FOR NON-FICTION READERS – favorites & best recommendations 

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BEGIN WITH THESE: 
The Democrats: A Critical History by Lance Selfa (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe by Michael Löwy (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)

ENVIRONMENT

Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It by Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, and Max Wilbert (Monkfish or Thriftbooks)
Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer by Helen Caldicott (The New Press, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption by Dahr Jamail (The New Press, Bookshop, Thriftbooks)
Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in a Time of Climate Crisis by Vandana Shiva (North Atlantic Press, Penguin Random House, Bookshop, Thriftbooks)
The War and Environment Reader edited by Gar Smith (Just World Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)

CULTURE & JUSTICE

All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Capitalism & Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale (Verso Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange by Kevin Gonsztola (Seven Stories Press, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Our History Has Always Been Contraband: In Defense of Black Studies edited by Colin Kaepernick, Robin D.G. Kellley, and Keeanga-Yamahtta (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Marx at the Arcade: Consoles, Controllers, and Class Struggle by Jamie Woodcock (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border by Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)

HISTORY

Blaming the Victims: Spurious Scholarship and the Palestinian Question edited by Christopher Hitchens and Edward W. Said, contributions by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Abu-Lughod, G.W. Bowersock, Noam Chomsky, Norman G. Finkelstein, Muhammad Hallaj, Rashid Khalidi, Peretz Kidron and Elia Zureik (Verso Books, Bookshop)
Circle in the Darkness: Memoir of a World Watcher by Diana Johnstone (Clarity Press, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America by Óscar Martínez (Verso Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Journalists and Their Shadows by Patrick Lawrence (Clarity Press, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump by Max Blumenthal (Verso Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn (Harper Collins, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South by Vijay Prashad (Verso Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks) 

LABOR & THE WORKING CLASSES

A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy by Jane McAlevey (Ecco/HarperCollins, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Class Struggle Unionism by Joe Burns (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (Macmillan Publishers, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Poor Workers’ Unions: Rebuilding Labor From Below by Vanessa Tait (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Wall Street's War on Workers: How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What to Do about It by Les Leopold (Chelsea Green, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)

POLITICS, ECONOMICS & STATECRAFT

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights by Omar Barghouti (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
China in Global Capitalism: Building International Solidarity Against Imperial Rivalry by Eli Friedman, Kevin Lin, Rosa Liu, and Ashley Smith (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis (PenguinRandomHouse, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World by Douglas Valentine (Clarity Press or Thriftbooks)
Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order by Howard Zinn (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks) 
The End of Imagination by Arundhati Roy (Haymarket Books, Bookshop, Thriftbooks)
The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life) by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison (PenguinRandomHouse, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
These are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs - and Wrecks - America by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Baker (Simon & Schuster, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)

SOCIALISM

The Case for Socialism by Alan Maass (Haymarket Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Manifesto: Three Classic Essays on How to Change the World by Ernesto Che Guevara, Rosa Luxemburg, and Marx & Engels (Seven Stories Press, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Socialism...Seriously: A Brief Guide to Surviving the 21st Century by Danny Katch (Haymarket Books or Bookshop)
Socialist Reconstruction: A Better Future for the United States by Party for Socialism and Liberation (Liberation Press, Bookshop or Thriftbooks) 

WAR & MILITARISM

America’s Final War by Andrei Martyanov (Clarity Press, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Deluge: Gaza and Israel from Crisis to Cataclysm edited by Jamie Stern-Weiner (OR Books, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
The Rare Earths Era: Strategic Metals Dependency & World Order by Juan Manuel Chomón (Clarity Press, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
Solidarity with Palestine: Free Resources and Further Reading (Verso Books)
Understanding the War Industry by Christian Sorensen (Clarity Press, Bookshop or Thriftbooks)
War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges (Public Affairs, Bookshop)
War is a Lie (second edition) by David Swanson (Just World Books or Bookshop)