community building toolkit / reading list
1. 
I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
by:
Kai Cheng Thom
4.41 avg rating β 2,685 ratings 
4. 
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0) 4.26 avg rating β 9,684 ratings
5. 
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
by:
Ejeris Dixon
4.52 avg rating β 1,629 ratings 
7. 
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series Book 4) 4.51 avg rating β 602 ratings
9. 
We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice 4.29 avg rating β 3,059 ratings
10. 
The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice
by:
Staci Haines
4.26 avg rating β 456 ratings 11. 
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
by:
Carla Bergman
4.37 avg rating β 844 ratings 11. 
Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture
by:
Nora Samaran
4.16 avg rating β 659 ratings 13. 
The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions
by:
Larry Mitchell
4.50 avg rating β 6,455 ratings 14. 
Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
by:
Sarah Schulman
3.83 avg rating β 3,412 ratings 15. 
Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion
by:
Ryan Conrad
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 598 ratings 16. 
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
by:
Ching-In Chen
4.39 avg rating β 1,110 ratings 17. 
Healing with the Arts: A 12-Week Program to Heal Yourself and Your Community
by:
Michael Samuels
3.92 avg rating β 52 ratings 18. 
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses 4.41 avg rating β 435 ratings
18. 
400 Friends and No One to Call: Breaking through Isolation and Building Community
by:
Val Walker
3.79 avg rating β 19 ratings 
21. 
Making Spaces Safer: A Guide to Giving Harassment the Boot Wherever You Work, Play, and Gather
by:
Shawna Potter
4.40 avg rating β 254 ratings 
21. 
Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need 4.18 avg rating β 515 ratings
24. 
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence
by:
Adrienne Rich
4.26 avg rating β 2,265 ratings 24. 
Changing Places: Rebuilding Community in the Age of Sprawl
by:
Richard Moe
3.73 avg rating β 30 ratings 26. 
Decolonizing Sexualities: Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions
by:
Sandeep Bakshi
4.08 avg rating β 12 ratings 26. 
Singing in the African American Tradition - Volume 2: Building a Vocal Community 4.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
30. 
The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities 4.46 avg rating β 68 ratings
30. 
Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural Resource Management
by:
J. Peter Brosius
4.26 avg rating β 19 ratings 32. 
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
by:
Amy Sonnie
4.32 avg rating β 370 ratings 33. 
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
by:
Robert D. Putnam
3.85 avg rating β 8,660 ratings 
35. 
Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice
by:
Si Kahn
3.77 avg rating β 145 ratings 
37. 
The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land
by:
Norman Wirzba
4.09 avg rating β 181 ratings 38. 
Blessing the Hands That Feed Us: What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth
by:
Vicki Robin
3.38 avg rating β 272 ratings 39. 
40. 
Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
by:
Julia Serano
3.92 avg rating β 874 ratings 40. 
Pilgrimage Pathways for the United States: Creating Pilgrimage Routes to Enrich Lives, Enhance Community, and Restore Ecosystems
by:
James E. Mills
3.71 avg rating β 14 ratings 42. 
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
by:
Michael Warner
4.04 avg rating β 1,478 ratings 42. 
Deepening Community: Finding Joy Together in Chaotic Times
by:
Paul Born
3.58 avg rating β 118 ratings 
44. 
For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future
by:
Herman E. Daly
4.17 avg rating β 168 ratings 46. 
Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making
by:
Andrew Peterson
4.50 avg rating β 6,580 ratings 47. 
Writing in Community: Say Goodbye to Writer's Block and Transform Your Life
by:
Lucy Adkins
4.38 avg rating β 26 ratings 
49. 
I Was Hungry: Cultivating Common Ground to End an American Crisis
by:
Jeremy K Everett
4.14 avg rating β 116 ratings 50. 
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
by:
William Cronon
4.17 avg rating β 813 ratings 
52. 
Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground
by:
Jordan Blashek
3.81 avg rating β 227 ratings 53. 
Howard Thurman: Philosophy, Civil Rights, and the Search for Common Ground
by:
Kipton E. Jensen
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 54. 
