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Read what’s on your favourite writers’ bookshelves

Books endorsed by Sally Rooney, Andreas Malm, Yanis Varoufakis and more!

28 November 2025

Read like your faves. Image: Sally Rooney, Teju Cole, Naomi Klein, Annie Ernaux

Want a book you know you’ll love? Read your favourite authors’ favourite authors.

These books will help you dive deeper into the genres and fields of study you’re most interested in, as well as expand your horizons — all endorsed by the best!

Let your heroes give you some recommendations.

The Verso End of Year Sale

  • 20% off when you buy 2 books
  • 30% off when you buy 3 books
  • 40% off when you buy 4 books
  • 50% off when you buy 5 books

Sale ends at 11:59pm EST on January 2nd 2026. 

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Sally Rooney

Sally Rooney has emerged as one of the most compelling literary voices of her generation. She has been vocal in her solidarity with Palestine, which may result in her books being withdrawn from sale in the UK. She's praised Ghassan Kanafani’s Men In The Sun and Wim Carton & Andreas Malm's The Long Heat.

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Andreas Malm

Andreas Malm is a revolutionary climate activist, and author of the best-selling How to Blow Up a Pipeline. He wants you to read:

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Kim Stanley Robinson

Robinson is generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers. He described The Long Heat by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton as “part of that crucial cognitive mapping project” for making fundamental changes in our political economy.

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Yanis Varoufakis

Internationally recognised economist and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis wants you to read:

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Naomi Klein

Journalist, political analyst, and author of bestsellers such as Doppleganger, The Shock Doctrine, and No Logo, Naomi Klein wants you to read:

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Annie Ernaux

Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature, consistently examines a life marked by strong disparities regarding gender, language, and class. She wants you to read:

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Teju Cole

Teju Cole, author of Open City and winner of the PEN/Hemmingway Award, described John Berger as “a humane and uniquely confiding voice.”

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  • Men in the Sun

    Men in the Sun

    Three Palestinian men embark on a brutal and treacherous odyssey across the Iraqi desert to Kuwait, not for liberation but material betterment. Under the indifferent brutality of border bureaucracy...
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  • Crude Capitalism
    This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse',...
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  • Enshittification
    *** Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year 2025 ***Misogyny, conspiratorialism, surveillance, manipulation, fraud, and AI slop are drowning the internet. For the...
    Hardback
  • Your Party

    Your Party

    Your Party sees leading figures make the case for Britain’s major new political project, laying out the challenges ahead and how to surmount them. Oliver Eagleton interviews Zarah Sultana MP; Leann...
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  • Capital's Grave
    Bringing together analyses from different fields—law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis—Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism. Feudalism isn’t just a m...

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  • Permanent Red
    In Permanent Red, John Berger argues that the contemporary artist should strive for a realism that aims for hope, to transform the world. Surveying the work of historical artists as well as that of...
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  • From A to X
    From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms its highest values through struggle. John Berger presents a community which, besieged by economic and military oppression, finds transc...