This dialogue was sparked by an Outcry participant.

Fifty is an ambitious number, but let’s treat this as an invitation to trace the living canon of protest literature. The list below samples vital texts—radical history, strategy handbooks, movement polemics, abolitionist visions and “dangerous” theoretical works that shape imagination, tactics, and belief. Some are classics, others are signals from the present. This is a river, not a museum. In no particular order:

1. The End of Protest – Micah White
2. Rules for Radicals – Saul Alinsky
3. This Is an Uprising – Mark & Paul Engler
4. Twitter and Tear Gas – Zeynep Tufekci
5. Wretched of the Earth – Frantz Fanon
6. Pedagogy of the Oppressed – Paulo Freire
7. Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism – L.A. Kauffman
8. Hope in the Dark – Rebecca Solnit
9. From Dictatorship to Democracy – Gene Sharp
10. Emergent Strategy – adrienne maree brown
11. Discipline and Punish – Michel Foucault
12. The Rebel – Albert Camus
13. Nonviolent Communication – Marshall Rosenberg
14. Why Civil Resistance Works – Erica Chenoweth & Maria J. Stephan
15. Mutual Aid – Peter Kropotkin
16. Letter from Birmingham Jail – Martin Luther King Jr.
17. March: Book One (Two & Three as well) – John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell
18. No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power – Jane McAlevey
19. The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin
20. A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
21. We Will Not Be Silenced – Mahmoud Abu Saud, Brigitte Herremans, et al.
22. Beautiful Trouble – Andrew Boyd & Dave Oswald Mitchell
23. The Shock Doctrine – Naomi Klein
24. The New Jim Crow – Michelle Alexander
25. Caliban and the Witch – Silvia Federici
26. Soulcraft – Nicholas Wolterstorff
27. We Make the Road by Walking – Myles Horton & Paulo Freire
28. Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
29. Guerrilla Warfare – Che Guevara
30. Sisters in Spirit – Sally Roesch Wagner
31. Unfuck the System – T.W. Lewis
32. Prison Notebooks – Antonio Gramsci
33. Assata: An Autobiography – Assata Shakur
34. The Black Jacobins – C.L.R. James
35. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle – Angela Davis
36. Are Prisons Obsolete? – Angela Davis
37. Burn It Down! – Breanne Fahs (ed.)
38. We Have Not Been Moved – Elizabeth “Betita” Martínez et al.
39. On Tyranny – Timothy Snyder
40. The Movement and the Sixties – Terry H. Anderson
41. Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism – Peter Marshall
42. Sabotage – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
43. Blood in My Eye – George L. Jackson
44. V for Vendetta – Alan Moore & David Lloyd
45. Women, Race, & Class – Angela Davis
46. The Coming Insurrection – The Invisible Committee
47. Let the Trumpet Sound: A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. – Stephen B. Oates
48. Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg – Kate Evans
49. The Art of Not Being Governed – James C. Scott
50. Decolonizing Methodologies – Linda Tuhiwai Smith

Which titles, eras or movements pull you most? What’s missing here that already feels essential to the next wave?