Cooperative HISTORY AND PRACTICES

• For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America by John Curl

• Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective, & Collaborative Cultural Work by Kimi Hanauer and Lu Zhang

• The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy by Mike Lewis and Pat Conaty 🔁

• Democratic by Design: How Carsharing, Co-ops, and Community Land Trusts Are Reinventing America by Gabriel Metcalf 🔁

• The Blueprint for the Co-operative Decade by Cliff Mills and Will Davies (available in Spanish)

• Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice by Jessica Gordon Nembhard 🔁

• Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition That Is Shaping the Next Economy by Nathan Schneider

• Guidance Notes to the Co-operative Principles by The International Co-operative Alliance

Anti-racism, ANTI-COLONIALISM and Food JUSTICE

• Food Justice by Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi 🔁

• The Modern/Colonial Food System in a Paradigm of War by Marcelo Felipe Garzo Montalvo and Haleh Zandi

• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde 🔁

• Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice by Lana Dee Povitz 🔁

• Food Justice Now!: Deepening the Roots of Social Struggle by Joshua Sbicca

• Beyond Inclusion: Toward an Anti-colonial Food Justice Praxis by Lauren Kepkiewicz, Michael Chrobok, Madeline Whetung, Madelaine Cahuas, Jina Gill, Sam Walker, and Sarah Wakefield

Food Cooperative history and practices

• The Food Co-op Handbook: How to Bypass Supermarkets to Control the Quality and Price of Your Food by The Co-op Handbook Collective 🔁

• The Co-Op Revolution: Vancouver's Search for Food Alternatives by Jan DeGrass

• Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-Ops in the Age of Grocery Giants by Jon Steinman 🔁

• Grocery Activism: The Radical History of Food Cooperatives in Minnesota by Craig B. Upright

• Food Co-ops in America by Anne Meis Knupfer

Startup Guides

• The FCI Guide to Starting a Food Co-op by The Food Co-op Initiative

• Bulk Buying Club Guide: How To Start and Run a Bulk Buying Club with Your Friends & Neighbors by CoFED

• How To Start Your Own Buying Club 101 by Czarena Krell and Kimmy Gustafson

Nutrition

• How Not To Die by Michael Greger, M.D.

• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan 🔁

• The Hidden Half of Nature: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health by David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé 🔁