Catalog
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.
Top Reading Lists
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A Socialist Feminist Reading List
Revolutionary feminist texts, featuring Angela Davis, Nancy Fraser, Sophie Lewis, Shon Faye, and Vivian Gornick.
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10 Books Every Student Should Read!
Must-read Verso classics for all students.
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Imagining Radical Futures
Utopian thinking for a different world.
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Theorizing the Climate Crisis
How different theories of the climate crisis shape our understanding of what must be done.
Police & Prisons
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The End of Policing
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Police: A Field Guide
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If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
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Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter
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Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation
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A World Without Police: How Strong Communities Make Cops Obsolete
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Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
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Homo Juridicus: On the Anthropological Function of the Law
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A Critical Theory of Police Power: The Fabrication of the Social Order
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Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today
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The Apocalypse and the End of History: Modern Jihad and the Crisis of Liberalism
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The Prisoner: A Memoir
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The Panthers Can't Save Us Now: Debating Left Politics and Black Lives Matter
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Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage
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Charged: How the Police Try to Suppress Protest
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Disaster Capitalism: Making a Killing Out of Catastrophe
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After Black Lives Matter: Policing and Anti-Capitalist Struggle
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A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story behind the Missing Forty-Three Students
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A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America
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Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers
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Buda's Wagon: A Brief History of the Car Bomb
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Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism
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Human Rights and the Uses of History: Expanded Second Edition
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Inside This Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons