This is a community curriculum, a collection of books offered by rural artists and neighbors for use in our shared future. Request them at your local library!
Rural Futures Library
- A Darker Wilderness edited by Erin Sharkey
- Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafer
- Ani.mystic by Gordon White
- An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
- Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Binti by Nnedi Okarafer
- Blueprint for Revolution by Srđa Popović
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Church of the Wild by Victoria Loorz
- Cry Baby by Ben Perry
- Dakota Modern: The Art of Oscar Howe by Kathleen Ash-Milby
- Holistic Dental Care by Nadine Artemis
- How to Disappear by Akiko Busch
- How to Imagine by Gianfranco Baruchello
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Liberated to the Bone by Susan Raffo
- Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
- Make Your Art No Matter What by Beth Pickens
- Modern Spirit: The Art of George Morrison by W. Jackson Rushing and Kristin Makholm
- Murder on Red River by Marcie Rendon
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
- Plants Have So Much To Give Us All We Have To Do is Ask by Wendy Makoons
- Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown
- Queer: A Graphic History by Meg-John Barker, Jules Scheele (Illustrations)
- Queer Nature by Michael Walsh
- Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
- Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, Mai’a Williams et al.
- Stability & Stewardship: Indigenous Approaches to Resource Management by Cecily Rose Engelhart
- THE STARS: A guide to the constellations, sun, moon, planets and other features of the heavens (A Golden Nature Guide) by H. A. Rey
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy
- The Carrying by Ada Limon
- The Escape Artists by Susanne Crane
- The Future of Love by Mai'a Williams
- The Healing Wisdom of Afica: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some
- The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph M Marshall III
- The Little Book of Letting Go by Hugh Prather
- The Night Watchmen by Louise Erdrich
- The Songs of Trees by David George Haskell
- Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice by Cleo Wolfle Hazard
- White Fang by Jack London
- Wildcard Quilt by Janisse Ray
- Wisdom Lessons by Mary Lyons
- Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong and Howard Goldblatt
- You are a Badass by Jen Sincero
- Y’all Means All by Zane McNeil
- You Play the Girl by Corina Chocano
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