Book List

Below are some book recommendations (with links to CPL’s catalog) to further your familiarity with biking and related issues:

The ‘Why’ of Biking

How Cycling Can Save the World

Peter Walker

Bikenomics

Elly Blue

Bike Battles

James Longhurst

Intersectionality and Social Issues Around Biking

Inclusive Transportation

Veronica O. Davis, PE

Revolutions:
How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels

Hannah Ross

Cyclescapes of the Unequal City

John G. Stehlin

Urban Form for Biking

Roads Were Not Built for Cars

Carlton Reid

Building the Cycling City

Melissa Bruntlett and Chris Bruntlett

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

Local Interest Bike Stories

Marshall “Major” Taylor

Marlene Targ Brill

No Hands: the Rise and Fall of the Schwinn Bicycle Company

Judith Crown

Critical Mass: Bicycling’s Defiant Celebration (link)

Chris Carlsson

Guides for Practical/Casual Bikers

Everyday Bicycling

Elly Blue

Urban Cycling

Madi Carlson

For Young Readers

Ride Beside Me

Lucy Knisley

Together We Ride

Valerie Bolling

Noodles on a Bicycle

Kyo Maclear

Cycle City

Alison Farrell

Major Taylor: World Cycling Champion

Charles R. Smith Jr.

The Young Cyclist’s Companion

Peter Drinkell

Birth of the Bicycle

Sarah Nelson

The Red Bicycle

Jude Isabella

Go, Bikes, Go!

Addie Boswell

I Like My Bike

Antongionata Ferrari