PORCH: A Library — Venice Architecture Biennale

PORCH: A Library

As featured in the U.S. Pavilion at the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale

Places Editors

In 2025, the commissioners of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale invited Places to curate a library on the theme of “the porch.” The collection of books featured in PORCH: A Library examines the commitments of people to one another and to the planet, exemplifying the porch as a shelter for connection, generosity, and democratic encounter. Read our full curatorial statement here.

 

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Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.

Abu-Lughod, Janet L. New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America’s Global Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.

Akers Chacón, Justin, and Mike Davis. No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Chicago, Ill: Haymarket Books, 2006.

Alagona, Peter S. The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2022.

Alexander, Christopher, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Cary: Oxford University Press, 1977.

Alexander, Michelle. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press, 2010.

Alinsky, Saul. Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals. New York: Random House, 1971.

Alkalimat, Abdul, Romi Crawford, and Rebecca Zorach, eds. The Wall of Respect: Public Art and Black Liberation in 1960s Chicago. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2017.

Allen, Danielle S. Justice by Means of Democracy. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Allen, Edward , ed. The Responsive House. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1974.

Allen-Kim, Erica. Building Little Saigon: Refugee Urbanism in American Cities and Suburbs. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024.

Allison, Dorothy. Bastard out of Carolina. New York, NY: Dutton, 1992.

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. New York: Verso, 2006.

Anderson, M. Kat. Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources. Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005.

Anderson, Sean, and Mabel O. Wilson, eds. Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2021.

Andraos, Amale, and Dan Wood. WORKac: We’ll Get There When We Cross That Bridge. New York, NY: The Monacelli Press, 2017.

Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Bantam Books, 1969.

Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1987.

Appiah, Kwame Anthony. Cosmopolitanism. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.

Arax, Mark. The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust across California. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Armborst, Tobias, Daniel D’Oca, and Georgeen Theodore. The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion. New York: Actar Publishers, 2017.

Armstead, Myra Beth Young. Freedom’s Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture, and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America. New York: New York University Press, 2012.

Aronoff, Kate, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea N. Riofrancos. A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal. New York: Verso, 2019.

Austen, Ben. High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2018.

Avashia, Neema. Another Appalachia: Coming up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 2022.

Awake, Robell, and Johnalynn Holland. A Short History of Black Craft in Ten Objects. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 2025.

Bachin, Robin F. Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, 1890-1919. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Bagchee, Nandini. Counter Institution: Activist Estates of the Lower East Side. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018.

Bailey, Beth L. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America. Baltimore London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. New York: Dial Press, 1963.

Balmori, Diana, and Michel Conan. A Landscape Manifesto. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010.

Baltz, Lewis. Candlestick Point. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2011.

Banham, Reyner. Scenes in America Deserta. London: Thames and Hudson, 1982.

Banham, Reyner, and Joe Day. Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies. Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, 2009.

Baptist, Edward E. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism. New York: Basic Books, 2014.

Barber, Dan. The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food. New York: Penguin, 2016.

Barber, Daniel A. A House in the Sun: Modern Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016.

———. Modern Architecture and Climate: Design before Air Conditioning. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.

Barton, Craig Evan, ed. Sites of Memory: Perspectives on Architecture and Race. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2001.

Bateson, Gregory. Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. New York: Dutton, 1979.

Beecher, Catharine Esther, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The American Woman’s Home. Edited by Nicole Tonkovich. New Brunswick, N.J: Harriet Beecher Stowe Center ; Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Bell, Carla Jackson. Space Unveiled: Invisible Cultures in the Design Studio. Routledge Research in Architecture. London New York: Routledge, 2015.

Bell, Rick, Ron Shiffman, and Lance Jay Brown, eds. Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space. Oakland, Calif: New Village Press, 2012.

Bendiner-Viani, Gabrielle. The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2024.

Ben-Joseph, Eran, and Terry S. Szold, eds. Regulating Place: Standards and the Shaping of Urban America. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Berger, Rachel, Meg Bisineer, Sara Dean, and Janette Kim. A Toolkit for Gathering. San Francisco: California College of the Arts, 2021.

