Center for Black Literature Monthly Book Club Complete Reading List
Center for Black Literature Monthly Book Club meets, via Zoom, on the last Wednesday of each month. Launched in 2022, they discuss the books of Black Authors throughout the African Diaspora. Visit their site to learn more ▶
January 1, 2025 Selection
The Message
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
7-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
List Price: $30.00One World (Oct 01, 2024)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
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February 1, 2025 Selection
Meridian
by Alice Walker
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 26, 2003)
Fiction, Paperback, 242 pages
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April 1, 2025 Selection
Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems
by Kwame Dawes
Copper Canyon Press (May 14, 2013)
Poetry, Paperback, 260 pages
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May 1, 2025 Selection
Rogue Justice: A Thriller
by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
5-time National Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
Doubleday Books (May 23, 2023)
Fiction, Hardcover, 368 pages
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June 1, 2025 Selection
My Parents’ Marriage
by Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond
Amistad (Jul 08, 2025)
Fiction, Paperback, 352 pages
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July 30, 2025 Selection
Great Expectations
by Vinson Cunningham
4-time National Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
Hogarth Press (Mar 12, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 256 pages
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August 27, 2025 Selection
Dream Count
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
8-time National Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
List Price: $32.00Knopf Publishing Group (Mar 04, 2025)
Fiction, Hardcover, 416 pages
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September 24, 2025 Selection
Black Skin, White Masks
by Frantz Fanon
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Nonfiction (Paperback)
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Nonfiction (Paperback)
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
Grove Press (Jan 01, 2008)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 206 pages
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November 19, 2025 Selection
Skin & Bones
by Renée Watson
1-time National Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
Little, Brown and Company (May 07, 2024)
Fiction, Hardcover, 416 pages
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December 17, 2025 Selection
Something in the Water
by Phyllis R. Dixon
Dafina (Jul 29, 2025)
Fiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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