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Verso Summer Reading Sale

Save up to 40% on all Verso titles during our Summer Reading Sale

Verso Books16 July 2025

Verso Summer Reading Sale

Summer means long days and warm weather, but what does it mean when the weather has become oppressive and the pace of history has accelerated to such a degree that it's impossible to keep up? Time will tell, but one thing is certain: without a galvanizing, positive conception for what comes after an era of riots, the future will be decided by those we continually struggle against. Read up.

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New Releases

Shop our newest titles, including a new look at the Cold War, an exposé on the online scam industry, and a history of protest in the art world. Shop Verso New Releases.

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Verso Theory

A selection of theory published by Verso – from classics to the contemporary must-reads that they inspired. Shop the full list.

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Riot Prime | Reading List

Key reading for understanding the present as a time of riots. Shop the full list.

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How to Kill a War Machine | Books on Palestine

These books offer useful resources for the international Palestinian solidarity movement in understanding the acquiescence of Western governments to the destruction of Gaza, methods for resistance, and how we ended up in the era of ‘forever wars’. Shop the full list.

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Verso World History

Classic works of global history, from the Ancient World to the present day. Shop the full list.

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Abolish ICE | Reading List

The targeting of immigrant communities has reached extraordinary new levels of shamelessness, drawing activists to the streets in protest and sparking fiery confrontations against the state's militarized police forces. These books were selected to provide histories of immigration enforcement and philosophies of division and pacification. Shop the full list.

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Verso Fiction

Revolutionary stories, with an international focus, beautifully written. Shop the full list.

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July is Disability Pride Month | Reading List

Resources exploring how the disability justice movement gets to the heart of anticapitalist organising. Shop the full list.

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Fighting in a World on Fire | Climate Reading

How do we save ourselves from the devastating effects of the climate crisis? Capitalism has no answer. These books offer the theory and strategy needed to truly fight in a world on fire, from degrowth to a Green New Deal to blowing up pipelines. Shop the full list.

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  • The Rebirth of History
    In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was to overthrow despotic regimes maintained by the great powers—regi...
    Hardback

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  • We Built the Wall

    We Built the Wall

    For decades, the American political asylum process has been used to punish enemies and reward friends of the US government. Refugees from Cuba can walk through an open door. People fleeing Eastern ...
    Hardback
  • All-American Nativism
    It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the dead. After all, here was a president who organized his campaign around a rhetoric of unvarnished racism and xen...
    Paperback

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