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 2022 Selection
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Flatiron Books (Dec 28, 2021)
Nonfiction, Paperback, 288 pages
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October 2022 Selection
The Great Mrs. Elias: A Novel Based on a True Story
by Barbara Chase-Riboud
Amistad (Feb 08, 2022)
Fiction, Hardcover, 416 pages
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September 2022 Selection
Memphis
by Tara M. Stringfellow
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
The Dial Press (Apr 05, 2022)
Fiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
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August 2022 Selection
Finding Me: A Memoir
by Viola Davis
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
HarperOne (Apr 26, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 304 pages
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July 2022 Selection
The Personal Librarian
by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray
8-time National Bestseller, Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- A 2024 National Bestselling Book – Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Berkley Books (Jun 29, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover
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June 2022 Selection
Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
by Farah Jasmine Griffin
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2022)
W. W. Norton & Company (Sep 14, 2021)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 272 pages
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May 2022 Selection
The Violin Conspiracy
by Brendan Slocumb
- A 2023 National Bestselling Book - Adult Fiction (Hardcover)
- 2 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 1 Book Club’s Reading List
Anchor (Feb 01, 2022)
Fiction, Hardcover, 352 pages
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April 2022 Selection
We Are Not Like Them
by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
Atria Books (Oct 05, 2021)
Fiction, Hardcover, 336 pages
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March 2022 Selection
You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays
by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (editor), M. Genevieve West (editor)
Amistad (Jan 04, 2022)
Nonfiction, Hardcover, 320 pages
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February 2022 Selection
No One Is Coming to Save Us: A Novel
by Stephanie Powell Watts
Ecco (Feb 06, 2018)
Fiction, Paperback, 384 pages
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