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Noname's Book Club Selections (Previous Selections)

Launched in summer 2019, Chicago rapper Noname's book club features two titles per month. The web site describes the series as "Reading material for the homies" and elaborates, "From cult classics to the words of emergent authors, Noname’s Book Club highlights books that speak on human conditions in critical and original ways."

Chicago Public Library

99 items

  • July 2024 selection
    BookNew York : 37 Ink/Simon & Schuster, 2023. — HQ1517.5.S56H69 2023
  • Rasta and Resistance

    From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney

    Campbell, Horace
    July 2024 selection
    BookTrenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1987. — BL2532.R37C35 1987
  • June 2024 selection
    BookNew York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — PN4874.W282A3 2024
  • June 2024 selection
    PaperbackChicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2021. — PS3603.H36D67 2021
  • May 2024 selection
    PaperbackNew York : Anchor Books, 1994. — FIC ACHEBE
  • April 2024 selection
    PaperbackNew York : New American Library, 2011. — FIC MCMILLAN
  • Barracoon

    the Story of the Last "black Cargo"

    Hurston, Zora Neale,
    March 2024 selection
    PaperbackNew York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,|c[2018] — E444.L49H87 2018
  • December 2023 selection
    BookNew York : Grand Central Publishing, 2021. — FICTION
  • December 2023 selection
    BookNew York : TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] — BF637.P3T38 2021
  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

    a History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

    Khalidi, Rashid,
    November 2023 selection
    BookNew York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
  • October 2023 selection
    PaperbackNew York : Washington Square Press, [2002] — FICTION
  • No More Police

    a Case for Abolition

    Kaba, Mariame,
    October 2023 selection
    BookNew York : The New Press, 2022. — HV8139.K33 2022
  • September 2023 selection
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, [2022] — FIC OSUNDE
  • August 2023 selection
    PaperbackEmeryville, California : Ten Speed Press, [2021] — E185.615.W275 2021
  • Assata Taught Me

    State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives

    Murch, Donna Jean,
    August 2023 selection
    PaperbackChicago, Illinois : Haymarket Books, 2022. — HN57.M834 2022