16 best-selling politics books like Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life by Scott Branson

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Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life

By: Scott Branson

4.07

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

You may not realise it, but you are probably already practicing anarchism in your daily life. From …

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1. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

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2. Oblivion: Stories

By: David Foster Wallace

4.07

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity wi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • unfinished
"She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red."

-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories

"The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long."

-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories

"Am I happy? is one of those questions that, if it has got to be asked, more or less dictates its own answer."

-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories

"It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are."

-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories

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3. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

By: David Graeber

4.21

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the ac… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • anarchism
"...státní aparát [...] skupina lidí, kteří si jako jediní osobují právo - alespoň tehdy, když jsou ve své oficiální roli - používat násilí."

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

"The theory of exodus proposes that the most effective way of opposing capitalism and the liberal state is not through direct confrontation but by means of what Paolo Virno has called “engaged withdra…"

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

"A revolution on a world scale will take a very long time. But it is also possible to recognize that it is already starting to happen. The easiest way to get our minds around it is to stop thinking ab…"

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

"... most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we …"

-David Graeber, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

4. On Anarchism

By: Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • anarchism
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5. What is Not Yours is Not Yours

By: Helen Oyeyemi

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Hardcover

The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret--Oyeyemi's keys not only unlock element… read more

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6. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.25

Format: 387 pages, Paperback

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
"... “Dangerous!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Freedom is never very safe."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Who do you think is lying to us?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

7. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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8. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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9. Woman on the Edge of Time

By: Marge Piercy

3.29

Format: None pages,

Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly s… read more

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10. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

By: bell hooks

3.46

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more

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11. No Gods, No Monsters (Convergence Saga, #1)

By: Cadwell Turnbull

3.45

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. … read more

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12. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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13. Brainwyrms

By: Alison Rumfitt

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Alison Rumfitt, the author of Tell Me I’m Worthless — “a triumph of transgressive queer horror… read more

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14. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

By: Mark Fisher

4.29

Format: 211 pages, None

Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more

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  • theory
  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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15. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.25

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourse… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • self help
"In other words, I want an erotic that demands space be made for honest bodies that like to also fuck."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"revolution cannot be created by conforming to existing roles in relationships already defined by the systems we want to overthrow."

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Women and femmes who love money are free to be demanding. The world has tried to fool them into thinking that getting paid for care or sex “cheapens"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

"Money buys protection. It buys time off and privacy. And it buys nice, pretty shit. Money also buys food, housing, and health care. Getting paid enough to meet our needs—and more—feels good. I’m not …"

-Adrienne Maree Brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

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16. Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

By: Sarah Jaffe

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Freedom was there, the neoliberals argued, you just had to purchase it."

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

"Neoliberalism encourages us to think that everything we want and need must be found with a price tag attached."

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

"The majority of people who work in the arts will identify themselves as liberal to left wing, often radical left wing. This is going from the poorest artist to the highest paid curators in institutio…"

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

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17. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • activism
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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18. Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

By: Dean Spade

4.38

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
"In the context of professionalized nonprofit organizations, groups are urged to be single-issue oriented, framing their message around "deserving" people within the population they serve, and using t…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"When we feel bad, we often automatically decide that either we are bad or another person is bad. Both of these moves cause damage and distort the truth, which is that we are all navigating difficult …"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

"Burnout is the combination of resentment, exhaustion, shame, and frustration that make us lose connection to pleasure and passion in the work, and instead encounter difficult feelings like avoidance,…"

-Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)

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19. The Contradictions

By: Sophie Yanow

3.21

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

The Eisner Award–winning story about a student figuring out radical politics in a messy world.Sophi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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20. Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

By: David Graeber

3.33

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everyt… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"God and Man were inseparable companions. One day God said to Man: why don’t you go walk around on earth for a while so we can find some new topics for conversation? —beginning of a Malagasy folktale"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

"The toothless or peg-legged buccaneer hoisting a flag of defiance against the world, drinking and feasting to a stupor on stolen loot, fleeing at the first sign of serious opposition, leaving only ta…"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

"We would seem to be in the presence of a genuine historical anomaly: a political entity that presented itself to the outside world as a kingdom, organized around the charismatic figure of a brilliant…"

-David Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

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21. The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence

By: The Care Collective

3.80

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it? The Care Manifesto puts… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • society
"Una visione politica realmente globale richiede allora di abbracciare quello che definiamo un cosmopolitismo quotidiano, una cura promiscua su scala globale che porti la nostra visione della cura al …"

-The Care Collective, The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence

Cover of Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto) by Micha Frazer-Carroll

22. Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health (Outspoken by Pluto)

By: Micha Frazer-Carroll

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

‘A radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health’  Dazed ‘E… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
Cover of Weird Walk: Wanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year by Weird Walk

23. Weird Walk: Wanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year

By: Weird Walk

4.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The first book by iconic zine creators and cultural phenomenon Weird Walk. This is a superbly desig… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. The Free People's Village

By: Sim Kern

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change r… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
Cover of The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

25. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

4.46

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more

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  • activism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"

-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

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26. A Country of Ghosts

By: Margaret Killjoy

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. But w… read more

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  • politics
  • anarchism
"I’ll never figure out if I’m supposed to let worry get the best of me,"

-Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts

"All people are free. When we speak of freedom, we acknowledge that freedom is a relationship between the people of the society. This relationship of freedom is created by the means of mutual respect,…"

-Margaret Killjoy, A Country of Ghosts

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27. Station Six

By: S.J. Klapecki

3.35

Format: 155 pages, Paperback

A hard science-fiction space opera with a queer protagonist. Sixty million miles from Earth, in… read more

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28. Escape from Incel Island

By: Margaret Killjoy

3.89

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

To cope with rising misogynist violence, the US government offered people a golden opportunity: any… read more

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29. Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life

By: Scott Branson

4.07

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

You may not realise it, but you are probably already practicing anarchism in your daily life. From … read more

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  • unfinished
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anarchism
  • activism
  • society
  • self help
Cover of Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory by Solomon J. Brager

30. Heavyweight: A Family Story of the Holocaust, Empire, and Memory

By: Solomon J. Brager

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A moving and provocative graphic memoir exploring inherited trauma, family history, and the ever-sh… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Service Organization: How to Deliver and Lead Successful Services, Sustainably by Kate Tarling

31. The Service Organization: How to Deliver and Lead Successful Services, Sustainably

By: Kate Tarling

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

All organizations are becoming service organizations. But most weren’t built to deliver services su… read more

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  • nonfiction

11 Top philosophy books like Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life by Scott Branson

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Oblivion: Stories

David Foster Wallace

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)

David Graeber

4.21

On Anarchism

Noam Chomsky , Barry Pateman

4.42

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9 best-selling nonfiction books like The Contradictions by Sophie Yanow

Transform Your Habits

This Woman's Work

Julie Delporte

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

Transform Your Habits

Corps vivante

Julie Delporte

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Ephemera

Briana Loewinsohn

4.00

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