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"Anti-modernism" as a book category groups works—fiction and non‑fiction—that push back against the values, institutions, and cultural effects commonly associated with modernity (industrialization, secularization, bureaucratization, mass consumerism, and technological domination). These books typically critique the alienation, environmental degradation, loss of tradition and craft, and homogenization of culture that they attribute to modern progress, and they often celebrate premodern or alternative ways of life: ruralism, artisanal practice, spiritual or communal traditions, localism, or slower, less mediated existences. Styles range from polemical essays and cultural criticism to pastoral novels, speculative/dystopian fiction, historical revisionism, and manifestos; tones can be nostalgic, melancholic, prophetic, or militant. The category encompasses diverse and sometimes conflicting politics — conservative, romantic, religious, anarcho‑primitivist, and ecological — but is unified by a sceptical stance toward the assumed benefits of modernization and a search for authenticity, rootedness, and meaning outside technological progress.

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