Black Don’t Crack… Book Spines Book Club’s Reading List
January 2003 Selection
The Wake of the Wind: A Novel
by J. California Cooper
- Voted #75 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Anchor (Dec 28, 1999)
Fiction, Paperback, 384 pages
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February 2003 Selection
What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace
by Walter Mosley
- Voted #75 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Black Classic Press (Jan 29, 2003)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 124 pages
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March 2003 Selection
The Ecstatic
by Victor Lavalle
- Voted #75 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Vintage (Oct 14, 2003)
Fiction, Paperback, 288 pages
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April 2003 Selection
Douglass’ Women: A Novel
by Jewell Parker Rhodes
- Voted #75 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- 2003 BCALA Literary Award
- 2003 American Book Award
Washington Square Press (Sep 23, 2003)
Fiction, Paperback, 358 pages
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May 2003 Selection
Grace: A Novel
by Elizabeth Nunez
- Voted #75 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Ballantine Books (Feb 28, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 352 pages
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June 2003 Selection
Mules and Men
by Zora Neale Hurston
- Voted #75 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Harper Perennial Modern Classics (Jan 08, 2008)
Fiction, Paperback, 368 pages
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July 2003 Selection
My Love, My Love: or The Peasant Girl
by Rosa Guy
- Voted #75 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Coffee House Press (Sep 01, 2002)
Fiction, Paperback, 168 pages
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August 2003 Selection
Such Was the Season (Voices of the South)
by Clarence Major
- Voted #75 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
LSU Press (Apr 01, 2003)
Fiction, Paperback, 224 pages
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September 2003 Selection
The Marrow of Tradition (Dover Value Editions)
by Charles W. Chesnutt
- Voted #75 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Dover Publications (Dec 19, 2003)
Fiction, Paperback, 224 pages
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October 2003 Selection
Shadow And Act
by Ralph Ellison
- Voted #75 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Vintage (Mar 14, 1995)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 352 pages
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November 2003 Selection
Arrow of God
by Chinua Achebe
- Voted #75 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Anchor (Jan 01, 1989)
Fiction, Paperback, 230 pages
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December 2003 Selection
West of Rehoboth: A Novel
by Alexs D. Pate
- Voted #75 of the Top 100 Books of the 20th Century
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- 2002 BCALA Literary Award
Harper Perennial (Aug 20, 2002)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
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