Shy Radicals: the Antisystemic Politics of the Militant Introvert (2017)

Shy Radicals is Hamja Ahsan’s best known book and has developed a cult following worldwide. It was made into a film starring Arlo Parks (2021) by Black Dog Films.

'Shy Radicals is the best book I've read this decade. It's a lighthouse for the sinking; a praise song to the weird, shunned and self-shining; an ode to bedroom dreamers, Bartleby refuseniks, capitalism anti-realists, bad Asians, anyone that society deems wrong-in-the-head. It overflows with genius neologisms, inspired concept engineering. Deadly serious, it also made me laugh more than almost anything I've ever read." - Sukdhev Sandhu

It is taught at Universities around the world in range of subjects and degrees at Ivy League and Russel Group in areas as broad as neurodiversity, world-making, utopic literature.

Selected as Book of the year in the White Review & Glasgow Review of Books.

The concepts in the book has inspired a number of art projects from new collectives, choreography, radio shows, zines, artists books, drawings, prints, sculptures all around the world.

The book has been translated into Spanish (Caja Negra, 2023) as Timidos Radicales and Italian by Add Editoire (2019) as Introfada.