List of Anarchist Books

Anarchism and Libertarian Socialism have been the subjects of a number of works of literature, both nonfiction and fiction. This is a partial list of notable writers of both historical and theoretical nature. This list is meant to provide a starting ground on which to access the bodies of knowledge concerning anarchism and it's closely related philosophies.

Online Resources for Anarchist Literature

It is common for anarchists today to disseminate anarchist literature by means of online internet archives and there are many open source resources such as Project Gutenberg which contain the majority of literature that have expired copyright restrictions.

• Spunk Library -An online database of anarchist literature and news sources
• The Anarchist Library - A comprehensive, non-sectarian archive of anarchist texts

Historical Nonfiction

• Murray Bookchin: The Spanish Anarchists - The Heroic Years

Classical and Contemporary Anarchist Theorists

The following is a partial list of notable nonfiction works discussing anarchist theory predating the 21st century. Works by Proudhon and Bukhanin are considered to be the foundation of anarchist thought. These thinkers and their writings are often considered the predecessors of modern anarchism and libertarian socialist thought. Anarchism has been heavily influenced by and intertwined with the philosophy of freedom, reflected in works by Hegel and Nietzsche.

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Author	Title	Text	ISBN
Mikhail Bakunin	God and the State	Wikisource text
~	The Paris Commune and the Idea of the State	text
~	The Capitalist System	text
~	Stateless Socialism: Anarchism	text
~	The Immorality of the State	text
Alexander Berkman	What is Anarchism?	text
~	Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist	Wikisource text
Hakim Bey	Temporary Autonomous Zone	text
Tony Blackplait	The Anarchists: Agents of Anarchy. Prelude of World Revolution. The History of Anarchist Movement		ISBN 9985944887
Murray Bookchin	Post-Scarcity Anarchism		ISBN 1904859062
~	Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism	text	ISBN 187317683X
L. Susan Brown	The Politics of Individualism
Noam Chomsky	Notes on Anarchism	text
~	Chomsky on Anarchism		ISBN 1904859208
Voltairine de Cleyre	Direct Action	text
CrimethInc.	Days of War, Nights of Love	audio	ISBN 097091010X
Sam Dolgoff	Fragments: a memoir		ISBN 0946222045
Jacques Ellul	The Technological Society
William Godwin	An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice	Wikisource text
Emma Goldman	Anarchism and Other Essays	text
~	Living My Life	text
Uri Gordon	Anarchy Alive!: Anti-authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory	source	ISBN 9780745326832
David Graeber	Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology	text PDF
Robert Graham	Anarchism. A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas.	text	ISBN 1551642506
William Batchelder Greene	Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments	text
~	Equality	text
~	Mutual Banking	text
Daniel Guérin	Anarchism: From Theory to Practice	text
Agustin Guillamon	The friends of Durruti group 1937-1939	text	ISBN 1873176546
Peter Kropotkin	Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution	text
~	The Conquest of Bread	Wikisource text
~	Memoirs of a Revolutionist	text
Nestor Makhno	The struggle against the state and other essays	text	ISBN 1873176783
Errico Malatesta	Anarchy	Wikisource text
Peter Marshall	Demanding The Impossible, A History of Anarchism		ISBN 0006862454
Albert Meltzer	Anarchism: Arguments For and Against	text	ISBN 1873176570
William Morris	News from Nowhere	text
Max Nettlau	A short history of anarchism		ISBN 0900384891
Saul Newman	From Bakunin to Lacan
Geoffrey Ostergaard	The tradition of workers control		ISBN 0900384913
Fredy Perlman	Against His-Story, Against Leviathan	excerpts:1 2
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon	What Is Property?	Wikisource text
~	The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century	text
Rudolf Rocker	Anarcho-Syndicalism	text
Roy San Filippo	A new world in our hearts
Max Stirner	The Ego And Its Own	text
Linda & Morris Tannehill	The Market for Liberty		ISBN 0-930073-08-8
Leo Tolstoy	The Kingdom of God is Within You	Wikisource text
various	The State is Your Enemy		ISBN 0900384573
Raoul Vaneigem	The Revolution of Everyday Life	text
Volin	The Unknown Revolution
Colin Ward	Anarchy in Action
Stefan Molyneux Everyday Anarchy		[1]
~ ' 'Practical Anarchy		[2]

Economics

See also: Anarchist economics

• Diego Abad de Santillán - After the Revolution
• Michael Albert - Parecon: Life After Capitalism
• Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel - A Quiet Revolution in Welfare Economics

Primitivist / Anti-Civ

• John Zerzan:
  • Elements of Refusal
  • Future Primitive And Other Essays
  • Against Civilization: A Reader
  • Running On Emptiness
• Derrick Jensen:
  • The Culture of Make Believe
  • A Language Older Than Words
  • Endgame
• Pierre Clastres:
  • Archeology of Violence
• Feral Faun:
  • Feral Revolution
• Stanley Diamond:
  • In Search of the Primitive
• Chellis Glendinning:
  • My Name is Chellis, and I'm in Recovery From Western Civilization
• Theodore Kaczynski
  • Industrial Society and Its Future

Fiction

See also: list of fictional anarchists

Some fictional books display anarchy in a positive light:

• V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
• The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
• Ishmael and other books by Daniel Quinn
• The Adventures of Tintin: Breaking Free
• The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith

See also

• Anarchism and the arts

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