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The Big Bad Luddite List

ANTI: fascism, ai, nfts, Big Tech, billionaires, surveillance states, optimization, algorithms, bot farms, technofeudalism, enshittification, exploitation, extractionism, planned obsolescence PRO: organized labor, punk, analog, solidarity, free speech, friction, degrowth, experimentation, right to privacy, right to repair, diy, material process, mutual aid, ecological living, the human hand, the human mind

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Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

The Machine Never Blinks: A Graphic History of Spying and Surveillance

In the Swarm: Digital Prospects

Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown

Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech

The Machine Never Blinks: A Graphic History of Spying and Surveillance

In which the title is comically long

We love books with a verbose title, and this list celebrates them! Suggestions welcome 🤗

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

quick reads for your untethered soul

by lukewarmreader

Being human is hard! This list is for shorter stories/books/novellas that can help ground us, offer connection, and remind us of what truly matters in this dumpster fire of a world.

Please share your recs in the comments! Let's keep this list growing!

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

The Summer Book

Small Things Like These

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

The Summer Book

Finding Hope

Fighting for social and planetary justice.

We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth

Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

The Good Ancestor: A Radical Prescription for Long-Term Thinking

We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth

Hope Matters: Why Changing the Way We Think Is Critical to Solving the Environmental Crisis

political educational radical

ecological feministical marxistical critical theoretical international

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

The Society of the Spectacle

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

The Society of the Spectacle

November 2025 releases!

Books releasing in November of 2025! Indie & trad

Girls Who Play Dead

The House Saphir

Deadly Ever After

Mixing Magics (Accidental Demons #2)

Girls Who Play Dead

The House Saphir

Books That Made Me Think Differently

by createyoursunshine

These are books that I’d recommend to anyone looking to expand their minds and horizons.

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

The Voice of Knowledge

Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

The Voice of Knowledge

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