the anarchist on the bus
Since my winter job is two bus rides away and I can only read on the bus for so long before I want to puke, I’ve been downloading a lot of spoken word/audiobooks for my ipod. Not all of the books here are on my book list but I’m posting this here as one of my goals is to read tons of stuff.
Below are some of my choices and sources. Most are radical/anarchist related, some are just good fiction/memoirs.
Key: DD= direct download. T= Torrent. P=choose to download chapters as podcast episodes, or choose mp3. If using itunes, remember to check your music, books, and podcast sections to locate works.
Non-Fiction:
Interview with Pam Africa (DD)
Against the Logic of Submission (DD)
An Introduction to Anarchist Thoughts on Property (DD)
Anti-Work Essays (DD)
God and the State, Mikhail Bakunin (DD)
The Story of My Childhood, Clara Barton (P)
10 Days in a Madhouse, Nellie Bly (P)
The Anarchist Tension, Alfredo M. Bonano (DD)
Forms of Freedom, Murray Bookchin (T)
In a Pig’s Eye: Reflections on the Police State, Repression, & Native America, Ward Churchill (DD)
Life in Occupied America, Ward Churchill (DD)
US Off The Planet! Ward Churchill & Chellis Glendenning (DD)
Selected Essays, Voltairine de Cleyre (P)
Confronting the Global Triple Crisis: Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, & Daphne Wysham (T)
Angela Davis: How Does Change Happen? (DD)
Thoughts on Society of the Spectacle (DD)
The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois (DD)
Feminism & Gender Panel Part 1, Part 2 (DD)
Sabotage, Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (P)
An Introduction to a Critique of Technology, Javier Francisco (DD)
Geronimo’s Story of His Life, Geronimo (P)
Anarchism & Other Essays, Emma Goldman (P)
A Conversation with Anarchist David Graeber (T)
God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens (DD)
The Story of My Life, Helen Keller (DD)
The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein (T)
The Conquest of Bread, Peter Kropotkin (P)
An Anarchist Critique of Democracy, Moxie Marlinspike & Windy Hart (DD)
Monkeywrenching the New World Order: Capitalism & Its Discontents (DD)
Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Neitzsche (P)
The Mind’s Eye, Oliver Sacks (T)
My Baby Rides the Short Bus, Jennifer Silverman (DD)
A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift (P)
This is the A.L.F. (DD)
A People’s History of the United States: A Lecture at Reed College, Howard Zinn(DD)
Fiction:
Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger (DD)
The Proposal, Anton Chekov (P)
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (P)
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (P)
The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot (DD)
Madame Bovary, Gustav Flaubert (P)
Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy (P)
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (DD)
Moby Dick, Herman Melville (DD)
Letters of Insurgents, Freddy Perlman (DD)
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy (P)
Sources:
I found all of the above using the following sources. You can find much more on these sites, mostly for free and some for cost, and many in PDF form/ebook form if that’s what you’re looking for.
Applied Nonexistence: Original insurrectionist anarchist texts for free downloading.
Audible.com: This is a pay site related to Amazon. You can sign up for a free trial (you need a credit/bank card) and download an audiobook for free. Just make sure you cancel your account afterwards if you don’t want to start paying charges.
Internet Archive I highly recommend using the search function on this site, as it works well and includes both the Librivox and Project Gutenberg archives and others.
Librivox- (Actual site has a poor directory, it is better to just use Project Gutenberg [below], the Internet Archive (above), or find Librivox in itunes)
Note: If you don’t have the money but want to support the projects/authors you like: On Project Gutenberg and Librivox they always need people to read/digitize books. You can also make things available on a smaller scale like Audio Anarchy. Many of the above links also have “donate” buttons through paypal and every dollar helps. And you can always buy the books of the authors that you like from a local shop if/when you do have the money.
