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Previous years here.

January

The Reading List

Never Caught

Yellow Wife

The Perfect Find

Summer on the Bluffs

Feeding the Soul

I am These Truths

February

Wench

Black Sunday

We Are Not Like Them

How Long til Black Future Month

Red At the Bone

Never Saw Me Coming

March

Is There Still Sex in the City

Black Cake

Arsenic and Adobo

The Teller of Secrets

A Knock at Midnight

Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be

Don’t Cry For Me

An Emotion of Great Delight

Well-Read Black Girl

Harlem Shuffle

April

In a Book Club Far Away

Silver Sparrow

This Here Flesh

Love in Color

A Woman is No Man

Yinka, Where is Your Husband

The Street

The Music Shop

May

Against the Loveless World

The Legs Are the Last To Go

Girl, Woman, Other

The Mother of Black Hollywood

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire

A Girl is a Body of Water

One True Loves

June

Nine Perfect Strangers

Verity

Atomic Habits

I’m Lying but I’m Telling the Truth

Read Until You Understand

The Deep Blue Between

White Teeth

July

Open Water

Dust Tracks On a Road

City of Likes

Black Water Sister

August

New People

Sugar

Shoutin’ in the Fire: an American Epistle

Nowhere is a Place

Black Love Matters

September

Didn’t We Almost Have it All

The Two Lives of Sara

No Name in the Street

The Women Could Fly

October

It Ends With Us

Another Country

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

L.A. Weather

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

November

The Alchemist

You Don’t Know Us Negroes

The Warrior of Light

The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks

We Should All Be Millionaires

You Got Anything Stronger

Someday, Maybe

Where Wild Peaches Grow

Another Brooklyn

The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You

The Accidental Diva

God is a Black Woman

December

Black Girls Must Be Magic

Where The Children Take Us

One True Loves

Finding Me

Before I Let Go