THIS LIST OF BOOKS IS IN THE ORDER TERRY HAS READ THEM – THE MOST RECENTLY READ IS AT THE TOP OF THE LIST, AND BOOKS TERRY READ IN HIS CHILDHOOD ARE AT THE VERY BOTTOM. MOST OF THE BOOKS TERRY HAS READ IN THE LAST FEW DECADES ARE LISTED. HOWEVER, TERRY HAS NOT BOTHERED TO LIST THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE BOOKS HE READ IN HIS CHILDHOOD AND TEENAGE YEARS. ALSO, TERRY OPPOSES ALL STATES – INCLUDING ALL LIBERAL-DEMOCRACIES, AND ALL MARXIST STATES (EVEN THOUGH TERRY RECOMMENDS EVERYONE READ KARL MARX’S ANALYSIS OF CAPITALISM – IN THE THREE VOLUMES OF CAPITAL). TERRY SAYS EVEN THE MOST HUMANE STATE WILL STILL BE BRUTAL AND OPPRESSIVE (THAT IS THE ANARCHIST STANCE). ANY BOOK ON THIS LIST – IS A BOOK TERRY HOPES YOU WILL READ SOMEDAY:
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*A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck [a collection of movie reviews by Roger Ebert]
*A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy From Fascism [by Caroline Moorehead]
*A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship and Survival in World War Two [by Caroline Moorehead] [Despite the book’s corny (and vague) title, the book itself is impressive! It follows the lives, for the most part, of women in the French Resistance to Vichy France and Nazi Germany. And most of the profiled women were Marxist-Leninists, who ended up doing slave labour in Auschwitz and other Nazi camps (under the most harrowing conditions imaginable).]
*Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine [by Noura Erakat] [A brilliant book, covering the legal history of how Israel has been able to maintain itself as an apartheid state – and how Palestinians are still without their freedom.]
*Warrior at Heart: Poems [by Clem Dupré]
*The Anatomy of Fascism [by Robert O. Paxton]
*Revolution in Rojava: Democratic Autonomy and Women’s Liberation in Syrian Kurdistan [by Michael Knapp, Anja Flach, and Ercan Ayboga]
*Your Movie Sucks [a collection of movie reviews by Roger Ebert]
*The Neverending Story [by Michael Ende]
*Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism [by Sheldon S. Wolin]
*Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty [by Alex Carey, edited by Andrew Lohrey] [Since Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media contained barely any content about “corporate propaganda” – Mr. Carey’s brilliant book fills that void beautifully. His book examines the history and techniques of corporate propaganda (as in, propaganda put out by corporations) – and the “corporate media” aka “mass media” (of the Western World) rarely ever question the corporate propaganda they are being fed (that is, when they aren’t producing their own corporate propaganda).]
*Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media [by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky] [This brilliant book is mainly about “state propaganda” – as in, propaganda that is put out by “the state”. And in this book, the main focus is on state propaganda put out by the government of the USA – and the “corporate media” aka “mass media” (of the Western World) rarely ever question the state propaganda they are being fed.]
*Organizing Anarchy: Anarchism in Action [by Jeff Shantz] [This is the best book about anarchist activism Terry has ever read! Well, anarchist activism is a sorely neglected topic in the anarchist books Terry has read. But if you want to sincerely make the World a better place – first read Mr. Shantz’s AWESOME book, then figure out in what way you can help your society.]
*I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie [a collection of movie reviews by Roger Ebert]
*Debt: The First 5000 Years [by David Graeber]
*The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man [by John Perkins]
*A Little Book of Love: Heart Advice on Bringing Happiness to Ourselves and Our World [by Moh Hardin]
*Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital [by William Clare Roberts]
*Kropotkin’s Revolutionary Pamphlets [aka Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings] [by Peter Kropotkin]
*Girl in a Band: A Memoir [by Kim Gordon]
*To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936 [by Murray Bookchin]
*The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years, 1868-1936 [by Murray Bookchin]
*A Cool Million [by Nathanael West]
*Miss Lonelyhearts [by Nathanael West]
*The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump (Second Edition) [by Corey Robin] [Terry doubts there will ever be a better book about conservatism – than this one.]
*A Confession and Other Religious Writings [a collection of writings by Leo Tolstoy]
*Leninism [by Alfred G. Meyer] [Mr. Meyer wasn’t any sort of Leninist – so Terry thought Meyer should’ve been more critical of Vladimir Lenin than he was. Still, Terry considers this book an overall impressive analysis of Mr. Lenin’s written works.]
*Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion [by Norman Cohn] [This book, about the history behind anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about powerful Jews secretly “dominating the World” – is definitely insightful. The book is also INCREDIBLY HILARIOUS, whenever Mr. Cohn mocks various anti-Semites.]
*The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power, and the Origins of Our Time [by Giovanni Arrighi] [This book, about the history of (mainly financial) capitalism – was one of the most challenging books Terry ever read. But it is required reading!]
*Capitalism: A Structural Genocide [by Gary Leech]
*A History of Gold and Money: 1450-1920 [by Pierre Vilar]
*Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm [by Murray Bookchin] [In this pamphlet, Mr. Bookchin said what needed to be said – and is required reading for all anarchists.]
*Anarchism and the Black Revolution (The Definitive Edition) [by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin] [An amazing book, especially with regard to its criticism of far-left social movements. Terry was also VERY impressed by Mr. Ervin’s clear explanation of what anarcho-communism is!]
*Remaking Society [by Murray Bookchin]
*The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution [by CLR James]
*Anarchism and Anarchists [by George Woodcock]
*Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian [by Richard D. Wolff and Stephen Resnick]
*Understanding Socialism [by Richard Wolff] [This pamphlet pretty much only covers various branches of Marxism – and it makes barely a whisper about any branch of anarchism. That said, it is worth reading – as long as you are always conscious Mr. Wolff is pushing Marxism on you.]
*Understanding Marxism [by Richard Wolff] [This pamphlet ONLY covers the work of Karl Marx.]
*Political Economy From Below: Economic Thought in Communitarian Anarchism, 1840-1914 [by Rob Knowles] [This is the best book about “social anarchism” Terry has ever read!]
*Anarchism [by George Woodcock]
*The Portable Karl Marx [a collection of excerpts by Karl Marx, edited by Eugene Kamenka]
*Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (Volumes I-III) [all three volumes unabridged – by Karl Marx] [Mr. Marx was a very eloquent writer – and Terry had to read the volumes of Capital VERY slowly, to properly process what he was reading.]
*A Companion to Marx’s Capital (The Complete Edition) [by David Harvey] [The volumes of Karl Marx’s Capital are a challenging read. So Terry would read a section of Mr. Harvey’s Companion, then read the section of Capital that the Companion explained. Terry HIGHLY recommends reading this Companion while reading Capital!]
*The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics [edited by Deric Shannon, Anthony J. Nocella II, and John Asimakopoulos]
*Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party [by Joshua Bloom and Waldo Martin]
*Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Revised Edition) [by Jon Lee Anderson]
*Living Treaties: Narrating Mi’kmaw Treaty Relations [edited by Marie Battiste]
*We Do Not Fear Anarchy – We Invoke It: The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement [by Robert Graham]
*Sex, Sex and More Sex [by Sue Johanson]
*500 Years of Indigenous Resistance [by Gord Hill]
*All the Presidents’ Bankers: The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power [by Nomi Prins] [Terry must emphasize, Ms. Prins is NOT a conspiracy theorist – even though this great book’s title SOUNDS like a title a conspiracy theorist would use.]
*The Origins of Totalitarianism [unabridged – by Hannah Arendt]
*How Nonviolence Protects the State [by Peter Gelderloos]
*Feminist Theory: The Intellectual Traditions (Fourth Edition) [by Josephine Donovan]
*Out of Bondage [by Linda Lovelace]
*The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire [by Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin]
*When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times [by Pema Chödrön]
*Marx: Later Political Writings [a collection of writings by Karl Marx, edited by Terrell Carver]
*The Coming Insurrection [by The Invisible Committee]
*Imperialist Canada [by Todd Gordon]
*Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right [by Angela Nagle]
*Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook [by Mark Bray]
*Social Ecology and Communalism [by Murray Bookchin]
*The Society of the Spectacle [by Guy Debord]
*In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power [by Alfred W. McCoy]
*The Modern State: An Anarchist Analysis [by J. Frank Harrison]
*Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution [by Rachel Moran]
*Global Imperialism and the Great Crisis: The Uncertain Future of Capitalism [by Ernesto Screpanti]
*Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order [by Noam Chomsky]
*Global Political Economy: Theory and Practice (Seventh Edition) [by Theodore H. Cohn]
*Ordeal [by Linda Lovelace]
*Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance [by Noam Chomsky]
*Why the Dalai Lama is a Socialist: Buddhism and the Compassionate Society [by Terry Gibbs]
*The Conquest of Bread [by Peter Kropotkin]
*Homage to Catalonia [by George Orwell]
*V for Vendetta [by Alan Moore and David Lloyd]
*Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism (Third Edition) [by Peter Marshall]
*The God That Failed [by Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Richard Wright, André Gide, Louis Fischer, and Stephen Spender]
*Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream [by Hunter S. Thompson]
*Strong at the Broken Places: Voices of Illness, A Chorus of Hope [by Richard M. Cohen]
*Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire: Postmodern Interpretations [by Karl Marx et al.]
*Makeup to Breakup: My Life In and Out of KISS [by Peter Criss]
*Rebels, Reds, Radicals: Rethinking Canada’s Left History [by Ian McKay]
*I Don’t Believe in Atheists [aka When Atheism Becomes Religion: America’s New Fundamentalists] [by Chris Hedges]
*Soul on Ice [by Eldridge Cleaver]
*Communalism as Alternative [by Eirik Eiglad]
*Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice [by Rudolf Rocker]
*What is Anarchism? [aka Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism] [unabridged – by Alexander Berkman]
*Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism [by Bertrand Russell]
*The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements [by Eric Hoffer]
*Order Without Power – An Introduction to Anarchism: History and Current Challenges [by Normand Baillargeon]
*Crossed (Volume 1) [by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows]
*Crossed (Volume 3): Psychopath [by David Lapham and Raulo Caceres]
*Crisis on Infinite Earths [by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez]
*Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human [by Grant Morrison]
*The Autobiography of Malcolm X [by Malcolm X – with Alex Haley] [After reading this book – you MUST read Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul on Ice!]
*Death of the Liberal Class [by Chris Hedges]
*Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan’s Army Conquered the Web [by Cole Stryker]
*Audrey Hepburn [by Barry Paris]
*DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore [by Alan Moore et al.]
*Joker [by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo]
*The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum [by Sheldon Currie]
*Hunger [unabridged – by Knut Hamsun] [Mr. Hamsun was sadly pro-Nazi – but the uncensored version of this novel is definitely worth reading! And to be clear – this novel does NOT promote Nazism.]
*Watchmen [by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons]
*Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle [by Chris Hedges]
*Run with the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader [a collection of Charles Bukowski’s writings]
*Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business [by Neil Postman]
*The Philosophy of Punk: More Than Noise! [by Craig O’Hara]
*The Children of Húrin [by JRR Tolkien]
*A Wrinkle in Time [by Madeleine L’Engle]
*The Harry Potter Series: Books 1-6 [but NOT Book 7] [by JK Rowling]
*Democracy’s Second Chance: Land, Work and Co-operation [by George Boyle]
*You Are Spider-Man vs. The Sinister Six [by Richie Chevat]
*No Great Mischief [by Alistair MacLeod]
*The Catcher in the Rye [by JD Salinger]
*As I Lay Dying (The Corrected Text) [by William Faulkner, edited by Noel Polk]
*Ancient Iraq (Third Edition) [by Georges Roux]
*Zodiac [by Robert Graysmith]
*Middle Eastern Mythology [by SH Hooke]
*1984 [by George Orwell]
*Animal Farm [by George Orwell]
*The Ancient Romans [by Chester G. Starr]
*Old School Stephen King Books [Skeleton Crew, Pet Semetery, The Gunslinger, Insomnia, and The Green Mile] [Well, Terry only considers “old school” in the case of Stephen King’s works to mean pre-1990 – but Terry decided to lazily list every Stephen King book he ever read here]
*The World’s Last Mysteries [by Reader’s Digest]
*The Silmarillion [by JRR Tolkien]
*The Hobbit [by JRR Tolkien]
*The Lord of the Rings [by JRR Tolkien]
*Salamandastron [by Brian Jacques]
*The Phantom Tollbooth [by Norton Juster]
*The Complete Calvin and Hobbes [by Bill Watterson] [This collection wasn’t released until Terry was an adult. However, Terry read virtually every Calvin and Hobbes comic in his childhood. That said, Terry seems to love the comic even more as an adult, than he did as a child.]
*Mysteries of the Unexplained [by Reader’s Digest]
*DVD & Video Guide [formerly Video Movie Guide] [edited by Mick Martin and Marsha Porter] [Terry never read any edition of this book from cover-to-cover – though he did read much of its content, from childhood to his adulthood.]
*Leonard Maltin’s Classic Movie Guide: From the Silent Era Through 1965 (Third Edition) [edited by Leonard Maltin] [This edition wasn’t released until Terry was an adult, and he never read any edition of the book from cover-to-cover – though he did read much of its content, from childhood to his adulthood.]
*Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide: The Modern Era [edited by Leonard Maltin] [This edition wasn’t released until Terry was an adult, and he never read any edition of the book from cover-to-cover – though he did read much of its content, from childhood to his adulthood.]
*Movies on TV (Eleventh Revised Edition) [edited by Steven H. Scheuer] [Terry never read any edition of this book from cover-to-cover – though he did read much of its content, from childhood to his adulthood.]
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