Reading List for Rainbow Bookclub VI
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 Corporation
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March 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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November 2019 — Selection
The Secret of Freedom
by Vernon Kitabu Turner
Publication Date: Dec 01, 1994
List Price: $8.95
Format: Paperback, 111 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781878901699
Imprint: Hampton Roads Publishing Company
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing Company
Parent Company: Hampton Roads Publishing Company
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August 2019 — Selection
Queenie
by Candice Carty-Williams
Publication Date: Nov 05, 2019
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 352 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781501196027
Imprint: Gallery Books/Scout Press
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: CBS Corporation
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July 2019 — Selection
Kindred
by Octavia Butler
- A Top 10 Book in the “Science Fiction Books” Category
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
Publication Date: Feb 01, 2004
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780807083697
Imprint: Beacon Press
Publisher: Beacon Press
Parent Company: Unitarian Universalist Association
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May 2019 — Selection
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”
by Zora Neale Hurston and Deborah G. Plant
- 7 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: May 08, 2018
List Price: $24.99
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062748201
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corporation
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April 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