The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List (29 books)

If you think the latest tome of Giddens’ "Sociology" is the one textbook you need to get you through your undergraduate days, think again. Impress your tutor and learn something beyond the lecture theatre with these essential Verso titles.

Bolster any politics, philosophy, economics, literature, sociology or history essay with one of these books and not only score the grade, but begin your lifelong love affair with radical writers.

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1	The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx 3.68 avg rating — 197,249 ratings score: 700, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson 4.11 avg rating — 16,326 ratings score: 676, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood 4.17 avg rating — 2,762 ratings score: 664, and 7 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory by Razmig Keucheyan 4.12 avg rating — 423 ratings score: 492, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism by Fredric Jameson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7,512 ratings score: 482, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Critique of Everyday Life, Volume 1 by Henri Lefebvre 4.09 avg rating — 648 ratings score: 389, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1 by David Harvey 4.26 avg rating — 1,925 ratings score: 373, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman 4.30 avg rating — 3,153 ratings score: 365, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Ideology: An Introduction by Terry Eagleton 4.06 avg rating — 706 ratings score: 282, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Mapping Ideology (Mappings Series) by Slavoj Žižek (Editor) 4.01 avg rating — 294 ratings score: 279, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire by Leo Panitch 4.21 avg rating — 384 ratings score: 259, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis by Benjamin Kunkel 3.38 avg rating — 470 ratings score: 190, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Origins of Postmodernity by Perry Anderson 3.85 avg rating — 336 ratings score: 183, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Karen E. Fields 4.16 avg rating — 1,737 ratings score: 183, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization by Immanuel Wallerstein 3.91 avg rating — 786 ratings score: 179, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Philosophy of Marx by Étienne Balibar 3.83 avg rating — 654 ratings score: 175, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	A People's History of the World by Chris Harman 4.03 avg rating — 2,626 ratings score: 172, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent by Judi Dench 4.50 avg rating — 7,238 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Women's Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter by Michèle Barrett 3.64 avg rating — 81 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Women, Resistance & Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World by Sheila Rowbotham 4.21 avg rating — 160 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed by Paul Mason 3.83 avg rating — 159 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Logics of Disintegration: Post-structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory by Peter Dews 4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Curious Enlightenement of Professor Caritat by Steven Lukes 3.72 avg rating — 595 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	From Marxism to Post-Marxism? by Göran Therborn 3.36 avg rating — 130 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial by Vinayak Chaturvedi (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 37 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict by Norman G. Finkelstein 4.32 avg rating — 688 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy by Alain Badiou 3.27 avg rating — 198 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Mapping the Nation (Mapping Series) by Benedict Anderson (Editor) 3.47 avg rating — 30 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory by Edward W. Soja 3.86 avg rating — 368 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars