| Published | Title | Author(s) | Genre | School of thought / Theme |
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| 1652 | The Law of Freedom in a Platform [1] | Gerrard Winstanley | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism, Diggers |
| 1793 | Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness [2] | William Godwin | Non-fiction | Utilitarianism, Individualist anarchism |
| 1840 | What is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government [3] | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | Non-fiction | "Property is theft" |
| 1844 | The Ego and Its Own [4] [5] | Max Stirner | Non-fiction | Egoism |
| 1846 | System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Misery [6] | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | Non-fiction | Mutualism |
| 1850 | The World's First Anarchist Manifesto [7] | Anselme Bellegarrigue | Non-fiction: Manifesto | Anarchism in France, Individualist anarchism |
| 1851 | The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century [8] | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon | Non-fiction | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Mutualism |
| 1858 | The Humanisphere: Anarchic Utopia [9] | Joseph Déjacque | Non-fiction | Libertarian communism |
| 1867–1870 | No Treason [10] | Lysander Spooner | Non-fiction: Collection of essays | Anarchism in the United States, Abolitionism |
| 1870 | Mutual Banking [11] | William Batchelder Greene | Non-fiction | Mutualism |
| 1873 | Statism and Anarchy [12] | Mikhail Bakunin | Non-fiction | Anarchism in Russia |
| 1879 | Karl Marx’s Capital [13] | Carlo Cafiero | Non-fiction | Marxism |
| 1882 | God and the State [14] | Mikhail Bakunin [note 1] | Non-fiction | Anti-statism, Critical of Christianity |
| 1887 | Economic Equities: A Compend of the Natural Laws of Industrial Production (1887) [15] | Joshua K. Ingalls | Non-fiction | Mutualism |
| 1890 | News from Nowhere [16] | William Morris | Fiction | Libertarian socialism |
| 1890 | The Economics of Anarchy: A Study of the Industrial Type [17] | Dyer Lum | Non-fiction | Market anarchism |
| 1891 | L'anarchia (Anarchy) [18] | Errico Malatesta | Non-fiction | Anarchism in Italy, Anarcho-communism |
| 1891 | El Filibusterismo | Jose Rizal | Fiction | Revolutionary terror |
| 1891 | Contemporary Socialism [19] | John Rae | Non-fiction | Revolutionary socialism |
| 1891 | The Anarchists: A Picture of Civilization at the Close of the Nineteenth Century [20] | John Henry Mackay | Fiction | Anarchism in Germany, Individualist anarchism |
| 1892 | The Conquest of Bread [21] | Peter Kropotkin | Non-fiction | Anarcho-communism |
| 1893 | Moribund Society and Anarchy [22] [23] | Jean Grave | Non-fiction | Anarcho-communism |
| 1894 | The Kingdom of God Is Within You [24] | Leo Tolstoy | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism |
| 1896 | Voluntary Socialism [25] | Francis Dashwood Tandy | Non-fiction | Mutualism |
| 1899 | Fields, Factories, and Workshops [26] | Peter Kropotkin | Non-fiction | Anarcho-communism |
| 1899 | Memoirs of a Revolutionist [27] | Peter Kropotkin | Non-fiction: Autobiography | Anarchism in Russia, Anarcho-communism |
| 1900 | Anarchism [28] | Paul Eltzbacher | Non-fiction | History of anarchism |
| 1902 | Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution [29] | Peter Kropotkin | Non-fiction: Essay collection | Anarcho-communism |
| 1902 | Anarchism and Other Essays [30] | Emma Goldman | Non-fiction: Collection of essays | Anarcha-feminism |
| 1908 | Modern Science and Anarchism [31] | Peter Kropotkin | Non-fiction | Anarcho-communism |
| 1912 | Sabotage [32] | Émile Pouget | Non-fiction | Revolutionary syndicalism |
| 1919 | Critique of the German Intelligentsia [33] | Hugo Ball | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism |
| 1919 | Proposed Roads to Freedom: Socialism, Anarchism, and Syndicalism [34] | Bertrand Russell | Non-fiction | Multiple approaches |
| 1920 | Our Revolution: Essays in Interpretation [35] | Victor S. Yarros | Non-fiction | Independent radicalism |
| 1923 | History of the Makhnovist Movement (1918–1921) [36] | Peter Arshinov | Non-fiction | Makhnovshchina |
| 1924 | Anarchism Or Socialism? [37] | Joseph Stalin | Non-fiction: Stalinist criticism of anarchism | Stalinism |
| 1925 | The Bolshevik Myth [38] | Alexander Berkman | Non-fiction | Anarchism in Russia |
| 1925 | The End of Anarchism? [39] | Luigi Galleani | Non-fiction | |
| 1927 | Programme of Anarcho-Syndicalism [40] | Grigori Petrovitch Maximov | Non-fiction | Anarcho-syndicalism |
| 1927 | What is Mutualism? [41] | Clarence Lee Swartz | Non-fiction | Mutualism |
| 1929 | Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism [42] | Alexander Berkman | Non-fiction | Anarcho-communism |
| 1929 | The Conquest of Violence: an Essay on War and Revolution [43] | Bartholomeus de Ligt | Non-fiction | Anarcho-pacifism |
| 1932 | The Liberation of Society from the State: What is Communist Anarchism? | Erich Mühsam | Non-fiction | Anarcho-communism |
| 1935 | A Short History of Anarchism | Max Nettlau | Non-fiction; History | History of anarchism |
| 1938 | Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice | Rudolf Rocker | Non-fiction | Anarcho-syndicalism |
| 1938 | The Kronstadt Commune [44] | Ida Mett | Non-fiction: History | Kronstadt rebellion |
| 1940 | Why We Lost the War: A Contribution to the History of the Spanish Tragedy [45] | Diego Abad de Santillán | Non-fiction: History | Anarchism in Spain |
| 1949 | Pioneers of American Freedom: Origin of Liberal and Radical Thought in America [46] | Rudolf Rocker | Non-fiction | Anarchism in the United States, History of anarchism |
| Nineteen Eighty-Four | George Orwell | Fiction: Dystopian | Political geography of Nineteen Eighty-Four, History of anarchism |
| 1950 | The Anarchist Prince [47] | George Woodcock & Ivan Avakumović | Non-fiction: Biography | Peter Kropotkin |
| 1954 | Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist [48] | Ammon Hennacy | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism |
| Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Fiction | Morality, Immorality |
| 1956 | Anarchist Individualism and Amorous Comradeship [49] | Émile Armand | Non-fiction: Anthology | Free love, Individualist anarchism |
| 1956 | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon [50] | George Woodcock | Non-fiction: Biography | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon |
| 1959 | Libertarian socialism: a practical outline | Gaston Leval | Non-fiction | Libertarian socialism |
| 1961 | The Chinese Anarchist Movement [51] | Robert Scalapino & George T. Yu | Non-fiction | Anarchism in China |
| 1962 | Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements [52] [53] | George Woodcock | Non-fiction: History | Mixed |
| 1962 | Compulsory Mis-Education and the Community of Scholars [54] | Paul Goodman | Non-fiction | Anarchism, Dumbing down of education |
| 1964 | The Anarchists [55] | James Joll | Non-fiction | History of anarchism |
| 1965 | Anarchism: From Theory to Practice [56] | Daniel Guérin | Non-fiction | Anarchism |
| 1966 | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress [57] | Robert A. Heinlein | Fiction: Science fiction | Libertarianism |
| 1967 | The Russian Anarchists [58] | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction: History | Anarchism in Russia |
| 1970 | In Defense of Anarchism [59] | Robert Paul Wolff | Non-fiction | Individualist anarchism |
| 1970 | Kronstadt, 1921 [60] | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction: History | The Kronstadt rebellion |
| 1970 | The Floodgates of Anarchy [61] | Stuart Christie & Albert Meltzer | Non-fiction | Class struggle, Anarchism |
| 1971 | Post-Scarcity Anarchism [62] | Murray Bookchin | Non-fiction | Communalism |
| 1971 | The Political Theory of Anarchism [63] | April Carter | Non-fiction | Anarchism |
| 1973 | Anarchy in Action [64] | Colin Ward | Non-fiction | Anarchism in the United Kingdom |
| 1973 | The Anarchists in the Russian Revolution [65] | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction | Anarchism in Russia |
| 1974 | Anatomy of the State [66] | Murray Rothbard | Non-fiction | Anarcho-capitalism, critique of government |
| 1974 | The Anarchist Collectives: Workers’ Self-management in the Spanish Revolution 1936–1939 [67] | Sam Dolgoff (Editor) | Non-fiction | Anarchism in Spain |
