Book Reccs - Blog Posts

Favorite decolonialist authors and books?

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land + Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire

Black Skin, White Masks + Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

History of Pan-African Revolt by C.L.R. James

Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam by Muhammad Iqbal

Sociology of Islam by Ali Shariati

Zionist Colonialism in Palestine by Fayez Sayegh

Groundings with My Brothers by Walter Rodney

Indigenous and Popular Thinking in América by Rodolfo Kusch

Philosophy of Liberation by Enrique Dussel

Black Metamorphoses by Sylvia Wynter

Basic Call to Consciousness by the Haudenosaunee

Native Science by Gregory Cajete

Ch'ixinakax utxiwa by Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Peace, Power, Righteousness by Taiaiake Alfred

Red Skin, White Masks by Glen Coulthard

Autonomy is in Our Hearts by Dylan Eldridge Fitzwater

Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Critical Thought in the Face of the Capitalist Hydra by the Sixth Commission of the EZLN

It's come to my attention I've posted a post where I show my fic word count from what I read last year and did not explain where I got the number!

BOOKTOWER

An absolutely amazing website I discovered this last year on tik tok. You can add fanfics, books/graphic novels/manga, and webcomics to this website, and organize them into customizable bookshelves to keep track of what you've read!

And that's not all!! By adding in the required information about each readable you add to your library, it gives you statistics on what you've read!

I of course have yet to add all my fanfics I've read on AO3, I've only added the fics I've read throughout 2024 and 2025, so my data is not yet complete, but there is a reason for that! Around mid February, Booktower is coming out with a 'Wrapped' of our readables! So those people who have no computer to use the Google spreadsheets to make your own AO3 Wrapped?(I've got a computer I'm just lazy) We gotcha covered!

All In all, Booktower is a lovely website that I'm so proud to be in the community discord. If you happen to sign up and join the discord, come say hi and that I sent you!

(And yes, I've read more than 3 books in my life, I've just prioritized adding fanfiction to the site over real books. Trust me, my future library is up to 300 books by now)

I'll link my booktower to anyone who's curious what the tower is like! (Don't judge my organization, it's better than my bookmarks folder on AO3)

[WARNING my Booktower I'm sharing does contain explicit works, and subjects not for children's consumption, please watch yourself for triggers in any fics you see fit to open based off my tower even if you're an adult. Reading tags is important, stay safe all!]

https://app.mybooktower.com/tower/simplyanxio

Please comment on this post if you join booktower! I'd love to know if I've persuaded anyone to join!

no literallyy, need some recs pls. i need a book that’ll make me stare at the wall and reflect for hours after i finish it

i need to find a beautiful novel to read & change my life

When you see that one book that makes you doubt the rest of the recommendations

Was thinking about, Cure for the Common Universe last night...

Almost cried.

Would recommend.