Folktales’ Black Women’s Literary Society’s Complete Reading List
Folktales’ Black Women’s Literary Society meets the 3rd Friday of each month from February – November primarily at the George Washington Carver Museum. We are a group of Black women reading African America authors. 2025 marks the 33rd year for the Folktales’ Black Women’s Literary Society.
November 2016 Selection
Homegoing: A Novel
by Yaa Gyasi
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 4 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 2017 American Book Award
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2016
Random House (Jun 07, 2016)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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October 2016 Selection
I Almost Forgot about You
by Terry McMillan
Crown Publishing Group (Apr 11, 2017)
Fiction, Paperback, 384 pages
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September 2016 Selection
The Truth About Awiti
by Christine Platt
Field Order Press (Mar 19, 2015)
Fiction, Paperback, 316 pages
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August 2016 Selection
A Moment of Silence: Midnight III
by Sister Souljah
Atria Books (Nov 10, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover, 544 pages
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July 2016 Selection
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine
by Damon Tweedy
Picador (Sep 06, 2016)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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June 2016 Selection
Black Deutschland: A Novel
by Darryl Pinckney
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Feb 02, 2016)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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May 2016 Selection
Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
by Shonda Rhimes
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 4 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Simon & Schuster (Sep 13, 2013)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 352 pages
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April 2016 Selection
Loving Day: A Novel
by Mat Johnson
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 4 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 2016 American Book Award
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2015
One World (Sep 06, 2016)
Fiction, Paperback, 304 pages
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March 2016 Selection
Between The World And Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
4-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- NYT Best Book of the 21st Century
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 4 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 1 Time Power List Bestselling Book
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2015
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2015
Spiegel & Grau (Jul 01, 2015)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 176 pages
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February 2016 Selection
Grant Park
by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Agate Bolden (Oct 01, 2015)
Fiction, Hardcover
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