Citizens' Bookshelf
1. 
Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
by:
Nathan Schneider
4.04 avg rating β 23 ratings 2. 
Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
by:
Jon Alexander
4.07 avg rating β 266 ratings 3. 
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
by:
Rebecca Solnit
3.94 avg rating β 3,771 ratings 
5. 
Free, Fair, and Alive: The Insurgent Power of the Commons
by:
David Bollier
4.39 avg rating β 28 ratings 6. 
βΏ» ζΈδ½ Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
by:
E. Glen Weyl
3.60 avg rating β 40 ratings 7. 
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
by:
James Bridle
4.17 avg rating β 1,977 ratings 8. 
Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest
by:
Suzanne Simard
4.21 avg rating β 15,849 ratings 
11. 
The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement
by:
David Graeber
4.09 avg rating β 1,725 ratings 12. 
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by:
David Graeber
4.19 avg rating β 24,328 ratings 13. 
Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy
by:
Nathan Schneider
3.96 avg rating β 135 ratings 14. 
Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Todayβs Crises
by:
Marjorie Kelly
4.10 avg rating β 69 ratings 15. 
Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
by:
Edgar Villanueva
4.29 avg rating β 2,430 ratings 16. 
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World
by:
Tyson Yunkaporta
4.36 avg rating β 4,536 ratings 17. 
18. 
Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change
by:
David Ehrlichman
4.14 avg rating β 185 ratings 
21. 
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0) 4.26 avg rating β 9,684 ratings
22. 
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
by:
Robert D. Putnam
3.94 avg rating β 1,369 ratings 23. 
Hope for Democracy: How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back into Politics
by:
John Gastil
4.40 avg rating β 15 ratings 24. 
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
by:
Yascha Mounk
4.05 avg rating β 1,602 ratings 
26. 
A Collective Blooming: The Rise Of The Mutual Aid Community
by:
Joe Lightfoot
4.09 avg rating β 11 ratings 27. 
Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea 4.24 avg rating β 148 ratings
28. 
The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success: Overcoming Myths That Hinder Progress
by:
Mark Jaccard
4.31 avg rating β 157 ratings 
30. 
Beyond Majority Rule: Voteless Decisions in the Religious Society of Friends 4.21 avg rating β 29 ratings
31. 
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements 3.93 avg rating β 61 ratings
32. 
Facilitating Breakthrough: How to Remove Obstacles, Bridge Differences, and Move Forward Together
by:
Adam Kahane
3.89 avg rating β 141 ratings 33. 
Better work together: How the power of community can transform your business 4.44 avg rating β 25 ratings
34. 
Solving Public Problems: A Practical Guide to Fix Our Government and Change Our World 3.97 avg rating β 30 ratings
35. 
36. 
Collective Power: Patterns for a Self-Organized Future
by:
Ted J. Rau
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 4 ratings 37. 
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
by:
Priya Parker
3.96 avg rating β 25,938 ratings 
39. 
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis 4.42 avg rating β 6,311 ratings
40. 
The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
by:
Alicia Garza
4.35 avg rating β 2,403 ratings 41. 
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution
by:
Vincent Bevins
4.26 avg rating β 2,322 ratings 42. 
Trust Kids!: Stories on Youth Autonomy and Confronting Adult Supremacy 4.14 avg rating β 278 ratings
44. 
Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back
by:
Ulises A. Mejias
3.90 avg rating β 72 ratings 45. 
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
by:
Joseph Henrich
4.39 avg rating β 2,081 ratings 46. 
How to Change Everything: The Young Human's Guide to Protecting the Planet and Each Other
by:
Naomi Klein
3.89 avg rating β 867 ratings 47. 
Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
by:
Bill Plotkin
4.32 avg rating β 694 ratings 48. 
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)
by:
James C. Scott
4.14 avg rating β 1,348 ratings 49. 
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
by:
James C. Scott
4.21 avg rating β 6,470 ratings 50. 
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
by:
John Green
4.36 avg rating β 161,110 ratings 51. 
The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens (Castle Lecture Series)
by:
Samuel Bowles
3.86 avg rating β 217 ratings 52. 
A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
by:
Samuel Bowles
3.78 avg rating β 99 ratings 53. 
Mutualism: Building the Next Economy from the Ground Up
by:
Sara Horowitz
3.49 avg rating β 138 ratings 
55. 
Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization
by:
Dave Logan
3.98 avg rating β 9,904 ratings 56. 
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things β Stories from Science and Observation
by:
Peter Wohlleben
4.05 avg rating β 6,881 ratings 57. 
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
by:
Peter Wohlleben
4.07 avg rating β 84,784 ratings 58. 
How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
by:
Eduardo Kohn
3.86 avg rating β 986 ratings 
60. 
The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods
by:
John McKnight
3.83 avg rating β 439 ratings 61. 
Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice 4.29 avg rating β 112 ratings
62. 
Making Mondragon: The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex 4.02 avg rating β 60 ratings
63. 
America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy
by:
Gar Alperovitz
3.77 avg rating β 237 ratings 64. 
Reality Blind: Integrating the Systems Science Underpinning Our Collective Futures Vol. 1
by:
NJ Hagens
4.50 avg rating β 12 ratings 65. 
Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds
by:
Thomas HΓΌbl
4.19 avg rating β 306 ratings 
67. 
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life 3.98 avg rating β 835 ratings