Critical Theory
Dialectic of Enlightenment // Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer
The Society of the Spectacle // Guy Debord
One-Dimensional Man // Herbert Marcuse
The Revolution of Everyday Life // Raoul Vaneigem
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction // Walter Benjamin
Poststructuralism
Discipline and Punish // Michel Foucault
Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Anti-Oedipus / A Thousand Plateaus) // Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
Simulacra and Simulation // Jean Baudrillard
Of Grammatology // Jacques Derrida
Speed and Politics // Paul Virilio
Psychoanalysis
Civilisation and Its Discontents // Sigmund Freud
The Accursed Share (Vol. 1 / Vols. 2-3) // Georges Bataille
The Seminars of Jacques Lacan // Jacques Lacan
The Sublime Object of Ideology // Slavoj Zizek
Lacan and the Political // Yannis Stavrakakis
Feminism
Simians, Cyborgs and Women // Donna Haraway
Caliban and the Witch // Silvia Federici
This Sex Which is Not One // Luce Irigaray
Volatile Bodies // Elizabeth Grosz
Visual and Other Pleasures // Laura Mulvey
Zeros + Ones // Sadie Plant
Queer Theory
Gender Trouble // Judith Butler
Sexing the Body // Anne Fausto-Sterling
The Straight Mind // Monique Wittig
Epistemology of the Closet // Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
No Future // Lee Edelman
Cruising Utopia // José Esteban Muñoz
Intersectionality
Feminist Theory // bell hooks
Black Feminist Thought // Patricia Hill Collins
Borderlands/La Frontera // Gloria Anzaldúa
Postcolonialism
The Wretched of the Earth // Franz Fanon
Can the Subaltern Speak? // Gayatri Spivak
The Location of Culture // Homi Bhabha
Strange Encounters // Sara Ahmed
A Small Place // Jamaica Kincaid
Marxism
The Communist Manifesto // Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Capital (Vol.1 / Vol.2 / Vol.3) // Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Reform or Revolution? // Roxa Luxemburg
State and Revolution // Vladimir Lenin
The Prison Notebooks // Antonio Gramsci
On the Reproduction of Capitalism // Louis Althusser
Critique of Every Day Life (Vol.1 / Vol.2) // Henri Lefebvre
The New Imperialism // David Harvey
Spectres of Marx // Jacques Derrida
Anarchism
Mutual Aid // Peter Kropotkin
The Conquest of Bread // Peter Kropotkin
Anarchism and Other Essays // Emma Goldman
The Temporary Autonomous Zone // Hakim Bey
Crack Capitalism // John Holloway
On Anarchism // Noam Chomsky
Against Equality // Ryan Conrad
Existentialism
Thus Spake Zarathustra // Friedrich Nietzsche
Being and Time // Martin Heidegger
The Ethics of Ambiguity // Simone de Beauvoir
The Myth of Sisyphus // Albert Camus
Being and Nothingness // Jean-Paul Sartre
Totality and Infinity // Emmanuel Levinas
Religion and Nothingness // Keiji Nishitani
Prison Abolition
Are Prisons Obsolete? // Angela Davis
Abolition Now! // CR10
Color of Violence // Incite!
Captive Genders // Eric Stanley and Nat Smith
Discipline and Punish // Michel Foucault
Animal Liberation
Earthlings // Shaun Monson
Eternal Treblinka // Charles Patterson
The Sexual Politics of Meat // Carol Adams
Critical Theory and Animal Liberation // John Sanbonmatsu
The Lives of Animals // John Coetzee
Environmentalism
Silent Spring // Rachel Carson
The Ecological Rift // John Bellamy Foster
This Changes Everything // Naomi Klein
The Lorax // Dr. Seuss
The Western Canon
Brave New World // Aldous Huxley
The Trial // Franz Kafka
White Noise // Don DeLillo
The Crying Lot of 49 // Thomas Pynchon
The Grapes of Wrath // John Steinbeck
The Dispossessed // Ursula Le Guin
The Handmaid’s Tale // Margaret Atwood
Exploits & Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician // Alfred Jarry
Cat’s Cradle // Kurt Vonnegut
Flowers for Algernon // Daniel Keyes
His Dark Materials // Philip Pullman
Watchmen // Alan Moore
Ice // Anna Kavan
Bambi // Felix Salten
Nausea // Jean-Paul Sartre
No Exit // Jean-Paul Sartre
VALIS // Philip K. Dick
To Kill a Mockingbird // Harper Lee
Annihilation // Jeff VanderMeer
Weaboo Trash
Neon Genesis Evangelion // Hideaki Anno
Revolutionary Girl Utena // Kunihiko Ikuhara
Serial Experiments Lain // Chiaki J. Konaka
Puella Magi Madoka Magica // Gen Urobuchi
Psycho-Pass // Gen Urobuchi
Saya no Uta // Gen Urobuchi
The Forest // Liar-Soft
Shinsekai Yori // A-1 Pictures
The Sky Crawlers // Mamoru Oshii
Angel’s Egg // Mamoru Oshii
Homunculus // Hideo Yamamoto
Almost Transparent Blue // Ryu Murakami