Each of the links below will take you to a brief Google/Gemini summary of how that work can influence and guide a modern voluntary cooperative community. Each also allows for further inquiry and discussion.
Equality by Edward Bellamy
The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature by A. H. Maslow
The Next Revolution by Murray Bookchin
The Teaching of Jesus by Hans Hinrich Wendt
The Art of the Long View by Peter Schwartz
Where There is Light by Paramahansa Yogananda
On the Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathon Swift
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
Essays of Michel de Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne
Dumbth: and 81 Ways to Make Americans Smarter by Steve Allen
TAO TE CHING by Lao Tzu
Mind in Comfort and Ease by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters
The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton
The Making of a Counter Culture by Theodore Roszak
Oriental Secrets of Graceful Living by Boye de Mente
Ruskin Today by Kenneth Clark
The Pocket Zen Reader edited by Thomas Cleary
Unto This Last by John Ruskin
The First Urban Christians by Wayne A. Meeks
Blackfoot Physics by F. David Peat
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by William Godwin
The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner
General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
God and the State Statism and Anarchy by Michael Bakunin
The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Peter Kropotkin
The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Peter Kropotkin
Communitas: Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life by Paul and Percival Goodman
Living My Life by Emma Goldman
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman
The London Years by Rudolf Rocker
Existentialism, Marxism, and Anarchism: Chains of Freedom by Sir Herbert Read
Ethics by John Dewey and James H. Tufts
Early Civilization by Alexander Goldenweiser
The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
What is Life? by Erwin Schrodinger
Greek Morality in Relation to Institutions by William Henry Samuel Jones
Theory of the State by Aristotle
The Administration of Justice from Homer to Aristotle by Robert J. Bonner and Gertrude Smith
A History of Mediaeval Political Theory in the West by R.W. and A.J. Carlyle
Natural Rights by David George Ritchie
Human Nature and Conduct by John Dewey
The Theory of Good and Evil by Hastings Rashdall
The Federalist Papers by James Madison & Alexander Hamilton
The Quest for Certainty by John Dewey
Social Justice: A Critical Essay by Westel Woodbury Willoughby
The Republic by Plato
Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams
Social Organization by Charles Cooley
The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind by H.G. Wells
Our Democracy, Its Origins and Its Tasks by James H. Tufts
Evolution of Modern Capitalism by John Atkinson Hobson
The Rational Good by Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
The Tragedy of Waste by Stuart Chase
At the movies
Quintet directed by Robert Altman
Silent Running directed by Douglas Trumbull
Things to Come directed by William Cameron Menzies
Zardoz directed by John Boorman
World on a Wire directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Dark City directed by Alex Proyas
The Centaur Project 