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 Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates December 2019
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Penguin Random House,  Sep 24, 2019)
AALBC Book Review

Click for more detail about We Cast a Shadow: A Novel by Maurice Carlos Ruffin November 2019
We Cast a Shadow: A Novel by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (Penguin Random House,  Jan 29, 2019)
AALBC Book Review

Click for more detail about The Complete Muhammad Ali by Ishmael Reed October 2019
The Complete Muhammad Ali by Ishmael Reed (Baraka Books,  Jul 16, 2015)
AALBC Book Review

Click for more detail about I Do Love You Still by Mary B. Morrison September 2019
I Do Love You Still by Mary B. Morrison (Kensington Publishing Corp.,  Jul 30, 2019)
AALBC Book Review

Click for more detail about To Funk and Die in L.A. by Nelson George August 2019
To Funk and Die in L.A. by Nelson George (Akashic Books,  Sep 05, 2017)
AALBC Book Review

Click for more detail about Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead July 2019
Sag Harbor by Colson Whitehead (Penguin Random House,  Apr 28, 2009)

Click for more detail about The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison June 2019
The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison (Harvard University Press,  Sep 18, 2017)
AALBC Book Review

Click for more detail about New Kid by Jerry Craft May 2019
New Kid by Jerry Craft (HarperCollins,  Feb 05, 2019)
AALBC Book Review

Click for more detail about Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler April 2019
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (Hachette Book Group,  Apr 16, 2019)
AALBC Book Review

Click for more detail about The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis March 2019
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers by Bridgett M. Davis (Hachette Book Group,  Jan 29, 2019)
AALBC Book Review

Click for more detail about Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley February 2019
Charcoal Joe: An Easy Rawlins Mystery by Walter Mosley (Penguin Random House,  Jun 14, 2016)
AALBC Book Review

Click for more detail about The Power of Presence by Joy Thomas Moore January 2019
The Power of Presence by Joy Thomas Moore (Hachette Book Group,  Sep 18, 2018)
AALBC Book Review

 

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.