List of books about anarchism
This is a chronological list of both fictional and non-fictional books written about anarchism. This list includes books that advocate for anarchism as well as those that criticize or oppose it. For ease of access, this list provides a link to the full text whenever possible, as well as the audiobook version as an aid for the visually impaired.
Chronological list
| Published | Title | Full text | Audiobook | Author | Genre | School of thought / Theme |
| 1652 | The Law of Freedom in a Platform | Gerrard Winstanley | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism, Diggers | ||
| 1793 | Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness | William Godwin | Non-fiction | Utilitarianism, Individualist anarchism | ||
| 1840 | What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | Non-fiction | "Property is theft" | ||
| 1844 | The Ego and Its Own | Max Stirner | Non-fiction | Individualist anarchism | ||
| 1846 | System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | Non-fiction | Mutualism | ||
| 1850 | The World's First Anarchist Manifesto | Anselme Bellegarrigue | Non-fiction: Manifesto | Anarchism in France, Individualist anarchism | ||
| 1851 | The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | Non-fiction | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mutualism | ||
| 1858 | The Humanisphere: Anarchic Utopia | Joseph Déjacque | Non-fiction | Libertarian communism | ||
| 1867-1870 | No Treason | Lysander Spooner | Non-fiction: Collection of essays | Anarchism in the United States, Abolitionism | ||
| 1873 | Statism and Anarchy | Mikhail Bakunin | Non-fiction | Anarchism in Russia | ||
| 1882 | God and the State | Mikhail Bakunin | Non-fiction | Anti-statism, Critical of Christianity | ||
| 1890 | News from Nowhere | William Morris | Fiction | Libertarian socialism | ||
| 1890 | The Economics of Anarchy: A Study of the Industrial Type | Dyer Lum | Non-fiction | Market anarchism | ||
| 1891 | L'anarchia | Errico Malatesta | Non-fiction | Anarchism in Italy, Anarcho-communism | ||
| 1891 | Contemporary Socialism | John Rae | Non-fiction | Revolutionary socialism | ||
| 1891 | The Anarchists: A Picture of Civilization at the Close of the Nineteenth Century | John Henry Mackay | Fiction | Anarchism in Germany, Individualist anarchism | ||
| 1892 | The Conquest of Bread | Peter Kropotkin | Non-fiction | Anarcho-communism | ||
| 1894 | The Kingdom of God Is Within You | Leo Tolstoy | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism | ||
| 1896 | Voluntary Socialism | Francis Dashwood Tandy | Non-fiction | Mutualism | ||
| 1899 | Fields, Factories, and Workshops | Peter Kropotkin | Non-fiction | Anarcho-communism | ||
| 1899 | Memoirs of a Revolutionist | Peter Kropotkin | Non-fiction: Autobiography | Anarchism in Russia, Anarcho-communism | ||
| 1900 | Anarchism | Paul Eltzbacher | Non-fiction | History of anarchism | ||
| 1902 | ' | Peter Kropotkin | Non-fiction: Essay collection | Anarcho-communism | ||
| 1902 | Anarchism and Other Essays | Emma Goldman | Non-fiction: Collection of essays | Anarcha-feminism | ||
| 1908 | Modern Science and Anarchism | Peter Kropotkin | Non-fiction | Anarcho-communism | ||
| 1919 | Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism | Bertrand Russell | Non-fiction | Multiple approaches | ||
| 1920 | Our Revolution: Essays in Interpretation | Victor S. Yarros | Non-fiction | Independent radicalism | ||
| 1923 | History of the Makhnovist Movement | Peter Arshinov | Non-fiction | Makhnovism, Free Territory | ||
| 1924 | Anarchism Or Socialism? | Joseph Stalin | Non-fiction: Stalinist criticism of anarchism | Stalinism | ||
| 1925 | The End of Anarchism? | Luigi Galleani | Non-fiction | |||
| 1927 | Programme of Anarcho-Syndicalism | Grigori Petrovitch Maximov | Non-fiction | Anarcho-syndicalism | ||
| 1927 | What is Mutualism? | Clarence Lee Swartz | Non-fiction | Mutualism | ||
| 1929 | ' | Alexander Berkman | Non-fiction | Anarcho-communism | ||
| 1929 | The Conquest of Violence: an Essay on War and Revolution | Bartholomeus de Ligt | Non-fiction | Anarcho-pacifism | ||
| 1932 | The Liberation of Society from the State: What is Communist Anarchism? | Erich Mühsam | Non-fiction | Anarcho-communism | ||
| 1938 | Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice | Rudolf Rocker | Non-fiction | Anarcho-syndicalism | ||
| 1938 | The Kronstadt Commune | Ida Mett | Non-fiction: History | Kronstadt rebellion | ||
| 1949 | Pioneers of American Freedom: Origin of Liberal and Radical Thought in America | Rudolf Rocker | Non-fiction | Anarchism in the United States, History of anarchism | ||
| 1950 | The Anarchist Prince | George Woodcock & Ivan Avakumović | Non-fiction: Biography | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | ||
| 1954 | Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist | Ammon Hennacy | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism | ||
| 1956 | Anarchist Individualism and Amorous Comradeship | Émile Armand | Non-fiction: Anthology | Free love, Individualist anarchism | ||
