Suggested Reading & Watching for One Book, Everyone Reads

The library will close at 5pm on Wednesday, November 27, and remain closed all day on Thursday, November 28, for Thanksgiving. Regular hours will resume on Friday, November 29, at 9am.

Start Date

Non-Fiction Books: 

The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation by Natalie Y. Moore - 305.8 MO 

An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz - 364.15 KO 

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side by Eve L. Ewing - 370.89 EW 

Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago's South Side by Lee Bey - 720.9773 BE pb 

Black Writing from Chicago: In the World, Not of It? - 810.8 Black pb 

The End of Chiraq: A Literary Mixtape - 810.8 End pb 

Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis by Liesl Olsen - 810.9977311 Olson, L. 

Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks - 811 Brooks, G. pb 

Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black by Timuel Black Jr - 921 B5618b pb 

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha D. Trethewey - 921 T725t 

Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells - 921 W4635we pb 

The Muse in Bronzeville: African American Creative Expression in Chicago, 1932-1950 by Robert Bone - 977.311 BO pb 

Bronzeville: Black Chicago in Pictures, 1941-1943 - 977.311 BR 

Bronzeville Nights: On the Town in Chicago's Black Metropolis by Steven C. Dubin - 977.311 DU 

Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago by Linda Gartz - 977.311 GA pb 

Along the Streets of Bronzeville by Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach - ebook

A Street in Bronzeville by Gwendolyn Brooks -  eBook

 

Fiction Books: 

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray - BOOK CLUB GR pb 

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - F Jones, T. 

Native Son by Richard Wright – F Wright, R. 

Everywhere You Don’t Belong by Gabriel Bump - F Bump, G.

Lot by Bryan Washington - F Washington, B.

No One is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts - F Watts, S.

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy - F Flournoy, A.

The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis - F Mathis, A.

The Mothers by Brit Bennett - F Bennett, B.

 

Movies: 

Blueprint for Bronzeville - DVD 363.59 BL  

Ida B. Wells: Crusader for Human Rights - Streaming on Kanopy


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Katy Jacob