Community Building Books

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The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 26,595 ratings — published 2018
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How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 3,512 ratings — published 2020
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Get Together: How to build a community with your people Get Together: How to build a community with your people (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.76 — 701 ratings — published
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The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation (Theory in Practice) The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation (Theory in Practice)
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avg rating 3.83 — 277 ratings — published 2009
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Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 42,164 ratings — published 2008
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Community: The Structure of Belonging Community: The Structure of Belonging (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,724 ratings — published
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Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next) Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
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avg rating 4.30 — 5,373 ratings — published 2020
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The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 1,020 ratings — published
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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0) Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)
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avg rating 4.25 — 9,804 ratings — published 2017
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Building Brand Communities: How Organizations Succeed by Creating Belonging Building Brand Communities: How Organizations Succeed by Creating Belonging (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.24 — 129 ratings — published
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Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.78 — 156 ratings — published
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People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams People Powered: How Communities Can Supercharge Your Business, Brand, and Teams (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 211 ratings — published
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Teaching Community Teaching Community (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 1,853 ratings — published 2002
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We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.64 — 5,872 ratings — published 2021
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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.53 — 4,954 ratings — published 2018
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Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life Belong: Find Your People, Create Community, and Live a More Connected Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 1,347 ratings — published 2018
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.02 — 48,698 ratings — published 2016
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 8,812 ratings — published 2000
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Each Kindness Each Kindness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.41 — 7,772 ratings — published 2012
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Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities Creating a Life Together: Practical Tools to Grow Ecovillages and Intentional Communities (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 288 ratings — published 2003
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Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9) Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies (Emergent Strategy #9)
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avg rating 4.39 — 154 ratings — published 2023
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Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides Belonging: The Science of Creating Connection and Bridging Divides (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 977 ratings — published 2022
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All Are Welcome All Are Welcome (Library Binding)
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avg rating 4.47 — 4,300 ratings — published 2018
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The Death and Life of Great American Cities The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 19,433 ratings — published 1961
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Better Together Better Together (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 405 ratings — published 2003
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Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 99 ratings — published 2012
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Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 7,761 ratings — published 2022
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The Business of Belonging: How to Build Communities That Grow the Bottom Line The Business of Belonging: How to Build Communities That Grow the Bottom Line (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.13 — 391 ratings — published
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We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 3,103 ratings — published 2020
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Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,453 ratings — published 2016
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Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 8,465 ratings — published 2012
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The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 34,394 ratings — published 2017
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The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 445 ratings — published 2010
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 38,283 ratings — published 1968
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Made to Belong: Five Practices for Cultivating Community in a Disconnected World Made to Belong: Five Practices for Cultivating Community in a Disconnected World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.24 — 183 ratings — published
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This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.70 — 5,986 ratings — published 2016
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The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.18 — 80 ratings — published
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Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.54 — 2,620 ratings — published 2023
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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 2,433 ratings — published 2007
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 3,872 ratings — published 1966
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Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 611 ratings — published 2021
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The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as community-building)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,111 ratings — published 2011
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 34,555 ratings — published 2015
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See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.54 — 4,639 ratings — published 2020
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Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 663 ratings — published 2019
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I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.41 — 2,706 ratings — published 2019
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Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions) Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
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avg rating 4.37 — 866 ratings — published 2017
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Our Class is a Family (The Classroom Community Collection) Our Class is a Family (The Classroom Community Collection)
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avg rating 4.56 — 1,807 ratings — published
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Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness Together: Why Social Connection Holds the Key to Better Health, Higher Performance, and Greater Happiness (ebook)
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avg rating 4.22 — 8,092 ratings — published 2020
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Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 1,645 ratings — published 2020
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“Everyone was a stakeholder and it elicited new behavior from the students. Mr. Hughes had tapped into the power of a common mission (the psychological term is superordinate goal) to make a group cohere and to help it chart a new course and a new identity. Instead of using a scapegoat and defiance of authority to declare their cohesion as a group, they used the superordinate goals provided by the teachers under the guidance of Mr. Hughes.”
Michael G. Thompson, Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children

“Always staying low key, you'll see me when you see me, but when you see me you'll know it's me”
Erick "The Black Sheep" G

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