Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Thoughts of Chairman Harold | 1967 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 2 | The New Revolutionaries: A Handbook of the International Radical Left | 1969 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 3 | Pakistan | 1970 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 4 | Class Struggle in Bangladesh | 1971 | Tariq Ali | N/A |
| 5 | The Coming British Revolution | 1972 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 6 | Chile | 1974 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 7 | 1968 and After | 1978 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 8 | The Stalinist Legacy | 1980 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 9 | Can Pakistan Survive | 1983 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 10 | Who’s Afraid of Margaret Thatcher? | 1984 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 11 | An Indian Dynasty | 1985 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 12 | The Nehrus and the Gandhis | 1985 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 13 | President Nyerere in Conversation with Darcus Howe and Tariq Ali | 1986 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 14 | Street-Fighting Years | 1987 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 15 | Revolution from Above / Time to Bury Lenin | 1988 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 16 | 1968 | 1998 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 17 | Masters of the Universe? NATO’s Balkan Crusade | 2000 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 18 | The Clash of Fundamentalisms | 2002 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 19 | The American Effect | 2003 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 20 | Bush in Babylon | 2003 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 21 | Speaking of Empire and Resistance | 2005 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 22 | Conversations with Edward Said | 2005 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 23 | Rough Music | 2006 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 24 | Dictatorship of Capital: Politics and Culture in the 21st Century | 2006 | Tariq Ali | N/A |
| 25 | The Leopard and the Fox | 2006 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 26 | Pirates of the Caribbean | 2006 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 27 | The Declarations of Havana | 2007 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 28 | A Banker for All Seasons | 2007 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 29 | The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power | 2008 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 30 | The Assassination | 2008 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 31 | The Idea of Communism | 2009 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 32 | The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom | 2009 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 33 | The Obama Syndrome: Surrender at Home, War Abroad | 2010 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 34 | Kashmir | 2011 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 35 | The Trials of Spinoza | 2011 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 36 | On History: Tariq Ali and Oliver Stone | 2011 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 37 | The Extreme Centre: A Warning | 2015 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 38 | The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution | 2017 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 39 | Uprising in Pakistan: How to Bring Down a Dictatorship | 2018 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 40 | The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold | 2021 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 41 | Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes | 2022 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 42 | A Conversation with Ernest Mandel: Early Life and Late Politics | 2023 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 43 | The Lenin Scenario | 2024 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
| 44 | You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024 | 2024 | Tariq Ali | Buy |
Tariq Ali’s non-fiction output covers more than five decades of political writing, from The Thoughts of Chairman Harold (1967) — a satirical take on British Prime Minister Harold Wilson — through his 2024 memoir You Can’t Please All. The range is enormous: books on Pakistan, Chile, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, and Iraq sit alongside analyses of NATO, imperialism, communism, and fundamentalism.
Key works include Street-Fighting Years (1987), his memoir of 1960s radicalism; The Clash of Fundamentalisms (2002), his response to 9/11 and the “war on terror”; and The Duel (2008), examining Pakistan’s entanglement with American foreign policy. His most recent major work, Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes (2022), reexamines the British leader’s legacy from a critical, anti-imperial perspective. Throughout, Ali writes as both analyst and participant, bringing personal experience to bear on his political arguments.