| 1974 | The Dispossessed [68] [69] | Ursula K. Le Guin | Fiction: Science fiction | Individualist anarchism, Collectivist anarchism |
| 1975 | The Monkey Wrench Gang [70] | Edward Abbey | Fiction | Green anarchism |
| 1976 | Kropotkin [71] | Martin A. Miller | Non-fiction | Peter Kropotkin |
| 1976 | Partisans of Freedom: A Study in American Anarchism [72] | William O. Reichert | Non-fiction: History | Anarchism in the United States, History of anarchism |
| 1976 | The Anarchism of Nestor Makhno, 1918–1921 [73] | Michael Palij | Non-fiction | Nestor Makhno, Anarcho-communism |
| 1976 | The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years, 1868–1936 [74] | Murray Bookchin | Non-fiction: History | Anarchism in Spain |
| 1976 | Housing: An Anarchist Approach [75] | Colin Ward | Non-fiction: Architecture | Anarchist architecture |
| 1978 | An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre [76] | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction: Biography | Anarchism in the United States |
| 1978 | The Eye of the Heron [77] | Ursula K. Le Guin | Fiction: Science fiction | Anarcho-pacifism, Oligarchy |
| 1980 | The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States [78] | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction | Anarchism in the United States |
| 1980 | New Libertarian Manifesto [79] | Samuel Edward Konkin III | Non-fiction | Agorism |
| 1982 | People Without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy [80] | Harold Barclay | Non-fiction; History and anthropology | Anarchism |
| 1983 | Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! [81] | Fredy Perlman | Non-fiction | Anarcho-primitivism |
| 1984 | The Haymarket Tragedy [82] | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction: History | Haymarket massacre, Anarchism |
| 1985 | Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching [83] | David Foreman and Bill Haywood (Editors) | Non-fiction | Green anarchism, Direct action |
| 1986 | The Abolition of Work and Other Essays | Bob Black | Non-fiction | Individualist anarchism |
| 1987 | Christian Anarchy: Jesus' Primacy Over the Powers [84] [85] | Vernard Eller | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism |
| 1988 | Anarchist Portraits [86] | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction | History of anarchism |
| 1988 | The Adventures of Tintin: Breaking Free [87] | 'J. Daniels' (pseudonym) | Fiction: Parody | Anarchist parody of The Adventures of Tintin |
| 1989 | Anarchist Ideology and the Working-class Movement in Spain, 1868–1898 [88] | George Richard Esenwein | Non-fiction | Anarchism in Spain |
| 1989 | For Anarchism [89] | David Goodway (Editor) | Non-fiction: Collection of essays | Mixed |
| 1989 | Kropotkin and the Rise of Revolutionary Anarchism [90] | Caroline Cahm | Non-fiction | Peter Kropotkin, Anarcho-communism |
| 1990 | Anarchism in Latin America [91] | Ángel Cappelletti | Non-fiction | History of anarchism |
| 1991 | Anarchy and Christianity [84] [85] | Jacques Ellul | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism |
| 1991 | Demanding the Impossible [92] | Peter Marshall | Non-fiction: History | History of anarchism |
| 1991 | Sacco and Vanzetti: The Anarchist Background [93] | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction | Anarchism |
| 1991 | Temporary Autonomous Zone | Peter Lamborn Wilson | Non-fiction | Individualist anarchism |
| 1993 | The Politics of Individualism: Liberalism, Liberal Feminism, and Anarchism [94] | L. Susan Brown | Non-fiction: Political science | Individualist anarchism, Liberal feminism |
| 1993 | Anarchism and the Black Revolution [95] | Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin | Non-fiction | Black anarchism |
| 1994 | Cyphernomicon [96] | Timothy C. May | Non-fiction | Crypto-anarchism |
| 1994 | Future Primitive and Other Essays [97] | John Zerzan | Non-fiction | Anarcho-primitivism |
| 1995 | Star Fraction [98] | Ken MacLeod | Fiction | Anarchism, Libertarian science fiction |
| 1995 | Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America [99] | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction | Anarchism in the United States |
