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You may purchase many of these books from The Simple Living Network or from your
local Black bookstore.
1. Cecile Andrews. Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life.
New York: Harper Collins, 1997.
2. Don Aslett. Clutter's Last Stand: It's Time to De-Junk Your Life. Cincinnati: Writer's
Digest Books, 1984.
3. Sue Bender. Plain & Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish. New York: Harper, 1989.
4. Wendell Berry. The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture. San Francisco:
Sierra Club, 3rd edition, 1996.
5. Annie Berthold-Bond. Better Basics for the Home: Simple Solutions for Less Toxic
Living. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1999.
6. Jacqueline Blix and David Heitmiller. Getting a Life: Strategies
for Simple Living Based on the Revolutionary Program for Financial Freedom from Your Money
or Your Life. New York: Viking Penguin, Revised 1999.
7. Laurence G. Boldt. How to Find the Work You Love. New York: Arkana, 1996.
8. Lester R. Brown. Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth. New York: W.W. Norton,
2001.
9. Mark A. Burch. Simplicity: Notes, Stories and Exercises for Developing Unimaginable
Wealth. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 1995.
10. Mark A. Burch. Stepping Lightly. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 2000.
11. Jeff Campbell. Clutter Control: Putting Your Home on a Diet. New York: Dell
Publishing, 1992.
12. Brian Czech. Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train: Errant Economists, Shameful Spenders,
and a Plan to Stop Them All. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
13. Connie Cox & Cris Evatt. 30 Days to a Simpler Life. New
York: The Penguin Group, 1998.
14. Amy Dacyczn. The Complete Tightwad Gazette: Promoting Thrift as a Viable Alternative
Lifestyle. New York: Random House, 1999.
15. Andy Dappen. Shattering the Two-Income Myth: Daily Secrets for
Living Well on One Income. Mountlake Terrace, WA: Brier Books, 1997.
16. Jeff Davidson. Breathing Space: Living and Working at a Comfortable Pace in a Sped-Up
Society. Chapel Hill, NC: Breathing Space Institute, Revised 2000.
17. John de Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor. Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic.
San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2001.
18. Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin. Your Money or Your Life:
Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence. New York:
Penguin Books, Revised 1999.
19. John D. Drake. Downshifting: How to Work Less and Enjoy Life More. San Francisco:
Berrett-Koehler, 2001.
20. Alan Durning. How Much is Enough?: The Consumer Society and the Future of the Earth.
New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.
21. Duane Elgin. Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for
Humanity's Future. New York: Quill, 2001.
22. Duane Elgin. Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple,
Inwardly Rich. New York: Quill, Revised 1993.
23. Michael Fogler. Un-Jobbing: The Adult Liberation Handbook. Lexington, KY: Free Choice
Press, 2nd edition, 1999.
24. Richard J. Foster. Freedom of Simplicity. New York: Harper, 1998.
25. Erich Fromm. To Have or To Be? New York: Continuum, Reissued 1996.
26. Matthew Fox. The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time. New
York: Harper San Francisco, 1995.
27. Richard Gregg. The Value of Voluntary Simplicity. Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill, 1936.
28. Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next
Industrial Revolution. New York: Back Bay Books, 2000.
29. Anders Hayden. Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work Time, Consumption, &
Ecology. London: Zed Books, 2000.
30. Arlie Russell Hochschild. The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work.
New York: Owl Books, Reissued 2001.
31. Tim Kasser. The High Price of Materialism. Boston: MIT Press, 2002.
32. Jonathon Lazear. The Man Who Mistook His Job for a Life: A Chronic Overachiever Finds
the Way Home. New York: Crown Publishers, 2001.
33. Frank Levering and Wanda Urbanska. Simple Living: One Couple's Search for a Better
Life. New York: Viking Penguin, 1992.
34. Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Gift From the Sea. New York: Pantheon Books, Reissued 1991.
35. Toinette Lippe. Nothing Left Over: A Plain and Simple Life. New York: J. P. Tarcher,
2002.
36. Georgene Lockwood. Complete Idiot's Guide to Simple Living. Alpha Books, 2000.
37. Charles Long. How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning to Live
the Conserver Lifestyle. Toronto: Warwick Publishing, Revised 1996.
38. Doris Janzen Longacre. Living More with Less. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1980.
39. Janet Luhrs. The Simple Living Guide: A Sourcebook for Less Stressful, More Joyful
Living. New York: Broadway Books, 1997.
40. Janet Luhrs. Simple Loving: A Path to Deeper, More Sustainable Relationships. New
York: Penguin USA, 2000.