| 1956 | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | George Woodcock | Non-fiction: Biography | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | ||
| 1959 | Libertarian socialism: a practical outline | Gaston Leval | Non-fiction | Libertarian socialism | ||
| 1961 | The Chinese Anarchist Movement | Robert Scalapino & George T. Yu | Non-fiction | Anarchism in China | ||
| 1962 | Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements | George Woodcock | Non-fiction: History | Mixed | ||
| 1962 | Compulsory Mis-Education and the Community of Scholars | Paul Goodman | Non-fiction | Anarchism, Dumbing down of education | ||
| 1964 | The Anarchists | James Joll | Non-fiction | History of anarchism | ||
| 1965 | ' | Daniel Guérin | Non-fiction | Anarchism | ||
| 1966 | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | Fiction: Science fiction | Libertarianism | ||
| 1967 | The Russian Anarchists | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction: History | Anarchism in Russia | ||
| 1970 | In Defense of Anarchism | Robert Paul Wolff | Non-fiction | Individualist anarchism | ||
| 1970 | Kronstadt, 1921 | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction: History | The Kronstadt rebellion | ||
| 1970 | The Floodgates of Anarchy | Stuart Christie & Albert Meltzer | Non-fiction | Class struggle, Anarchism | ||
| 1971 | Post-Scarcity Anarchism | Murray Bookchin | Non-fiction | Communalism | ||
| 1971 | The Political Theory of Anarchism | April Carter | Non-fiction | Anarchism | ||
| 1973 | Anarchy in Action | Colin Ward | Non-fiction | Anarchism in the United Kingdom | ||
| 1973 | The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction | Anarchism in Russia | ||
| 1974 | The Anarchist Collectives: Workers’ Self-management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939 | Sam Dolgoff | Non-fiction | Anarchism in Spain | ||
| 1974 | The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | Fiction: Science fiction | Individualist anarchism, Collectivism | ||
| 1975 | The Monkey Wrench Gang | Edward Abbey | Fiction | Green anarchism | ||
| 1976 | Kropotkin | Martin A. Miller | Non-fiction | Peter Kropotkin | ||
| 1976 | ' | William O. Reichert | Non-fiction: History | Anarchism in the United States, History of anarchism | ||
| 1976 | The Anarchism of Nestor Makhno, 1918–1921 | Michael Palij | Non-fiction | Nestor Makhno, Anarcho-communism | ||
| 1976 | The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years, 1868–1936 | Murray Bookchin | Non-fiction: History | Anarchism in Spain | ||
| 1978 | ' | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction: Biography | Anarchism in the United States | ||
| 1978 | The Eye of the Heron | Ursula K. Le Guin | Fiction: Science fiction | Anarcho-pacifism, Oligarchy | ||
| 1980 | The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction | Anarchism in the United States | ||
| 1982 | People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy | Harold Barclay | Non-fiction; History and anthropology | Anarchism | ||
| 1983 | Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! | Fredy Perlman | Non-fiction | Anarcho-primitivism | ||
| 1984 | The Haymarket Tragedy | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction: History | Haymarket massacre, Anarchism | ||
| 1985 | Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching | David Foreman and Bill Haywood | Non-fiction | Green anarchism, Direct action | ||
| 1987 | Christian Anarchy: Jesus' Primacy Over the Powers | Vernard Eller | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism | ||
| 1988 | Anarchist Portraits | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction | History of anarchism | ||
| 1989 | Anarchist Ideology and the Working-class Movement in Spain, 1868–1898 | George Richard Esenwein | Non-fiction | Anarchism in Spain | ||
| 1989 | For Anarchism | David Goodway | Non-fiction: Collection of essays | Mixed | ||
| 1989 | Kropotkin and the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism | Caroline Cahm | Non-fiction | Peter Kropotkin, Anarcho-communism | ||
| 1991 | Anarchy and Christianity | Jacques Ellul | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism | ||
| 1991 | Demanding the Impossible | Peter Marshall | Non-fiction: History | History of anarchism | ||
| 1991 | ' | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction | Anarchism | ||
| 1991 | Temporary Autonomous Zone | Peter Lamborn Wilson | Non-fiction | Individualist anarchism | ||
| 1993 | The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism, and Anarchism | L. Susan Brown | Non-fiction: Political science | Individualist anarchism, Liberal feminism | ||
| 1994 | Cyphernomicon | Timothy C. May | Non-fiction | Crypto-anarchism | ||
| 1994 | Future Primitive and Other Essays | John Zerzan | Non-fiction | Anarcho-primitivism | ||
| 1995 | Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction | Anarchism in the United States | ||
| 1995 | Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm | Murray Bookchin | Non-fiction | Social anarchism | ||
| 1996 | The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays | Nestor Makhno, Alexandre Skirda, Paul Sharkey | Non-fiction: History and collection of essays | Anarcho-communism, Collectivist anarchism | ||
| 1997 | African Anarchism: The History of A Movement | Sam Mbah & I.E. Igariwey | Non-fiction | Anarchism in Africa | ||
| 1999 | Christi-Anarchy: Discovering a Radical Spirituality of Compassion | David Andrews | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism | ||
| 2000 | What is Green Anarchy? | Green Anarchy | Non-fiction | Green anarchism, Anarcho-primitivism | ||
| 2001 | ' | Ann Hansen | Non-fiction | Squamish Five, Urban guerrilla warfare | ||
| 2005 | ' | Robert Graham | Non-fiction: Anthology | Mixed | ||
| 2005 | Chomsky on Anarchism | Barry Pateman | Non-fiction | Noam Chomsky, Anarcho-syndicalism | ||
| 2005 | Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements | Richard J. F. Day | Non-fiction | Post-anarchism | ||
| 2005 | Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms | Benjamin Franks | Non-fiction | Anarchism in the United Kingdom, Autonomist Marxism | ||
| 2006 | Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow | David Goodway | Non-fiction | Anarchism in the United Kingdom | ||
| 2006 | Endgame | Derrick Jensen | Non-fiction | Green anarchism | ||
| 2007 | Anarchy Alive!: Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory | Uri Gordon | Non-fiction | Anarchism | ||
| 2007 | How Nonviolence Protects the State | Peter Gelderloos | Non-fiction | Antipacifism, Anarchism | ||
| 2007 | The Coming Insurrection | The Invisible Committee | Non-fiction | Insurrectionary anarchism | ||
| 2008 | Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory | Crispin Sartwell | Non-fiction | Argument against state legitimacy | ||
| 2008 | An Agorist Primer | Samuel Edward Konkin III | Non-fiction | Agorism | ||
| 2008 | Social Anarchism and Organisation | Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro | Non-fiction | Social anarchism, Anarchism in Brazil | ||
| 2009 | A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement | James Horrox | Non-fiction | Jewish anarchism | ||
| 2009 | Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th Century | Vadim Damier | Non-fiction | Anarcho-syndicalism | ||
| 2009 | Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism | Lucien van der Walt & Michael Schmidt | Non-fiction: History and anthropology | Anarcho-communism, Anarcho-syndicalism | ||
| 2009 | David Graeber | Non-fiction: History and anthropology | Anarchism, Global justice movement | |||
| 2009 | The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia | James C. Scott | Non-fiction: History and anthropology | Stateless society | ||
| 2010 | Anarchy Works | Peter Gelderloos | Non-fiction | Violent anarchism, Individualist anarchism | ||
| 2010 | New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism: The Individual, the National and the Transnational | David Berry & Constance Bantman | Non-fiction | Anarcho-syndicalism, History of anarchism | ||
| 2010 | The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents | Alex Butterworth | Non-fiction: History | History of anarchism | ||
| 2011 | Anarchism: A Marxist Criticism | John Molyneux | Non-fiction: Marxist criticism of anarchism | Anarchism, Marxism | ||
| 2012 | Marx’s Economics for Anarchists | Wayne Price | Non-fiction | Marxian economics, Anarchism | ||
| 2012 | Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction: History | Jewish anarchism | ||
| 2012 | That Holy Anarchist: Reflections on Christianity & Anarchism | Mark Van Steenwyk | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism | ||
| 2012 | The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics | Deric Shannon, Anthony J. Nocella, II, & John Asimakopoulos | Non-fiction | Anarchist economics | ||
| 2012 | Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play | James C. Scott | Non-fiction | Anarchism, Stateless society | ||
| 2013 | The Democracy Project | David Graeber | Non-fiction: History and anthropology | Occupy Wall Street | ||
| 2013 | The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey | Michael Huemer | Non-fiction | Philosophical anarchism, Anarcho-capitalism | ||
| 2014 | Anarchism is Movement: Anarchism, Neoanarchism and Postanarchism | Tomás Ibáñez | Non-fiction | Contemporary anarchism, Post-anarchism | ||
| 2014 | The Anthropology of Utopia: Essays on Social Ecology and Community Development | Dan Chodorkoff | Non-fiction: History and anthropology | Green anarchism, History of anarchism | ||
| 2014 | To Our Friends | Insurrectionary anarchism | The Invisible Committee | Non-fiction | Insurrectionary anarchism | |
| 2015 | Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin | Janet Biehl | Non-fiction: Biography | Green anarchism, Communalism | ||
| 2015 | Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement | Chris Ealham | Non-fiction: Biography | Anarchism in Spain, Anarcho-syndicalism | ||
| 2016 | Nietzsche and Anarchy: Psychology for Free Spirits, Ontology for Social War | Shahin riseup.net | Non-fiction | Anarchism and Friedrich Nietzsche | ||
| 2019 | The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism | Carl Levy, Matthew S. Adams | Academic work | - |