SALON Summer Book Club

Read BOOKS curated by SALON x Cafe Con Libros and friends. Pick up PRIZES for each reading milestone, and earn a FREE back-to-school HAIRCUT.

How it Works

 

Pick Up A Bookmark

 

Stop by one of the following locations and pick up a bookmark to track your reading.

  • SALON - 224 Roebling St. BK 11221

  • Cafe Con Libros - 724 Prospect Pl, Brooklyn, NY 11216

Sign up with this link to let us know you’ll be participating, and help us schedule your free back-to-school haircut.

 

Read from our SALON x Cafe Con Libros Book List

 

Choose the way you read. Check out books from our SALON library (224 Roebling St BK), your local NYPL or BKPL, or buy from an independent bookstore. (We love Cafe Con Libros)

 

Pick Up Your Prizes

 

Track your completed books on the bookmark, and bring it into SALON to collect prizes along the way. Completing 10 books (feel free to read from the list above or below your reading level) earns you a free back-to-school haircut!

SALON x Cafe Con Libros Reading Lists

 

    1. The Hair Book by LaTonya Yvette and Amanda Jane Jones

    2. Don't Touch My Hair by Shareee Miller

    3. Hair Pelitos by Sandra Cisneros

    4. I am Enough by Grace Byers

    5. Dalia’s Wondrous Hair / El cabello maravilloso de Dalia by Laura Lacámara

    6. Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho

    7. Charlie’s First Haircut by Chaz and Natalie Hazlitt

    8. Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut by Derrick Barnes

    9. Straight Hair, Curly Hair by Augusta Goldin

    10. Hair Twins by Raakhee Mirchandani
      Magnificent

    1. Madam C.J. Walker Builds A Business by Rebel Girls

    2. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (excerpt pg. 3 -18)

    3. Black Boy Joy by Kwame Mbalia

    4. Textures : The History and Art of Black Hair (excerpt “The Dead Matter” pg 37-43 )

    5. Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice

    6. J.D. and the Great Barber Battle, by J. Dillard

    7. Chinatown Pretty: Fashion and Wisdom from Chinatown's Most Stylish Seniors by Andria Lo and Valerie Luu

    8. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (excerpt “Ribbons” pg. 121)

    9. Back in the Days by Jamel Shabazz

    1. Hot Comb by Ebony Flowers

    2. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzadula (excerpt “How To Tame A Wild Tongue” pg. 74-86)

    3. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (excerpt “Braiding” pg. 171)

    4. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (excerpts pg. 83-85, pg. 121, pg. 259)

    5. The Young Lords by Johanna Fernandez (excerpt pg. 22 - 40)

    6. Rebels from Punk to Dior by Janette Beckman

    7. The Way We Were by Destiny Mata

    8. Black Boy Joy Kwame Mbalia

    9. Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair (excerpt pg. 51-100)

    10. New Beauty A Modern Look at Beauty Culture and Fashion (excerpt “Brushing Up on the History of Hair” pg.164-177)

    11. Me, My Hair, and I edited by Elizabeth Benedict (excerpt “Hair, Interrupted” by Suleika Jaouad pg. 9-17)