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Non-Fiction Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Non-Fiction books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Non-Fiction series? Start with "Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value" (2001) and follow publication order through all 21 books.
The complete Non-Fiction reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value
2001
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
2004
Lost People
2007
Possibilities
2007
Revolutions in Reverse
2009
Direct Action: An Ethnography
2009
Debt: The First 5,000 Years
2011
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
2013
The Utopia of Rules
2013
On Kings (With: Marshall Sahlins)
2016
Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
2018
Anarchy — In a Manner of Speaking
2020
The Dawn of Everything (With: David Wengrow)
2021
Uprisings
2022
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
2023
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World...
2024
We Are Many
2012
To Dare Imagining
2016
Why Work?: Arguments for the Leisure Society
2018
Never Work
2022
David Graeber
19
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