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 2010 Selection
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Pudd’nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain

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Imprint: Signet (Dec 04, 2007)
Fiction, Mass Market Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780451530745

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January 2010 Selection
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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution (Gender and American Culture)
by Lois Brown

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February 2010 Selection
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Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers
by Otto Penzler

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February 2010 Selection
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Black Music
by Amiri Baraka

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Imprint: Akashic Books (Jan 01, 2010)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 9781933354934

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March 2010 Selection
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Three Days Before The Shooting…
by Ralph Ellison

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Imprint: Modern Library (Jan 26, 2010)
Fiction, Hardcover, 1136 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780375759536
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March 2010 Selection
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Ralph Ellison: A Biography
by Arnold Rampersad

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Imprint: Knopf (Apr 24, 2007)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 672 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780375408274

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April 2010 Selection
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The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar
by Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Imprint: Ohio University Press (Feb 09, 2006)
Fiction, Hardcover, 560 pages
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 9780821416440

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April 2010 Selection
Cover of Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography
Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography
by Gordon Parks

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Imprint: Three Rivers Press (Sep 20, 2005)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 9780767922128

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May 2010 Selection
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Glorious
by Bernice L. McFadden

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Imprint: Akashic Books (May 04, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 190 pages
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 9781617758454

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June 2010 Selection
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Fortunate Son: A Novel
by Walter Mosley

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Imprint: Little, Brown and Company (Apr 10, 2006)
Fiction, Hardcover, 313 pages
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
ISBN: 9780316114714
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June 2010 Selection
Cover of Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America
Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America
by Cynthia Carr

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July 2010 Selection
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All the Stars Came Out That Night
by Kevin King

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Imprint: Plume (Feb 27, 2007)
Fiction, Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780452287624

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July 2010 Selection
Cover of Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
by Melvin Patrick Ely

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August 2010 Selection
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The Magic Keys
by Albert Murray

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Imprint: Vintage (Aug 08, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9781400095537
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August 2010 Selection
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Stomping The Blues (Da Capo Paperback)
by Albert Murray

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Imprint: Da Capo Press (Aug 01, 1989)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
ISBN: 9780306803628

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September 2010 Selection
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The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
by James Baldwin and Randall Kenan

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Imprint: Pantheon Books (Aug 24, 2010)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780307378828

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October 2010 Selection
Cover of Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond
Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond
by Ekow Eshun

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November 2010 Selection
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Trouble the Water
by Melvin Dixon

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Imprint: Fiction Collective Two (FC2) (Jan 01, 1989)
Fiction, Paperback, 243 pages
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 9780932511249

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November 2010 Selection
Cover of Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man
Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man
by Vincent Carretta

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December 2010 Selection
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The Executioner’s Game
by Gary Hardwick

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Imprint: William Morrow (Jan 04, 2005)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780060575847

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