Reading List for Folktales’ Black Women’s Literary Society
February 2024 — Selection
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
Publication Date: Aug 08, 2023
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780593422946
Imprint: Riverhead Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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November 2023 — Selection
The First Ladies
by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Publication Date: Jun 27, 2023
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780593440285
Imprint: Berkley Books
Publisher: Berkley
Parent Company: Berkley Publishing Group
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October 2023 — Selection
Family Lore
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Publication Date: Aug 01, 2023
List Price: $30.00
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780063207264
Imprint: Ecco
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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September 2023 — Selection
Symphony of Secrets
by Brendan Slocumb
Publication Date: Apr 18, 2023
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780593315446
Imprint: Anchor Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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August 2023 — Selection
Rogue Justice: A Thriller
by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Publication Date: May 23, 2023
List Price: $29.00
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780385548328
Imprint: Doubleday Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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July 2023 — Selection
Black Candle Women
by Diane Marie Brown
Publication Date: Feb 28, 2023
List Price: $27.99
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781525899911
Imprint: Graydon House
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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June 2023 — Selection
In Our Shoes: On Being a Young Black Woman in Not-So Post-Racial America
by Brianna Holt
Publication Date: Apr 11, 2023
List Price: $18.00
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780593186398
Imprint: Plume
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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May 2023 — Selection
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
by Tiya Miles
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2021
Publication Date: Jun 08, 2021
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781984854995
Imprint: Random House
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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April 2023 — Selection
Yellow Wife
by Sadeqa Johnson
Publication Date: Jan 12, 2021
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781982149109
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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March 2023 — Selection
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times
by Michelle Obama
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Nov 15, 2022
List Price: $32.50
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780593237465
Imprint: Crown Publishing Group
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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February 2023 — Selection
Civil Rights Queen
by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Publication Date: Jan 25, 2022
List Price: $30.00
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781524747183
Imprint: Pantheon Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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November 2022 — Selection
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Publication Date: Dec 28, 2021
List Price: $17.99
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781250756138
Imprint: Flatiron Books
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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October 2022 — Selection
The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story
by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Publication Date: Feb 08, 2022
List Price: $26.99
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780063019904
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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September 2022 — Selection
Memphis
by Tara M. Stringfellow
Publication Date: Apr 05, 2022
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780593230480
Imprint: The Dial Press
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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August 2022 — Selection
Finding Me: A Memoir
by Viola Davis
- 4 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Apr 26, 2022
List Price: $28.99
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780063037328
Imprint: HarperOne
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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July 2022 — Selection
The Personal Librarian
by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
Publication Date: Jun 29, 2021
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780593101537
Imprint: Berkley Books
Publisher: Berkley
Parent Company: Berkley Publishing Group
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June 2022 — Selection
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
by Farah Jasmine Griffin
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2022)
Publication Date: Sep 14, 2021
List Price: $26.95
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780393651904
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Parent Company: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
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May 2022 — Selection
The Violin Conspiracy
by Brendan Slocumb
Publication Date: Feb 01, 2022
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780593315415
Imprint: Anchor
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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April 2022 — Selection
We Are Not Like Them
by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
Publication Date: Oct 05, 2021
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781982181031
Imprint: Atria Books
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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March 2022 — Selection
You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays
by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (editor), M. Genevieve West (editor)
Publication Date: Jan 04, 2022
List Price: $29.99
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780063043855
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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February 2022 — Selection
No One Is Coming to Save Us: A Novel
by Stephanie Powell Watts
Publication Date: Feb 06, 2018
List Price: $16.99
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780062472991
Imprint: Ecco
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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November 2021 — Selection
The Other Black Girl
by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Publication Date: Jun 01, 2021
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781982160135
Imprint: Atria Books
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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October 2021 — Selection
The Sweetness of Water
by Nathan Harris
Publication Date: Jun 15, 2021
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780316362481
Imprint: Little, Brown and Company
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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September 2021 — Selection
While Justice Sleeps
by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Publication Date: May 25, 2021
List Price: $28.95
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780385546577
Imprint: Doubleday Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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August 2021 — Selection
The Man Who Lived Underground
by Richard Wright
Publication Date: Apr 20, 2021
List Price: $22.95
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781598536768
Imprint: Library of America
Publisher: Library of America
Parent Company: Library of America
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July 2021 — Selection
Just As I Am
by Cicely Tyson
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Jan 26, 2021
List Price: $28.99
Format: Hardcover
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062931061
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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June 2021 — Selection
Concrete Rose
by Angie Thomas
Publication Date: May 30, 2020
List Price: $19.99
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult
ISBN13: 9780062846716
Imprint: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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May 2021 — Selection
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Publication Date: Jun 02, 2020
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780525536291
Imprint: Riverhead Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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April 2021 — Selection
Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
Publication Date: Sep 15, 2020
List Price: $27.95
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780525658184
Imprint: Knopf Publishing Group
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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March 2021 — Selection
She Would Be King: A Novel
by Wayétu Moore
Publication Date: Sep 03, 2019
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 312 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781644450017
Imprint: Graywolf Press
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Parent Company: Graywolf Press
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February 2021 — Selection
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Nov 17, 2020
List Price: $45.00
Format: Hardcover, 768 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781524763169
Imprint: Crown Publishing Group
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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November 1, 2020 — Selection
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2020
Publication Date: Aug 04, 2020
List Price: $32.00
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780593230251
Imprint: Random House
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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October 16, 2020 — Selection
The Girl with the Louding Voice
by Abi Daré
Publication Date: Feb 23, 2021
List Price: $17.00
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781524746094
Imprint: Dutton
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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September 18, 2020 — Selection
Deacon King Kong
by James McBride
- 5 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2020
- A 2020 Oprah Book Club Selection
Publication Date: Mar 03, 2020
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780735216723
Imprint: Riverhead Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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August 21, 2020 — Selection
The Yellow House: A Memoir
by Sarah M. Broom
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Aug 13, 2019
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780802125088
Imprint: Grove Press
Publisher: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
Parent Company: Grove Atlantic, Inc.
