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Mutual Aid Books
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Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis (And the Next)
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avg rating 4.27 — 6,082 ratings — published 2020
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 4,036 ratings — published 1891
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,719 ratings — published 2020
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.52 — 5,163 ratings — published 2018
How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.22 — 3,700 ratings — published 2020
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.51 — 3,116 ratings — published 2023
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.27 — 62,236 ratings — published 2024
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,355 ratings — published 2018
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,455 ratings — published 2007
Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times (Anarchist Interventions)
by (shelved 3 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.36 — 908 ratings — published 2017
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.63 — 6,026 ratings — published 2021
Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid beyond Capitalism (Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds)
by (shelved 2 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.71 — 7 ratings — published
No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.11 — 309 ratings — published 2016
From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890-1967 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.05 — 59 ratings — published 2000
Undoing Border Imperialism (Anarchist Interventions, 6)
by (shelved 2 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.51 — 525 ratings — published 2013
Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid during the Coronavirus Crisis (FireWorks)
by (shelved 2 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.04 — 28 ratings — published
Living at the Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.38 — 24 ratings — published
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,963 ratings — published 2009
Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.04 — 112 ratings — published 2012
On Conflict and Consensus: a handbook on Formal Consensus decisionmaking (PDF)
by (shelved 2 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.38 — 24 ratings — published 1987
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mutual-aid)
avg rating 3.85 — 9,256 ratings — published 2000
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.44 — 151 ratings — published
Boycott!: The Academy and Justice for Palestine (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 4)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 3.89 — 9 ratings — published
What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 3.95 — 64 ratings — published 2007
Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.24 — 321 ratings — published 1971
The Failure of Nonviolence: From the Arab Spring to Occupy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 3.87 — 150 ratings — published 2013
Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published
All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.36 — 97 ratings — published
Gay, Inc.: The Nonprofitization of Queer Politics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.46 — 54 ratings — published 2018
Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,320 ratings — published
The Black Panther Party: Service to the People Programs (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.55 — 113 ratings — published 2008
Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,215 ratings — published
Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.05 — 155 ratings — published 2003
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 5,157 ratings — published 2021
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 1,518 ratings — published 2020
Better Together (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 410 ratings — published 2003
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 243 ratings — published 2023
The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 3,898 ratings — published 2024
Intervals (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.40 — 368 ratings — published
Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.71 — 58 ratings — published
Heaven Is a Place on Earth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 213 ratings — published 2022
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.47 — 297 ratings — published 2022
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 1,789 ratings — published 2022
Pivot Points: Creating A Culture Of Preparedness And Resiliency In America (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mutual-aid)
avg rating 4.50 — 18 ratings — published 2015
There Goes the Neighborhood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 697 ratings — published 2023
Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 898 ratings — published 2023
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 12,642 ratings — published 2022
Radical Friendship: Seven Ways to Love Yourself and Find Your People in an Unjust World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 465 ratings — published 2021
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 28,685 ratings — published 2018
History and Manual of Odd Fellowship (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2015
“Mutual aid [called this in Kropotkin's 1902 Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution] means that every participant is both giver and recipient in acts of care that bind them together, as distinct from the one-way street of charity.”
― A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
― A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
“Their relationship echoed, in many ways, the binds of trust and mutual protection that kept prisoners alive and sane in Nazi concentration camps. In those camps, researchers found, the "basic unit of survival" was the pair, not the individual.”
― Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
― Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West










