Black Don’t Crack… Book Spines Book Club’s Reading List
January 2010 Selection
Pudd’nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain
Signet (Dec 04, 2007)
Fiction, Mass Market Paperback, 176 pages
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January 2010 Selection
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins: Black Daughter of the Revolution (Gender and American Culture)
by Lois Brown
The University of North Carolina Press (Jun 30, 2008)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 704 pages
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February 2010 Selection
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction by African-American Writers
by Otto Penzler
Pegasus Books (Mar 03, 2009)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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February 2010 Selection
Black Music
by Amiri Baraka
Akashic Books (Jan 01, 2010)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 240 pages
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March 2010 Selection
Three Days Before The Shooting…
by Ralph Ellison
Modern Library (Jan 26, 2010)
Fiction, Hardcover, 1136 pages
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March 2010 Selection
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
by Arnold Rampersad
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- 2008 BCALA Literary Award
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2007
Knopf (Apr 24, 2007)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 672 pages
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April 2010 Selection
The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar
by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ohio University Press (Feb 09, 2006)
Fiction, Hardcover, 560 pages
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April 2010 Selection
Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography
by Gordon Parks
Three Rivers Press (Sep 20, 2005)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 464 pages
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May 2010 Selection
Glorious
by Bernice L. McFadden
Akashic Books (May 04, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 190 pages
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June 2010 Selection
Our Town: A Heartland Lynching, a Haunted Town, and the Hidden History of White America
by Cynthia Carr
Broadway Books (Mar 27, 2007)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 512 pages
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June 2010 Selection
Fortunate Son: A Novel
by Walter Mosley
- A Top 10 Book in the “Fiction Books of the 21st Century” Category
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- 2007 BCALA Literary Award
Little, Brown and Company (Apr 10, 2006)
Fiction, Hardcover, 313 pages
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July 2010 Selection
All the Stars Came Out That Night
by Kevin King
Plume (Feb 27, 2007)
Fiction, Paperback, 432 pages
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July 2010 Selection
Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
by Melvin Patrick Ely
Vintage (Aug 16, 2005)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 656 pages
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August 2010 Selection
The Magic Keys
by Albert Murray
Vintage (Aug 08, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 256 pages
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August 2010 Selection
Stomping The Blues (Da Capo Paperback)
by Albert Murray
Da Capo Press (Aug 01, 1989)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 272 pages
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September 2010 Selection
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
by James Baldwin and Randall Kenan
Pantheon Books (Aug 24, 2010)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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October 2010 Selection
Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond
by Ekow Eshun
Vintage (Jul 10, 2007)
Fiction, Paperback, 240 pages
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November 2010 Selection
Trouble the Water
by Melvin Dixon
Fiction Collective Two (FC2) (Jan 01, 1989)
Fiction, Paperback, 243 pages
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November 2010 Selection
Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man
by Vincent Carretta
Penguin Books (Jan 30, 2007)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 464 pages
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December 2010 Selection
The Executioner’s Game
by Gary Hardwick
William Morrow (Jan 04, 2005)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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