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Launched in 1970 by New Left Review as New Left Books (NLB), taking as its logo Tatlin's planned Monument to the Third International. Verso — the left-hand page — began as NLB's paperback imprint at the end of the 1970s and became its sole imprint. Now based in London and Brooklyn, it describes itself as the largest independent radical publisher in the English-speaking world, with more than 1,800 titles by 2020, from Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm and Ellen Meiksins Wood to Mike Davis, David Harvey and Slavoj Žižek.

Years
1970–present
Location
London, United Kingdom
Name history
  1. 1970–? New Left Books (NLB)
  2. ?–present Verso — Launched as NLB's paperback imprint at the end of the 1970s; later the house's sole imprint
Also known as
New Left Books · NLB · Verso
Affiliation
Founded by the editors of New Left Review
Languages
English
Website
https://www.versobooks.com/
Authority records
Wikidata · VIAF · Library of Congress · GND
Sources
Wikipedia — Verso Books; Verso — About

Backlist

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Titles of Verso Books by year: 4,603 dated titles, 1970–2026, most in 2020 (179); 62 undated. Lines mark founded 1970.
The figures by decade
DecadeTitles
1970s175
1980s404
1990s842
2000s972
2010s1,287
2020s923
YearTitleAuthor(s)Language
1970Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary✓Giuseppe FioriEnglish
1970Armed Insurrection✓A. NeubergEnglish
1970Armed Insurrection✓Hans KippenbergerGerman
1970Europe Versus America, Contradictions of Imperialism✓Ernest MandelEnglish
1970Lenin✓Free — A study on the unity of his thoughtGeorg LukácsGerman
1970Marxism and Philosophy✓Free — [Translated from the German with an Introduction by Fred Halliday.]Karl KorschEnglish
1970Marxismus and Philosophie✓Karl KorschEnglish
c1970, 1975Reading "Capital"✓Louis AlthusserEnglish
1970Reading Capital Étienne Balibar✓ — Translated by Ben BrewsterLouis AlthusserEnglish
1970Sexuality and Class Struggle✓Reimut ReicheEnglish
1970Sexuality and the Class Struggle✓Reimut ReicheNot recorded
1971Conversations with Allende✓ — Socialism in ChileRégis DebrayEnglish
1971Conversations with Salvador Allende✓ — Socialism in ChileSalvador Allende Gossens & Régis DebrayEnglish
1971Dictatorship and Armed Struggle in Brazil✓João Quartim de MoraesEnglish
1971Freud✓ — The Theory of the UnconsciousDominique O. MannomiEnglish
1971Freud - The Theory of the Unconscious, O. Mannoni✓ — [Translated from the French by Renaud Bruce.]Dominique O. MannoniEnglish, French
1971If They Come in the Morning✓ — Voices of ResistanceAngela Y. DavisEnglish
1971Immanuel Kant✓Lucien GoldmannEnglish
1971Immanuel Kant✓Lucien GoldmannGerman
1971Lenin and Philosophy✓Free — And Other Essays; Translated from the French by Ben BrewsterLouis AlthusserEnglish
1971Lenin and Philosophy, and Other Essays✓Louis AlthusserEnglish
1971The Concept of Nature in Marx✓Alfred SchmidtEnglish
1971The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx✓ — 1843 to CapitalErnest MandelEnglish
1971The Formation of the Economic Thought OfKarl Marx✓ — 1843 to CapitalErnest MandelEnglish
1972A Short History of the European Working Class✓Wolfgang AbendrothEnglish
1972Dialectic of Enlightment✓
Verso Classics
Theodor W. Adorno & Max HorkheimerEnglish
1972From Rousseau to Lenin✓ — Studies in Ideology and SocietyLucio CollettiEnglish
1972Karl Marx✓ — An Illustrated BiographyWerner Blumenberg & Douglas ScottEnglish
1972Late Capitalism✓FreeErnest Mandel & Joris De BresEnglish
1972Lenin, a study on the unity of his thought✓FreeGeorg LukácsGerman
1972Marxism and philosophy✓FreeKarl KorschGerman