| 1995 | Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm | Murray Bookchin | Non-fiction | Social anarchism |
| 1996 | Stone Canal [98] | Ken MacLeod | Fiction | Anarchism, Libertarian science fiction |
| 1996 | The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays [100] | Nestor Makhno, Alexandre Skirda (Editor), Paul Sharkey (Translator) | Non-fiction: History and collection of essays | Anarcho-communism, Collectivist anarchism |
| 1997 | African Anarchism: The History of A Movement [101] | Sam Mbah & I.E. Igariwey | Non-fiction | Anarchism in Africa |
| 1998 | Cassini Division [98] | Ken MacLeod | Fiction | Anarchism, Anarchist communism |
| 1999 | Christi-Anarchy: Discovering a Radical Spirituality of Compassion [85] | David Andrews | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism |
| 1999 | Sky Road [98] | Ken MacLeod | Fiction | Anarchism, Green anarchism |
| 2000 | What is Green Anarchy? [102] | Green Anarchy (Anonymous editor) | Non-fiction | Green anarchism, Anarcho-primitivism |
| 2001 | Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla [103] | Ann Hansen | Non-fiction | Squamish Five, Urban guerrilla warfare |
| 2003 | The Watch [98] | Dennis Danvers | Fiction | Anarchism |
| 2005 | Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas | Robert Graham (Editor) | Non-fiction: Anthology | Mixed |
| 2005 | Chomsky on Anarchism [104] | Barry Pateman | Non-fiction | Noam Chomsky, Anarcho-syndicalism |
| 2005 | Gramsci Is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements [105] | Richard J. F. Day | Non-fiction | Post-anarchism |
| 2005 | Rebel Alliances: The Means and Ends of Contemporary British Anarchisms [106] | Benjamin Franks | Non-fiction | Anarchism in the United Kingdom, Autonomist Marxism |
| 2005 | Anarchism: A Beginner's Guide | Ruth Kinna | Non-fiction | Anarchism |
| 2006 | Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow [107] | David Goodway | Non-fiction | Anarchism in the United Kingdom |
| 2006 | Endgame [108] | Derrick Jensen | Non-fiction | Green anarchism |
| 2006 | History of anarchism | Jean Préposiet | Non-fiction | History of anarchism |
| 2007 | Anarchy Alive!: Anti-Authoritarian Politics from Practice to Theory [109] | Uri Gordon | Non-fiction | Anarchism |
| 2007 | Beer and Revolution: The German Anarchist Movement in New York City, 1880–1914 [110] | Tom Goyens | Non-fiction: History | Anarchism in the United States |
| 2007 | How Nonviolence Protects the State [111] | Peter Gelderloos | Non-fiction | Antipacifism, Anarchism |
| 2007 | The Coming Insurrection | The Invisible Committee | Non-fiction | Insurrectionary anarchism |
| 2008 | Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory [112] | Crispin Sartwell | Non-fiction | Argument against state legitimacy |
| 2008 | An Agorist Primer | Samuel Edward Konkin III [note 2] | Non-fiction | Agorism |
| 2008 | Social Anarchism and Organisation [113] | Anarchist Federation of Rio de Janeiro | Non-fiction | Social anarchism, Anarchism in Brazil |
| 2009 | A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement [114] | James Horrox | Non-fiction | Jewish anarchism |
| 2009 | Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th Century [115] | Vadim Damier | Non-fiction | Anarcho-syndicalism |
| 2009 | Black Flame: The Revolutionary Class Politics of Anarchism and Syndicalism (Counter-Power vol. 1) [116] | Lucien van der Walt & Michael Schmidt | Non-fiction: History and anthropology | Anarcho-communism, Anarcho-syndicalism |
| 2009 | Direct Action: An Ethnography [117] | David Graeber | Non-fiction: History and anthropology | Anarchism, Global justice movement |
| 2009 | The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia [118] | James C. Scott | Non-fiction: History and anthropology | Stateless society |
| 2009 | A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster [119] | Rebecca Solnit | Non-fiction: History and anthropology | Mutual aid |
| 2010 | Anarchy Works [120] | Peter Gelderloos | Non-fiction | Violent anarchism, Individualist anarchism |
| 2010 | New Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism: The Individual, the National and the Transnational [121] [122] | David Berry & Constance Bantman | Non-fiction | Anarcho-syndicalism, History of anarchism |
