Essential Anarchist Texts

[AxiomFire]

I recently decided to buy a lot of anarchist texts. At the moment I only have Bakunin's God and the State so I constructed a small list of what (after research) I believed to be important or seminal texts to add to my library. I also wanted a few books on left communism. It should be noted that I'm focusing on social anarchism, not individualist anarchism.
Here is the list:
Anti-Bolshevik Communism by Paul Mattick
History of the Makhnovist Movement by Peter Arshinov
Chomsky on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky
The Russian Anarchists by Paul Avrich
The Haymarket Tragedy by Paul Avrich
Kronstadt 1921 by Paul Avrich
The Conquest of Bread by P. Kropotkin
Fields, Factories and Workshops by P. Kropotkin
Mutual Aid by P. Kropotkin
Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
Marxism, Freedom and the State by M. Bakunin
Post-scarcity Anarchism by M. Bookchin
The Ecology of Freedom by M. Bookchin
Anarchy by Errico Malatesta
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman
What is Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman
Workers' Councils by Anton Pannekoek
The CNT in the Spanish Revolution by Jose Peirats
What is Property? by P.J. Proudhon
Anarcho-syndicalism by Rudolf Rocker
Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman

Have I missed any important texts? Are there any I can leave out? Which texts should I prioritise? Any help would be appreciated. :)

[Art Vandelay]

Stay away from Chomsky; advice from a former anarchist. BTW, Stirner (egoist; individualist anarchist) is badass.

[AxiomFire]

Cheers. I was contemplating including The Ego and its Own on the list but didn't end up doing it... would you recommend it? Or maybe another of Stirner's works?

[Caj]

No Gods, No Masters, edited by Daniel Guerin, is essential. It's a large collection of various anarchist texts by Stirner, Proudon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Makhno, Malatesta, and many more.

For a lot of these people, I'd just get a collection of their works, rather than a specific work. For example, if you're looking for any of Bakunin's works, Bakunin on Anarchism, edited by Sam Dolgoff, is the best collection of such works available in English. If you're looking for anything by Proudhon, Property is Theft!, edited by Iain McKay, is the best available collection of Proudhon's works in English. For the two Berkman works you listed above, you might as well get Life of an Anarchist: The Alexander Berkman Reader, which is the best collection of Berkman's works available in English and contains both of the Berkman texts you listed above.

If you're comfortable reading from a computer screen and want to save money, though, you can find a lot of these works online for free here (marxists.org).

And yeah, as Neue Rheinische Zeitung said, stay away from Chomsky when it comes to anarchism and really revolutionary leftism in general.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

History of the Makhnovist Movement by Peter Arshinov

I admit that I've only read a little of this, but the little I read was pretty bad to be honest.


Chomsky on Anarchism by Noam Chomsky

God no. In the book he makes some awful, outrageous claims like the revolution won't need to defend itself for example. Only read Chomsky for his critique of the media and American imperialism, not for anything on leftism.


The Russian Anarchists by Paul Avrich
The Haymarket Tragedy by Paul Avrich
Kronstadt 1921 by Paul Avrich

I have only read Haymarket, but from what I have read you can't go wrong with Avrich.

The rest of the list seems pretty good (I thought I would just say this rather than do each individually) but I would also recommend No Gods No Masters edited by Daniel Guerin and The Anarchist FAQ by Ian McKay.

EDIT: Looks like I should have read the other responses before making my redundant response, lol

[Yuppie Grinder]

The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee is good for something not a hundred years old.

[Brosa Luxemburg]

The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee is good for something not a hundred years old.

Really? I haven't read it, but I have heard really bad things about it from an anarchist friend of mine.

[Art Vandelay]

I really liked it during my make total destroy insurrecto days.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee is good for something not a hundred years old.
full text here (http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/texts/the-coming-insurrection/)

[Art Vandelay]

Cheers. I was contemplating including The Ego and its Own on the list but didn't end up doing it... would you recommend it? Or maybe another of Stirner's works?

The ego and its own is where its at; I still consider myself highly influenced by it, even though I am a marxist now.

[~Spectre]

Read Noam Chomsky.

[Caj]

The ego and its own is where its at; I still consider myself highly influenced by it, even though I am a marxist now.

Same here.