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A Vision of the Future We Want

"No Is Not Enough is essential reading for anyone serious about resisting the current regime and building the new world. It’s our book and should be read by everyone." –Eve Ensler
The U.S. Working Class Has a Radical History

A Haymarket Books reading list on the radical history of the U.S. working class.

Featured Books

No Is Not Enough

by Naomi Klein

A road map to shock resistance in the Trump era from internationally acclaimed activist and bestselling author Naomi Klein.
Electric Arches

by Eve L. Ewing

Original meditations on race, gender, identity, and the joy and pain of growing up, from a distinctive new voice.
A Beautiful Ghetto

by Devin Allen

Allen asks us to see beyond the the violence and poverty that all too often defines the "ghetto."
Why Bad Governments Happen to Good People

by Danny Katch

A sharp witted indictment of the U.S.'s broken political system, and a democratic, emancipatory vision for a socialist alternative.
Night Thoughts

by Wallace Shawn

Writer and actor Wallace Shawn's probing, honest, and self-critical take on civilization and its discontents.

History of the Russian Revolution

by Leon Trotsky

An unparalleled account of one of the most pivotal and hotly debated events in world history.
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

by Aja Monet

An ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world.
From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Winner of the 2016 Lannan Cultural Freedom Award for an Especially Notable Book
A People's History of Chicago

by Kevin Coval

Named "Best Chicago Poet" by The Chicago Reader, Kevin Coval channels Howard Zinn to celebrate the Windy City's hidden history.
The Mother of All Questions

by Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit’s timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me offers a refreshing take on contemporary feminism.

Devin Allen

“Devin Allen’s work demonstrates a connection between resistance as a daily activity, a way of life in the ghetto, and resistance as a political act, as played out in the streets.”
–The Washington Post
Angela Y. Davis

"Here is someone worthy of the Ancestors who delivered her. Angela Davis has stood her ground on every issue important to the health of our people and the planet."
—Alice Walker
Eve L. Ewing

"Ignore Eve Ewing at your own intellectual, political, and cultural peril."

–Chicago Magazine
Naomi Klein

"Naomi Klein has become the most visible and influential figure on the left–what Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky were thirty years ago."
—The New Yorker
Deepa Kumar

"An antiracist and antiwar activist, as well as a model scholar-teacher, Kumar has written a comprehensive and most readable guide to exposing and opposing the hatred of Islam."
—Gilbert Achcar

Aja Monet

"Aja Monet ‘s poetry offers us textures of feeling and radical shifts of meaning that expand our capacity to envision and fight for new worlds."
—Angela Y. Davis
Arundhati Roy

"Arundhati Roy is incandescent in her brilliance and her fearlessness."
—Junot Díaz
Rebecca Solnit

"No writer has weighed the complexities of sustaining hope in our times of readily available despair more thoughtfully and beautifully, nor with greater nuance."
—Maria Popova
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

"Taylor has absconded from the ivory tower to break down the current Movement for Black Lives, arguing that it holds the potential to reignite a broader push for black liberation."
—The Root
Howard Zinn

“Few people changed more lives than Howard Zinn."
—Naomi Klein