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 2005 Selection
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
by Geoffrey C. Ward

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Imprint: Knopf (Oct 26, 2004)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 512 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780375415326

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February 2005 Selection
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Some People, Some Other Place
by J. California Cooper

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Imprint: Anchor (Apr 04, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780385496834

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March 2005 Selection
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Platitudes (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)
by Trey Ellis

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Imprint: Northeastern (Oct 02, 2003)
Fiction, Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Northeastern
ISBN: 9781555535865

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April 2005 Selection
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Dark Matter: Reading the Bones
by Sheree Renée Thomas

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Imprint: Aspect (Jan 02, 2004)
Fiction, Hardcover, 416 pages
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
ISBN: 9780446528603

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May 2005 Selection
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The Time of Our Singing: A Novel
by Richard Powers

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Imprint: Picador (Jan 01, 2004)
Fiction, Paperback, 640 pages
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
ISBN: 9780312422189

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July 2005 Selection
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The Salt Roads
by Nalo Hopkinson

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Imprint: Warner Books (Nov 12, 2003)
Fiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
ISBN: 9780446533027

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August 2005 Selection
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My Life of Absurdity
by Chester Himes

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Imprint: Paragon House (Jan 01, 1972)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 391 pages
Publisher: Paragon House
ISBN: 9781557783073

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September 2005 Selection
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Those Bones Are Not My Child: A novel
by Toni Cade Bambara

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Imprint: Vintage (Oct 24, 2000)
Fiction, Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780679774082

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November 2005 Selection
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Buffalo Gordon on The Plains
by J. P. Sinclair Lewis

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Imprint: Forge (Dec 01, 2003)
Fiction, Hardcover, 496 pages
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
ISBN: 9780312873936

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December 2005 Selection
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At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America
by Philip Dray

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Imprint: Random House (Jan 08, 2002)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 544 pages
Publisher: Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780375503245

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