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Chicago Book Club Authors
Mikki Kendall
Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot
Book Club Month: October 20
Author Talk: 10/22/2020
Sonali Dev
Recipe for Persuasion
November 20
11/19/2020
Riva Lehrer
Golem Girl
December 20
12/17/2020
Emil Ferris
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
January 21
1/28/2021
Eve Ewing
1919
February 21
2/25/2021
Nnedi Okorafor
Remote Control
March 21
3/25/2021
Natalie Moore
The South Side
April 21
4/22/2021
Rebecca Makkai
The Great Believers
May 21
5/27/2021
Fatimah Asghar
If They Come for Us
June 21
6/24/2021
Kayla Ancrum
Darling
July 21
7/22/2021
Jessica Hopper
(TBD)
August 21
8/26/2021
Precious Brady-Davis
I Have Always Been Me: A Memoir
September 21
9/23/2021
Participating Bookstores
Bookie's (Beverly and Homewood)
Bookends and Beginnings
Bucket O'Blood Books and Records
City Lit
Madison Street Books
Pilsen Community Books
Roscoe Books
Semicolon
Seminary Co-Op Bookstore
The Silver Room
Unabridged Books
Women & Children First