You should add:

"No One is Illegal" (Mike Davis and Justin Akers Chacon)

"The Struggle for Palestine" (edited by Lance Selfa)

"The Meaning of Marxism" (Paul D'amato)

"Power Politics" (Arundhati Roy)
 

A few of my favorites:

"Strike" by Jeremy Brecher

"Jeremy Brecher's Strike! is one of the most important books on labor history published since World War II. It is a much-needed history of recent labor struggles. But what makes it indispensable is its point of view, its spirit, which is that of rank-and-file resistance to both corporate power and trade union bureaucracy. Its emphasis on worker-community solidarity, across all boundaries, is exactly what is needed in our time."
-Howard Zinn

"Haymarket Tragedy" by Paul Avrich

"Critics have been asking, where are the studies in American working-class history that are also in the best literary tradition? Where among serious scholars today is the art of historical narrative? Here is the answer, in Paul Avrich's finest book."—Paul Berman, Voice Literary Supplement

"Chasing Ghosts" by Paul Reickhoff

"Here's the story of a vet who's come home from combat in Iraq, still fiercely pro-American and pro-military, but justifiably furious at the Bush administration for sending Americans off to war without a viable plan for success. Rieckhoff takes you to the stomach-churning streets, day-by-day, rifles and teenaged soldiers in hand, nothing left to the imagination save the full fear. We had better heed Rieckhoff's brutally honest, strong, and unimpeachable scream."
- Leslie H. Gelb,
former foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times
and president emeritus of The Council on Foreign Relations

"Working Class New York" by Joshua Freeman

"Working Class New York" is one of the best labor history books published in the last two decades for the simple reason that its vantage point is not as narrow (one industry or one union in a particular period) or as wide (the US labor movement as a whole) as others. By focusing on the history of the organized working class in one particular city, Freeman avoids a problem that has often plagued labor historians: i.e. the "fitting" of labor history into preconceived notions, stereotypes, or ideological biases. Instead, Freeman's book examines the full range of forces that propelled both the New York City labor movement's expansion and decline in the twentieth century.

Greg Tarpinian, Executive Director of the Labor Research Association

"Sir, No Sir" documentary by David Zeiger

In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.
 

Also, for all the kids who don't want to read, have ADD, or are eager to see the devastation
America sets forth every fucking day across seas - make sure you steal or borrow this:


<b>Embedded - The Media at War by Bill Katovsky and Timothy Carlson</b>

"In comparison to the Gulf War of 1991, in which the Pentagon controlled the news as tightly as possible, the war of 2003 was a wide-open affair for reporters. This was partly done to counteract propaganda coming from the Iraqi government; it was also an attempt to control and influence the news by keeping journalists under close watch. To this end, the Pentagon developed a "slick new public relations concept known as embedding." (xiii galley) Embedded journalists lived, ate, and traveled with the troops. They also came under enemy fire with the troops. In fact, as a group, the roughly 2,700 journalists in Iraq were more likely to be killed in combat than the quarter million American and British soldiers. Traveling with troops was
generally safer and afforded better access, but what about journalistic ethics? That is question at the core of this fascinating book and one proves to have many different answers.

Embedded is a collection of interviews conducted between April and June 2003 of 60 journalists, public affairs officers, and freelance photographers from a wide range of print, television, and radio sources. Their stories convey information, impressions, and anecdotes that could not be included in their official reports and are therefore quite revealing. They confront not only the risks, and allure, of reporting from a combat zone, but of getting too close to the story to remain objective (if true objectivity is even possible). This personal and often moving collection offers great insight into the most covered war in history."

Also:


<b>How Non-Violence Protects The State - Peter Gelderloos</b>

""Peter Gelderloos's How Nonviolence Protects the State, finishes off where Ward Churchill's classic, Pacifism as Pathology, began. In this indictment, he makes a strong argument for the diversity of tactics, while illuminating how the ideology of pacifism leads us not to social justice, but rather, the peace one finds in cemeteries. A 'must read' for revolutionaries struggling to be effective against the government's 'War on Terror,' in which one person's freedom fighter is another's terrorist.""


