What We're Reading
Members: Login to Member Resources to download the questionnaire for each book. Email completed document to the Book Review Committee.
- Book Selections: January-June
- Book Selections: July-December
January 2012
News From Home
By Sefi Atta
Genre: International
February 2012
Who’s Afraid of Post Blackness: What it Means to be Black Now
By Touré
Genre: Social Commentary
March 2012
Nairobi Heat
By Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Genre: Mystery/Suspense/
Thriller
April 2012
The Book of Night Women
By Marlon James
Genre: Historical
May 2012
How To Escape From a Leper Colony
By Tiphanie Yanique
Genre: Short Stories
June 2012
Our Man In The Dark
By Rashad Harrison
Genre: Novel
July 2011
Live Again
By L. R. Giles
Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy
August 2011
Silver Sparrow
By Tayari Jones
Genre: Novel/Pop Fiction
September 2011
Forest Gate
By Peter Akinti
Genre: New Author
October 2011
The Chinaberry Tree
By Jessie Fauset
Genre: Classic
November 2011
Black Noir: Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Stories by African American Writers
By Otto Penzler, ed.
Genre: Anthology
December 2011
The Other Wes Moore: The Story of One Name and Two Fates
By Wes Moore
Genre: Autobiography/Biography