Noname Book Club Selections 2021

Launched in the summer of 2019 by Chicago rapper Noname, the book club picks two titles a month to discuss both online and in-person in discussion groups around the country. Described as “reading material for the homies”, Noname Book Club highlights books that speak on human conditions in critical and original ways while encouraging members to support the works of authors of color.

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1. Homegoing

Author:

Gyasi, Yaa

Average Rating:

4.5 stars

Available Copies	Location	Call Number
1 of 1	Arcade	FICTION Gyasi, Y.
1 of 1	Fair Oaks	FICTION Gyasi, Y.
1 of 1	Franklin	FICTION Gyasi, Y.
0 of 3	McKinley	FICTION Gyasi, Y.
1 of 1	South Natomas	FICTION Gyasi, Y.
0 of 1	Sylvan Oaks	FICTION Gyasi, Y.
0 of 1	Valley Hi-North Laguna	FICTION Gyasi, Y.
1 of 1	Arbuckle Branch Library Adult Collection	Fic
1 of 1	Barber Branch	FICTION Gyasi, Y.
1 of 1	Colusa Main Branch Adult Collection	Fic
1 of 2	Folsom Adult	FICTION Gyasi, Y.
1 of 1	Sutter County Main Branch	FICTION Gyasi, Y.
0 of 1	Woodland Public Library	FICTION Gyasi, Y.

Pub. Date	Publisher	Physical Desc.	Availability
p2016	Penguin Random House Audio Pub	11 audio discs (13 hr., 11 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.	On Shelf Elk Grove CD FICTION Gyasi, Y. Franklin CD FICTION Gyasi, Y.	More Info

Available Copies	Location	Call Number
0 of 1	Belle Cooledge	LARGE PRINT FICTION Gyasi, Y.

Pub. Date

Edition

Publisher

Physical Desc.

Availability

[2016]

First large print edition

Random House Large Print

468 pages ; 24 cm

More Info

Available Copies	Location	Call Number
0 of 1	Online OverDrive Collection

Available Copies	Location	Call Number
0 of 1	Online OverDrive Collection

Description:

"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...

2. My sister, the serial killer: a novel

Book cover for "My sister, the serial killer"

Author:

Braithwaite, Oyinkan

Average Rating:

3.9 stars

Available Copies	Location	Call Number
0 of 1	Belle Cooledge	FICTION Braithwaite, O.
0 of 1	Carmichael	FICTION Braithwaite, O.
1 of 1	Folsom Adult	FICTION Braithwaite, O.
1 of 1	Woodland Public Library	FICTION Braithwaite, O.

Carmichael

LARGE PRINT FICTION Braithwaite, O.

McKinley

LARGE PRINT FICTION Braithwaite, O.

Pocket-Greenhaven

LARGE PRINT FICTION Braithwaite, O.

Available Copies	Location	Call Number
1 of 1	Carmichael	LARGE PRINT FICTION Braithwaite, O.
0 of 1	Central	LARGE PRINT FICTION Braithwaite, O.
1 of 1	McKinley	LARGE PRINT FICTION Braithwaite, O.
1 of 1	Pocket-Greenhaven	LARGE PRINT FICTION Braithwaite, O.

Pub. Date

Edition

Publisher

Physical Desc.

Availability

2019

Large print ed

Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company

267 pages ; 23 cm

Carmichael

LARGE PRINT FICTION Braithwaite, O.

McKinley

LARGE PRINT FICTION Braithwaite, O.

Pocket-Greenhaven

LARGE PRINT FICTION Braithwaite, O.

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Available Copies	Location	Call Number
8 of 1	Online OverDrive Collection

Available Copies	Location	Call Number
0 of 1	Online OverDrive Collection

Description:

"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality...