leftist fiction recs (& how to start reading nonfiction!)
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- Опубликовано: 4 июл 2024
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intro & context - 0:00
what is leftist fiction? - 2:42
SFF and speculative fiction - 5:05
horror - 11:18
realistic fiction - 14:23
books on my tbr - 15:56
stepping stones into nonfic - 16:45
memoirs et al - 17:37
anthologies - 18:34
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could i please, please beg you to post a full list of the books you recommend? it is a bit of a struggle to listen to the summery then go backwards in the video to get the name and author then to skip forward to the next one
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leftist fiction is great; the Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin was my first book i read recently after not doing any reading outside of school stuff since middle school, and i’m planning on more Le Guin & some of Octavia Butler’s work as my next fiction to get into :)
YESSSSS i’ve been wanting to get back into reading regularly but having trouble finding what i wanna read so im def gonna pick out a few of these at the library next time i go 👁️ ! love your new hair colors btw !!!
Omg the store is so cool, luv all of ur stuff on there! My fav is definitely the “queer vampire” pin it describes my gender perfectly lol 🤍
Same XD
I guess sometimes I’m more of a dark elf or some kind of elven gremlin creature or a mysterious horned woodland humanoid creature, but yes, queer vampire is definitely very gender
always here for more book recs (he says, looking at the pile of books still unread)
also, for those into dtwof: i would highly rec fun home, her autobiographical graphic novel
great recs ashton!! it's great to find another octavia butler enjoyer. i would absolutely recommend ursula le guin too!! i absolutely love her speculative fiction about alternate alien societies and i consider her an anarchist feminist legend.
I really really like the Murderbot Diaries. It deals with some of the worst parts of capitalism and also presents alternative ways of organizing a society. Murderbot is a great character and intensely relatable to me
"After the Revolution" by Robert Evans is a fun but also thoughtful leftist sci-fi. It's not for everyone obviously, but I thought I'd add it to the list.
Anything by Becky Chambers is EXCELLENT. In particular “A Psalm for the Wild Built” is a lovely novella, and its sequel focuses more on how this post-scarcity society functions.
Damn I'm early. Thanks for the video Ashton, I've been trying to read more theory and kinda struggling with it. It's definitely easier for me to read and comprehend fiction, so I'm looking forward to reading some of these.
i would recomment the dispossessed by Ursula le Guin, i jeally enjoyed it !
This was great! You are spot on about memoirs being a great stepping stone. I used to say I only read fiction, then it was "fiction and memoir". Creative non fiction is super cool.
I've been struggling to finish books for a while. I'm reading The Bruising of Qilwa by Naseem Jamnia right now because it's a novella, and I think it could count as leftist. The main character is a queer refugee who helps out at a free health clinic and is trying to find the source of a mysterious illness and help patients under increasingly strict government regulations.
And not to only recommend books about plagues, lol, but Grievers by adrienne maree brown is very good, and leftist in the themes it deals with. The main character loses her parents to a mysterious disease which parallels COVID, but only affects the Black community, seemingly ending people's lives at random. She struggles with whether she can live up to the activist legacy her parents left. And she starts an interesting project to document those who are lost to the disease and try to find a pattern in it.
I only read a few of the essays in the Disability Visibility anthology, but I want to read more!
Thanks for all the recommendations!
The LitenVerse novellas ("Finna" and "Defekt") by Nino Cipri are anti-capitalist satire of corporations (specifically IKEA) and I loved them! They're also queer.
YES!!! A new book video!!! This is what we need! ❤❤❤
Love your hair in this video
My 2 favourites fiction leftist books are :
-A country of ghosts by margaret killjoy, which depicts the journey of Dimos, a young man that discovers a state that has no leader and is purely based on anarchism while trying to fight in war against another state that wants to colonise the anarchists (hope i summed that up well)
And,
- Fierce femmes and notorious liars - Kai Cheng Thom, a fantasy story about a trans girl leaving her hometown for the big city, joining a gang of fems against cis male violence, with touches of fantasy in it
Definitely agree about memoirs and anthologies, a lot easier to get through
your hair looks sick asf dude!! also some of these stories really piqued my interest, ill be sure to check them out when i get the time. great video as always!!
yay a new book video 🤍🤍
"Only ship to the US" *cries in Norwegian*
Great video, especially the advice on "stepping stones". I get a lot of mileage out of recommending Queering Anarchism, and I was pretty sure you were going to recommend it too after mentioning anthologies. It was my own introduction to a lot of things and prompted further reading for sure.
i've been binge watching your videos the last few days and I love them! It's exciting to see them coming out in real time now :D. Also, I've just watched your other book recommendation videos, so this fits perfectly :D
I don’t know why nonfiction is easier for me to read, but thank you for the recs
Ashton! I haven't seen your channel in like 5 years I think, so cool to see you have 60k subs!!!!
