đ«” Books To Radicalize You đ«”
Non-fiction books that should make you: Re-contextualize your place in the world. Reassess the framework of your life. Strive to be radically kind. Pursue positive change. Become an anarchist, anit-capitalist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, etc. || My list is very North American centric and I would love global recommendations ||
created by MacaroniSalad
last updated July, 2026
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This is a great list! So glad to see As Long As Grass Grows on here! I'd also highly recommend:
- Trash Wars by Alexander Clapp (goes into detail about the global trash trade and it's massive repercussions)
- Rotten Evidence by Ahmed Naji (memoir detailing an Egyptian author's time in prison + discussed censorship in Egypt)
- Iep JÄltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter by Kathy Jetnil-Kijner (Talks a lot about US nuclear testing in the Marshall Islands as well as US colonization in Hawaii)
- One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (seething commentary on the US political system and the collective complicity and ignorance of ongoing genocide)
- An Afro Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T Mays (what it says on the tin, lots of historical information that has been overlooked)
- Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers our Lives by Siddharth Karra (discussed the human cost of cobalt mining and the colonialism at its roots )
- I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti (Memoir of a Palestinian poet discussing his return to his homeland after thirty years of exile)
Awesome recs! Thank you! I will take a look at all of them.
YES! I read As Long As The Grass Grows in college and it really stuck with me. I do not see it talked about as much as I feel it should be.
I just happened to read it on a whim earlier this year, but I'm so glad I found it! Definitely agree that it should be talked about and recommended more!
Wow I just went through all your recs and they are great picks, I have so much more to read now
Yes!! Definitely read One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad!!
Oh man, this is exactly my type of essay. I will add this to the list
Yesss love this I was thinking of looking for a list like this! Iâve added a bunch of books on misogyny to my TBR if you want to look and maybe add them. I need to branch out the topics but that was my start
Thank you ! I will take a look đ«Ą
Thinking for more focus on disabilities:
Disability Intimacy - Alice Wong Unmasking Autism - Devon Price Care Work - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha Skin, Tooth, and Bone - Sins Invalid Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design by Kat Holmes What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World by Sara Hendren
Awesome! Thank you! I will look these over now
Love this! I'll definitely add some of these to my tbr!
If you like essays I just finished Grieving and it was outstanding!
Love this! Haymarket Books also publishes a lot of great relevant stuff.
ooo thanks for the tip, I have now bookmarked their website âïž
Edit: love your username btw
Verso and Pluto publishers also have good recommendations on their website (disclaimer: I am based in the UK)
Iâll check them out!
Wow! That is an amazing list. I have some of them, and I will check the others. Glad to see the collection. Anyways, here are my recommendations
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin Ethics: Origin and Development by Peter Kropotkin Ecology of Freedom by Murray Bookchin Third Revolution by Murray Bookchin Jackson Rising Redux by Kali Akuno Critical Thinking Unchained by Mason Carter How to Build Municipalist Communes by Mason Carter Dictionary of Anarchist Thought by Mason Carter Life of Malatesta by Luigi Fabbri On Anarchism by Noam Chomsky Guillotine at Work Vol 1 by G.P. Maximoff
Thank you! I will take a look at these recommendations!
Welcome. These are some of my favourites. Happy reading!
