Liberalism: A Counter-History by the goat Domenico Losurdo

A Brief History of Neoliberalism by the not so good, because he's a limited (British-)American, David Harvey.

• Anything by E.H. Carr
• Ragtime (Doctorow). It’s not a history, but Emma Goldman talks to Evelyn Nesbit.
• Congo from Leopold to Kabila : A Peoples History. Originally read just to learn more about Lumumba, but rest is solid. Author also was guest on Rev Left Radio or Guerilla History.
• The Furies (Mayer). French and Russian revolutions.
• Arab Spring, Libyan Winter
• The Korean War : A History (Cummings)
• Family of Secrets

Against His-Story! Against Leviathan! by Fredy Perlman

The Jakarta Method

An Indigenous People's History of the United States

Settlers (am reading this now)

Black Reconstruction in America (frankly, most modern historiography on Reconstruction is in agreement with this thick-ass book, but DuBois was the OG)

SuperImperialism (also thick)

The Fort Bragg Cartel

American Sirens (this and The Fort Bragg Cartel are pretty quick reads compared to the others, and the ones you can most easily shoe-horn into conversation with regular people)

My favourite communism book is ~~Michael Parenti~~ Albert Szymanski's "Human Rights in the Soviet Union". Loaded with statistics and tables detailing the material living conditions in the USSR over its lifetime. You must be a nerd about numerical data to enjoy it, but if you are, it's fucking awesome.

If you want extremely good scifi, read Adrien Tschaikovsky's Children of Time.

The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America by Gerald Horne

And as others have mentioned The Jakarta Method and Blackshirts and Reds.

I've just finished Ernest Mandel's Marxist Economic Theory. It was a long and extensive read (800 pages) but completely worth since it personally made socialist governance on the technical side easier to comprehend. The author prefaces right from the start with the fact that this book is not a compilation of quotes from Marx and co and an exegesis thereof, instead it goes over economic laws and mechanisms based upon contemporary, academic works and quantitative data. The only caveat is that the book was published in the 60s and so it is quite outdated (especially when addressing the Soviet economy).

Ernest Mandel is a Belgian economist who seems Marxist-Leninist enough to support and understand the USSR from a political viewpoint while providing (what I found to be valid) criticism on certain economic policies during Stalin's and Khrushchev's office.

Blackshirts and Reds by Saint Michael Parenti

Life changing book if you haven't read it already.

We're currently reading "This Soviet World" by Anna Louise Strong, on chapter 3 right now very easy to catch up if you want to join a reading group.

https://hexbear.net/comment/7361363

the sleepwalkers a book about how people most distinctly did not sleep walk into ww1 but a complex web of bullshit lead to it

Ordinary Men. It's about how people were convinced (or how they rationalized to themselves) to commit atrocities during WWII.

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL1566486M/Ordinary_men