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

AALBC’s Online Bookclub is Currently on Hiatus

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.

Click for more detail about The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers June 2002
The Glory Field by Walter Dean Myers (Scholastic Inc.,  May 01, 2008)

Click for more detail about Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley May 2002
Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley (University of Chicago Press,  Feb 15, 2008)

Click for more detail about Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renee Thomas April 2002
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renee Thomas (Hachette Book Group,  Jul 18, 2000)

Click for more detail about The God Who Begat a Jackal by Nega Mezlekia March 2002
The God Who Begat a Jackal by Nega Mezlekia (Orion Publishing Group,  May 01, 2003)
AALBC Book Review

Click for more detail about The Return of Simple by Langston Hughes February 2002
The Return of Simple by Langston Hughes (Macmillan Publishers,  Aug 31, 1995)

Click for more detail about Johnny Buffalo by Daniel Smith January 2002
Johnny Buffalo by Daniel Smith (Sterling Publishing Co., Inc,  Aug 01, 1999)

 

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.