February 2026
So this is my constantly updating reading list. The big ones will have their own categories, while other books will be divided by topic.
2 very important things to note!
1. I will continue to update this as time goes by, so if you happen to see any changes, that's why!
2. I have not read all of these, unfortunately. I am making my way through them, and the ones that I have not read were either : taken from reading suggestions of other online comrades, or directly recommended to me by comrades.
I'll try to put in into categories for now, but be aware that things may change/ move around! Thank you and have a good reading session, remember : "Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement."¹- V.I. Lenin
Marx:
I consider all of his works mandatory, but maybe start with these:
1. Wage Labour and Capital
2. Value Price and Profit
3. Critique of the Gotha Program
4. Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
5. The Civil War in France
6. German Ideology
Engels:
I consider all of his works mandatory, but maybe start with these:
1. Principle of Communism
2. Socialism Utopian and Scientific
3. On Authorithy
4. Origin of the Family, Private Proprety, and the State
5. Anti-Dühring
Lenin:
I consider all of his works mandatory, but maybe start with these:
1. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
2. What Is To Be Done?
3. The State and the Revolution
4. Left-Wing "Communism": An Infantile Disorder
5. The Three Sources and the Component Parts
Mao:
I consider all of his works mandatory, but maybe start with these:
1. On Practice & On Contradiction
2. Oppose Book Worship
3. Combat Liberalism
4. On Guerilla Warfare
5. Mao On Yugoslavia
Imperialism & Colonialism & War and everything about them:
1. Orientalism - Edward W. Said
2. The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon
3. Inglorious Empire - Shashi Tharoor
4. Against Empire - Michael Parenti
5. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man - John Perkins
6. Lenin's Imperialism in the 21st Century
7. Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century - John Smith
8. Kill Anything That Moves - Nick Turse
9. A Dying Colonialism - Frantz Fanon
10. Late Victorian Holocausts - Mike Davis
11. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney
12. Black Skin, White Masks - Frantz Fanon
13. Unequal Exchange and the Prospects of Socialism - Emmanuel Arghiri
14. Unequal Exchange: A Study of the Imperialism of Trade - Emmanuel
Arghiri
15. The Wealth of some Nations - Zak Cope
16. Divided World Divided Class - Zak Cope
17. The Law of Worldwide Value - Samir Amin
18. Unequal Development - Samir Amin
19. Neo-Colonialism, The Last Stage of Imperialism - Kwame Nkrumah
20. The Jakarta Method - Vincent Bevins
21. Killing Hope - William Blum
Cuba & El Che:
1. Che - John Lee Anderson
2. Remembering Che: My Life with Che Guevara - Aleida March
3. Reminisces of the Cuban Revolutionary War - Che Guevara
4. The Motorcycle Diaries - Che Guevara
5. Che: A Memoir - Fidel Castro
5. Voices from the Other Side - Keith Bolender
6. Cuba and it's Neighbours - Arnold August
7. We are Cuba - Helen Yaffe
8. Manufacturing the Enemy: The Media War Against Cuba - Keith Bolender
9. Fidel Castro: My Life - Ignacio Ramonet
Women:
1. The Unwomanly Face of War - Svetlana Alexeivici
2. Women Race & Class - Angela Davis
3. Red Love - Alexandra Kollontai
4. Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai
5. The Woman Worker - Nedezhda Krupskaya
History:
1. Blackshirts & Reds - Michael Parenti
2. Liberalism a Counter History - Domenico Losurdo
3. Blitzed - Norman Ohler
4. The Long Twetieth Century - Giovanni Arghiri
U.S.:
1. Revolutionary Suicide - Huey P. Newton
2. Rogue State - William Blum
3. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat - J. Sakai
4. A People's History of the United States - Howard Zim
5. Bowling Alone - Robert D. Putnam
6. The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexender
7, The Triumph of Evil - A. Murphy
General knowledge:
1. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
2. Reform or Revolution - Rosa Luxembourg
3. Dialectical and Historical Materialism - J. V. Stalin
4. The Foundations of Leninism - J. V. Stalin
5. Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media - Michael Parenti
7. Why Socialism? - Albert Einstein
8. Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism - Otto Kuusinen
9. How Capitalism Works - Hadas Thier
10. Capital in the 21st Century - Thomas Picketty
11. The Socialist Manifesto - Bhaskar Sunkara
12. Manufacturing Consent - Noam Chomsky
13. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
14. The Battle for Spain - Antony Beevor
15. The Archeology of Knowledge - Michael Foucault
16. Four Futures: Life After Capitalism - Peter Frase
17. The Reactionary Mind - Corey Robin
18. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 - Gerald Horne
Palestine:
1. Ten Myths About Israel - Ilan Pappe
2. The Hundred Years War on Palestine - Rashid Khalidi
3. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Ilan Pappe
4. A Strategy for the Liberation of Palestine - PFLP
5. My People Shall Live - Leila Khalid
6. Isreal's Occupation - Neve Gordon
7. Hollow Land: Isreal's Architecture of Occupation - Eyal Weizman
8. Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/ Palestine - Oren
Yiftachel
9. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Isreal's Liberal
Settler State - Shira Robinson
10. The Iron Cage: The Story of Palestinian Struggle for Statehood -
Rashid Khalidi
USSR:
1. An Economic History of the USSR - Alec Nove
2. Human Rights in the Soviet Union - Albert Szymanski
3. Is the Red Flag Flying? - Albert Szymanski
4. Soviet Democracy - Pat Sloan
5. The Industrialization of Soviet Russia - R. W. Davies
6. Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation - Beatrice Webb
7. Socialism in the Soviet Union - Jonathan Arthur
8. The Soviet Form of Popular Government - U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences
9. Workers Participation in the Soviet Union - Mick Castello
10. The Great Conspiracy against Russia - Michael Sayers and Albert E.
Kahn
11. Stalin: History and Critique - Domenico Lusordo
12. Art and The Working Class - Alexander Bogdanov
13. The Russian Revolution, a View from the Thirld World - Walter Rodney
14. Reminisces of Lenin - Nedezhda Krupskaya
15. Handbook of Political Economy - U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences
"Middle East"/ West Asia
1. The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq -
Hanna Batatu
2. Revolution and Counter Revolution in Iran - Phil Marshall
China:
1. Quotation from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung - Hou Bo
2. Assorted Works of Deng Xiaoping
3. Friendly Feudalism : The Tibet Myth - Michael Parenti
4. How China Escaped Shock Therapy - Isabella M. Webber
5. Ten Crises - Wen Tiejun
6. America Against America - Wang Huning
7. The Basic Economic System of China - Changhong Pei , Chunxue Yang ,
Xinming Yang
8. China's Political System - Ning Fang
DPRK:
1. Essential Juche Works - Kim Jong Il
2. Patriots, Traitors and Empires - Stephen Gowans
DPRK:
1. Essential Juche Works - Kim Jong Il
2. Patriots, Traitors and Empires - Stephen Gowans
Latin America:
1. Open Veins of Latin America - James Lowen
2. Capitalism is Savagery - Hugo Chavez
3. Bitter Fruit - Stephen Kinzer & Stephen Schlesinger
GDR:
1. The People's State - Mary Fulbrook
2. A Socialist Defector - Victor Grossman
3. Stasi State or Socialist Paradise - Bruni De La Motte & John Green
4. The German Communist Resistence - T. Derbent
Yugoslavia:
1. To Kill a Nation - Michael Parenti
2. Collected Works of Josip Broz Tito
Vietnam:
1. Some Consideration on the Colonial Question - Ho Chi Min
¹= https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/i.htm