Berke, Deborah, and Thomas de Monchaux. Transform: Promising Places, Second Chances, and the Architecture of Transformational Change. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2023.

Berman, Marshall. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity. New York: Penguin Books, 1982.

Berry, Daina Ramey, and Kali N. Gross. A Black Women’s History of the United States. Revisioning American History. Boston: Beacon Press, 2020.

Berry, Wendell. The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice. Cincinnati, Ohio: Shoemaker & Company, 2022.

Betsky, Aaron, ed. At Home in Sprawl: Selected Essays on Architecture. Melbourne: RMIT Univ. Press, 2011.

Bishop, Claire. Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. New edition. London New York: Verso, 2022.

Biss, Eula. Having and Being Had. New York: Riverhead Books, 2020.

Bittle, Jake. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the next American Migration. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2024.

Blackhawk, Ned. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023.

Blanchette, Alex. Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.

Bloom, Harold. The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1993.

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen, and Matthew Gordon Lasner, eds. Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016.

Blouin, Rose. To Washington Park, With Love: Documentary Photographs from Summer 1987. Chicago, Ill.: Haymarket Books, 2024.

Blow, Charles M. The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.

Bookchin, Murray. Toward an Ecological Society. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 1980.

Boym, Svetlana. The Future of Nostalgia. New York: Basic Books, 2001.

Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: What Happens after They’re Built. New York: Penguin Books, 1995.

Britton, Karla, and Marc Treib. Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff. Edited by Dean Sakamoto. New Haven: Honolulu Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2015.

Broom, Sarah M. The Yellow House. New York: Grove Press, 2019.

Brown, Adrienne R. The Black Skyscraper: Architecture and the Perception of Race. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.

Brown, Christopher. A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 2024.

Brown, Denise Scott. Having Words. Architecture Words. Architectural Association, 2009.

Brown, Elizabeth Mills. New Haven: A Guide to Architecture and Urban Design. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.

Brown, Lawrence T. The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.

Browne, Simone. Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.

Bruegmann, Robert. Sprawl: A Compact History. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Bryson, Bill. At Home: A Short History of Private Life. New York: Doubleday, 2010.

Buck, Holly Jean. Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough. New York: Verso, 2021.

Buell, Lawrence. Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U. S. and Beyond. Cambridge: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 2003.

Bullard, Robert D. Invisible Houston: The Black Experience in Boom and Bust. College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1987.

Bullard, William, Janette Thomas Greenwood, David P. Angel, Matthias Waschek, Nancy Kathryn Burns, Janette Thomas Greenwood, and Frank J. Morrill. Rediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard, 1897-1917. Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 2017.

Burton, Johanna, Shannon Jackson, and Dominic Willsdon, eds. Public Servants. Art and the Crisis of the Common Good. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2016.

Busch, Akiko. Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999.

Butler, Judith. Notes toward a Performative Theory of Assembly. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2018.

Califia-Rice, Patrick. Public Sex: The Culture of Radical Sex. Pittsburgh, PA: Cleis Press, 1994.

Cameron, Alexandra Cunningham, Christina L. De León, and Michelle Wilkinson, eds. Making Home: Belonging, Memory, and Utopia in the 21st Century. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2025.

Campanella, Richard. Bienville’s Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans. Lafayette: Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2008.

Campanella, Thomas J. Republic of Shade: New England and the American Elm. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.

Campbell, Linda, Andrew Newman, Sara Safransky, and Tim Stallmann, eds. A People’s Atlas of Detroit. Great Lakes Books. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2020.

Campbell, Marne L. Making Black Los Angeles: Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Caro, Robert A. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York: Vintage Books, 1974.

Carr, Sara Jensen. The Topography of Wellness: How Health and Disease Shaped the American Landscape. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021.

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Mifflin, 1962.

Catalán, Mara. Williamsburg: A Place I Once Called Home. Brooklyn, NY: Red Hook Edition, 2018.