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IM SO EXCITED ive been specifically trying to read more nf & leftist stuff this is exactly the video i needed
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love these recs!! for nonfiction reads I would recommend Refusing Compulsory Asexuality by Sherronda J Brown and When Medicine Goes Awry by Juanne Nancarrow Clarke. for fiction right now I’m reading Animal Farm and 1984, though I’m not sure I would consider them leftist. btw, everything I’ve read so far has been from the NYPL! they have a large sellection of e-books and audiobooks for free :)
agreed, Orwell is very anti-communist. i didn't mind reading his work when i was younger but as i learned more about him and his relations with the CIA i got more disturbed lol
@@internetuser420 ooo ive gotta look into that
@@internetuser420wait what did he do with the cia
Great video!
thanks for the recs ashton! i hope that one day you can ship to the UK! love from wales
I was thinking Pet would be good for this list! I need to pick up Bitter too. Really recommend all of Akwaeke Emezi's books
if you liked pet you’ll absolutely love bitter !!! i def want to read more by them :)
@@graveyardpansyyou would probably appreciate Dear Senthuran a Black Spirit memoir by them. It's a memoir in the form of letters
ong i loved pet sm!!
i dont read much/at all but i want to read some books again even though reading is hard for me and i think ill try to read some of these if i can ever pay my library fines (dont let people use your library card) or find them online because im a leftist and i want to both learn more about leftist views to fully form mine and because its interesting to me
I haven’t been reading pretty much at all over the last few years, which is pretty unusual for me, since before that I spent a large part of my time reading one fantasy or sci-fi novel after another (the only book I can remember reading in that time is priory of the orange tree which is an incredibly good fantasy novel with many incredibly well written female characters and some sapphic romance and feminist stuff, and just generally really good worldbuilding and an epic plot, I cannot recommend it enough if you’re looking for a fantasy novel with some feminist themes but which is mostly just a very good fantasy novel, other than that I’ve just been reading manga and a few essays and zines when it comes to nonfiction, but rarely), I tried too hard at a degree what I knew wasn’t for me and burnt myself out, so now that I quit I’m trying to read fiction again. I figured that since I heard so much good stuff about le guin her novels might get me absorbed in a book again, and they did! I’m currently reading the earthsea novels, which are some of her early work, and the writing and worldbuilding is just amazing. It is pretty male centric which I heard will get addressed in the fourth book, tehanu, which I’m really excited for but haven’t gotten to. I feel like after I read through all of the earthsea novels I will definitely read some of her other stuff (I’ve heard a lot of people talk about the dispossessed which I definitely want to read). Really good author, I highly recommend. I definitely will bookmark this video to look for some ideas for what else to read once I’m looking for more books, especially the horror ones sound promising.
Definitely want to read more, I love your book recommendations!
i absolutely loved both of carmen maria machados work
Haven't really heard people talk about It but in my opinion Roadside Picnic by Arkady&Boris Strugatsky (which is the basis for the classic SF movie Stalker) is kinda leftist. I was so surprised about how much it focused on class issues and the relationship between capitalism and science
Thankbyou!
Thank you for the recs! I see you have a goodreads; do you have a storygraph by any chance?
not yet, i made one a while ago but rly struggled to switch :/ i do want to try again though, i appreciate the reminder!
Ohh!!! If you haven't read freshwater by emezi i would definitely also recommend checking that out it's so so good
unrelated but you look so awesome
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YOU HAVEN'T READ ANY URSULA K LEGUIN??????
The Left Hand Of Darkness. BUMP IT UP your list. One sentence summary: Entirely trans-intersex planet; communism; love. If you're like me, will absolutely make you bawl your eyes out at multiple points.
Bless UKL! 🙏💞
As someone with dyslexia and ADHD, sitting down and reading a book is basically torture 90% of the time. Sometimes I get into the mood and I can read a fiction book (though I usually end up stopping half way through those too). My only saving grace is audiobooks. I can listen rather than going through the tortuously slow process of trying to figure out what every single sentence is saying multiple times (this is more true of nonfiction, the fact that I don't have to do this with fiction is the only reason I can read them), and I can do something with my hands so my brain doesn't wonder off and completely forget what I'd just read (although it has to be a mindless task, like chores). I would highly recommend audiobooks for anyone who struggles with reading nonfiction.
Imma be honest, I could not get through Manhunt. Every page in there made me want to scream and cry in heartbreak and also commit [REDACTED] against every terf on planet earth. But what little I've read of it... damn. I will never forget the few pages I've read. What an incredible book.
EDIT: if anyone wants recs, I've heard of X by David Davis and Red Tory: My Corbyn Chemsex Hell that sound both really interesting, however I have not read them so I cannot say if they are good or not
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