A subscription book club for everyone on the Left
Become a member and we will send you the best books on radical and progressive politics, direct to your door. By reading and sharing ideas together, we can transform society.
The Left Book Club was originally founded in 1936, to popularise ideas from the left, and counter the rise of fascism. Please join us today and help support political education.
How does it work?
Choose between six books a year, or twelve. Prices start at just £4.99 a month. It's the most affordable way to get the best radical writing.
You will receive:
- Carefully-selected radical books from a range of publishers
- Unique paperback editions
- Access to reading groups and events. Share your ideas and be part of a growing community
- Emailed discussion points and articles
Looking for a gift?
When you buy a gift subscription, we send it to you in the form of a voucher, via email.
Your gift will remain a secret! The email voucher is sent to the purchaser, so the recipient won’t know you’ve bought it.
Each voucher contains a unique code, which can be redeemed on the website for a free subscription. Just print out the voucher and put it in a card. Or email it to the recipient directly.
Featured book
'Contains some of the finest and most deeply felt polemical writing against slavery and racism ever published' Time Out
This January we are proud to bring you The Black Jacobins, CLR James's classic account of the Haitian Revolution. It is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a slave revolt against successive invasions by French, Spanish and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean.
Join a reading group.
Or start your own.
Our reading groups are open to all. You don’t have to be a member to attend. For details about a group near you, email us.
We can help introduce you to others who share your ideas and build networks for informed political discussion. We welcome people from across all spectrums of the left, from experienced activists to those who are beginning to think about socialist politics for the first time.
A proud history
The original Left Book Club was started by pioneering British publisher Victor Gollancz in 1936. Mass membership of the club helped turn the tide of public opinion against fascism and bring the 1945 Labour government to power. That government founded the NHS and the welfare state.
Today, we need a Left Book Club for the twenty-first century.
Recent books
News & events
Read about us in the 'New Statesman'
We were delighted to be featured in New Statesman magazine:
Can you fight fascism with a book club?
Events are listed on our Facebook page here.
Donate
The Left Book Club is a not-for-profit organisation. We are supported entirely by our membership and patrons. With monthly subscriptions starting at £4.99 our aim is to make the best writing on radical politics accessible to as wide an audience as possible. But we can only do this with your support. Become a friend of the Left Book Club. With your help, we can publish more books, reach more people, and help spread the hope and the ideas that make a better society possible.