When someone intelligent but normal asks you for Anarchist theory -- *theory*, not 101 breadbook stuff or rhetoric or poetry -- who's on your shortlist besides Carson, Scott, Graeber, Gelderloos, Taylor, and Ostrom?
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David Friedmans book Law's Order (or another intro to Law and Econ), plus his articles on Anarchy & Efficient Law, provide a rigorous theoretical framework, based on a respected subfield of economics, proving ancap will produce optimal law (max net benefit). It's remarkable.
His version of ancap (private competing law producers) is the only political system that has such a sound theoretical basis. My meta-system of competitive governance has a decent but less solid argument that it will produce good countries (from citizens perspective).