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2001 - 2021

Our Library

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2021 BOM Selections

January - We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, NCBC Rating = 4.1
February - The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr, NCBC Rating = 4.9
March - How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House - Cherie Jones, NCBC Rating = 3.5
April - The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson, NCBC Rating = 3.25
May - Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson, NCBC Rating = TBD
June - Red Island House by Andrea Lee, NCBC Rating = TBD
July - Revival Season by Monica West, NCBC Rating = TBD

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2020 BOM Selections

January - THICK: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom, NCBC Rating = 5
February - The Revisionists by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, NCBC Rating = 2.7
March - The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips - CANCELED
April - Deacon King Kong by James McBride, NCBC Rating = 1.9
May - Eyes, Breath, Memory by Edwidge Danticat - CANCELED
June - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver , NCBC Rating = 4.5
July - These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card, NCBC Rating: 3.25
August - Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall, NCBC Rating = 3
September - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, NCBC Rating = 3.6
October - Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, NCBC Rating = 3.7
November - The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by D. Philyaw, NCBC Rating = 5
December - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, NCBC Rating = 4.3

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2019 BOM Selections

January - Paper Gods by Goldie Taylor, NCBC Rating = 1.9
February - If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin, NCBC Rating = 4.5
February (Optional) - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaithe, NCBC Rating = 3.5
March: Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon, NCBC Rating: 4.8
March (Optional): Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James, NCBC Rating: 4.6
April - The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, NCBC Rating: 4.4
April (Optional): Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams, NCBC Rating: 3
May: The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray, NCBC Rating: 3.5
June: The Mothers by Brit Bennett, NCBC Rating: 1.3
July: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn, NCBC Rating: 3.5
August: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, NCBC Rating: 3.1
September: Love by Toni Morrison, NCBC Rating: 3.25
October: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, NCBC Rating = 3.8
November: Before We Were Wicked by Eric Jerome Dickey
December: Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson, NCBC Rating = 3.4

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2018 BOM Selections

January - We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates, NCBC Rating: 3.0
January - The Origin of Others by Toni Morrison, NCBC Rating: 3.5
February - Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino, Ronald Cotton, and Erin Torneo, NCBC Rating: 2.75
March - An American Marriage by Tayari Jones, NCBC Rating = 3.5
March - Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo M'bue, NCBC Rating - 4.3
April - From the Ash Heap by J. Richelle Joe
April - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
May - Unthinkable Sins: Book 1 by Tiffani Quarles-Sanders
June - Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, NCBC Rating = 3
July - The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden #1) by Julie Kagawa
August - Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" b7 Zora Neale Hurston, NCBC Rating = 3.9
September - Everybody's Son by Thrity Umrigar, NCBC Rating = 2.95
September - Holler by Crystal Wilkerson, NCBC Rating = 4.75
October - Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden, NCBC Rating = 3.9
November - The Someday List (Jubilant Soul Book #1) by Stacy Hawkins Adams, NCBC Rating = 1.6
December - Becoming by Michelle Obama, NCBC Rating = 4.8

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2017 BOM Selections

January - Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories by Kathleen Collins
February - Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
February - The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
February - Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America by Michael Eric Dyson
March - Life Is A Canvas by Joy Elan
April - We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
May - The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips; NCBC Rating: 3.5
May - Unburnable by Marie-Elena Johns, NCBC Rating: 3.5
June - The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and The Story of A Forgotten Era by Elizabeth Downing Taylor, NCBC Rating: 3.25
June - I'm Judging You: The Do Better Manual by Luvvie Ajayi, NCBC Rating: 3.25
June - Hunger by Roxanne Gay, NCBC Rating: 4.1
July - Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, NCBC Rating: 4.5
July - White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg
August - Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, NCBC Rating: 4.9
September - How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez - CANCELED
October - No One Is Coming to Save Us by Stephanie Powell Watts, NCBC Rating: 3.2
October - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
November - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, NCBC Rating: 3.7
December - Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2016 BOM Selections

January - Grant Park by Leonard Pitts, Jr., NCBC Rating = 4
February - The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami, NCBC Rating = 3.5
March - Finding Amos by J.D. Mason, ReShonda Tate Billingsley, and Bernice L. McFadden, NCBC Rating = 3.3
April - The Crossing by Michael Connelly, NCBC Rating = 3.7
April - The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah, NCBC Rating = 2.5
May - The Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand in the Sun and Be Your Own Person by Shonda Rhimes, NCBC Rating =
May - Lazaretto by Diane Mckinney Whetstone, NCBC Rating = 3.5
June - Second House From the Corner by Sadeqa Johnson, NCBC Rating = 2.6
June - The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden, NCBC Rating = 4.2
July - I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her by Joanna Conners, NCBC Rating = 4
July - Solemn by Kalisha Buckhanon, NCBC Rating = 1
August - Here Comes The Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn, NCBC Rating = 4.5
August - I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan, NCBC Rating = 3.5
September - The Good House, NCBC Rating = 4.8
September - The Blackbirds by Eric Jerome Dickey, NCBC Rating = 2.5
October - The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe, NCBC Rating = 3.3
October - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, NCBC Rating = 4
November - Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake, NCBC & ME Joint Meeting, Rating: 3.5
November - Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
December - The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms: The Inheritance Trilogy, Book 1 by N. K. Jemisin

