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Noname's Book Club Picks

Noname’s Book Club, started by rapper Noname (Fatimah Warner) is “an online/irl community dedicated to uplifting POC voices.” They highlight two books each month, each written by an author of color, and encourage members to use their local libraries and support independent bookstores. Check out some of Noname’s picks here! Visit their website: https://www.nonamebooks.com/ and follow them on Instagram @nonamereads

Library Staff
The Kansas City Public Library

97 items

  • A Small Place

    Kincaid, Jamaica
    April 2025 Selection
    Book, 1988New York : Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1988. — 813 K51S

  • Parable of the Talents

    Butler, Octavia E.
    October 2024 Selection
    Book, 2000New York : Warner Books, [2000] — SF/FNTSY BUTLER OCTAVIA

  • Tip of the Spear

    Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt

    Burton, Orisanmi,
    August 2024 Selection
    Book, 2023Oakland, Calfiornia : University of California Press, [2023] — 365.641 BURTON

  • Big Black

    Stand at Attica

    Smith, Frank, 1933-2004
    August 2024 Selection
    Graphic Novel, 2020Los Angeles, California : Archaia, 2020. — GRAPHIC 365.9747 S64B

  • How to Say Babylon

    a Memoir

    Sinclair, Safiya,
    July 2024 Selection
    Book, 2023New York : 37Ink/Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 818.6 SINCLAIR

  • Rasta and Resistance

    From Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney

    Campbell, Horace,
    July 2024 Selection
    Book, 1987Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [1987] — 322.1097 CAMPBELL

  • Another Word for Love

    a Memoir

    Wallace, Carvell,
    June 2024 Selection
    Book, 2024New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — 070.92 WALLACE

  • Things Fall Apart

    Achebe, Chinua
    May 2024 Selection
    Book, 1992New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1992. — FICTION ACHEBE

  • Discourse on Colonialism

    Césaire, Aimé,
    May 2024 Selection
    Book, 2000New York : Monthly Review Press, [2000] — 325.3 CESAIRE

  • Waiting to Exhale

    McMillan, Terry
    April 2024 Selection
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley, 2021. — FICTION MCMILLAN TERRY

  • Barracoon

    the Story of the Last "black Cargo"

    Hurston, Zora Neale
    March 2024 Selection
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — BIO LEWIS CUDJO

  • Set Boundaries, Find Peace

    a Guide to Reclaiming Yourself

    Tawwab, Nedra Glover,
    December 2023 Selection
    Book, 2021New York : TarcherPerigee, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] — 158.1 T23S

  • Seven Days in June

    a Novel

    Williams, Tia, 1975-
    December 2023 Selection
    Book, 2021New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2021. — FICTION WILLIAMS TIA

  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

    a History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017

    Khalidi, Rashid,
    November 2023 Selection
    Book, 2020New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2020.

  • Devil in a Blue Dress

    An Easy Rawlins Mystery

    Mosley, Walter
    October 2023 Selection
    Book, 2002New York : Washington Square Press, [2002] — M FICTION MOSLEY

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