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