1972Marxism and Philosophy✓FreeKarl KorschEnglish
1972Political Writings, 1919-1929✓ — The Question of Parliamentarianism and Other Essays; Translated from the German by Michael McColganLukács GyörgyEnglish
1972Politics and History✓ — Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hegel and Marx. Translated from the French by Ben BrewsterLouis AlthusserEnglish
1972Politics and History: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hegel and Marx✓Louis AlthusserEnglish
1972Rationality and Irrationality in Economics✓ — Translated from the French by Brian PearceMaurice GodelierEnglish
1972Reading "Capital"✓Louis Althusser & Étienne BalibarEnglish
1972Studies in Critical Philosophy✓ — Translated [from the German and French] by Joris de BresHerbert MarcuseEnglish
1972Tactics and EthicsFree — Political Writings, 1919-1929Lukács GyörgyEnglish
1972The Kapetanios✓ — Partisans and Civil War in Greece, 1943-1949Dominique EudesEnglish
1972The Kapetanios (Les Kapetanios, Engl.). Partisans and Civil War in Greece, 1943-1949✓Dominique Eudes & John HoweEnglish
1972Unequal Exchange✓Free — A Study of the Imperialism of TradeArghiri EmmanuelEnglish
1972Value and Naturalism in Marx✓Marco LippiEnglish
1972Wolf Children✓ — The Wild Boy of AveyronLucien MalsonEnglish
1972Wolf Children Lucien Malson the Wild Boy of Aveyron Jean Itard✓Lucien MalsonEnglish
1972Wolf Children, by L. MalsonL. MalsonEnglish
1972Wolf Children, Lucien Malson✓ — [And], the Wild Boy of Aveyron, Jean ItardLucien MalsonEnglish
1973Charles Baudelaire✓ — A Lyric Poet in the Era of High CapitalismWalter BenjaminEnglish
1973Charles Baudelaire✓ — A lyric poet in the era of high capitalismWalter BenjaminGerman
1973Letters from Inside the Italian Communist Party to Louis Althusser✓Maria Antonietta MacciocchiEnglish
1973Marxism and Hegel✓ — Transl. From the Italian by Lawrence GarnerLucio CollettiEnglish
1973Political Writings✓ — 1919 - 1929; the Question of Parliamentarianism and Other EssaysGeorg Lukács & Rodney LivingstoneEnglish
1973Political Writings, 1919-1929✓ — The Question of Parliamentarianism and Other Essays. Translated from the German by Michael McColgan, Edited by Rodney LivingstoneLukács GyörgyEnglish
1973The Concept of Nature in Marx✓Alfred SchmidtEnglish
1973The Great Fear of 1789✓ — Rural Panic in Revolutionary FranceGeorges LefebvreEnglish
1973Understanding Brecht✓ — Translated [from the German] by Anna Bostock; Introduction by Stanley MitchellWalter BenjaminEnglish
1973Understanding Brecht✓Walter BenjaminGerman
1974Between Existentialism and Marxism✓Jean-Paul SartreEnglish
1974Fascism and Dictatorship✓ — The Third International and the Problem of FascismNicos Ar PoulantzasEnglish
1974From the Jacobin Dictatorship to Napoleon✓
The French Revolution 1787 - 1799: In Two Volumes / Albert Soboul. Transl. From Teh French by Alan Forrest and Colin Jones; Vol. 2
Albert Soboul, Alan Forrest & Colin JonesEnglish
1974Lineages of the Absolutist StatePerry AndersonEnglish
1974Minima moralia✓Free — Reflections from damaged lifeTheodor W. AdornoGerman
1974Minima Moralia✓Free — Reflections from Damaged LifeTheodor Wiesengrund Adorno & Edmund JephcottEnglish
1974Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism✓Perry AndersonEnglish
1974The French Revolution✓Albert SoboulEnglish
1974The French Revolution, 1787-1799✓ — From the Storming of the Bastille to NapoleonAlbert SoboulEnglish
1975Against Method✓ — Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of KnowledgePaul K. FeyerabendEnglish
1975Antonio Gramsci — Life of a RevolutionaryGiuseppe Fiori & Tom NairnEnglish
1975Classes in Contemporary Capitalism✓Nicos Ar PoulantzasEnglish
