November 2009 African American Reading List
By APOOO • Nov 15th, 2009 • Category: Book Club of the Week •
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Listed below are a few books that APOOO members plan to read during the month of November. Feel free to join us and read any of them…as someone will be available to discuss them and talk about them with you.
Before Redemption – Teresa McClain Watson
The Bishop’s Daughter- Tiffany Warren
Black Water Rising – Attica Locke
Body By Night- Zuri
The Book of Dead Birds–Gayle Brandeis
The Book of Night Women- Marlon
Captured – Beverly Jenkins
Cutting for Stone–Abraham Verghese
Déjà Vu – Suzetta Perkins
Everything Is Now–Michelle Cliff
Far North – Marcel Theroux
A Gate At the Stairs – Lorrie Moore
The Girl Who Fell From the Sky- Heidi Durrow
In The Falling Snow–Caryl Phillips
Invisible Mountain- Caroline DeRobertis
The Lacuna–Barbara Kingsolver
The Last Bridge–Teri Coyne
Little Black Girl Lost 4–Keith Lee Johnson
Mama Dearest–E. Lynn Harris
Mudbound – Hillary Jordan
The Museum of Innocence – Orhan Pamuk
Our Lady of the Night–Mayra Santos-Febres
The Physics Book of Deliverance –Dane Katherine Howe
The Plague of the Doves – Louise Erdrich
Push- Sapphire
Sapphira, the Slave Girl–Willa Carther
Say You’re One of Them- Uwem Akpan
Scandalous Truths – Monica P Carter
Second Class Citizen- Buchi Emecheta
South of Haunted Dreams- Eddy Harris
Under This Unbroken Sky–Shandi Mitchell
The Well and The Mine – Gin Phillips
Wildflowers – Lyah Beth Leflore
Wolf Hall–Hilary Mantel
The Year of the Flood – Margaret Atwood
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
What BOOKS from ABOVE have you read and enjoyed?
What books do you plan to read during the month of November?
Share your list via the comments section.
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I finished Mudbound last night and I have The Well and The Mine and Black Water Rising .I look forward to discussing Mudbound.
Read The Bishop’s Daughter by Tiffany Warren and LBGL4 by Keith Lee Johnson. Enjoyed them both. One book that I plan to read this month is Milliionaire Wives Club by Tushonda Whitaker.
I’ve read Push… and I had to put the book down every no and again to just breathe… excellence!