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 1, 2020 Selection
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
by Isabel Wilkerson
8-time National Bestseller, Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Nonfiction (Hardcover)
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 4 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2020
- 2021 BCALA Literary Award
Random House (Aug 04, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 496 pages
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October 16, 2020 Selection
The Girl with the Louding Voice
by Abi Daré
Dutton (Feb 23, 2021)
Fiction, Paperback, 400 pages
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September 18, 2020 Selection
Deacon King Kong
by James McBride
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 4 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2020
- A 2020 Oprah Book Club Selection
Riverhead Books (Mar 03, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
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August 21, 2020 Selection
The Yellow House: A Memoir
by Sarah M. Broom
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 4 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Grove Press (Aug 13, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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July 17, 2020 Selection
Heaven, My Home
by Attica Locke
Mulholland Books (Sep 17, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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June 2020 Selection
A Black Women’s History of the United States
by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Beacon Press (Feb 04, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
Target Age Group: Middle Grade
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May 2020 Selection
The Water Dancer
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
2-time National Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 4 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- A 2019 Oprah Book Club Selection
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2020 BCALA Literary Award
One World (Sep 24, 2019)
Fiction, Hardcover, 432 pages
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April 2020 Selection
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)
- 8 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 4 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- 2021 BCALA Literary Award
Amistad (Jan 07, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 192 pages
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February 2020 Selection
In the Country of Women: A Memoir
by Susan Straight
Catapult (Aug 06, 2019)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
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