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Samara Cyn’s Reading List

Reading With Rappers 📚

So often, female rappers are rendered invisible by an industry that would rather cater to the chauvinistic tendencies of male listeners, than promote unique and ref...

February Book Pick

Next month we will read A map to the door of no return by Dionne Brand

December Packing Week📚

We sent books to 1,378 people incarcerated in 38 states across the U.S. in December! 1378 books!

People received Abolition Feminisms, The World We Need, Elite Capture, How to Say Babylon and ...

NOVEMBER BOOK PICK

This month we are reading Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Letters from our Incarcerated Members

In between packing weeks, we spend a lot of time going through letters, prepping responses and processing packages, address changes and more. We get numerous letters weekly, sometimes requests to b...

BOOK OF THE MONTH

For the month of October we are reading Assata: An Autobiography. Join us in person at a local chapter near you. We will meet in 38 different cities around the world. We are also launching 5 new c...

Paris Chapter!

We are excited to announce we are launching our Paris chapter this month. If you’d like to join please email info@nonamebooks.com

Prison Program August Recap

Last month, we packed over 1200 books for our incarcerated members! Multiple days of prep, packing and letter writing to make sure we stay connected to our folks in prisons. We sent Eslanda: The La...

September Book Pick

We are excited to announce we will be reading Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde!

BTS: Prep for Prison Program Packing

We’re packing hundreds of books for our incarcerated members this week! Here’s some behind the scenes on some of the prep that goes into packing week. Along with updating our databases, process...

AUGUST BOOK PICK

Decolonizing The Mind by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o

JULY BOOK PICK

Hello everyone, next month we will be reading Krik Krak by Edwidge Danticat 🤎

JUNE BOOK PICK

More Prison Program Packing recap photos :)

Prison Program Packing!

This past weekend, we packed hundreds of books for our incarcerated members. We sent Race, Rights and Redemption. Our incarcerated members are all over the U.S., in 38 prisons out of the 50 states....

MAY BOOK PICK

Hello everyone! Next month we will be reading Africa Is Not A Country by Dipo Faloyin. Happy reading!

Artwork by Aaron Parris

INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS

This month we are reading A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. If you would like to come to one of our international meetings email info@nonamebooks.com . London folks don’t need to email, just dro...

Nairobi Chapter 🤎

This month we officially launched our chapter in Nairobi, Kenya! The meeting was held at Cheche Books which is a beautiful bookstore/organizing space in the city. They carry all sorts of revolution...

APRIL BOOK PICK

Hello everyone! Next month we will be reading A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. Paid subscribers get book announcements early. We will post on socials April 1st. Happy reading!

Artwork by Aar...

March MEETUPS

This month we are meeting in 19 U.S cities! All information for meetings can be found in the chats. Find your local chapter in the community/chat tab

LOS ANGELES

HOUSTON

DC

Prison Chapter Books!

Thank you to all our paid subscribers who helped make this possible! This month we were able to send 100 copies of the March book pick to the prison chapters of Noname Book Club. Next month we will...

LAGOS CHAPTER

The mission of this club is to connect black people around the world through literature and dialogue. We are so happy to share the first meeting in Lagos was a complete success! Next month Noname B...

March Book Pick

Hello everyone! Next month we will be reading Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Patreon subscribers get book announcements early. We will post on socials March 1st. Happy reading! 2025-02-20 18:17:27 +0000 UTC View Post

Hello!

After taking the month of January off to reorganize ourselves we are back this month with plenty of events in our local library and several Noname Book Club local chapter meet-ups. Here on patreon ...

February 2025 Book Pick!

For Black History Month we are reading Women's liberation and the African freedom struggle

NOVEMBER PACKING WEEK WRAPPED

This month we packed and sent 3000 books out to the homies inside. This was one of our largest packing weeks ever.

Thank you all for making this program possible month to month!

Books...

OCTOBER PACKING WEEK WRAPPED

This month we packed and sent 1312 books out to the homies inside.

Thank you all for making this program possible month to month — it couldn't happen without your support.

OCTOBER 2024 MEETUP DATES

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OCTOBER 2024 BOOK PICK

Next month we're reading Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler!