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. 2024 marks the 32nd year for the Folktales’ Black Women’s Literary Society.

• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Jun 01, 2021
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781982160135
Imprint: Atria Books
Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Parent Company: KKR & Co. Inc.

Read a Description of The Other Black Girl

• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Jun 15, 2021
List Price: $28.00
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780316362481
Imprint: Little, Brown and Company
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Parent Company: Lagardère Group

Read a Description of The Sweetness of Water

• 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 3 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists

Publication Date: May 25, 2021
List Price: $28.95
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780385546577
Imprint: Doubleday Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Read a Description of While Justice Sleeps

• 5 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists

Publication Date: Apr 20, 2021
List Price: $22.95
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781598536768
Imprint: Library of America
Publisher: Library of America
Parent Company: Library of America

Read a Description of The Man Who Lived Underground

• 3 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Publication Date: Jan 26, 2021
List Price: $28.99
Format: Hardcover
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780062931061
Imprint: Amistad
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp

Read Our Review of Just As I Am

Read a Description of Just As I Am

• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: May 30, 2020
List Price: $19.99
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult
ISBN13: 9780062846716
Imprint: Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp

Read a Description of Concrete Rose

• 6 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 5 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists

Publication Date: Jun 02, 2020
List Price: $27.00
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780525536291
Imprint: Riverhead Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Read a Description of The Vanishing Half

• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List

Publication Date: Sep 15, 2020
List Price: $27.95
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780525658184
Imprint: Knopf Publishing Group
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Read a Description of Transcendent Kingdom

• Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
• Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2019)

Publication Date: Sep 03, 2019
List Price: $16.00
Format: Paperback, 312 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9781644450017
Imprint: Graywolf Press
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Parent Company: Graywolf Press

Read a Description of She Would Be King: A Novel

• 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
• Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
• An NAACP Image Award Honored Book

Publication Date: Nov 17, 2020
List Price: $45.00
Format: Hardcover, 768 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9781524763169
Imprint: Crown Publishing Group
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann

Read a Description of A Promised Land