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Call & Response Books

Chicago, IL

Black-Owned Woman-Owned

Call & Response is a Black woman-owned bookstore based on the South Side of Chicago that centers writings and experiences of Black people and other people of color. We will offer literature for readers of all ages and provide regular events and programming for community members.

Call & Response Featured Picks

Chain Gang All Stars: A Read with Jenna Pick by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi

How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith

River Mumma by Zalika Reid-Benta

The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez

To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

Africa Is Not a Country by Dipo Faloyin

The Night Parade by Jami Nakamura Lin

Between Friends & Lovers by Shirlene Obuobi

A Magical Girl Retires by Park Seolyeon

The Unfortunates by J K Chukwu

What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou

Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang

Magical/Realism by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

Victim by Andrew Boryga

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Black Liturgies by Cole Arthur Riley

Colored Television (A GMA Book Club Pick) by Danzy Senna

This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour

The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin

Another Country by James Baldwin

Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

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