| 2010 | The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents [123] | Alex Butterworth | Non-fiction: History | History of anarchism |
| 2011 | Anarchism: A Marxist Criticism [124] | John Molyneux | Non-fiction: Marxist criticism of anarchism | Anarchism, Marxism |
| 2012 | Marx’s Economics for Anarchists [125] | Wayne Price | Non-fiction | Marxian economics, Anarchism |
| 2012 | Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman [126] | Paul Avrich | Non-fiction: History | Jewish anarchism |
| 2012 | That Holy Anarchist: Reflections on Christianity & Anarchism [127] | Mark Van Steenwyk | Non-fiction | Christian anarchism |
| 2012 | The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist Economics [128] | Deric Shannon, Anthony J. Nocella, II, & John Asimakopoulos (Editors) | Non-fiction | Anarchist economics |
| 2012 | Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play [129] | James C. Scott | Non-fiction | Anarchism, Stateless society |
| 2012 | Queering Anarchism: Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire [130] | Deric Shannon, C. B. Daring, J. Rogue, Abbey Volcano (Editors) | Non-fiction: anthology | Queer anarchism |
| 2013 | The Democracy Project [131] | David Graeber | Non-fiction: History and anthropology | Occupy Wall Street |
| 2013 | The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey [132] | Michael Huemer | Non-fiction | Philosophical anarchism, Anarcho-capitalism |
| 2014 | Anarchism is Movement: Anarchism, Neoanarchism and Postanarchism [133] | Tomás Ibáñez | Non-fiction | Contemporary anarchism, Post-anarchism |
| 2014 | The Anthropology of Utopia: Essays on Social Ecology and Community Development [134] | Dan Chodorkoff | Non-fiction: History and anthropology | Green anarchism, History of anarchism |
| 2014 | To Our Friends [135] | The Invisible Committee | Non-fiction | Insurrectionary anarchism |
| 2015 | Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin [136] | Janet Biehl | Non-fiction: Biography | Green anarchism, Communalism |
| 2015 | Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement [137] | Chris Ealham | Non-fiction: Biography | Anarchism in Spain, Anarcho-syndicalism |
| 2015 | Immigrants Against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America [138] | Kenyon Zimmer | Non-fiction | Anarchism in the United States |
| 2017 | Radical Gotham: Anarchism in New York City from Schwab's Saloon to Occupy Wall Street [139] | Tom Goyens | Non-fiction: History | Anarchism in the United States |
| 2017 | Walkaway [98] | Cory Doctorow | Fiction | Anarchism, Post-capitalism |
| 2019 | The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism [140] | Carl Levy, Matthew S. Adams | Academic work | |
| 2019 | The Government of No One: The Theory and Practice of Anarchism | Ruth Kinna | Non-fiction | Anarchism |
| 2021 | The Anarchist Handbook | Michael Malice | Non-fiction | Anarchism, Stateless society |
| 2021 | Anarcho-transcreation | Mirna Wabi-Sabi | Non-fiction | Anarchism, Anarchism in Brazil, Anarchism in Indonesia |
| 2021 | An Anarchist's Manifesto | Glenn Wallis | Non-fiction | Anarchism for liberals |
| 2022 | After the Revolution | Robert Evans | Fiction | Anarchism, Post-Apocalism |
| 2022 | No Pasarán!: Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis [141] | Shane Burley (Editor), David Renton (Afterword), Tal Lavin (Foreword), Institute for Anarchist Studies | Non-fiction | Anarchism, Anti-fascism |
| 2023 | Means and Ends: The Revolutionary Practice of Anarchism in Europe and the United States | Zoe Baker | Non-fiction | History of anarchism, Anarchism in the United States |
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| 2025 | How to Build Municipalist Communes: Prefigurative Politics, Economy, Social Ecology, Education & Self-Governance | Mason Carter | Non-fiction | History of anarchism, Anarchism in the United States |
| 2025 | Dictionary of Anarchist Thought: The First-Ever Comprehensive Lexicon of Anarchism | Mason Carter | Non-fiction | Dictionary of Anarchist Thought, Anarchism in the United States |
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