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 2003 Selection
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The Wake of the Wind: A Novel
by J. California Cooper

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February 2003 Selection
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What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace
by Walter Mosley

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March 2003 Selection
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The Ecstatic
by Victor Lavalle

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Imprint: Vintage (Oct 14, 2003)
Fiction, Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780375713316
April 2003 Selection
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Douglass’ Women: A Novel
by Jewell Parker Rhodes

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May 2003 Selection
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Grace: A Novel
by Elizabeth Nunez

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Imprint: Ballantine Books (Feb 28, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780345455345
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June 2003 Selection
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Mules and Men
by Zora Neale Hurston

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Imprint: Harper Perennial Modern Classics (Jan 08, 2008)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061350177
July 2003 Selection
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My Love, My Love: or The Peasant Girl
by Rosa Guy

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Imprint: Coffee House Press (Sep 01, 2002)
Fiction, Paperback, 168 pages
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 9781566891318
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August 2003 Selection
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Such Was the Season (Voices of the South)
by Clarence Major

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Imprint: LSU Press (Apr 01, 2003)
Fiction, Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
ISBN: 9780807128657
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September 2003 Selection
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The Marrow of Tradition (Dover Value Editions)
by Charles W. Chesnutt

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Imprint: Dover Publications (Dec 19, 2003)
Fiction, Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Dover Publications
ISBN: 9780486431635
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October 2003 Selection
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Shadow And Act
by Ralph Ellison

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November 2003 Selection
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Arrow of God
by Chinua Achebe

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Imprint: Anchor (Jan 01, 1989)
Fiction, Paperback, 230 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780385014809
December 2003 Selection
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West of Rehoboth: A Novel
by Alexs D. Pate

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Imprint: Harper Perennial (Aug 20, 2002)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780380800421
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