leftist reading suggestions

everyone needs to get more woke NOW

green

Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe

Silent Spring – Rachel Carson

The Woman Destroyed – Simone de Beauvoir

As Long as Grass Grows – Dina Gilio-Whitaker

A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry

Manufacturing Consent – Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky

Braiding Sweetgrass – Robin Wall Kimmerer

The Cancer Journals – Audre Lorde

How to Blow Up a Pipeline – Andreas Malm

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

How Fascism Works – Jason Stanley

How Propaganda Works – Jason Stanley

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

A Room of One's Own – Virginia Woolf

blue

Modernity and the Holocaust – Zygmunt Bauman

Women, Race, and Class – Angela Davis

Black Reconstruction in America – W.E.B. DuBois

The Wretched of the Earth – Frantz Fanon

The Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Vindication of the Rights of Woman – Mary Wollstonecraft

black

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 – Karl Marx

Orientalism – Edward Said

First as Tragedy, Then as Farce – Slavoj Žižek

double black

Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault

Madness and Civilization – Michel Foucault

Scenes of Subjection – Saidiya Hartman

Necropolitics – Achille Mbembe

out of bounds

The Archaeology of Knowledge – Michel Foucault

The Phenomenology of Spirit – G.W.F. Hegel

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key

black text: non-fiction

plum text: fiction