41. Ferenc Maté. A Reasonable Life: Toward a Simpler, Secure, More Humane Existence.
Pflugerville, TX: Albatross Publishing, 2nd edition, 2000.
42. Jonni McCoy. Miserly Moms: Living on One Income in a Two-Income
Economy. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 3rd edition, 2001.
43. Elizabeth Perle McKenna. When Work Doesn't Work Anymore: Women, Work, and Identity.
New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1998.
44. Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jøgern Randers. Beyond the Limits: Confronting
Global Collapse, Envisioning A Sustainable Future. Post Mills, VT: Chelsea Green
Publishing, Reprint 1993.
45. Timothy Miller, Ph.D. How to Want What You Have: Discovering the Magic and Grandeur of
Ordinary Existence. New York: Avon, 1996.
46. Stephanie Mills. Epicurean Simplicity. Washington: Island Press/Shearwater Books,
2002.
47. Marlo Morgan. Mutant Message Down Under. New York: HarperCollins, Reprinted 1995.
48. Scott Nearing and Helen Nearing. The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years
of Self-Sufficient Living. New York: Schocken Books, Reprinted 1990.
49. Jessie O'Neill. The Golden Ghetto: The Psychology of Affluence. Milwaukee, WI: The
Affluenza Project, 1997.
50. Linda Breen Pierce. Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding
Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World. Carmel, CA: Gallagher Press, 2000.
51. Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, Ken Conca (eds.). Confronting Consumption.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
52. Jo Robinson and Jean Coppock Staeheli. Unplug the Christmas Machine: A Complete Guide
to Putting Love and Joy Back into the Season. New York: Quill, Revised 1991.
53. John C. Ryan, Alan Durning. Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things. Seattle:
Northwest Environment Watch, 1997.
54. Juliet B. Schor. The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need. New York:
HarperCollins, 1999.
55. Juliet B. Schor. The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure. New York:
BasicBooks, Reprinted 1993.
56. Michael Schut (ed.). Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective.
Denver, CO: Living the Good News, 1999.
57. E.F. Schumacher. Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered: 25 Years
Later...With Commentaries. Point Roberts, WA: Hartley & Marks, 2nd edition, 1999
(first published in 1973).
58. Jerome M. Segal. Graceful Simplicity: Toward a Philosophy and Politics of Simple
Living. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.
59. David E. Shi. The Simple Life: Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture.
Athens, GA: Univ of Georgia Press, Reprinted 2001.
60. Marsha Sinetar. Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow:
Discovering Your Right Livelihood. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, Reissued 1989.
61. Marsha Sinetar. Ordinary People as Monks and Mystics: Lifestyles for Self-discovery.
New York: Paulist Press, 1986.
62. Elaine St. James. Inner Simplicity: 100 Ways to Regain Peace and Nourish Your Soul.
New York: Hyperion, 1995.
63. Elaine St. James. Simplify Your Life: 100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things That
Really Matter. New York: Hyperion, 1994.
64. Elaine St. James and Vera Cole. Simplify Your Life with Kids: 100 Ways to Make Family
Life Easier and More Fun. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000.
65. Elaine St. James. Simplify Your Work Life: Ways to Change the
Way You Work So You Have More Time to Live. New York: Hyperion, 2001.
66. Sarah Susanka. The Not So Big House: A Blueprint for the Way We Really Live. Newtown,
CT: The Taunton Press, 1998.
67. Linda Tatelbaum. Carrying Water as a Way of Life: A Homesteader's History. Appleton,
ME: About Time Press, 1997.
68. Kim Thomas. Simplicity: Finding Peace by Uncluttering Your Life. Nashville, TN:
Broadman & Holman, 1999.
69. Henry David Thoreau. Walden and Other Writings. New York: Modern Library, 2000.
70. Wanda Urbanska, Frank Levering. Moving to a Small Town: A Guidebook for Moving from
Urban to Rural America. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
71. Mathis Wackernagel and William E. Rees. Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human
Impact on the Earth. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 1995.
72. K.C. White, Lilabean: A Story of Simplicity for Grown-up Girls. Elizabeth City, NC:
Bean Pot Press, 2002.
73. Catherine Whitmire. Plain Living: A Quaker Path to Simplicity. Notre Dame, IN: Sorin
Books, 2001.
74. Barbara J. Winter. Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways
for Creating Work that You Love. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1993.
75. Ernie Zelinski. The Joy of Not Working: A Book for the Retired, Unemployed, and
Overworked. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Pr, 3rd edition, 1997.
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