United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
by:
Cory Booker
4.07 avg rating β 2,506 ratings 55. 
Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World
by:
Mark Pendergrast
3.69 avg rating β 2,998 ratings 56. 
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth (Pelican Books)
by:
Guy Standing
4.15 avg rating β 155 ratings 57. 
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
by:
Elinor Ostrom
4.21 avg rating β 1,200 ratings 58. 
The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by:
Jeremy Rifkin
3.92 avg rating β 2,056 ratings 59. 
Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government for the People
by:
David W. Orr
4.31 avg rating β 13 ratings 60. 
Building an ark: Tools for the preservation of natural diversity through land protection
by:
Phillip Hoose
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 61. 
We Rise: The Earth Guardians Guide to Building a Movement that Restores the Planet 4.02 avg rating β 198 ratings
62. 
Zero Hour: Time to Build the Clean Power Platform
by:
Reed Hundt
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 63. 
Teacher Unions and Social Justice: Organizing for the Schools and Communities Our Students Deserve
by:
Michael Charney
4.38 avg rating β 45 ratings 64. 
The Past and Future City: How Historic Preservation is Reviving America's Communities
by:
Stephanie Meeks
3.95 avg rating β 137 ratings 65. 
How to Handle a Crowd: The Art of Creating Healthy and Dynamic Online Communities
by:
Anika Gupta
3.53 avg rating β 49 ratings 66. 
Earth A.D. The Poisoning of The American Landscape and the Communities that Fought Back really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 7 ratings
67. 
Building Workforce Literacy in Libraries: Connecting Communities with Opportunities
by:
Gabriel Morley
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 68. 
The Healing Heart for Communities: Storytelling for Strong and Healthy Communities
by:
Allison M. Cox
3.89 avg rating β 9 ratings 69. 
71. 
72. 
The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500β2000
by:
John Tutino
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 14 ratings 73. 
Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities
by:
Victoria Law
4.04 avg rating β 112 ratings 74. 
Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities
by:
Amy K. Levin
3.58 avg rating β 36 ratings 75. 
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
by:
Rebecca Solnit
3.94 avg rating β 3,771 ratings 76. 
Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable Food Communities
by:
Carlo Petrini
3.53 avg rating β 90 ratings 77. 
The Story of Stuff: How Our Obsession with Stuff is Trashing the Planet, Our Communities, and our Healthβand a Vision for Change
by:
Annie Leonard
4.08 avg rating β 4,341 ratings 78. 
Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture
by:
Ivan Karp
3.82 avg rating β 40 ratings 
80. 
Managing Worry and Anxiety: Practical Tools to Help You Deal with Life's Challenges 4.12 avg rating β 60 ratings
81. 
Roger Von Oech's Ball of Whacks: A Creativity Tool for Innovators
by:
Roger Von Oech
4.50 avg rating β 12 ratings 
84. 
Number Our Days: Culture and Community Among Elderly Jews in an American Ghetto
by:
Barbara Myerhoff
3.99 avg rating β 481 ratings 85. 
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
by:
Louise Aronson
3.96 avg rating β 1,921 ratings 86. 
The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Older Adults: Finding Solutions to the Challenges of an Aging Population
by:
Julie Friesen
3.62 avg rating β 8 ratings 87. 
Beyond the White House: Waging Peace, Fighting Disease, Building Hope
by:
Jimmy Carter
3.78 avg rating β 343 ratings 
90. 
The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change 4.09 avg rating β 196 ratings
92. 
The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World
by:
Wade Davis
4.23 avg rating β 4,079 ratings 93. 
Juelz: Wisdom Sayings and Stories from Men of Hope with Martha Sterne
by:
Martha Sterne
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 94. 
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
by:
Steve Silberman
4.29 avg rating β 17,217 ratings 95. 
Other Souths: Diversity and Difference in the U.S. South, Reconstruction to Present
by:
Pippa Holloway
3.71 avg rating β 7 ratings 96. 
Lives of Moral Leadership: Men and Women Who Have Made a Difference
by:
Robert Coles
3.63 avg rating β 123 ratings