1975Late Capitalism✓FreeErnest MandelEnglish
1975Lineages of the Absolutist State✓Perry AndersonEnglish
1975Marxism and Epistemology✓ — Bachelard, Caguilhem and FoucaultDominique LecourtEnglish
1975On Materialism✓Sebastiano TimpanaroEnglish
1975Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism✓Perry AndersonEnglish
1975Political Power and Social Classes✓FreeNicos Ar PoulantzasEnglish
1975The Crisis of the Dictatorships✓ — Portugal, Greece, SpainNicos Ar PoulantzasEnglish
1975The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx✓ — 1843 to CapitalErnest MandelEnglish, French
1975The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx (La Formation de la Pensée Economique de Karl Marx, Engl.). 1843 to Capital✓Ernest MandelEnglish
1975The Kapetanios✓ — Partisans and Civil War in Greece, 1943-1949Dominique EudesEnglish
1976A History of Gold and Money, 1450-1920✓
Foundations of History Library
Pierre VilarEnglish
1976Against Method✓ — Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of KnowledgePaul FeyerabendEnglish
1976An Economic Theory of the Feudal System✓ — Towards a Model of the Polish Economy 1500 - 1800
Foundations of History Library
Witold KulaEnglish
1976Classes in Contemporary Capitalism✓Nikos A. PulantzasEnglish
1976Considerations on Western Marxism✓FreePerry AndersonEnglish
1976Criticism and Ideology✓ — A Study in Marxist Literary TheoryTerry EagletonEnglish
1976Critique of Dialectical Reason✓Jean-Paul SartreEnglish
1976Critique of Dialectical Reason, Theory of Practical Ensembles✓Jean-Paul SartreEnglish
1976Essays in Self-Criticism✓Louis AlthusserEnglish
1976From Rousseau to Lenin✓ — Studies in Ideology and SocietyLucio Colletti & John MerringtonEnglish
1976Late capitalism✓FreeErnest MandelGerman
1976Late Capitalism✓FreeErnest MandelEnglish
1976Party, Army, and Masses in China✓ — A Marxist Interpretation of the Cultural Revolution and Its AftermathLivio MaitanEnglish
1976Political Power and Social Classes✓Free — Translation Editor, Timothy O'HaganNicos Ar PoulantzasEnglish
1976Science, Class, and Society✓ — On the Formation of Sociology and Historical MaterialismGöran TherbornEnglish
1976The Coming of the Book✓ — The Impact of Printing 1450-1800
Foundations of History Library
Lucien Febvre & Henri-Jean MartinEnglish
1976The Coming of the Book (L'apparition du Livre, Engl.). the Impact of Printing, 1450-1800✓Lucien Febvre & Henri-Jean MartinEnglish
1976The Crisis of the Dictatorships✓ — Portugal, Greece, SpainNikos A. PulantzasEnglish
1976The Freudian Slip✓ — Psychoanalysis and Textual CriticismSebastiano TimpanaroEnglish
1976The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg✓Norman GerasEnglish
1976The Legay of Rosa Luxemburg✓Norman GerasEnglish
1976The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism✓
Foundations of History Library
Maurice Herbert Dobb, Eric Hobsbawm & Paul M. SweezyEnglish
1976Wolf Children/ Lucien Malson. The Wild Boy of Aveyron/ Jean ItardLucien Malson, Edmund Fawcett, Peter Ayrton, Joan White & Jean ItardEnglish
1977Aesthetics and Politics✓Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Lukács György & Theodor W. AdornoEnglish
1977Against Georg Lukacs✓Bertolt BrechtEnglish
1977Considerations on Western Marxism✓FreePerry AndersonEnglish
1977Fascism and Dictatorship✓ — The Third International and the Problem of FascismNicos Ar PoulantzasEnglish
1977For Marx✓FreeLouis AlthusserEnglish
1977Lenin and Philosophy, and Other Essays✓
Frye Annotated -- No. 1649
Louis AlthusserEnglish
1977Lineages of the Absolutist State✓Perry AndersonEnglish
1977Marx After Sraffa✓Ian SteedmanEnglish
1977Marx after Straffa✓Ian SteedmanNot recorded
