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
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
Organizing Cools the Planet: Tools and Reflections to Navigate the Climate Crisis
Hilary Moore and Joshua Kahn
On Community Civil Disobedience in the Name of Sustainability: The Community Rights Movement in the United States
Community Environmental Legal Defense Fu
Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance: The World's Best-Selling Guide to Mountain Bike Repair
Lennard Zinn
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Brené Brown
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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
American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O
Christina Ward
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
Samin Nosrat and Wendy Macnaughton
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Leah Penniman
The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook
The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago
Abdul Alkalimat, Romi Crawford, et al.
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
