Book Clubs: Beyond Black History Month

Past Books:

2025

• November: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• October: My Remarkable Journey by Katherine G. Johnson (Optional Movie to Watch: Hidden Figures (2002, PG-13)
• September: The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest Gaines
• August: Do the Right Thing (Movie) by Spike Lee
• July: Innervisions (Music Album) by Stevie Wonder
• May: You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience (Book) by Tarana Burke
• April: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Movie 1967)
• March: Beasts of Prey by Ayana Grey
• February: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
• January: DAMN by Kendrick Lamar

2024

• December: River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer (322 pages)
• November: Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (159 pages)
• October: James by Percival Everett (302 pages)
• September: Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (345 pages)
• August: Frederick Douglass: the Prophet of Freedom by David Blight (888 pages)
• July: Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt First Edition by Orisanmi Burton (328 pages)
• June: The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (179 pages)
• May: Defiant: Growing up in the Jim Crow South by Wade Hudson
• April: Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
• March: From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William Darity and Kirsten Mullen
• February: Long Division by Kiese Laymon
• January: The 272: the families who were enslaved and sold to build the American Catholic Church by Rachel Swarms

2023

• November: Scenes from My Life: a Memoir by Michael K. Williams and Jon Sternfeld
• October: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
• September: America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton
• August: The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.
• July: How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
• June: The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
• May: The 1619 Project: a New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
• April: Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen
• March: Deep Delta Justice by Matthew Van Meter
• February: The Yellow House: a Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
• January: Kindred by Octavia Butler

2022

• December: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist
• November: Of Love and Dust by Ernest Gaines
• October: Black Joy by Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts
• September: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• August: All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep by Andre Henry
• July: God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
• June: I Can't Date Jesus by Michael Arceneaux
• May: All About Love by bell hooks
• April: Begin Again by Eddie Glaude Jr.
• March: The Yellow Wife by Sadeqa Johnson
• February: The World Black, Beautiful, and Beast by C.I. Aki
• January: Speaking Truth to Power by Anita Hill

2021

• December: The Sum of Us by Heather McGee
• November: Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
• October: Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
• September: The Man Who Lived Underground by Richard Wright
• August: Black Man in a White Coat by Damion Tweedy
• July: Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• June: Vanguard by Martha Jones
• May: Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
• April: Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
• March: Stamped by Jason Reynolds
• February: Baracoon by Zora Neale Hurston
• January: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

2020

• December: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• November: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• October: The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward
• September: The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
• August: Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates