Suggested Reading & Watching for One Book, Everyone Reads

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