Michael Foley

Barking & Dagenham Through Time

John Irving

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Hollie Mcnish

Slug and other things i've been told to hate

Temi Oh

Do You Dream of Terra Two?

Bhanu Kapil

Ban en Banlieue 

Gboyega Odubanjo

Two stops short of barking

Kayo Chingonyi

Kumukanda

Edited by Nikesh Shukla

The Good Immigrant

Elaine Spires

The Banjo - Book One

The Banjo - Book Two

Edited by Hayley Dixon and Joe Hill

Radical Essex

Dr. Gary Foley

Goori Reader No.1: History, Memory and the Role of Cultural Organisations in Entrenching Colonisation in Australia and Beyond

Linda Rhodes

The Dagenham Girl Pipers 

Alberto Duman

Dan Hancox

Malcolm James

Anna Minton

Regeneration Songs: Sounds of Investment and Loss from East London

The Race Today Collective

Nominated by The Alternative School of Economics, donated by Julie Begum

The Arrivants - A Pictorial Essay on Blacks in Britain 

Newham Woman

David Buckman

From Bow to Biennale: Artists of the East London Group

Paul Gilroy

Donated by Julie Begum, selected by The Alternative School of Economics

Black Britain: A Photographic History

Ian Nairn

Nairn’s London

David Rosenberg

Rebel Footprints: A Guide to Uncovering London’s Radical History

Nato Thompson

Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art From 1991–2011

Sukhdev Sandhu

London Calling

Viktor Shklovsky

Zoo, or Letters Not About Love

Negotiating the Bends

Joined up Writing: Poems from the Mill

Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Maya Angelou

And Still I Rise

Christian Felbern

Change Everything: Creating an Economy for the Common Good by Christian Felbern

Josh Ryan-Collins

Tony Greenham

Richard Werner

Andrew Jackson

Nominated by The Alternative School of Economics

Where Does Money Come From?

Iain Martin

Making It Happen: Fred Goodwin, RBS and the Men Who Blew up the British Economy

Sendhil Mullainathan

Eldar Shafir

Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Stewart Lansley

A Sharing Economy: How Social Wealth Funds Can Reduce Inequality and Help Balance the Books

People Powered Money: Designing, developing and delivering community currencies

Martin Ford

Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Nicholas Shaxson

Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World

Herman Daly

Steady-State Economics

Nick Chisolm

Linked by the Same Thread: The Multi-Fibre Arrangement and the Labour Movement

Thomas Piketty

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Frederick Engels

Engels on Marx’s Capital

Gosta Esping-Andersen

The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

Doris Lessing

The Golden Notebook

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

Alan Sillitoe

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner and Other Stories

James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Colin Ward

Donated by The Alternative School of Economics

Welcome, Thinner City: Urban Survival in the 1990s

The Child in the City

Michael Young

Peter Willmott

Family and Kinship in East London

John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath

Of Mice and Men

Mike Savage

Nominated by the Alternative School of Economics

Social Class in the 21st Century

Roland Meighan

Ian Shelton

Tony Marks

Perspectives on Society: An Introductory Reader in Sociology

Robert Tressell

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists

Alan James

Robert Jeffcoate

The School in the Multicultural Society: A Reader

There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack

Neil Warren

Marie Jahoda

Attitudes

Andre Betteille

Social Inequality

Anthony Sampson

Who Runs This Place? The Anatomy of Britain in the 21st Century

The Essential Anatomy of Britain

The Changing Anatomy of Britain

The New Anatomy of Britain

Anatomy of Britain Today

Anatomy of Britain

JG Ballard

The Complete Short Stories, Volume One

The Complete Short Stories, Volume Two

Walter Benjamin

One-Way Street and Other Writings

Hayley Newman

Common

Rachel Botsman

Roo Rodgers

What’s Mine is Yours: How Collaborative Consumption is Changing the Way We Live

Clayton M. Christensen

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Lewis Hyde

The Gift

Jane Jacobs

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Ronald Blythe

Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

Rachel Lichtenstein

Iain Sinclair

Rodinsky’s Room

John Marriott

Beyond the Tower: A History of East London

Geoff Dench

Kate Gavron

The New East End: Kinship, Race and Conflict

Matthew Beaumont

Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London

Night Haunts

Bridget Cherry

Charles O’Brien

Nikolaus Pevsner

London 5: East

Houses and Homes

Howard Bloch

Newham Dockland

Donated by Leyton and Leytonstone Historical Society

A Capital Ground for Sports

Behind the Wire: Prisoner of War Camps on the Wanstead Flats

Shea Lolin

St. Nicholas’ Industrial School and Chapel

Melanie McGrath

Silvertown: An East End Family Memoir

Edward North Buxton

Epping Forest, With Maps

Edward W. Said

Orientalism

Chinua Achebe

Things Fall Apart

Sarah Wise

The Blackest Streets

Hanif Kureishi

Donated by Julie Begum, selected by the Alternative School of Economics

The Buddha of Suburbia

Sarah Shulman

The Cosmopolitans

Rozina Visram

Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History

Malala Yousafzai

Christina Lamb

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Tony Holden

People, Churches and Multi-Racial Projects

Amrit Wilson

Donated by Julie Begum, selected by the ASE

Finding a Voice: Asian Women in Britain

Richard Bean

England People Very Nice

Siddiqua Kabir

Bangladeshi Curry Cookbook