Here are some books I recommend anyone interested in political theory read:

• Anzaldúa, Gloria E. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. Aunt Lute Books, 1987.
• Butler,Judith. Gender Trouble. Routledge, 2006. 
• Butler, Judith. Precarious Life. Verso, 2004.
• Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of a Prison. Vintage Books, 1995.
• Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction. Vintage Books, 1990.
• Hannah-Jones, Nikole, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein (eds.). The 1619 Project. One World, 2021.
• Harding, Sandra, Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies. Univ. of Indiana Press, 1998.
• Herzog. Dagmar. Sex After Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth Century Germany. Princeton Univ. Press, 2005.
  
• Hobson, John M. The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics: Western International Theory, 1760–2010. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012.
• Jackson, Patrick Thaddeus, The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations: Philosophy of Science and Its Implications for the Study of World Politics. Routledge, 2016.
• Mbembe, Achille. Necropolitics. Duke Univ. Press, 2019.
• Mohanty. Chandra Talpade. Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke Univ. Press, 2003.
  
• Roy, Arundhati. Fieldnotes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers. Haymarket Books, 2015.
  
• Schmitt, Carl. The Concept of the Political. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996.
• Toscano, Alberto. Late Fascism. Verso, 2023.
• Tucker, Robert C. (ed.). The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd edition.  Norton, 1978.
  
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, 4th Revised Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.