Catte, Elizabeth. What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia. Cleveland, OH: Belt Publishing, 2018.

Cayer, Aaron. Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2025.

Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Rendall. Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press, 1984.

Chai, May-lee, ed. Trespass: Ecotone Essayists beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism. Wilmington, NC: Lookout Books, 2018.

Chase, John, John Kaliski, and Margaret Crawford. Everyday Urbanism. New York: The Monacelli Press, 1999.

Chaskin, Robert J., and Mark L. Joseph. Integrating the Inner City: The Promise and Perils of Mixed-Income Public Housing Transformation. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Cheng, Irene. The Shape of Utopia: The Architecture of Radical Reform in Nineteenth-Century America. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023.

Cheng, Irene, Charles L. Davis, and Mabel O. Wilson, eds. Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.

Clark, Septima Poinsette, and Cynthia Stokes Brown. Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement. Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press, 1990.

Clinton, Bill. Citizen: My Life after the White House. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

Clover, Joshua. Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings. New York: Verso, 2016.

Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. New York, NY: Spiegel & Grau, 2017.

———. We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. New York: One World, 2017.

Cohen, Donald, and Allen Mikaelian. The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Fight Back. New York: The New Press, 2021.

Cohen, Lizabeth. Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.

Coker, Coleman, and Sarah Gamble. Environmental Activism by Design. Novato, Calif.: Applied Research and Design Publishing, 2023.

Cole, Teju. Known and Strange Things: Essays. New York: Random House, 2016.

Cooke, Sekou. Hip-Hop Architecture: History/Theory/Practice. New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021.

Corner, James, and Alex S. MacLean. Taking Measures across the American Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Costanza-Chock, Sasha. Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2020.

Cottom, Tressie McMillan. Thick: And Other Essays. Toronto: The New Press, 2019.

Crary, Jonathan. Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World. New York: Verso, 2022.

Crawford, Matthew B. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work. New York: Penguin Press, 2009.

Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.

———. Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992.

Cuff, Dana. Architecture: The Story of Practice. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1992.

———. Architectures of Spatial Justice. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2023.

———. The Provisional City: Los Angeles Stories of Architecture and Urbanism. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2000.

Cunha, Dilip da. The Invention of Rivers: Alexander’s Eye and Ganga’s Descent. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018.

Davis, Angela Y., and Frank Barat. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Chicago, Illinois: Haymarket Books, 2016.

Davis II, Charles L. Building Character. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021.

Davis, Joshua Clark, Kate S. Drabinski, and P. Nicole King, eds. Baltimore Revisited: Stories of Inequality and Resistance in a U.S. City. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019.

Davis, Michael. Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. New York: Viking, 2008.

Davis, Mike. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. London: Verso, 1990.

———. Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998.

Davis, Veronica, and tamika l. butler. Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities. Washington, D. C: Island Press, 2023.

Day, Joe. Corrections and Collections: Architectures for Art and Crime. New York: Routledge, 2013.

De La Peña, David, Diane Jones Allen, Randolph T. Hester, Jeffrey Hou, Laura L. Lawson, and Marcia J. McNally, eds. Design as Democracy: Techniques for Collective Creativity. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, 2017.

Deamer, Peggy. Architecture and Labor. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Dean, Andrea Oppenheimer, and Timothy Hursley. Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.

Dennis, Ryan N. Collective Creative Actions: Project Row Houses at 25. Houston, TX: Project Row Houses, 2019.

Desmond, Matthew. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. New York: Crown Publishers, 2016.

Deutsche, Rosalyn. Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1998.

Devlin, Rachel. A Girl Stands at the Door: The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America’s Schools. New York: Basic Books, 2018.

Dewey, John. Democracy and Education. New York: Macmillan, 1916.

Di Palma, Vittoria. Wasteland: A History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.

Diamond, Andrew J., and Thomas J. Sugrue, eds. Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban America. New York: New York University Press, 2020.

Didion, Joan. Slouching Toward Bethlehem. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968.

