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 ▶
December 27, 2023 Selection
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
by James McBride
20-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 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2023
Riverhead Books (Aug 08, 2023)
Fiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
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November 29, 2023 Selection
Up Home: One Girl’s Journey
by Ruth J. Simmons
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
Random House (Sep 05, 2023)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 224 pages
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October 25, 2023 Selection
Lone Women
by Victor Lavalle
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Fiction (Paperback)
- 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
One World (Feb 06, 2024)
Fiction, Paperback, 304 pages
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September 27, 2023 Selection
The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts
by Tiya Miles
Random House (Jun 13, 2023)
Fiction, Paperback, 320 pages
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June 28, 2023 Selection
Grocery Shopping with My Mother
by Kevin Powell
Soft Skull Press (Dec 06, 2022)
Poetry, Hardcover, 192 pages
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May 31, 2023 Selection
Recitatif
by Toni Morrison
3-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 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
Knopf (Feb 01, 2022)
Fiction, Hardcover, 96 pages
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April 26, 2023 Selection
Generations: A Memoir
by Lucille Clifton
New York Review Books (Nov 16, 2021)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 104 pages
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March 29, 2023 Selection
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories
by Tia Ross
Flame Tree Press (Jun 15, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover
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February 22, 2023 Selection
Black Buck
by Mateo Askaripour
Mariner Books (Jan 22, 2022)
Fiction, Paperback, 416 pages
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