most radical text any genre

Philosophical and Political Texts:

  • The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
  • Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
  • The Revolution of Everyday Life by Raoul Vaneigem
  • The Ego and Its Own by Max Stirner
  • Immediatism by Hakim Bey
  • Endgame by Derrick Jensen
  • Living Currency by Pierre Klossowski
  • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber
  • The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • How Nonviolence Protects the State by Peter Gelderloos
  • Anti-technologies of Resistance by London Psychogeographical Association
  • Utopistics by Immanuel Wallerstein
  • Towards Democracy by Edward Carpenter
  • The Evolution of the Idea of God by Grant Allen
  • The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
  • T.A.Z. (Temporary Autonomous Zone) by Hakim Bey

Religious and Sacred Texts:

  • The Holy Quran
  • The King James Bible
  • The Old Testament
  • The Tibetan Book of the Dead
  • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
  • Heart Sutra (Buddhist text)
  • Sermon on the Mount (Christian text)
  • The Kabbalistic Sayings of Jesus in the Book of Thomas by Wandering Bishop Lewis Kiezer
  • Thunder Perfect Mind (Gnostic text)
  • The Nature of the Rulers/Hypostasis of the Archons (Gnostic text)

Literature and Poetry:

  • Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
  • Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein
  • Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
  • House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
  • The Approximate Man by Tristan Tzara
  • Death Tractates by Brenda Hillman
  • A Night of Serious Drinking (La Grande Beuverie) by René Daumal
  • Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Songs of Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont
  • Return to My Native Land by Aimé Césaire
  • My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
  • Empire of the Senseless by Kathy Acker
  • Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Native Son by Richard Wright
  • Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
  • VITUS BERING by Konrad Bayer
  • Backed Against the Sea by Wang Wenxing
  • Red Sorghum by Wang Wenxing
  • Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany
  • Love Is The Plan, The Plan Is Death by James Tiptree Jr. (Alice Sheldon)
  • El tesoro del odio by Miguel Allogio
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
  • Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
  • The Monkey King by Wu Cheng’en
  • The Confidence Man by Herman Melville
  • 1984 by George Orwell
  • Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • How It Is by Samuel Beckett
  • Sleepers Awake by Kenneth Patchen
  • The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
  • Dreams and Stones by Magdalena Tulli

Surrealist and Experimental Works:

  • Tango with Cows by Vasily Kamensky
  • Le Livre by Stéphane Mallarmé
  • An Anecdoted Topography of Chance by Daniel Spoerri
  • Patriarchal Poetry by Gertrude Stein
  • Missing Letters by Mark Bloch
  • Prose Architectures by Renee Gladman
  • In White Writing by Alan Halsey
  • bill jubobe by Bob Cobbing
  • Cycles by Bill Griffiths
  • Found Poems by Bern Porter
  • The Infinite Conversation by Maurice Blanchot
  • Faustroll by Alfred Jarry
  • Return to the House of Invention by Michelle Miller
  • When Things Dream by Tristan Tzara
  • The Mechanism of Meaning by Arakawa and Gins

Philosophical and Existential Literature:

  • Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Phenomenology of Spirit by G.W.F. Hegel
  • The Joyful Wisdom by Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Writing of the Disaster by Maurice Blanchot
  • Death Sentence/When the Time Comes/The Most High/The One Who Was Standing Apart From Me by Maurice Blanchot
  • Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
  • Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Science and Sanity by Alfred Korzybski

Political and Social Manifestos:

  • Second Surrealist Manifesto by André Breton
  • Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey
  • SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas
  • Cannibalist Manifesto by Oswald de Andrade
  • Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
  • Assault on Culture by Stewart Home
  • SETTLERS: The Mythology of the Proletariat by J. Sakai

Critical and Cultural Theory:

  • Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
  • Mille Plateaux by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
  • The Gutenberg Galaxy by Marshall McLuhan
  • Poetique de la Relation by Édouard Glissant
  • Empire of the Senseless by Kathy Acker

Sacred, Poetic, and Historical Narratives:

  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver
  • Our Lady of the Flowers by Jean Genet
  • The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
  • Stockhausen Serves Imperialism by Cornelius Cardew

Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction:

  • Dying Earth by Jack Vance
  • The Moon Moth by Jack Vance
  • Locus Solus by Raymond Roussel
  • The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Starmaker by Olaf Stapledon
  • Lords of the Left-Hand Path by Stephen Flowers

Books of Thought and Essays:

  • How to Save Non-Hybrid Seed and Garden with It by Unspecified Author
  • Meditations on the Tarot by Anonymous
  • The Confidence Man by Herman Melville
  • The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
  • The Dialectic of Sex by Shulamith Firestone

Nonfiction and Autobiographical Narratives:

  • The Diary of Mary Maclane by Herself by Mary Maclane
  • The Three Christs of Ypsilanti by Milton Rokeach
  • The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan
  • The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology by Paul Radin

Science and Analysis Texts:

  • Statistical Analysis Textbook by Unspecified Author
  • Cybernetics of Cybernetics by Heinz von Foerster

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