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July 17, 2020 — Selection
Heaven, My Home
by Attica Locke
Publication Date: Sep 17, 2019
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780316363402
Imprint: Mulholland Books
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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June 2020 — Selection
A Black Women’s History of the United States
by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Publication Date: Feb 04, 2020
List Price: $27.95
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
ISBN13: 9780807033555
Imprint: Beacon Press
Publisher: Beacon Press
Parent Company: Unitarian Universalist Association
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May 2020 — Selection
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- 4 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 4 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- A 2019 Oprah Book Club Selection
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Sep 24, 2019
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 432 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780399590597
Imprint: One World
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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April 2020 — Selection
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
Publication Date: Jan 07, 2020
List Price: $25.99
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780062915795
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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February 2020 — Selection
In the Country of Women: A Memoir
by Susan Straight
Publication Date: Aug 06, 2019
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781948226226
Imprint: Catapult
Publisher: Catapult
Parent Company: Catapult
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November 2019 — Selection
Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir
by Kwame Onwuachi
Publication Date: Apr 09, 2019
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781524732622
Imprint: Knopf Publishing Group
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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October 2019 — Selection
The Gone Dead
by Chanelle Benz
Publication Date: Jun 25, 2019
List Price: $26.99
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780062490698
Imprint: Ecco
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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September 2019 — Selection
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster
by Stephen L. Carter
Publication Date: Oct 09, 2018
List Price: $30.00
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781250121974
Imprint: Henry Holt & Company
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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August 2019 — Selection
On The Come Up
by Angie Thomas
Publication Date: Jun 05, 2018
List Price: $18.99
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult
ISBN13: 9780062498564
Imprint: Balzer + Bray
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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July 2019 — Selection
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers
by Bridgett M. Davis
Publication Date: Jan 29, 2019
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780316558730
Imprint: Little, Brown and Company
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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May 2019 — Selection
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Publication Date: Nov 20, 2018
List Price: $22.95
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780385544238
Imprint: Doubleday
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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April 2019 — Selection
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
by Sarah Bird
Publication Date: Sep 04, 2018
List Price: $27.99
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781250193162
Imprint: St. Martin’s Press
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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March 2019 — Selection
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- A 2018 Oprah Book Club Selection
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2019 BCALA Literary Award
Publication Date: Nov 13, 2018
List Price: $32.50
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781524763138
Imprint: Crown
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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February 2019 — Selection
If Beale Street Could Talk
by James Baldwin
Publication Date: Oct 06, 2006
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 197 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780307275936
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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November 2018 — Selection
The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir
by Jenifer Lewis
Publication Date: Nov 06, 2018
List Price: $15.99
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062410412
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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October 2018 — Selection
Halsey Street
by Naima Coster
Publication Date: Jun 26, 2018
List Price: $14.95
Format: Paperback, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781503941168
Imprint: Little A
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Parent Company: Amazon.com, Inc.
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September 2018 — Selection
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2014
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2014
Publication Date: Oct 21, 2014
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780812994520
Imprint: One World
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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August 2018 — Selection
Not Without Laughter (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Langston Hughes
Publication Date: Apr 04, 2008
List Price: $4.50
Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780486454481
Imprint: Dover Publications
Publisher: Dover Publications
Parent Company: Dover Publications
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July 2018 — Selection
Down the River unto the Sea
by Walter Mosley
Publication Date: Feb 20, 2018
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780316509640
Imprint: Mulholland Books
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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June 2018 — Selection
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
- 6 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2017
- 2018 BCALA Literary Award
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2017
Publication Date: Sep 07, 2017
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781501126062
Imprint: Scribner
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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May 2018 — Selection
Bluebird, Bluebird
by Attica Locke
Publication Date: Sep 12, 2017
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780316363297
Imprint: Mulholland Books
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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April 2018 — Selection
An American Marriage: A Novel
by Tayari Jones
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- A 2018 Oprah Book Club Selection
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2019 BCALA Literary Award
Publication Date: Feb 06, 2018
List Price: $26.95
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781616208776
Imprint: Algonquin Books
Publisher: Workman Publishing Co., Inc.
Parent Company: Workman Publishing Co., Inc.
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March 2018 — Selection
Death Of A King: The Real Story Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year
by Tavis Smiley
Publication Date: Sep 09, 2014
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780316332767
Imprint: Grand Central Publishing
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group
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February 2018 — Selection
The Hate U Give
by Angie Thomas
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Coretta Scott King Award Winning Book 2018
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2017
Publication Date: Feb 28, 2017
List Price: $18.99
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult
ISBN13: 9780062498533
Imprint: Balzer + Bray
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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November 2017 — Selection
I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons
by Kevin Hart
Publication Date: Jun 06, 2017
List Price: $26.99
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781501155567
Imprint: Atria / 37 Ink
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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October 2017 — Selection
The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues: A Novel
by Edward Kelsey Moore
Publication Date: Jun 20, 2017
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781250107947
Imprint: Henry Holt & Company
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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September 2017 — Selection
The Wide Circumference of Love: A Novel
by Marita Golden
Publication Date: Mar 28, 2017
List Price: $24.99
Format: Hardcover, 300 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781628727357
Imprint: Arcade
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Parent Company: Skyhorse Publishing
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August 2017 — Selection
Swing Time
by Zadie Smith
Publication Date: Nov 15, 2016
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781594203985
Imprint: Penguin Press
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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July 2017 — Selection
The Book of Harlan
by Bernice L. McFadden
- 4 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2017 American Book Award
Publication Date: May 03, 2016
List Price: $32.95
Format: Paperback, 400 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617754456
Imprint: Akashic Books
Publisher: Akashic Books
Parent Company: Akashic Books
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June 2017 — Selection
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
by Trevor Noah
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2019 Children’s Africana Book Award Winner or Honoree
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2017
Publication Date: Nov 15, 2016
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780399588174
Imprint: Spiegel & Grau
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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May 2017 — Selection
Another Brooklyn: A Novel
by Jacqueline Woodson
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- 2017 BCALA Literary Award
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2016
Publication Date: Aug 09, 2016
List Price: $22.99
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780062359988
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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April 2017 — Selection
The Mothers: A Novel
by Brit Bennett
Publication Date: Oct 10, 2017
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780399184529
Imprint: Riverhead Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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March 2017 — Selection
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
by Patricia Bell-Scott
Publication Date: Feb 02, 2016
List Price: $30.00
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780679446521
Imprint: Alfred A. Knopf
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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February 2017 — Selection
Hidden Figures
by Margot Lee Shetterly
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2017 BCALA Literary Award
Publication Date: Sep 06, 2016
List Price: $27.99
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062363596
Imprint: William Morrow
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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November 2016 — Selection
Homegoing: A Novel
by Yaa Gyasi
- 7 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 2017 American Book Award
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2016
Publication Date: Jun 07, 2016
List Price: $30.00
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781101947135
Imprint: Random House
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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October 2016 — Selection
I Almost Forgot about You
by Terry McMillan
Publication Date: Apr 11, 2017
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781101902592
Imprint: Crown Publishing Group
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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September 2016 — Selection
The Truth About Awiti
by Christine Platt
Publication Date: Mar 19, 2015
List Price: $14.99
Format: Paperback, 316 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780692287736
Imprint: Field Order Press
Publisher: Field Order Press
Parent Company: Field Order Press
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August 2016 — Selection
A Moment of Silence: Midnight III
by Sister Souljah
Publication Date: Nov 10, 2015
List Price: $27.99
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781476765983
Imprint: Atria Books
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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July 2016 — Selection
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine
by Damon Tweedy
Publication Date: Sep 06, 2016
List Price: $18.00
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781250105042
Imprint: Picador
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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June 2016 — Selection
Black Deutschland: A Novel
by Darryl Pinckney
Publication Date: Feb 02, 2016
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780374113810
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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May 2016 — Selection
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
by Shonda Rhimes
Publication Date: Sep 13, 2013
List Price: $16.99
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781476777122
Imprint: Simon & Schuster
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.
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April 2016 — Selection
Loving Day: A Novel
by Mat Johnson
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 2016 American Book Award
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2015
Publication Date: Sep 06, 2016
List Price: $17.00
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780812983661
Imprint: One World
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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March 2016 — Selection
Between The World And Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- 10 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2015
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2015
Publication Date: Jul 01, 2015
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780812993547
Imprint: Spiegel & Grau
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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February 2016 — Selection
Grant Park
by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2015
List Price: $24.95
Format: Hardcover
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781932841916
Imprint: Agate Bolden
Publisher: Agate Publishing, Inc
Parent Company: Agate Publishing, Inc