

Build Coffee
Build Coffee is a coffee shop and bookstore in the Experimental Station on the South Side of Chicago. Surrounded by community-driven non-profits and civic journalism projects, Build is designed as a hub of great coffee and radical collaboration.
We've curated reading lists below of our top sellers and selections from our neighbors in the Experimental Station. A portion of any book purchased through this site, including any book from the enormous catalog you can explore through the search bar above, go directly toward supporting Build. We appreciate you!

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Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Angela Y. Davis
Books Behind the Quotes: A Book List by Davon Clark
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Support The People's Bookshelf
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The Battle of Lincoln Park: Urban Renewal and Gentrification in Chicago
Daniel Kay Hertz

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
Charlene Carruthers
Top Sellers at Build Coffee
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Civic Projects Reading Recs
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Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance: The World's Best-Selling Guide to Mountain Bike Repair
Lennard Zinn
Blackstone Bikes Reading Recs
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Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed [A Cookbook]
Bryant Terry

The Pickled Pantry: From Apples to Zucchini, 150 Recipes for Pickles, Relishes, Chutneys & More
Andrea Chesman

Put 'em Up! Fruit: A Preserving Guide & Cookbook: Creative Ways to Put 'em Up, Tasty Ways to Use 'em Up
Sherri Brooks Vinton

American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O
Christina Ward
61st St. Farmers Market Reading Recs
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The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
Lewis Raven Wallace

The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side
Eve L. Ewing
South Side Weekly Reading Recs
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W. E. B. Du Bois's Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America
The W E B Du Bois Center at the Universi

Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
Invisible Institute Reading Recs
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