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Favourite Books of all Time

  • A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present - Howard Zinn
  • Adam Smith's Mistake: How a Moral Philosopher Invented Economics and Ended Morality – Kenneth Lux (especially Chapter 10)
  • Agri-Culture: Reconnecting People, Land and Nature - Jules Pretty
  • An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth - Mahatma Gandhi
  • Arbeit Macht Frei and Other Lies about Work (book completely online) - Molly Scott Cato
  • BABYLON AND BEYOND: The Economics of Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Globalist and Radical Green Movements - Derek Wall
  • Beyond the Classroom: Exploring Active Citizenship in 11-16 Education - Edited by Benjamin Linsley and Elisabeth Rayment
  • Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoevsky (especially the first half)
  • Deepening Democracy - Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance v. 4 (The Real Utopias Project) - Archon Fung & Erik Olin Wright
  • Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts - James C. Scott
  • Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
  • Good Work - E.F. Schumacher
  • Green Alternatives to Globalisation: A Manifesto - Michael Woodin and Caroline Lucas
  • Homage to Catalonia - George Orwell
  • Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter - Lloyd Kahn
  • Long Walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela
  • Market, Schmarket: Building the Post-Capitalist Economy - Molly Scott Cato
  • Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went - John Kenneth Galbraith
  • new poems book 1 - Charles Bukowski
  • One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
  • Participation and Democratic Theory - Carole Pateman
  • Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail - Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
  • Power and Empowerment: A Radical Theory of Participatory Democracy - Peter Bachrach and Aryeh Botwinick
  • POWER TO THE PEOPLE -The report of Power: an independent Inquiry into Britain's democracy
  • Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
  • Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
  • Shelter - edited By Lloyd Kahn
  • Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
  • Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  • Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered - E. F. Schumacher
  • Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power - Alastair McIntosh
  • squatters handbook
  • Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security: The Impact of Globalisation - edited by Vandana Shiva and Gitanjali Bedi
  • The Call of the Wild / White Fang – Jack London
  • The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power - Joel Bakan
  • The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth - Lewis Henry Berens (Free at Project Gutenberg)
  • The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov
  • The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia – Samuel Johnson
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: a Trilogy in Four Parts - Douglas Adams
  • The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
  • The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint Exupéry
  • The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments from 2700 BC to AD 2000 - edited by Jon E. Lewis
  • The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  • The Overcoat and Other Short Stories – Nikolai Gogol
  • The Political Animal - Jeremy Paxman
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Televised : Democracy, the Internet, and the Overthrow of Everything – Joe Trippi
  • Unbowed: My Autobiography - Wangari Maathai
  • Utopia Britannica - British Utopian Experiments: 1325-1945 - Chris Coates
  • Walden - Henry David Thoreau
  • We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change - Myles Horton and Paulo Freire
  • Workplace Democracy: The Political Effects of Participation - Edward S. Greenberg
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