Best Book
Delano, Sterling F., Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Out of print; available at some Boston Public Library locations
Swift, Lindsay, Brook Farm: Its Members, Scholars, and Visitors [PDF], 1904
Curtis, Edith Roelker, A Season in Utopia: The Story of Brook Farm Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1961
Haraszti, Zoltán, The Idyll of Brook Farm As Revealed by Unpublished Letters in the Boston Public Library, 1937
Hansen, Ellen, ed., The New England Transcendentalists: Life of the Mind and Of the Spirit, Lowell, MA: Discovery Enterprises, Ltd., 1993
Jennings, Chris, Paradise Now: The Story of American Utopianism, Random House, 2016
Kolmerten, Carol A., Women in Utopia: the Ideology of Gender in the American Owenite Communities, Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 1990
Myerson, Joel, Transcendentalism: A Reader, Oxford University Press, 2000
Alberti, Charles Edward, Brook Farm’s Educational Philosophy (1841-1846): A Study Into Its Methods, Axiology and Epistemology, Doctoral dissertation: Loyola University Chicago, 1975
Biographies
Cro, Ann B., From Transcendentalism to Progressivism: The Making of an American Reformer, Abby Morton Diaz (1821-1904), Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2006. Paper 2187.
Frothingham, B., George Ripley, 1882 Biography and many letters. Lengthy chapter on Brook Farm beginning page 108.
Marshall, Megan, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014
Raymond, Henrietta Dana, Sophia Willard Dana Ripley, Co-Founder of Brook Farm, Peter E. Randall Publisher, 1994
Archaeology and Landscape
Preucel, Robert W., Archaeological Semiotics, 2010. Excellent chapter on Brook Farm begins on p. 197 of the linked PDF (page 175 of the document)Preucel, Robert W. and Pendery, Steven R., Envisioning Utopia: Transcendentalist and Fourierist Landscapes at Brook Farm, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Vol. 40, No. 1, Daring Experiments: Issues and Insights about Utopian Communities (2006), pp. 6-19
Report of the Boston Landmarks Commission on the potential designation of BROOK FARM as a Landmark under Chapter 772 of the Acts of 1975, Boston Landmarks Commission (Boston Mass.)
Brown, Patrick, Historical Digression: Transcendentalism: Searching for “Pilgrim House” at Brook Farm, August 22, 2014
Memoirs by Brook Farm Residents
Codman, John Thomas, Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs
Kirby, Georgiana Bruce (1818-1887), Years of Experience: An Autobiographical Narrative, BPL cat. # CT275.K59 A3 1971 In-library use only in some locations
Kirby, Georgiana Bruce, My First Visit to Brook Farm, in the Overland Monthly, 1870, page 9ff
Orvis, Marianne Dwight (1816-1901), Letters From Brook Farm, 1844-1847, BPL cat. # HX656.B8 O7 1974 In-library use only in some locations
Russell, Amelia Eloise (1798-1880), Home Life of the Brook Farm Association, BPL cat. # 5569a.121 In-library use only in some locations
Sears, John Van der Zee Sears (1835-?), My Friends at Brook Farm, BPL cat. # HX656.B8 S5 1975 In-library use only in some locations