1977Marxism and Hegel✓Lucio CollettiEnglish
1977No A—English
1977On the Dictatorship of the Proletariat✓Étienne BalibarEnglish
1977Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism✓Perry AndersonEnglish
1977Politics and History✓ — Montesquieu, Rousseau, Hegel and MarxLouis AlthusserEnglish
1977Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory✓ — Capitalism, Fascism, Populism
New Left Review Editions
Ernesto LaclauEnglish
1977Proletarian Science?✓ — The Case of LysenkoDominique LecourtEnglish
1977Reading Capital✓Louis AlthusserEnglish
1977Science, Class and Society✓ — On the Formation of Sociology and Historical MaterialismGöran TherbornEnglish
1977The Break-up of Britain✓ — Crisis and Neo-nationalismTom NairnEnglish
1977The Formation of the Economic Thought of Karl Marx✓ — 1843 to CapitalErnest MandelEnglish
1977The Origin of German Tragic Drama✓Walter BenjaminEnglish
1977Understanding Brecht✓Walter BenjaminEnglish
1977Western Marxism✓ — A Critical ReaderGareth Stedman JonesEnglish
1978Against Method✓ — Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of KnowledgePaul K. FeyerabendEnglish
1978Class, Crisis, and the State✓FreeErik Olin WrightEnglish
1978Classes in Contemporary Capitalism✓Nikos A. Pulantzas & Nicos PoulantzasEnglish
1978Criticism and Ideology✓ — A Study in Marxist Literary TheoryTerry EagletonEnglish
1978Critique of Taste✓Galvano Della VolpeEnglish
1978Eurocommunism and Socialism✓Fernando ClaudinEnglish
1978From Stalinism to Eurocommunism✓ — The Bitter Fruits of "Socialism in One Country"Ernest MandelEnglish
1978Late capitalism✓FreeErnest MandelGerman
1978Late Capitalism✓FreeErnest MandelEnglish
1978Louis Althusser — Montesquieu-Rousseau-Marx; Politics and History (Verso)Louis AlthusserEnglish
1978Marx After Sraffa✓Ian SteedmanEnglish
1978Minima moralia✓Free — Reflections from damaged lifeTheodor W. AdornoGerman
1978Minima Moralia✓Free — Reflections from Damaged Life
Verso Edition
Theodor Wiesengrund AdornoEnglish
October 5, 1978Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism✓Perry AndersonEnglish
1978Political Power and Social Classes✓ — = Pouvoir Politique Et Classes SocialesNikos A. PulantzasEnglish
1978Science in a Free Society✓Paul K. FeyerabendEnglish
1978State, Power, Socialism✓FreeNicos PoulantzasEnglish
1978The Alternative in Eastern Europe✓Rudolf BahroEnglish
1978The Geometry of Imperialism✓ — The Limits of Hobson's Paradigm
New Left Review Editions
Giovanni ArrighiEnglish
1978The second slump✓ — A Marxist analysis of recession in the seventiesErnest MandelGerman
1978The Second Slump✓ — A Marxist Analysis of Recession in the SeventiesErnest Mandel & Jon RothschildEnglish
1978The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism✓ — Paul Sweezy ... [Et Al.]; Introd. By Rodney Hilton
Verso Edition
Maurice Herbert DobbEnglish
1978Western Marxism✓ — A Critical ReaderGareth Stedman JonesEnglish
1978What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?✓ — State Apparatuses and State Power Under Feudalism, Capitalism and Socialism
New Left Review Editions
Göran TherbornEnglish
1979A Theory of Capitalist Regulation✓ — The US ExperienceMichel AgliettaEnglish
1979A Theory of Capitalist Regulation (Régulation Et Crises du Capitalisme, Engl.). the US Experience✓Michel AgliettaNot recorded
1979Aesthetics and Politics✓Ernst Bloch & Ronald TaylorEnglish
1979Against Method✓ — Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of KnowledgePaul FeyerabendEnglish
1979Class, Crisis and the State✓FreeErik Olin WrightEnglish
1979Considerations on Western Marxism✓FreePerry AndersonEnglish
1979Dialectic of Enlightenment✓Theodor Wiesengrund AdornoEnglish
1979Fascism and Dictatorship✓ — The Third International and the Problem of FascismNikos A. PulantzasEnglish
1979For Marx✓FreeLouis AlthusserEnglish
1979From Stalinism to Eurocommunism✓ — The Bitter Fruits Of'Socialism in One Country'Ernest MandelEnglish
1979Georg Lukács--from Romanticism to Bolshevism✓Michael LöwyEnglish
October 1, 1979George Lukacs--from Romanticism to BolshevismMichael LöwyEnglish
1979Karl Kautsky and the Socialist Revolution, 1880-1938✓Massimo L. SalvadoriEnglish
1979Lineages of the Absolutist State✓Perry AndersonEnglish
1979Marxism and Hegel✓ — Translated from the Italian by Lawrence GarnerLucio CollettiEnglish
1979One Way Street and Other Writings✓Walter BenjaminEnglish
1979Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory✓ — Capitalism, Fascism, PopulismErnesto LaclauEnglish
1979Politics and Letters✓ — Interviews with New Left ReviewRaymond WilliamsEnglish
1979Reading Capital✓Louis AlthusserEnglish
1979Reading Capital Louis Althusser and Étienne Balibar. Translated from the French by Ben Brewster✓Louis AlthusserEnglish
1979Revolutionary Marxism Today✓Ernest MandelEnglish
1979The Bolsheviks Come to Power✓
Foundations of History Library
Alexander RabinowitchEnglish
1979The Coming of the Book (L'apparition du Livre, Engl.). the Impact of Printing, 1450-1800✓Lucien Febvre, Henri-Jean Martin & David GerardEnglish
1979The Moment of "Scrutiny"✓Francis MulhernEnglish
1979Trotsky✓ — A Study in the Dynamic of His ThoughtErnest MandelEnglish
1979Value and Naturalism in Marx✓Marco LippiEnglish
1980Aesthetics and Politics✓ — Debates Between Bloch, Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin, AdornoErnst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Lukács György & Theodor W. AdornoEnglish
1980Against Method✓ — Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of KnowledgePaul FeyerabendEnglish
1980Arguments Within English Marxism✓Perry AndersonEnglish
1980Beyond Female Masochism✓ — Memory-Work and Politics
Questions for Feminism
Frigga HaugEnglish
1980Criticism and Ideology✓ — A Study in Marxist Literary TheoryTerry EagletonEnglish
1980Fascism and DictatorshipNicos PoulantzasNot recorded
1980Imperialism, Pioneer of Capitalism✓ — Ed. by John SenderBill WarrenEnglish
1980Jean-Paul Sartre✓ — Philosophy in the WorldRonald AronsonEnglish
1980Logic as a Positive Science✓Galvano Della VolpeEnglish
1980On Materialism✓Sebastiano TimpanaroEnglish
1980Problems in Materialism and Culture✓ — Selected EssaysRaymond WilliamsEnglish
1980Problems in Materialism and Culture: Selected Essays (Verso Classics, 6)Raymond WilliamsEnglish
1980Science, Class and Society✓ — On the Formation of Sociology and Historical MaterialismGöran TherbornEnglish
1980State, Power, Socialism✓FreeNicos PoulantzasEnglish
1980The Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology✓Göran TherbornEnglish
1980The second slump✓ — A Marxist analysis of recession in the seventiesErnest MandelGerman
1980The Second Slump✓ — A Marxist Analysis of Recession in the SeventiesErnest MandelEnglish
1980The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism✓Rodney H. HiltonEnglish
1980What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?✓ — State Apparatuses and State Power Under Feudalism, Capitalism and SocialismGöran TherbornEnglish
October 1980Women's Oppression Today✓ — Problems in Marxist Feminist AnalysisMichèle BarrettEnglish
1981Ideology of Power and the Power of Ideology—Not recorded
1981Imperialism — Pioneer of CapitalismBill WarrenNot recorded
1981In Search of Wagner✓Theodor W. AdornoEnglish
1981Leninism and Western Socialism✓Roy Aleksandrovich MedvedevEnglish
1981Marx After Sraffa✓Ian SteedmanEnglish