though i recommend listening to audiobooks

Bonus points if it's not just multiple books by people with basically the same ideology.

"Wow, you've read Marx and Engels? That must mean you have a thorough understanding on all things political!" /s

Good sir or madam, you are mistaken, for I have also read Lenin.

Let us not speak of the time I read Chomsky, for I was quite confused by the open disdain for autocracy.

Ok, well I didn't actually read all of it, just the excerpts on Marxists.org.
- You can hardly be taken serious if you haven't read Stalin, too, you know. /s
Have you read Marx or Engels? What have you read?
- Not the point I was trying to make.

I'm reading all six Dune books at once and I'm hella confused

It might be helpful if you finished one book first before you start another.
- Nonsense! Only the parallel experience will fully submerge you into the lore! /j
  
  Edit: Also: woosh
Choose your own adventure.

Getting an EReader has increased the rate at which I read drastically. Reading becomes less of a task and more of a convenient way to spend time.

Reading Marx and Engels is also a great primer for anyone getting into Leftist theory.

Have you read any Domenico Losurdo? I want to, but am afraid it will be a dense read.
- Not yet, getting an EReader has really accelerated my reading, but I really want to hammer in the basics before moving on to the likes of Parenti and Losurdo. Plus, I have queer theory like Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink and Blue as well as Fanon's works on colonialism I want to visit before then.
Man seconding this. My reading goal was 20 books and I have smashed it before half of the year was over. Few years ago I couldn't even read got in a year
- Yep, same! Not quite at that pace but it totally reversed my years-long spell of not being able to finish a single book in a year

Start with the Kama Sutra.

It's great in audiobook form.
- I just watched the movie when it came out to theatres.
  
  7/10

I read the very hungry caterpillar this morning

Based

The noun doesn't matter after an adjective like 'multiple.' Nothing good ever follows 'multiple.'

-Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

Including fornication capable products derived from wood cellulose.

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/audiobooks.html?

Any other sources?

Audible Anarchist
I've uploaded a few read by tts at https://pca.st/podcast/3af50c70-30cd-013c-f68a-0acc26574db2

Not too proud of it, but might still be useful.

There's also audioteca critica, with actual people reading the books, https://pca.st/podcast/5a409f90-829a-013a-d7e9-0acc26574db2, in Brazilian Portuguese.
Mobilism dot org

Does multiple research papers count? All of them related to the Relational Model, the foundation for relational database management systems. I'm also currently digging through the Postgres manual (only 3000 pages short).

So, besides the Kama Sutra, what else would you recommend?

In spirit of the post, Wage Labor and Capital, Value, Price and Profit, and Critique of the Gotha Programme are the easiest to digest works by Marx, and the most applicable to general leftism. All are short reads too, each can be completed in around an hour.

Engels has some great works too, and his works are generally grouped in with Marx's because they worked together closely, but I kept it to strictly Marx.
- People should read Value Price and Profit because Marx proved that inflation is just companies raising prices, thoroughly debunks all the lies about causes of inflation that economists have been using to protect profits since before even his time.
  
  All solid suggestions.
  
  Wrt critique of the Gotha programme, it's interesting to me that Marx was such a critic of Lassalle, so much so that Engels actually apologized for Marx's harsh criticisms of the social democrat. Marx had called Lassalle a would be petty dictator or something like that. Except he was right, Lassalle was secretly plotting with von Bismarck on a plan to unify Germany under a bourgeois led social democracy, which von Bismarck could later seize absolute control over. Marx didn't know about this conspiracy, he just reasoned it out.
I think the Silo books were pretty good

If you want to read more, don't listen to others with recommendations. Find something that you like and find books about it. Don't like it, find another and sell or giveaway your first one. Everyone can read, but not everyone is made to read heavy tomes and they also don't need too!

I do recommend audiobooks! If you haven't tried one yet, please do so.

I've just remembered that like 10 years ago my go-to answer for people bothering me at work with my headphones on just to ask me what Im listening to (wtf??), was just that - "To the Communist Manifesto ofc!"

Sometimes I would spice it up with like a Communist Manifesto - Mein Campf remix or last Sundays black mass I missed, praised be Lucy, the bringer of light.

I've def trained people not to ask me stupid or personal questions unless they actually mean it.
I don't understand nor know how to do small talk, ok?

those are my favourite kinds of books!

are the books fucking or are they about fucking? are pictures included?

Highly recommend:
Crucible of War Einstein's Telescope. 1176 BC The other side of history: daily life in the Ancient world

Here you are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld#Bibliography

Multiple fucking books? Like "Lady Chatterley" or "Joy of Sex"?

Would recommend Aeon Legion by J.P. Beaubien

Audiobooks take away the imaginative ideas of the readers experience of the tales. I like to imagine for myself the feelings of the characters in their given situations.

I disagree. While books might be more imaginative, as you can read the lines the way you like, most of the times, at least in fiction, the emotions are written out. Oftentimes, because of that I need to go back because I read the paragraph "wrong". And that's just one part of the imaginative experience. While listening to an audiobook the way you see the setting, the characters and their actions is still entirely up to you. It's fine that you, personally, prefer books. But that doesn't make audiobooks bad.
- Yeah each to his/her/its own.
- Voice and intonation dictates how I perceive characters and such. And if it's read in monotone, no way in hell I'll be able to focus on it.
Audiobooks are also passive listening which is not cognitively absorbed as thoroughly as active reading. IMO you have not "read" a book if you just listened to someone read it to you. Reading with your own eyes engages more thinking processes, forcing the reader to think more about what they've read.
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More people need to read "1984" and understand that it's a warning, not a "how-to" guide.

1984 is still a work of fiction, and one that is not really making suggestions on how to combat dystopia. It's a warning, sure, but reading leftist theory that actually makes analysis and provides suggestions on what to practically do is more useful.
- 1984 doesn't have a happy ending, unless your idea of a happy ending is a man going insane. Oceania was always a lost cause. The point of warnings is that you're supposed to avoid the thing they're warning you against.
Im 14 and this is depp
Orwell literally fought on the side of anarcho-communists in the Spanish civil war though. Doesn't that tell you a bit about what type of system he was criticising with the book?

Sorry Carl, I ain't reading shit. I might listen to an audiobook, but I'm not promising anything