Books from the Anarcho-primitivism page on Wikipedia
- Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! (Fredy Perlman)
- Against the Megamachine (David Watson)
- In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations (Jerry Mander)
- People without Government: An Anthropology of Anarchy (Harold Barclay)
- Primitivism: An Illusion With No Future (Stephen Booth)
Books from Christopher McCandless's list
- 'Education of a Wandering Man' (Louis L'Amour)
- 'Tanaina Plantlore' (Priscilla Russel Kari)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
- Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
- O Jersualem! (Larry Collins & Dominique Lapierre)
- Terminal Man (Michael Crichton)
Books from Derrick Jensen's list
- Columbus and Other Cannibals: The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism (Jack D. Forbes)
- In Search of the Primitive: A Critique of Civilization (Stanley Diamond)
- Overshoot (William Catton)
- Stolen Lives - Killed by Law Enforcement (October 22 Coalition)
- The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness (Erich Fromm)
- The Natural Alien (Neil Evernden)
- The Politics of Experience (Ronald David Laing)
- Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (Susan Griffin)
Daniel Quinn
- After Dachau
- Beyond Civilization
- Dreamer
- The Holy
- If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways
- Ishmael
- My Ishamel
- A Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife
- Providence: The Story of a 50 Year Vision Quest
- Story of B
- Tales of Adam
- Work, Work, Work
Derrick Jensen
- A Language Older Than Words
- As The World Burns: 50 Things You Can Do To Stay in Denial
- Endgame: Volume 1
- Endgame: Volume 2
- How Shall I Live My Life? On Liberating the Earth from Civilization
- Listening to the Land
- Lives Less Valuable
- Resistance Against Empire
- Songs of the Dead
- Strangely Like War
- The Culture of Make Believe
- Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
- Welcome to the Machine: Science, Surveillance, and the Culture of Control
- What's Left Behind
Henry David Thoreau
- Civil Disobedience
- Life Without Principle
- Reform and the Reformers
- The Service
- Walden
- Walking
Jack Krakauer
Jack London
- Brown Wolf
- Call of the Wild
- Moon-Face
- To Build A Fire
- White Fang
John Zerzan
- Against Civilization
- Elements of Refusal
- Future Primitive
- Origins: A John Zerzan Reader
- Questioning Technology
- Running on Emptiness
- Twilight of the Machines
Leo Tolstoy
- Death of Ivan Ilych
- War and Peace
Lewis Mumford
- Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development
- Pentagon of Power: The Myth of the Machine
- Technics and Civilization