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We asked. You answered.

Last week, we shared the books that are on the top of the list for 2011 Echoing Green Finalists, along with lists from Change.org, Acumen Fund, and Social Edge. We asked you to share your own and here is the incredible list of books you think every social entrepreneur should read.

Want to add more? Tell us and we’ll keep adding to the list!

From Americorps Alumni:

• After Shock: The Next Economy and America's Future by Robert B Reich

• Big Citizenship by Alan Khazei

• Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip and Dan Heath

• Linchpin by Seth Godin

• What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption by Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers

• KaBoom! How One Man Built A Movement to Save Play by Darell Hammond

• Gandhi an Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi

From the Echoing Green Community:

• The Blue Sweater by Jacqueline Novogratz

• How to Change the World by David Bornstein

• A Billion Bootstraps: Microcredit, Barefoot Banking, and The Business Solution for Ending Poverty by Philip Smith

• Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken

• Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

• Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows

• AfterShock: The Next Economy and America’s Future by Robert Reich

• Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose it, Why People Demand It by James Kouzes and Barry Posnerr

• Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt

• Tactics of Hope: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World by Wilford Welch

• Just Another Emporer? The Myths and Realities of Philanthrocapitalism by Michael Edwards

• Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the Worlds Problems by Michael Strong

• Solving Tough Problems: An Open Way of Talking, Listening, and Creating New Realities by Adam Kahane and Peter Senge

• Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky

• Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

• The Answer to How is Yes: Acting on What Matters by Peter Block

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

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