Klaus Janson, and Lynn Varley

Behemoth: The Structure & Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944, Franz Neumann

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

Call of the Wild, Jack London

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler

Discourse on Colonialism, Aimé Césaire

Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann

Dune, Frank Herbert

Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card

Escape from Freedom, Erich Fromm

Falling Up, Shel Silverstein

Flags of our Fathers, James Bradley with Ron Powers

Four Futures: Life After Capitalism, Peter Frase

From Hell, Alan Moore

Germinal, Émile Zola

Gulliver’s Travel, Jonathan Swift

Gustav Klimt: Art Nouveau Visionary, Eva di Stefano

Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling

Hatchet, Gary Paulsen

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

Hokusai, Sarah Thompson, Joan Wright, and Philip Meredith

Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson

Imperialism: A Study, J.A. Hobson

Light in August, William Faulkner

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman

Max Beckmann in New York, Sabine Rewald

My Brilliant Friend, Elana Ferrante

Nationalism and Culture, Rudolf Rocker

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, China Mieville

One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, Ando Hiroshige and Henry D. Smith

Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi

Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism, Bertrand Russell

Redwall, Brian Jacques

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

Sailor Twain: Or the Mermaid in the Hudson, Sailor Twain

Salem’s Lot, Stephen King

Scott Pilgrim, Bryan Lee O’Malley

Season of Migration to the North, Tayeb Salih

Seconds, Bryan Lee O’Malley

Shanghai on Strike: The Politics of Chinese Labor, Elizabeth J. Perry

Six Months in Red Russia, Louise Bryant

Steel Beach, John Varley

Strike!, Jeremy Brecher

Ten Days that Shook the World, John Reed

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

The Anatomy of Fascism, Robert O. Paxton

The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre, H.P. Lovecraft

The Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control, Maurice Brinton

The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss

The Chapo Guide to Revolution: A Manifesto Against Logic, Facts, and Reason, Felix Biederman, Matt Christman, Brendan James, and Will Menaker

The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

The Crucible, Arthur Miller

The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

The Gadfly, E.L. Voynich

The Giver, Lois Lowry

The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein

The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett

The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis

The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann

The Mandate of Heaven: Marx and Mao in Modern China, Nigel Harris

The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury

The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov

The Noir Style, Alain Silver

The Odyssey, Homer

The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

The People of the Abyss, Jack London

The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli

The Rebel, Albert Camus

The Reel Civil War: Mythmaking in American Film, Bruce Chadwick

The Secret of Nimh, Robert C. O’Brien

The Shining, Stephen King

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein

The Soul of Man Under Socialism, Oscar Wilde

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

The Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, Harold Isaacs

The Unknown Revolution, Voline

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank L. Baum

This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate, Naomi Klein

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

Ubik, Philip K. Dick

Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand

Vanishing New York: How a Great City Lost Its Soul, Jeremiah Moss

Vincent Van Gogh, Isabel Kuhl

Ways of Seeing, John Berger

We Want Everything, Nanni Balestrini

Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak