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 2019 Selection
Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir
by Kwame Onwuachi
Knopf Publishing Group (Apr 09, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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October 2019 Selection
The Gone Dead
by Chanelle Benz
Ecco (Jun 25, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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September 2019 Selection
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster
by Stephen L. Carter
Henry Holt & Company (Oct 09, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
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August 2019 Selection
On The Come Up
by Angie Thomas
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Young Adult
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2019
Balzer + Bray (Jun 05, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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July 2019 Selection
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers
by Bridgett M. Davis
Little, Brown and Company (Jan 29, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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May 2019 Selection
My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Doubleday (Nov 20, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
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April 2019 Selection
Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen
by Sarah Bird
St. Martin’s Press (Sep 04, 2018)
Fiction, Hardcover, 416 pages
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March 2019 Selection
Becoming
by Michelle Obama
1-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- A 2018 Oprah Book Club Selection
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2019 BCALA Literary Award
Crown (Nov 13, 2018)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 400 pages
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February 2019 Selection
If Beale Street Could Talk
by James Baldwin
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Fiction (Paperback)
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Fiction (Paperback)
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Penguin Books (Oct 06, 2006)
Fiction, Paperback, 197 pages
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