List of favorite books for the members of APOOO BookClub. 

72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell

And on the Eighth Day She Rested by JD Mason

Angel of Harlem by Kuwana Hausley

Bailey’s Cafe by Gloria Naylor

The Blackbird Papers by Ian Smith

Blood on the Leaves by Jeff Stetson

Cane River by Lalita Tademy

Child of God by Lolita Files

Coldest Winter Ever by Sistah Souljah 

Color Purple by Alice Walker 

Conception by Kalisha Buckhanon

Crawfish Dreams by Nancy Rawles

Dancing on the Edge of the Roof by Shelia Williams 

Darkest Child by Delores Phillips

Daughter by asha bandele

Day Late and a Dollar Short by Terry McMillan 

Disappearing Acts by Terry McMillan 

Douglass Women by Jewel Parker Rhodes

Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer

The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate

Finding Fish by Antwone Fisher

Finding Makeba by Alex Pate

Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas

Friends and Lovers by Eric Jerome Dickey 

Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy

Gal by Ruthie Bolton 

Getting Mother’s Body by Suzan-Lori Parks

God Don’t Like Ugly by Mary Monroe

Good House by Tananarive Due

Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin

The Hand I Fan With by Tina McElroy Ansa

Hottentot Venus by  Barbara Chase Riboud

Hunger by Erica Turnipseed

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Joplin’s Ghost by Tananarive Due

Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin

Justus Girls by Slim Lambright

The King of Colored Town by Darryl Wimberley

Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones

Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

Like Trees Walking by Ravi Howard

The Living Blood by Tananarive Due

A Love Noire by Erica Turnipseed

Mama Day by Gloria Naylor

Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

Mis-education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson

My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due

Native Son by Richard Wright

The New Moon’s Arm by Nalo Hopkinson

No Place Safe by Kim Reid

October Suite by Maxine Clair

Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice

Passport Diaries by Tamara Gregory

Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown

Playing My Mother’s Blues by Valerie Wilson Wesley

The Prisoner’s Wife by asha bandele

The Professor’s Daughter  by Emily Raboteau

Prospero’s Daughter by Elizabeth Nunez

Push by Sapphire

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Raising Fences by Michael Datcher

Rhythms by Donna Hill

Rising by Darnella Ford

The Sacred Place by Daniel Black

Shifting Through Neutral by Bridgett Davis

Someone Knows His Name by Lawrence Hill

Song Yet Sung by James McBride

The Street by Ann Petry

Them by Nathan McCall

They Tell Me of a Home by Daniel Black

Unburnable by Marie-Elena Jones

Upstate by Kalisha Buchanon

Vampire Huntress Series by LA Banks

When Did You Stop Loving Me by Veronica Chambers

When She Was White by Judith Stone

Who Does She Think She Is by Benilde Little

A Woman’s Worth by Tracy Price-Thompson