 | Anarchy by Errico Malatesta
Buy used from: £2.29 Very good and easily readable introduction to anarchy that reaches beyond bomb-based stereotypes.
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 | Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism by Peter Marshall
Buy new: £10.46 / Used from: £7.02 Very well researched and a phenomenal insight into the roots and branches of anarchism.
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 | Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Anarchist classics) by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
Buy used from: £6.76 Flawed but well argued arguments for anarchy - Kropotkin was very much a product of his times.
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 | Fields, Factories and Workshops Tomorrow by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin
Buy used from: £6.75 This book is astonishing and intelligent to say the least and I would STRONGLY recommend as an anarchist text.
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 | Anarchism (Pelican) by George Woodcock
Buy used from: £1.68 Very much and overview but George Woodcock has a thorough and positive approach to anarchism.
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| Nationalism and Culture by Rudolf Rocker
Truly ferocious text from Rudolf Rocker who I always say is underrated - this text shows why he should be observed.
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 | Anarcho-syndicalism: Theory and Practise (Working Classics) by Rudolf Rocker
Although I don't agree with anarcho-syndicalism for a number of reasons, this text provides an insight into activities in the Spanish Revolution.
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 | Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman
Buy new: £9.90 / Used from: £8.86 A perpetual inspiration to all - any Emma Goldman is a gem but this is well written, short and very abraisive.
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 | Proudhon: What is Property? (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Buy new: £14.01 / Used from: £12.99 Anarchism would not exist as it does today without Proudhon; although a patriarch and a nationalist, this book epitomises "property is theft" beautifully.
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| Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness (Penguin Classics) by William Godwin
Even William Godwin had something positive to say - husband of Mary Wollstonecraft, this book is an epic masterpiece.
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 | The Ego and its Own: Case of the Individual against Authority by Max Stirner
Buy used from: £7.91 Everyone overlooks this book with some degree of contempt but the thought of "Christianity creating property through the commandment against theft" is inspired.
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 | Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: £5.73 / Used from: £3.60 Was he an anarchist? Probably not but his works are in the same vein as Stirner - stunning intellectual weight.
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 | God and the State by Mikhail Bakunin
Buy new: £3.75 / Used from: £2.99 Too heavily influenced by Marxism for my liking but Bakunin brought revolution to life.
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 | The Complete Novels: The Trial; America; The Castle by Franz Kafka
Buy used from: £4.22 Again, not really an overt anarchist but his works are drenched in anarchy and is a superb author.
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| We, the Anarchists!: A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937 by Stuart Christie
Buy used from: £6.32 Not the best written book in the world but the conclusions and means of connecting ideas in understanding the FAI are well developed.
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 | Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution by Jose Peirats
Buy new: £12.50 / Used from: £8.75 Very good scope of the Spanish Revolution written by a life-long member of the CNT.
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| Fighting the Revolution: Makhno, Durruti and Zapata by Peter E. Newell
Brief introduction to three great revolutionaries - pity they were all betrayed by Marxists.
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| History of the Makhnovist Movement, 1918-21 by Peter Arshinov
Buy used from: £8.77 Although slightly authoritarian, I think what Makhno achieved around Hulyai Pole was truly inspirational and overshadowed by later events in Spain.
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 | What is Anarchism? (Working Classics, 1) by Alexander Berkman
Buy new: £10.00 / Used from: £3.74 A simple and stunning read which I always reference to anyone who has anarchism as a synonym for chaos, bombs, blood and violence.
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 | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky
Buy used from: £10.53 Although not overtly anarchist, this text is very well written, researched and argued, but then again, it is one of Chomsky's finest.
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 | Post-scarcity Anarchism (Working Classics) by Murray Bookchin
Buy new: £7.00 / Used from: £9.88 Like Bakunin, Bookchin is too drenched in Marxist rhetoric for me, but he does make some interesting arguments.
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 | The Monkey Wrench Gang (Penguin Modern Classics) by Edward Abbey
Buy new: £7.67 / Used from: £5.00 Edward Abbey is a bitter, twisted and generally irritated author who writes a good novel and certainly knows his anarchism inside out.
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 | Anarchy!: An Anthology of Emma Goldman's "Mother Earth"
Buy used from: £9.15 This, and "Blast" are very interesting to see what anarchists of the time were thinking, doing and saying. Very good and often heavy reading.
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 | No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism
Buy new: £11.87 / Used from: £17.74 Although I've got the 2 volume older edition, this book is a very good cross-section of anarchism in theory and practice - Guerin is a very vesatile author and portrays this well.
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 | One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society (Routledge Classics) by Herbert Marcuse
Buy new: £8.24 / Used from: £7.46 Although not technically speaking anarchism, this book introduces economic totalitarianism and is a modern masterpiece of magnificent scope.
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