What to Read After The Art of Not Being Governed
Readers who loved The Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Art of Not Being Governed is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Art of Not Being Governed
Direct Action
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
Coercion, capital, and European states, AD 990-1990
The Utopia of Rules
Post-Scarcity Anarchism
The Great Divergence
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
A paradise built in hell
The company of strangers
From the Ruins of Empire
Why civil resistance works
The Many-Headed Hydra
Debt
Possibilities
The spectre of comparisons
Wobblies and Zapatistas
Caliban and the Witch
The gift
The Logic of Violence in Civil War
The revolution of everyday life
Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value
Seeing Like a State
The making of the English working class
Carbon Democracy