———. Where I Was From. New York: Knopf, 2003.

Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. New York: Harper’s Magazine Press, 1974.

Dinzey-Flores, Zaire Zenit. Locked in, Locked out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

Disfarmer, Mike, and Julia Scully. Disfarmer: The Heber Springs Portraits, 1939-1946: Disfarmer Photographs from Peter Miller, The Group, Inc. Danbury, N.H.: Addison House, 1976.

Dolan, Michael. The American Porch: An Informal History of an Informal Place. Guilford, Conn: Lyons Press, 2002.

Dollens, Mickey. The Citizen’s Guide to Political Change: How to Win with Ballot Initiatives and Defend Direct Democracy. Oklahoma: Whizbang Publishing, 2024.

Donahue, Arwen. Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year. Spartanburg, SC: Hub City Press, 2022.

Donahue, Brian, ed. Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farms & Forests in a New England Town. Yale Agrarian Studies. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.

Dougherty, Conor. Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America. New York: Penguin Publishing Group, 2020.

Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office, 1845.

Dowell, Clifton, ed. Out on the Porch: An Evocation in Words and Pictures. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992.

Downing, A. The Architecture of Country Houses. New York, NY: D. Appleton & Company, 1851.

Downing, Andrew J. A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening: Adapted to North America. 2. London: Wiley and Putnam, 1844.

Downing, Michael. Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center. Washington, D.C: Counterpoint, 2001.

Drake, St. Clair, Horace R. Cayton, and Mary Pattillo. Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City. Reprinted and Enlarged. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015.

Drew, Kimberly, and Jenna Wortham, eds. Black Futures. New York: One World, 2020.

Du Bois, W. E. B. Black Reconstruction in America. New York, 1935.

———. The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1899.

———. The Souls of Black Folk. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1903.

Dudley, Tara A. Building Antebellum New Orleans: Free People of Color and Their Influence. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021.

Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People. Boston: Beacon Press, 2015.

Dunkelman, Marc J. The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 2014.

Easterling, Keller. Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways, and Houses in America. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1999.

Eckbo, Garrett. Landscape for Living. Reprint ed. American Society of Landscape Architects Centennial Reprint Series. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press : In association with Library of American Landscape History, 2009.

Eggers, Dave, and Shawn Harris. What Can a Citizen Do? San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2018.

Eggleston, William, Thomas Weski, and Agnès Sire. William Eggleston, from Black and White to Color. Göttingen: Steidl, 2014.

Ehrenreich, Barbara. Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007.

Eisenstadt, Peter R. Rochdale Village: Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City’s Great Experiment in Integrated Housing. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 2010.

Eller, Ronald D. Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2013.

Ely, Melvin Patrick. Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s through the Civil War. New York: Knopf, 2004.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Self-Reliance and Other Essays. Dover Thrift Editions. Newburyport: Dover Publications, 2012.

Erkkila, Catherine Boland. Spaces of Immigration. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025.

Esperdy, Gabrielle M. American Autopia: An Intellectual History of the American Roadside at Midcentury. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.

Estes, Nick. Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. New York: Verso, 2019.

Evans, Walker, and James Agee. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1941.

Evans, Walker, and Lincoln Kirstein. American Photographs. 75th Anniversary Edition. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2012.

Fallows, James, and Deborah Fallows. Our Towns. New York: Vintage, 2019.

Fee, Elizabeth, Linda Shopes, and Linda Zeidman, eds. The Baltimore Book: New Views of Local History. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991.

Fennell, Catherine. Last Project Standing: Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota press, 2015.

Ferriss, Hugh. The Metropolis of Tomorrow. Repr. New York, 1929. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Architectural Press, 1986.

Fields, Karen Elise, and Barbara Jeanne Fields. Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life. London: Verso Books, 2012.

Finkelpearl, Tom. What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.

Finney, Carolyn. Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Fitch, James Marston. American Building: The Environmental Forces That Shape It. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947.

Fleischmann, T. Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through. La Vergne: Coffee House Press, 2019.

