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RECOMMENDED READING

RECOMMENDED READING FROM SOME OF THIS REALITY'S GREAT THINKERS

Embark on an exhilarating journey with our meticulously curated reading list, where each book is a portal to a world of unparalleled insights, boundless knowledge, and perspective-altering treasures. We’ve put together a bit of a kaleidoscope of genres that range from the profound to the whimsical, the historical to the futuristic, and the introspective to the adventurous. Our selection is a testament to the diverse tapestry of human experience, with all titles promising a profound shift in your understanding of the world.

Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs & the Implications for Social Activism by Vanessa Machado de Oliveria

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe by Lisa Randall

Palestinian Walks - Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh

Hollow Land  by Eyal Weizman

 

Still Alive by Safdar Ahmed

Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence by James Bridle

 

Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey

 

Mission Economy by Mariana Mazzucato

 

Why the Future is Workless by Tim Dunlop

 

The Hologram by Cassie Thornton

The Last Pictures by Trevor Paglen

 

One Country by Ali Abunimah

Anthropocene Feminism by Grusin

 

The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz

 

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

 

How to be an Anti-Capitalist in the 21st Century by Erik Olin Wright

 

The Next Revolution by Murray Bookchin

 

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase 

 

The Future is Degrowth by Shmelzer, Wetter, Vansintjan

 

Capital by Karl Marx

 

From What Is to What If by Rob Hopkins

 

Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth

 

This Changes Everything: Capitalism versus The Climate by Naomi Klein

 

The Ministry for The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

 

Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent by Hlavajova & Maas

 

Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit

 

Always Coming Home by Ursula K Le Guin

 

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

 

Octavia’s Brood Edited by Walidah Imarasha

 

Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak & Black Fictions Edited by Rafeif Ismail & Ellen van Neerven 

 

Another Now by Yannis Varoufakis

Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J Haraway

The Future is Disabled  by Leah Lakshmi Piepzina-Samarasinha

 

Minor Detail by Adania Shibley

 

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Edited by Tsing, Swanson, Gan & Bubandt

 

How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human by Eduardo Kohn

 

This All Come Back Now by Mykaela Saunders

 

Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Tsing

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y Davis

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown 

 

Something Deeply Hidden by Sean Carroll

The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime & Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 

An Immense World by Ed Yong

 

The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow

The Parallel Effect acknowledges and pays respect to Traditional Custodians and Elders of all nations and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of all First Nations peoples. 

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