City Lights Open Media Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of City Lights Open Media books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: January 2026
Publication Order
A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (By: Howard Zinn)
Buy on Amazon2006
Interventions
Buy on Amazon2007
Between Barack and a Hard Place (By: Tim Wise)
Buy on Amazon2009
Colorblind (By: Tim Wise)
Buy on Amazon2010
The Bomb (By: Howard Zinn)
Buy on Amazon2010
Crossing Zero (By: Paul Fitzgerald)
Buy on Amazon2011
To Die in Mexico (By: John Gibler)
Buy on Amazon2011
Dear White America (By: Tim Wise)
Buy on Amazon2012
Redefining Black Power (By: Joanne Griffith)
Buy on Amazon2012
Making the Future
Buy on Amazon2012
Crusade 2.0 (By: John Feffer)
Buy on Amazon2012
Occupy the Economy (By: Richard D. Wolff)
Buy on Amazon2012
The Historic Unfulfilled Promise (By: Howard Zinn)
Buy on Amazon2012
The Meaning of Freedom (By: Angela Y. Davis)
Buy on Amazon2012
The Black History of the White House (By: Clarence Lusane)
Buy on Amazon2013
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (By: Frederick Douglass)
Buy on Amazon2013
Dying to Live (By: Joseph Nevins)
Buy on Amazon2013
Border Patrol Nation (By: Todd Miller)
Buy on Amazon2014
The Violence of Organized Forgetting (By: Henry A. Giroux)
Buy on Amazon2014
Disposable Futures (By: Brad Evans)
Buy on Amazon2015
Writing on the Wall (By: Mumia Abu-Jamal)
Buy on Amazon2015
Because We Say So
Buy on Amazon2015
Learning to Die in the Anthropocene (By: Roy Scranton)
Buy on Amazon2015
Under the Affluence (By: Tim Wise)
Buy on Amazon2015
America at War with Itself (By: Robin D.G. Kelley)
Buy on Amazon2016
Breaking Through Power (By: Ralph Nader)
Buy on Amazon2016
Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? (By: Mumia Abu-Jamal)
Buy on Amazon2017
Storming the Wall (By: Todd Miller)
Buy on Amazon2017
I Couldn't Even Imagine That They Would Kill Us (By: John Gibler)
Buy on Amazon2017
Loaded (By: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz)
Buy on Amazon2018
American Nightmare (By: George Yancy)
Buy on Amazon2018
United States of Distraction (By: Nolan Higdon)
Buy on Amazon2018
Torn from the World (By: John Gibler)
Buy on Amazon2018
Violence (By: Natasha Lennard)
Buy on Amazon2018
Death Blossoms (By: Cornel West,Mumia Abu-Jamal)
Buy on Amazon2019
A Short History of Presidential Election Crises: (By: Hirsch Alan)
Buy on Amazon2020
No Fascist USA! (By: Robin D.G. Kelley,James Tracy)
Buy on Amazon2020
The Green New Deal and Beyond (By: Stan Cox)
Buy on Amazon2020
ReTargeting Iran (With: David Barsamian,Ervand Abrahamian,Trita Parsi,Azadeh Moaveni,Nader Hashemi)
Buy on Amazon2020
Dispatches from the Race War (By: Tim Wise)
Buy on Amazon2020
Build Bridges, Not Walls (By: Todd Miller)
Buy on Amazon2021
Rising Up (By: Sonali Kolhatkar)
Buy on Amazon2023
Women Who Change the World (By: Lynn Marie Lewis)
Buy on Amazon2023
Frequently Asked Questions
The recommended reading order for the City Lights Open Media series is publication order: 1. A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (By: Howard Zinn) (2006), 2. Interventions (2007), 3. Between Barack and a Hard Place (By: Tim Wise) (2009), 4. Colorblind (By: Tim Wise) (2010), 5. The Bomb (By: Howard Zinn) (2010), and 38 more. This is generally the best way to experience the story as the author intended.
The City Lights Open Media series by Noam Chomsky contains 43 books. The series began in 2006 and continues to be a popular choice for readers.
The City Lights Open Media series is written by Noam Chomsky. You can find more books and series by this author on our website.
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