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 2021 Selection
The Other Black Girl
by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Atria Books (Jun 01, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 368 pages
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October 2021 Selection
The Sweetness of Water
by Nathan Harris
Little, Brown and Company (Jun 15, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 368 pages
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September 2021 Selection
While Justice Sleeps
by Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery
Doubleday Books (May 25, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 384 pages
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August 2021 Selection
The Man Who Lived Underground
by Richard Wright
Library of America (Apr 20, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 240 pages
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July 2021 Selection
Just As I Am
by Cicely Tyson
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2022 BCALA Literary Award
Amistad (Jan 26, 2021)
Nonfiction, Hardcover
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June 2021 Selection
Concrete Rose
by Angie Thomas
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Young Adult
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Young Adult
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Balzer & Bray/Harperteen (May 30, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
Target Age Group: Young Adult
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May 2021 Selection
The Vanishing Half
by Brit Bennett
Riverhead Books (Jun 02, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 352 pages
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April 2021 Selection
Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
Knopf Publishing Group (Sep 15, 2020)
Fiction, Hardcover, 288 pages
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March 2021 Selection
She Would Be King: A Novel
by Wayétu Moore
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2019)
Graywolf Press (Sep 03, 2019)
Fiction, Paperback, 312 pages
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February 2021 Selection
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Crown Publishing Group (Nov 17, 2020)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 768 pages
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