The Coffee Will Make You Black (1998 - 2019) Reading List

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Black Don’t Crack… Book Spines Book Club

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January 2000 Selection
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Tar Baby
by Toni Morrison

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Imprint: Vintage Books (Jun 08, 2004)
Fiction, Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9781400033447
February 2000 Selection
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A Long Way from Home
by Connie Briscoe

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Imprint: Avon Books (Oct 03, 2000)
Fiction, Mass Market Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061030215
March 2000 Selection
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Two Cities: A Love Story
by John Edgar Wideman

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Imprint: Mariner Books (Sep 30, 1999)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618001859
April 2000 Selection
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The Essential Etheridge Knight (Pitt Poetry Series)
by Etheridge Knight

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Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press (Dec 05, 1986)
Poetry, Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 9780822953784
May 2000 Selection
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Pictures of a Dying Man: A Novel
by Agymah Kamau

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Imprint: Coffee House Press (Sep 01, 1999)
Fiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 9781566890878
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June 2000 Selection
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Manchild In The Promised Land
by Claude Brown

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July 2000 Selection
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Uncle Tom’s Children (P.S.)
by Richard Wright

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August 2000 Selection
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Liar’s Game
by Eric Jerome Dickey

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Imprint: NAL (May 01, 2002)
Fiction, Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: NAL
ISBN: 9780451205933
September 2000 Selection
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Sugar: A Novel
by Bernice L. McFadden

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Imprint: Plume (Jan 28, 2001)
Fiction, Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780452282209
October 2000 Selection
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The Spook Who Sat by the Door
by Sam Greenlee

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Imprint: Wayne State University Press (May 01, 1989)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814322468
November 2000 Selection
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The Messenger : The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad
by Karl Evanzz

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December 2000 Selection
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Blues Dancing: A Novel
by Diane McKinney-Whetstone

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Imprint: William Morrow (Oct 20, 1999)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780688149956

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