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

AALBC’s Book Club is now The Black Don’t Crack… Book Spines Book Club

Black Don’t Crack… Book Spines Book Club

Join us for a lively community discussion about our latest selection, The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb.

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Cover for The Violin Conspiracy

January 2005 Selection

Cover of Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

by Geoffrey C. Ward

February 2005 Selection

Cover of Some People, Some Other Place

Some People, Some Other Place

by J. California Cooper

March 2005 Selection

Cover of Platitudes (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)

Platitudes (Northeastern Library of Black Literature)

April 2005 Selection

Cover of Dark Matter: Reading the Bones

Dark Matter: Reading the Bones

by Sheree Renée Thomas

May 2005 Selection

Cover of The Time of Our Singing: A Novel

The Time of Our Singing: A Novel

by Richard Powers

July 2005 Selection

Cover of The Salt Roads

by Nalo Hopkinson

August 2005 Selection

Cover of My Life of Absurdity

My Life of Absurdity

by Chester Himes

September 2005 Selection

Cover of Those Bones Are Not My Child: A novel

Those Bones Are Not My Child: A novel

by Toni Cade Bambara

November 2005 Selection

Cover of Buffalo Gordon on The Plains

Buffalo Gordon on The Plains

by J. P. Sinclair Lewis

December 2005 Selection

Cover of At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America

At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America

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