Fiction
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
The Climate Change Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Homeland by Sam Lipsyte
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Q by Luther Blissett
Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Ubik by Phillip K. Dick
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Nonfiction
Black Bloc, White Riot by A.K. Thompson
2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck
The Adderall Diaries by Stephen Elliott
Endgame I & II by Derrick Jensen
Everyday Pornography ed. by Karen Boyle
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
Green is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Justice Movement Under Siege by Will Potter
Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek
The Way of Zen by Alan Watts
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew B. Crawford
Be Here Now by Ram Dass
Pretty in Punk: Girls’ Gender Resistance in a Boys’ Subculture by Lauraine Leblanc
Steal this Book by Abbie Hoffman
Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence by Christian Perenti
The Voice of Hope: Coversations with Alan Clements by Ang San Suu Kyi
Why I Can’t Read by Wallace Stegner
Poetry
Poetry as Insurgent Art by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima
The Romantic Dogs by Roberto Bolano
The Totality for Kids by Joshua Clover
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
Theorycore
Principles of the Philosophy of the Future by Ludwig Feuerbach
The German Ideology by Karl Marx
The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat by Geörgy Lukács
“Theses on the Philosophy of History” by Walter Benjamin (in Illuminations)
Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life by Theodor Adorno
“Formulary for a New Urbanism” by Ivan Chtcheglov
“On The Poverty of Student Life” by The Situationist International
Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis by Norman O. Brown (esp. “My Georgics: A Palinode in Praise of Work”)
The Care of the Self by Michel Foucault
Specters of Marx by Jacques Derrida
The Sublime Object of Ideology by Slavoj Žižek (esp. ch. 1, “How Did Marx Invent the Symptom?”)
The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee
This is Not a Program by Tiqqun
Zines to Watch Out For
Absolutely Zippo, Ad Busters, Antipatia, The Anvil, Awesome Future, Brushfire, Chintz, Communicating Vessels, Dreams of Donuts, Dreamwhip, Cometbus, Earth First! Journal, Feral Revolution, Fifth Estate, Fluke, Full Metal Faggot, Graceless, Hack This Zine, Heart Check, Maximum Rock n’ Roll, The Match, Medatrocity, Media Junky, Morgenmuffel, No Gods No Matress, Nuts!, Pipe Bomb, Rad Dad, The Raging Pelican, Rot, The Student Insurgent,Turning the Tide, Zine World