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I like to recommend Wage, Labor, and Capital by Marx (my physical copy also contains Value, Price, and Profit). It's short, written to be understood by 19th century working class Germans, and is sort of like Capital volume 0.1.

Otherwise, State and Revolution or What is to be Done? by Lenin are bangers, and I like to recommend them to ML-curious people (usually people who have just taken the first steps away from just being a radlib faux-anarchist). Lenin was a great writer, engaging and passionate, but his works build on a large background of Marx and Engels (and others, of course), and you might not get all of the references.

EDIT: In case you didn't know yet, basically everything written by Marx, Engels, Lenin, and a lot of others are available for free on Marxists.org

got nothing but here's some wholesome interactions between lenin and stalin after lenin had returned from a vacation (everyone told him to take a fuckin break because he worked too hard)

Wayne's Marx's 'Das Kapital' For Beginners

Fanon's Wretched of the Earth

Newton's Revolutionary Socialism

Davis's Women, Race, and Class

Bevin's Jakarta Method

I really enjoy A People's Guide to Capitalism for someone who's new to Marxist economic theory, very easy read that takes concepts from Capital and makes them much more digestible for modern audiences.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/olgin/pamphlets/1933/whycomindex.htm

October by China mieville

Howard zinn's peoples history

Ten days that shook the world by John Reed

Molotov Remembers by himself and transcribed by Felix Chuev

Felix Dzerzhinsky: a biography

Dialectical and historical materialism by Stalin

Fundamentals of Marxism-Leninism by Otto Wille Kuusinen

Foundations of Leninism by Stalin

Marxism and the national question by Stalin

Inside north Korea by Anna Louise Strong

The origin of family, private property, and the State by Engels

On inter-party struggle by Liu Shaoqi

This Monstrous War By Wilfred G. Burchett

Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard By Douglas Tottle

The Lesson of Germany By Gerhart Eisler, Albert Norden, Albert Schreiner

The Origins of Christianity By Archibald Robertson

Science and Religion By Marcel Cachin

Soviet Democracy ​and​ Bourgeois Democracy By M.B. Mitin