These are books I return to: on relationality and the more-than-human, on coloniality and the plural ways of knowing it obscures, on living systems and consciousness, and on art and design as ways of thinking. Different rooms, one conviction: the world holds far more knowing than the dominant story admits, and much of it is already here.
Gathering reading like this carries its own risk. A list can take thought that was carried at real cost, often by the people that extractive systems were built to dispossess, and quietly turn it into one more resource, the very move several of these books name and refuse. I try to answer that by citing each thinker in their own edition where I can, by naming everyone who carried a text across a language or a border, and by leaving off work whose conduct enacts the extraction the rest of it resists.
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Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
Translated from the Portuguese by Anthony Doyle.

Un mundo ch'ixi es posible: ensayos desde un presente en crisis
In the original Spanish.

Ch'ixinakax utxiwa: On Decolonising Practices and Discourses
Translated from the Spanish by Molly Geidel.

Cuestiones y horizontes: de la dependencia histórico-estructural a la colonialidad/descolonialidad del poder
In the original Spanish.

Geopoetics in Practice

The Mirage of a Space between Nature and Nurture

Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity

The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman
Spoken in Yanomami by Davi Kopenawa, written in French by Bruce Albert, and translated into English by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy.

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

What's the Use? On the Uses of Use

Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Written in English and Spanish at once, with Nahuatl beneath.

The Invention of Africa: Gnosis, Philosophy, and the Order of Knowledge

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance
Written in English, threaded with Nishnaabemowin.

Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science

Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World
Translated from the French by Anthony Paul Smith.

The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives

Steps to an Ecology of Mind

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision

The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding
Translated from the Spanish by Robert Paolucci.

The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience

The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness

Poetics of Relation
Translated from the French by Betsy Wing.

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World

Ways of Seeing

Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

Pollution Is Colonialism

The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses

Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
Written in English; Ngũgĩ afterwards wrote his fiction in Gĩkũyũ.

Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Open access from the publisher.

Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis
Edited by Katherine McKittrick
Edited by Katherine McKittrick; includes Wynter's own essay and an extended conversation. Wynter's work lives mostly in essays, so this is the standard book-length gathering.

L'imagination symbolique
In the original French.

Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
Translated from the French by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith.

The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations