The Essential Verso Undergraduate Reading List

1.
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism 4.11 avg rating β€” 15,874 ratings
2.
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View 4.17 avg rating β€” 2,619 ratings
3.
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
by: Karl Marx
3.67 avg rating β€” 189,250 ratings
4.
The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory
The Left Hemisphere: Mapping Critical Theory 4.12 avg rating β€” 422 ratings
5.
Critique of Everyday Life
Critique of Everyday Life 4.10 avg rating β€” 646 ratings
6.
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 7,446 ratings
7.
A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1
A Companion to Marx's Capital, Volume 1 4.26 avg rating β€” 1,913 ratings
8.
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Experience of Modernity 4.30 avg rating β€” 3,075 ratings
9.
Ideology: An Introduction
Ideology: An Introduction 4.05 avg rating β€” 694 ratings
10.
Mapping Ideology (Mappings Series)
Mapping Ideology (Mappings Series) 4.01 avg rating β€” 290 ratings
11.
The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire
The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire 4.21 avg rating β€” 372 ratings
12.
Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis
Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis 3.39 avg rating β€” 468 ratings
13.
The Origins of Postmodernity
The Origins of Postmodernity 3.85 avg rating β€” 328 ratings
13.
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life 4.16 avg rating β€” 1,693 ratings
15.
Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization
Historical Capitalism with Capitalist Civilization 3.91 avg rating β€” 770 ratings
16.
The Philosophy of Marx
The Philosophy of Marx 3.83 avg rating β€” 644 ratings
17.
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent 4.51 avg rating β€” 6,454 ratings
18.
Women's Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter
Women's Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter 3.64 avg rating β€” 80 ratings
19.
Women, Resistance & Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World
Women, Resistance & Revolution: A History of Women and Revolution in the Modern World 4.22 avg rating β€” 154 ratings
20.
Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed
Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed 3.84 avg rating β€” 157 ratings
21.
Logics of Disintegration: Post-structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory
Logics of Disintegration: Post-structuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory 4.04 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
22.
The Curious Enlightenement of Professor Caritat
The Curious Enlightenement of Professor Caritat 3.72 avg rating β€” 575 ratings
23.
From Marxism to Post-Marxism?
From Marxism to Post-Marxism? 3.34 avg rating β€” 128 ratings
24.
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial 3.92 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
25.
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict 4.31 avg rating β€” 670 ratings
26.
Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy
Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy 3.25 avg rating β€” 191 ratings
27.
Mapping the Nation (Mapping Series)
Mapping the Nation (Mapping Series) 3.47 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
28.
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory
Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory 3.85 avg rating β€” 368 ratings
29.
A People's History of the World
A People's History of the World 4.03 avg rating β€” 2,556 ratings