Flowers, Catherine Coleman, and Bryan Stevenson. Waste: One Woman’s Fight against America’s Dirty Secret. New York London: The New Press, 2020.

Foley, Michael S. Front Porch Politics: The Forgotten Heyday of American Activism in the 1970s and 1980s. New York: Hill and Wang, 2013.

Foner, Eric. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019.

Frampton, Kenneth and Columbia University GSAPP, eds. Five North American Architects. Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2012.

Frances, Sherrin. Libraries amid Protest: Books, Organizing, and Global Activism. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2020.

Frank, Robert, and Jack Kerouac. The Americans. 12. edition. Göttingen: Steidl, 2019.

Fraser, Nancy. Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do about It. London ; New York: Verso, 2022.

Frazier, LaToya Ruby. Latoya Ruby Frazier: The Notion of Family. Edited by Laura Wexler, Dennis C. Dickerson, and Dawoud Bey. New York: Aperture, 2014.

Freear, Andrew, Elena Barthel, Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, and Timothy Hursley. Rural Studio at Twenty: Designing and Building in Hale County, Alabama. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2014.

Freeman, Lance. There Goes the ’hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up. Philadelphia, Pa: Temple Univ. Press, 2006.

Frost, Jennifer. An Interracial Movement of the Poor: Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s. New York: New York University Press, 2001.

Fullilove, Mindy Thompson. Root Shock: How Tearing up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It. Second edition. New York: New Village Press, 2016.

Gates, Henry Louis. The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song. New York: Penguin Press, 2021.

Gaventa, John. Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Pr, 1982.

Gay, Ross. The Book of Delights. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019.

Genovese, Eugene D. Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made. New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.

George, Lynell. No Crystal Stair: African-Americans in the City of Angels. New York: Verso, 1992.

Gibson, Vivian. The Last Children of Mill Creek. New York: Belt Publishing, 2020.

Gillespie, Dizzy, and Al Fraser. To Be, or Not– to Bop. 1st University of Minnesota Press ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. Abolition Geography: Essays towards Liberation. Edited by Brenna Bhandar and Alberto Toscano. London New York: Verso, 2022.

Givens, Jarvis R. Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021.

Gladman, Renee. Calamities. Seattle, Wash.: Wave Books, 2016.

Glave, Dianne D. Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage. Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, 2010.

Gleason, William. Sites Unseen: Architecture, Race, and American Literature. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

Gleick, Peter H. Bottled and Sold: The Story behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water. Washington, DC: Island Press, 2010.

Glotzer, Paige. How the Suburbs Were Segregated: Developers and the Business of Exclusionary Housing, 1890-1960. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.

Gobel, David, and Daves Rossell, eds. Commemoration in America: Essays on Monuments, Memorialization, and Memory. Charlottesville, Va.: University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Gogarty, Larne Abse. Usable Pasts: Social Practice and State Formation in American Art. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2022.

Goldfarb, Ben. Crossings. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.

Goldin, Nan. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. Edited by Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn, and Suzanne Fletcher. New York: Aperture Foundation, 1986.

Goldstein, Brian D. The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle over Harlem, Expanded Edition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2017.

Gomez, Marisela B. Race, Class, Power, and Organizing in East Baltimore: Rebuilding Abandoned Communities in America. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012.

Goodell, Jeff. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet. New York: Little Brown & Company, 2023.

———. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017.

Gooden, Mario. Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity. New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2016.

Gordon-Reed, Annette. On Juneteenth. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021.

Gornick, Vivian. Fierce Attachments: A Memoir. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987.

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Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868.

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Belton, Sandra, and Floyd Cooper. From Miss Ida’s Porch. New York: Aladdin, 1998.

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Bohrer, Maria LaPlaca, Lou Fancher, and Steve Johnson. Sofia’s Stoop Story: 18th Street, Brooklyn. Blue Marlin Publications, 2014.

Boyd-Rogers, Julia. The Porch House: A Texas Story, 2024.

Brown, Frank London, and Mary Helen Washington. Trumbull Park. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2005.

Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1993.

Cather, Willa. My Ántonia. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918.

———. O Pioneers!, 1913.

Chiang, Ted. Stories of Your Life and Others. New York: Tor Books, 2002.

Cole, Teju. Open City. New York: Random House, 2011.

Creech, Sharon. The Boy on the Porch. New York: HarperCollins, 2013.

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Diaz, Hernan. In the Distance. Minneapolis, Minn.: Coffee House Press, 2017.

Dragonwagon, Crescent, and Jerry Pinkney. Home Place. New York: Macmillan, 1990.

Drain, Jasmon. Stateway’s Garden: Stories. New York: Random House, 2020.

Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie. New York: Doubleday, 1900.

Ellison, Ralph. Invisible Man. New York: Random House, 1952.

Erdrich, Louise. The Night Watchman. New York: HarperCollins, 2020.

Everett, Percival. James. New York: Doubleday, 2024.

Faulkner, William. As I Lay Dying, 1912.

———. The Bear, 1942.

———. The Sound and the Fury, 1929.

Fink, Sheri. Five Days at Memorial. New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2013.

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield. The Home-Maker. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1924.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender Is the Night. New York: Scribner, 1934.

———. The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 1925.

Folarin, Tope. A Particular Kind of Black Man. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2019.

Ford, Richard. Independence Day. New York: Knopf, 1995.

———. The Sportswriter. New York: Vintage, 1986.

Franzen, Jonathan. The Corrections. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.

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Hamid, Mohsin. Exit West. New York: Riverhead Books, 2017.

Haruf, Kent. Plainsong. New York: Knopf, 1999.

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Hughes, Langston, and Roy DeCarava. The Sweet Flypaper of Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955.

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James, Henry. The Bostonians. London: Macmillan, 1886.

———. Washington Square. New York: Harper, 1880.

Jemisin, N. K. The City We Became. London: Orbit Books, 2020.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. The Country of the Pointed Firs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896.

Jordan, June. His Own Where. Crowell, 1971.

Kerouac, Jack. On the Road: The Original Scroll. New York: Viking, 1957.

Kesey, Ken. Sometimes A Great Notion. New York: Viking, 1964.

Khalid, Zain. Brother Alive. New York: Grove Atlantic, 2022.

Kingsolver, Barbara. Demon Copperhead. New York: Harper, 2022.

Le Guin, Ursula K. The Word for World Is Forest. New York: Berkley Books, 1976.

Lee, Harper. To Kill A Mockingbird. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1960.

L’Engle, Madeleine. A Wrinkle in Time. New York: Ariel Books, 1962.

Marshall, Paule. Brown Girl, Brownstones. New York City: Random House, 1959.

Mason, Daniel. North Woods. New York: Random House, 2023.

McBride, James. Deacon King Kong . New York: Riverhead Books, 2020.

McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. The Border Trilogy 1. New York: Knopf, 1992.

———. Blood Meridian; or, The Evening Redness in the West. New York: Random House, 1985.

McKissack, Patricia C., and André Carrilho. Porch Lies: Tales of Slicksters, Tricksters, and Other Wily Characters. New York: Schwartz & Wade, 2006.

McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper, 1851.

Meyer, Philipp. American Rust. New York: Spiegel & Grau, 2009.

Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New York: Macmillan, 1936.

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———. Song of Solomon. New York: Knopf, 1977.

———. Sula. New York: Knopf, 1973.

Naylor, Gloria. The Women of Brewster Place. New York: Penguin Books, 1983.

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Petry, Ann. The Street. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946.

Powers, Richard. The Overstory. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

Proulx, Annie. Close Range: Wyoming Stories. New York: Scribner, 1999.

———. The Shipping News. New York: Scribner, 1993.

Reed, Ishmael. Flight to Canada. New York: Random House, 1976.

Richard, Wright. Native Son. New York: Harper, 1940.

Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Ministry for the Future. London: Orbit Books, 2020.

Roth, Philip. The Plot Against America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.

Rylant, Cynthia, and Arthur Howard. Mr. Putter & Tabby Paint the Porch. New York: Clarion Books, 2001.

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Shreve, Susan. Under the Watsons’ Porch. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 2004.

Shteyngart, Gary. Super Sad True Love Story. London: Granta, 2011.

Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. New York: Viking Press, 1977.

Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York: Doubleday, 1906.

Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943.

Stegner, Wallace. Angle of Repose. New York: Doubleday, 1971.

———. Crossing to Safety. New York: Random House, 1987.

Stein, Gertrude. The Making of Americans, 1925.

Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking Press, 1939.

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Thomas, Angie. The Hate u Give. New York: Balzer + Bray, 2017.

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885.

Walker, Alice. The Color Purple. New York: Harcourt, 1982.

Ward, Jesmyn. Salvage the Bones. London: Bloomsbury, 2011.

———. Sing, Unburied, Sing. New York: Scribner, 2017.

Ware, Chris. Building Stories. New York: Pantheon Books, 2012.

Washington, Bryan. Lot. New York: Riverhead Books, 2019.

Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome. New York: Scribner, 1911.

———. The House of Mirth. New York: Scribner, 1905.

Whitehead, Colson. The Intuitionist. New York: Anchor Books, 1999.

———. The Underground Railroad. New York: Doubleday, 2016.

Wilson, Diane. The Seed Keeper. First edition. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Milkweed Editions, 2021.

Wolfe, Toya. Last Summer on State Street. New York: Random House, 2023.

Yolen, Jane, and Rilla Alexander. A Bear Sat on My Porch Today. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2018.

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Poetry and Plays

 

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |

Ashbery, John. Houseboat Days: Poems. New York: Viking Press, 1977.

Berry, Wendell. A Small Porch. New York: Counterpoint Press, 2017.

Bishop, Elizabeth. Geography III. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

Brooks, Gwendolyn. In the Mecca: Poems. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

Clover, Joshua. Red Epic. Oakland, California: Commune Editions, 2015.

Dickinson, Emily. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson. New York: Modern Library, 2000.

Ginsberg, Allen. Wichita Vortex Sutra, 1966.

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. New York: Penguin, 1959.

Hayden, Dolores. American Yard: Poems. Cincinnati, OH: David Robert Books, 2004.

hooks, bell. Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012.

Jordan, June. June Jordan’s Poetry for the People: A Revolutionary Blueprint. Edited by Lauren Muller. New York: Routledge, 1995.

———. Living Room: New Poems. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 1985.

Lerner, Ben. The Lights: Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

Limón, Ada. The Carrying: Poems. Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions, 2018.

———. The Hurting Kind: Poems. Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions, 2022.

———, ed. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World. Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions, 2024.

Lorde, Audre. The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde. New York: W. W. Norton company, 1997.

Moore, Marianne. Complete Poems. New York: Penguin, 1967.

Nichelle, Jae. The Porch (As Sanctuary). Portland, OR: YesYes Books, 2020.

O’Neill, Eugene. Long Day’s Journey into Night. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Orlandersmith, Dael. Stoop Stories. Dramatists Play Service Inc., 2011.

Rankine, Claudia. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric. Minneapolis, Minn: Graywolf Press, 2004.

Rich, Adrienne. The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950 – 1984. New York: Norton, 1984.

Snyder, Gary. Turtle Island. New York: New Directions, 1974.

Spahr, Juliana. That Winter the Wolf Came. Oakland, California: Commune Editions, 2015.

Stevens, Wallace. Harmonium. New York: Knopf, 1923.

Vuong, Ocean. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous. New York: Penguin Press, 2019.

Walker, Frank X. Affrilachia: Poems. Lexington, KY: Old Cove Press, 2000.

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass, 1855.

Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. New York: New Directions, 1944.

Williams, William Carlos. Paterson. New York: New Directions, 1948.

Wilson, August. Fences, 1986.

Woodson, Jacqueline. Brown Girl Dreaming. New York: Penguin Group, 2014.

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