Find out about how the United States government acted behind closed doors, behind the backs of every citizen, to try to assassinate Martin Luther King JR, how they got their information on the Weather Underground, and how our very own government killed Fred Hampton of the Black Panthers. Research this shit - none of this is a lie. Press your history teachers about it. You can buy the exact replica copies of the actual COINTELPRO papers off eBay or find them at your local infoshop.

<b>The COINTELPRO Papers - Ward Churchill</b>

"Readers anxious about civil liberties under George W. Bush will find fodder for fears-and suggestions for activism-in The COINTELPRO Papers. Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's expose of America's political police force, the FBI, reveals the steel fist undergirding "compassionate conservatism's" velvet glove. Using original FBI memos, the authors provide extensive analysis of the agency's treatment of the left, from the Communist Party in the 1950s to the Central America solidarity movement in the 1980s. The authors' new introduction posits likely trajectories for domestic repression."
 

A Power the Government cannot suppress. Howard zinn

i know this isn't really keeping them of nonfiction but "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" Stephen Chbosky had a large influence on me

there are so many more that i cannot remember off the top of my head
 

a peoples history of the united states
was an awesome book
 

i think you should add the book "dharma punx" by noah levine!!
check it out. it helps me a lot!!
 

MAD PROPS FOR READING NOAM CHOMSKY!
 

dood you stole half my book shelf

add America and Political Islam( fawaz A. Gerges)

now only if you would lighten up

just kidding, wish you cats nothing but the best. hope the road is treating you well

xo
joe
 

A Letter to A Christian Nation - Sam Harris
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason - Sam Harris
Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard
The Sublime Object of Ideology - Slavoj Zizek
 

"Letter To A Christian Nation"- by Sam Harris
 

www.NYTIMES.com - seriously

also about the genocide in Rwanda: "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families" (Philip Gourevitch)
 

Ishmael-Daniel Quinn

The Story of B-Daniel Quinn
 

you should read "the power of now" by Eckhart tolle it helped me to tear down alot of walls ehehe
 

Books:
"20 Years of Censored News" By Carl Jenson
"Will They Ever Trust Us Again?" By Micheal Moore

Documentary:
"Cheney's Law" - Important new Documentary about the abuse of power in the executive branch done by Frontline, here's the link to watch the full video:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/cheney/

"Who Killed The Electric Car?"- Link to watch: http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/223/

Can be found on DVD or HBO:
-"Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq"
-"I Am An Animal: The Story of Ingrid Newkirk and PETA"
-"Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers"
 

Two books for everyone to checkout:

"Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn and "Tell Me No Lies" by John Pilger.
 

"Babylon By Bus"
Jeff Neuuman and Ray Lemoine
 

Anything by Derrick Jensen!
 

Some West Coast works:

"Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California" By Tomas Almaguer

"Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farm Workers, 1769-1913" By Richard Steven Street
 

Also check out The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor W. Adorno. It was used as part of the base of the original Counterculture. Adorno was wonderful media scholar and part of the Frankfurt School of thought. The book itself tries to show Authoritarianism though psychological research. Fascinating stuff.

The thinkers of the Frankfurt School were describing Mass Media as subversive propaganda while Chomsky was still in College. It's amazing how much foresight those guys had. I really enjoy reading a lot of the works produced by the writers from that school of thought.
 

One of the best ways to study history is though the eyes of a media scholar. If you can drop $30 on a text book, get Media and Cultural Studies, edited by Meenakshi Durham and Douglas M. Kellner. It's packed with essays by many of the Frankfurt School writers and various other Marxist media scholar. Reading these essays really showcases the way the rulers of this nation keep people down by marginalizing dissent through the media. People love to talk about how the government goes behind The People's back to commit atrocities, when in reality they don't have to because they've tied their blindfold of hegemony around America's eyes via the media. Each essay is an amazing read.
 

You guys should add Skinny Bitch.
 

you guys should also pick up manifest. the author is unknown.
its hard to find.
but it will change your life.
so pick it up.
theres a web site that list all the places you can get it.
dedrabbit.com
 

dark alliance-gary webb
 

On the fiction side, too many people stick to the famous Orwell.


His most stark and moving comments on Human Nature are made in Coming Up For Air.


Also Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky debate on Human Nature is primarily a philosophical reading but there are some amazing points made by Noam in that debate that have major implications in our society today.


This might have been said already but the single most influential reading in my life so far is still Pacifism as Pathology by Ward Churchill.


Stoked for the new album, Blacklisted just gave hardcore a good kick in the ass but I have a feeling yours could be harder!
 

How about some william rivers pitt .."House of Ill repute"
 

"Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living In the East Teaches Us About Living In the West" -- T.R.
Reid

"The Truth About the Truth: De-confusing and Re-constructing the Postmodern World" -- Various contributors like Michel Foucalt, Umberto Eco, etc.

 

Confessions of an Economic Hitman was a great book, very informing. This is an awesome reading list, major props.

 

You all new worlders should check out the book "Durruti", get it from ak press. Tells the story of one of the most famous revolutionaries of our time along with the story of the revolution he and so many others fought and died for. It gives a good view on how the world turned into what it is today.


Also "Obsolete communism" by the Bendit brothers gives the same perspective on what really happened in Paris 68, also ak press.

 

Dont forget "FIGHT CLUB" by Chuck Palahniuk, if you have not read this book, read it as soon as you can. It will change your life.

 

I read "Lies My Teacher Told Me", and loved questioning everything my teacher so boldly presented to my class. My teacher even contacted my parents explaining what a nuisance I was in class. haha. Keep up the music guys, its really inspiring to me. Aggression is fucking sick.

 

The Evolution of a Cro-Magnon (John Joseph [McGowan])
 

I dont Remember exactly what the name of the documentary was called but it was produced by either showtime or HBO and it was about how profitable the Iraq war is and the people who are getting paid the most from this war; Dick Cheney you guys should definitely check it out.

 

I'd recommend-

'A foreign policy of freedom'
and;
'The Revolution: A manifesto'

(ron paul)

'Blowback: The Cost and Consequences of American Empire'

(Chalmers Johnson)
 

I don't know if anyone said this.

But Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Like 1984 but even crazier
 

crimes against logic
 

thanks for posting this and giving me some books to check out.


umm if anyone hasn't read "behold a pale horse" by william cooper i strongly suggest you do so.

 

Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

Hello I'm Special:How Individuality Became The New Conformity by Hal Niedzviecki

The Paradox Of Choice:Why Less Is More by Barry Schwartz

Animal Farm by George Orwell
 

add some of foucaults works. he clearly describes the acting of power, which is the immaterial functionalism of gouvernment and institutions. for example: microphysics of power or analytics of power.

 

-"Animal Liberation" By Peter Singer ___ All of DostojevsKij___"AutoBiography Of Malcom X"____ --Ehy Guys Please come to Italy___come to Italy_____come to Italy for your europe tour , here there is a lot of Kids that will do the reaLLy Sold Out at your Gig ____That's a FuKKKing TruE ---__TaKe xXx Care !!
 

Socialism and Revolution-Andre Gorz

Capitalism and Freedom-Friedman
 

big ups on the daniel quinn and noah levine recommendations. i would maybe add anything by derrick jensen, particularly "endgame". also, anything by emma goldman. "red emma speaks" is probably my favorite.

 

a persistent peace by father john dear. its the story of a crazy, radical catholic priest. howard zinn and chomsky both give him props.

 

you should check out anything by Saul Bellow...i read Herzog and i thought it was magnificent...p.s.
need to check out Failed States by Noam Chomsky also
 

there's a great book i'd recommend called 'a fire on the mountain' by terry bisson...sucks you guys are breaking up.

 

"Laskar Pelangi" (Andrea Hirata)..
 

A SMALL CORNER OF HELL- DISPATCHES FROM CHECHNYA.- Anna Politkovskaya........the author is now dead. she was shot in the head in 2006 for what she stood for and what she exposed. Read this book.

 

a man without a country by KURT VONNEGUT.
 

Its not book but a truthful read
http://freemumianow.blogspot.com/2007/05/immortal-technique-explains.html

 

Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins.