What Are Your Favorite Anarchist Books?
surveys and books! what more could you want?
I want to get a sense of the anarchist books that have impacted you the most, and the ones you’ve found most effective or inspiring! These polls only fit 5 options: if your fave isn’t on here, leave it in the comments!
We’ll get to more recent books after one more on the old-timers!
Don’t forget to check back after August 2 to see the results!
What more recent book got you thinking the most?
Well, five polls is probably enough for one day, but I’ll be coming at you with more before too long!
It’s really helpful to know what people find the most inspiring, or which writings give people new ways to think about the problems they face. For one, it can be immensely useful for the network of anarchist distros and translators spread out all over the world to know what titles to carry or to translate.
So get your friends to take the poll, and check back on the website in a few days to see the results!
And drop a comment to suggest future polls or name the books you wish I’d included…
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imo fiction is the best anarchist literature. octavia butler and ursula leguin were critical in growing my imagination. nonfiction feels like dead information, imagining futures feels positive and purposeful, and has more of an effect on my life than the facts and figures of history.
I was shouting "Klee Benally!!!" and then saw it in the poll at the very end. For me this book is an essential read for how it blends anarchist thought with Earth-centred spirituality, illuminating that ecocentric thinking is our only way forward.
I wish everyone would read it, especially those living on Turtle Island. Chapter 12 titled "Voting is not harm reduction" is so essential in this very moment when there's a widespread push to vote for the so-called "lesser evil" and pandering to a violent system.
I'd also add John Zerzan to my list, particularly "Elements of Refusal" (1988) and "Future Primitive and Other Essays" (1994).