Here's a list (taken from wrightswriting.com) of some good leftist books. Click on the titles for the PDFs. It's a somewhat arbitrary list, but I tried to keep it confined to fairly easy-to-read books, not overly theoretical or abstruse ones that might leave the beginning reader bewildered. I've been unable to find PDFs of certain excellent works, unfortunately. You can also check out the extraordinary footnotes to Chomsky's Understanding Power, which have informative excerpts from hundreds of books. .
Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Mikhail Bakunin, Bakunin on Anarchism
Chris Bambery, The Second World War: A Marxist History
Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy, Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order
Charles Beard, An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
Alexander Berkman, ABC of Anarchism
William Blum, Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II
Harry Braverman, Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century
Robert Brenner, The Economics of Global Turbulence
Anthony Brewer, Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey
Nikolai Bukharin, Imperialism and World Economy
Alex Carey, Taking the Risk out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty
Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Noam Chomsky, Understanding Power
Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy
Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
Noam Chomsky, Chomsky on Anarchism
Michael Chossudovsky, The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order
Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World
G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich
Melvyn Dubofsky and Joseph McCartin, Labor in America: A History
Norman Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
John Bellamy Foster, Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance
John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff, The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences
Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy
Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
David Graeber, Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Daniel Guerin, Fascism and Big Business
Daniel Guerin, Anarchism: From Theory to Practice
Daniel Guerin, ed., No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism
Robin Hahnel, The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach
Chris Harman, A People's History of the World
Chris Harman, The Fire Last Time: 1968 and After
Michael Harrington, The Other America: Poverty in the United States
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism
David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital, and the Crises of Capitalism
Doug Henwood, Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Edward Herman and David Peterson, The Politics of Genocide
Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution
The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection
C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
Jean Jaures, A Socialist History of the French Revolution
Karl Kautsky, Communism in Central Europe in the Time of the Reformation
Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Gabriel Kolko, The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916
Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread
Peter Kropotkin, The State: Its Historic Role
Georges Lefebvre, The French Revolution: From Its Origins to 1793
Georg Lukacs, The Destruction of Reason
Fred Magdoff and Michael Yates, The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know
Errico Malatesta, At The Cafe: Conversations on Anarchism
Ernest Mandel, Late Capitalism
Ernest Mandel, Marxist Economic Theory
Ernest Mandel, The Meaning of the Second World War
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Marx-Engels Reader
Alfred McCoy, In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power
David McNally, Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance
Ralph Miliband, Marxism and Politics
Ralph Miliband, The State in Capitalist Society
Ralph Nader, The Ralph Nader Reader
David Noble, Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance
George Novack, Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View
Michael Parenti, Democracy for the Few
John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail
Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Richard L. Rubenstein, The Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future
Lance Selfa, The Democrats: A Critical History
G. E. M. de Ste. Croix, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World
Sharon Smith, Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States
Studs Terkel, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do
Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery
Ellen Meiksins Wood, The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
Chris Wright, Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States
Comments
Im not sure link dumps such
Im not sure link dumps such as this are appropriate here.
if you wanted to do a blog of
if you wanted to do a blog of your reading suggestions that'd probably be better, or if the books were more specifically geared toward something you could do a reading guide library article. I think a lot of these works are already on here; the ones that aren't you could probably upload and link to as done here https://libcom.org/library/anarchism-reading-guide (links to other sites might become dead which I think is why that's not often done here).