Nox Library produces reading guides for literature that focuses on labor, class, race, politics, and art.

Learning and applying these texts requires active, critical engagement with the author’s claims and ideas. Reading guides help the reader to navigate the often dense material through comprehension of the main points and organization of the text.

In relating the education back to the current moment, we believe reading is a critical part of liberation and developing community solidarity.

Great study leads to action.

How are reading guides used?

Reading guides are inserted into books that are distributed to our community. Creating a reading guide will directly support readers while fostering communal engagement of study outside the borders of academia. Nox Library will provide you with your book of choice to help you contribute to this effort.

What does a reading guide look like?

A reading guide can take on any format and length that suites that title and that you feel comfortable with. We can also provide you with a general template for guidance. The reading guide for each point should point out the themes within that book, any arguments or points, definitions of discipline-specific language, and connect the book back to our contemporary struggles.

What books need a reading guide?

You can choose your favorite book or a book that you have been looking forward to reading. Nox Library distributes literature that focuses on labor, class, race, revolutionary politics and art. So while the book must fall within the realm of our interest, the title you choose to create a reading guide for, should be of interest to you.

Need somewhere to start?
Here are a few books we have available for distribution:

• Are Prisons Obsolete?, A. Davis

• The Origins of the Urban Crisis, T. Sugrue

• Blood in the Water, H.A. Thompson

• Racism: What it is and How to Fight It, Trotsky

• The Bluest Eye, T. Morrison

• Kindred, O. Butler

• The New Jim Crow, M. Alexander

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X

• Assata: An Autobiography