Folktales’ Black Women’s Literary Society Reading List

Folktales Black Women's Literary Society Group Photo

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 American authors. 2025 marks the 33^rd year for the Folktales’ Black Women’s Literary Society.

November 1, 2020 Selection

Cover of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson

October 16, 2020 Selection

Cover of The Girl with the Louding Voice

The Girl with the Louding Voice

September 18, 2020 Selection

Cover of Deacon King Kong

Deacon King Kong

by James McBride

August 21, 2020 Selection

Cover of The Yellow House: A Memoir

The Yellow House: A Memoir

by Sarah M. Broom

July 17, 2020 Selection

Cover of Heaven, My Home

Heaven, My Home

by Attica Locke

June 2020 Selection

Cover of A Black Women’s History of the United States

A Black Women’s History of the United States

by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

May 2020 Selection

Cover of The Water Dancer

The Water Dancer

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

April 2020 Selection

Cover of Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick

by Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West (editor)

February 2020 Selection

Cover of In the Country of Women: A Memoir

In the Country of Women: A Memoir

by Susan Straight

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