Most original, exciting, fresh, mindblowing? Doesn’t have to be theory, non-fiction, or even leftist. I just wanna get to know more exciting books.
My own answers:
Non-fiction: Debt - The Last 5000 Years and A Paradise Built In Hell were paradigm shifts for me, in a great way.
Fiction: Gonna have to be The Trojan War Will Not Take Place. Yes it’s a play from 1935 but it was more interesting for me than many more current books, and the anti-war message is unfortunately still fresh.
Fiction: The Fifth Season by N.K Jemisin.
Non-Fiction: Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
I loved Hollow Kingdom, it’s about a dog and a crow named Shit Turd experiencing the apocalypse
Republic of Shame: Stories from Ireland’s Institutions for ‘Fallen Women’ by Caelainn Hogan
Learn all about how Ireland’s Catholic moral defenders sold children abroad, forced mothers into slavery, slaughtered infants through inaction and literal starvation, and then told everyone to accept their hypocritical piece of shit “morality”, to reject gay marriage and to never report pedophile priests to the police. It’s also a very personal book, written with lots of interviews and individual stories and whatnot. It’s a lot more engaging than just reading a boring documentary.
accelerando by charles stross
A Polish book “Ostre cięcie. Jak niszczono polską kolej”. A book on how nearly all the governments (but especially the neoliberal ghouls) nearly completely dismantled Polish rail.
