Agriculture / Gardening /Landscape

  • Bringing Nature Home - How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Doug Tallamy
  • The Community Food Forest Handbook - How to Plan, Organize, and Nurture Edible Gathering Places by Catherine Bukowski and John Munsell
  • Creating Rain Gardens: Capturing the Rain for Your Own Water-Efficient Garden by Apryl Uncapher
  • Farming the Woods - An Integrated Permaculture Approach to Growing Food and Medicinals in Temperate Forests by Steve Gabriel and Ken Mudge
  • Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
  • The Forest Garden Greenhouse - How to Design and Manage an Indoor Permaculture Oasis by Jerome Osentowski
  • Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway
  • The Holistic Orchard Tree Fruits and Berries the Biological Way by Michael Phillips
  • Native American Gardening: Buffalobird-Woman’s Guide to Traditional Methods by Gilbert Wilson
  • The New Organic Grower, 3rd Edition - A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener by Elliot Coleman
  • The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation From Seed to Tissue Culture, Second Edition by Michael A. Dirr and Charles W. Heuser, Jr.
  • Any of the Permaculture books by Bill Mollison
  • Will Bonsall’s Essential Guide to Radical, Self-Reliant Gardening by Will Bonsall
  • All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life by Winona LaDuke
  • Another Now by Yanis Varoufakis

Economics, Politics, & Society

  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Piketty
  • This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein
  • Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
  • Feminism is for Everybody by bell hooks
  • Flourishing: A Frank Conversation About Sustainability by John R. Ehrenfeld and Andrew J. Hoffman
  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis
  • The Mindfulness Effect: An Unexpected Path to Healing, Connection and Social Justice by Dena Samuels
  • Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the next) by Dean Spade
  • Enlightenment and Ecology edited by Yavor Tarinski
  • Exploring Degrowth - by Liegegy and Nelson
  • A People’s Green New Deal by Max Ajl
  • The Politics of the Solar Age by Hazel Henderson
  • Nature’s Way: Native Wisdom for Living in Balance with the Earth by Ed McGaa / Eagle Man
  • Remaking Society - by Murray Bookchin
  • Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
  • Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future by Margaret Wheatley
  • Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century - by Nicholas Brown
  • What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption - by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers
  • We Do This ‘Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice - by Miriame Kaba
  • Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women’s History of the World - by Rosalind Miles
  • Adobe Houses: Homes of Sun and Earth - by Kathryn Masson
  • Building for Life: Designing and Understanding the Human-Nature Connection - by Stephen Kellert
  • Essential Sustainable Home Design: A Complete Guide to Goals, Options, and the Design Process - by Chris Magwood
  • Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities - by Kevin Kelly
  • Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques - by Kaki Hunter
  • Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop–from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication - by Neil Gershenfeld
  • The Handbook of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture - edited by Elizabeth Grant

DIY/Design

  • The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage - by Ianto Evans
  • How to Build with Grid Beam: A Fast, Easy and Affordable System for Constructing Almost Anything - by Phil Jergenson, Richard Jergenson, and Wilma Keppel
  • How to Build Your Own Living Structures - by Ken Isaacs
  • Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism - by Julia Watson
  • Material Ecology - by Neri Oxman
  • The Passive Solar Primer - by David Wright
  • The Shelter books - by Louis Khan
  • The original Whole Earth Catalog - published by Stewart Brand
  • Arcology, the City in the Image of Man - by Pablo Solari
  • Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning - by Tim Beatley
  • Building Community Food Webs - by Ken Meter
  • Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality - by Melissa Bruntlett
  • Design for an Empathic World: Reconnecting People, Nature, and Self - by Sim Van der Ryn
  • From the Ground Up - Local Efforts to Create Resilient Cities - by Alison Sant
  • The Guide to Greening Cities - by Sadhu Aufochs
  • Human Transit: How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich Our Communities and Our Lives - by Jarrett Walker
  • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction - by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein
  • The Permaculture City - by Toby Hemenway
  • Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters - by Jaimie Hicks Masterson
  • Retrosuburbia - by David Holmgren
  • The Smart Growth Manual - by Andrés Duany, Jeff Speck, and Mike Lydon
  • Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life - by David Sim
  • Sustainable Stormwater Management - A Landscape-Driven Approach to Planning and
  • Design - by Thomas W. Liptan with J. David Santen
  • Another Now - by Yanis Varoufakis
  • Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space - by De Witt Douglas Kilgore
  • Bolo’Bolo - by Hans Widmer aka P.M.

Urban Life & Design

  • Sociology & “Visions” Envisioning Real Utopias - by Erik Olin Wright
  • Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth - by James Lovelock
  • Ideas to Postpone the End of the World - by Ailton Krenak
  • Paradise Now - by Deckle Edge
  • Uncommon Ground - edited by Will Cronon
  • Utopia - by Thomas More
  • Through the Eyes of a Stranger - by Will Bonsall
  • The Velvet Monkey Wrench - by John Muir
  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life - by Barbara Kingsolver
  • Arctic Voices: Resistance at the Tipping Point - by Subhankar Banerjee
  • The Art of Frugal Hedonism: A Guide to Spending Less While Enjoying Everything More - by Annie Raser-Rowland and Adam Grubb
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Cradle to Cradle - by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
  • Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism - by Kate Soper
  • Governing the Wind Energy Commons - Renewable Energy and Community Development - by Keith Taylor
  • Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism - by Ozzie Zehner
  • The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health - by Anne Biklé and David R. Montgomery
  • Revolutionary Power - An Activist’s Guide to the Energy Transition - by Shalanda Baker
  • Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance - by Clint Carroll
  • Silent Spring - by Rachel Carson
  • Simply Living Well: A Guide to Creating a Natural, Low-Waste Home - by Julia Watkins
  • The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide: Everything you need to know to make small changes that make a big difference - by Jen Gale
  • Tending the Wild Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural
  • Resources - by M. Kat Anderson
  • Worldchanging: A User’s Guide for the 21st Century - by Alex Steffen

Sustainability & Environmental Action

  • History & Important Perspectives: The Autobiography of Malcolm X
  • The Battle of Blair Mountain: The Story of America’s Largest Labor Uprising - by Robert Shogan
  • The Conquest of Bread - by Peter Kropotkin
  • Custer Died for Your Sins - by Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Ecocide of Native America: Environmental Destruction of Indian Lands and Peoples - by Donald Grinde
  • Fields, Factories, and Workshops: Or, Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work - by Peter Kropotkin
  • Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement - by Monica White
  • From Sand Creek: Rising In This Heart Which Is Our America - by Simon J. Ortiz
  • Marked, Unmarked, Remembered - by Andrew Lichtenstein and Alex Lichtenstein
  • Maroon Nation: A History of Revolutionary Haiti - by Johnhenry Gonzalez
  • Never Justice, Never Peace - by Lon Kelly Savage and Ginny Savage Ayers
  • No Fascist USA! The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee & Lessons for Today’s Movements - by Hilary Moore and James Tracy
  • Pan-Africanism: A History - by Hakim Adi
  • Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons - by Sylvia Federici
  • Remember: The Journey to School Integration - by Toni Morrison