The Coffee Will Make You Black Book Club’s Reading List
(1998 – 2006, 2010, and 2018 – 2020)

We are currently seeking a book club moderator.

Participation is easy (more on how our club operates). Discussions are held on the book’s description page, where it says “Join the Discussion.” Feel free to join us anytime; discussions are not limited to the month the book was selected and anyone may join the conversation.

December 2001
Where I’m Bound: A Novel by Allen Ballard (Simon & Schuster, Inc.,  Oct 05, 2000)

November 2001
Raising Fences: A Black Man’s Love Story by Michael Datcher (Penguin Random House,  Mar 05, 2001)

October 2001
Pipe Dream: A Novel (Strivers Row) by Solomon Jones (Villard,  Jul 31, 2001)
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September 2001
Babe by Delores Thornton (Marguerite Press,  Dec 01, 2000)

August 2001
Drop by Mat Johnson (Bloomsbury Publishing,  Sep 30, 2000)

July 2001
Jubilee by Margaret Walker (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,  Sep 06, 2016)

June 2001
The Spyglass Tree by Albert Murray (Penguin Random House,  Oct 27, 1992)

May 2001
Train Whistle Guitar: A Novel by Albert Murray (Penguin Random House,  Nov 24, 1998)

April 2001
Anyplace But Here by Arna Bontemps (University of Missouri,  Apr 17, 1997)

March 2001
Dem (Black Arts Movement Series) by William Melvin Kelley (Coffee House Press,  Feb 01, 2001)

February 2001
Captain Blackman by John A. Williams (Coffee House Press,  Apr 01, 2000)

January 2001
Youngblood by John Oliver Killens (University of Georgia Press,  Apr 06, 2000)

AALBC.com’s online book club, “The Coffee Will Make You Black” ran from 1998 until 2006. The book club was moderated by Thumper. The club was briefly resurrected in 2010, when both Fiction and Nonfiction titles were selected. Unfortunately, the club was discontinued the same year.

In October of 2018, novelist, educator, avid reader, and advocate for Black literature, Tony Lindsay began running AALBC’s “The Coffee Will Make You Black online book club.” after a 8-year hiatus.