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2015 BOM Selections

February - The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
March - Disgruntled by Asali Solomon
April - A Deeper Love Inside: The Porshe Santiaga Story by Sister Souljah
May - Cold Cold Heart by Tami Hoag
June - Dawn (Xenogenesis) by Octavia Butler
July - Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland
August - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
September - Crazy, Sexy, Revenge by J. D. Mason ***AUTHOR IN ATTENDANCE***
October - Negroland by Margo Jefferson
November - An Untamed State by Roxane Gay
December - My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past by Jennifer Teege and Carolin Sommer

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2014 BOM Selections

February - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
March - Who Asked You by Terry McMillan
April - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
May - Ebony and Ivy by Craig Steven Wilder - Group Average: 4
June - Covenant by Brandon Massey
July - She Makes More by Dawn Delavallade
August - The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
September - Ruby by Cynthia Bond
October - The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner
November - A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown
December - The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2013 BOM Selections

February - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
March - The Perfect Marriage by Kimberla Lawson Roby
April - The Host by Stephanie Meyers
May - This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
June - Meet Desiree by Tonya Goring
July - No Meeting
August - The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
September - Ghana Must Go by Tayie Selasi
October - Beautiful Dirty Rich and Drop Dead, Gorgeous by J. D. Mason
November - Fish and Grits by Tina Smith-Brown
December - Half a Yellow Sun by Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2012 BOM Selections

February - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
March - Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner
April - Bite Marks by Terrance Taylor
May - Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum
June - Home by Toni Morrison
July - I, Alex Cross by James Patterson
August - The Hanging of Angelique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal by Afua Cooper
September - Being Laura by Lola Jaye
October - Anna In-Between by Elizabeth Nunez
November - My Name is Butterfly by Bernice McFadden (Joint Meeting with Woman2Woman and Mocha Expressions Book Clubs)
December - Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy Degruy-Leary

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2011 BOM Selections

January - The Last Days of Ptolemy Gray by Walter Mosley
February - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
March - One Flight Up y Susan Fales-Hill
April - Wench by Dolens Perkins-Valdez and Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones (Authors in attendance)
May - The Reversal by Michael Connelly
June - A Ship Made of Paper
July - Substitute Me by Lori Tharps
August - Midnight and the Meaning of Love by Sister Souljah
September - Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
October - The Secrets of Newberry by Victor McGlothin
November - The Kid by Saffire (Joint Meeting with Woman2Woman and Mocha Expressions Book Clubs)
December - The Between by Tananarive Due

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2010 BOM Selections

January - House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III, NCBC Rating = 3.2
February - Some Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill, NCBC Rating = 5
March - Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones, NCBC Rating = 3.3
April - Sugar by Bernice McFadden, NCBC Rating = 3.5
May - Perfect Peace by Daniel O. Black, NCBC Rating = 4.5 (Author in attendance)
June - The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July - 32 Candles by Ernessa T. Carter
August - Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
September - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
October - Til You Hear From Me by Pearl Cleage
November - Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan (Joint Meeting with Woman2Woman and Mocha Expressions Book Clubs)
December - Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2009 BOM Selections

January - Midnight: A Gangster Love Story by Sister Souljah, NCBC Rating = 3.4
February - Song Yet Sung by James McBride, NCBC Rating = 4.38
March - Push: A Novel by Saffire, NCBC Rating = 4.3
April - Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, NCBC Rating = 3.2
May - Life Is Short But Wide by J. California Cooper, NCBC Rating = 3.1
June - Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey, NCBC Rating = 2.6
July - The Shack by William P. Young, NCBC Rating = 4.2
August - Children of the Waters by Carleen Brice, NCBC Rating = 3.3
September - The Good House by Tananarive Due, NCBC Rating = 3.4
October - The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, NCBC Rating = 3.4
November - Mama Dearest by E. Lynn Harris (Joint Meeting with Woman2Woman and Mocha Expressions Book Clubs)
December - The People vs Cashmere by Karen Williams

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2008 BOM Selections

January - Color Me Butterfly by L. Y. Marlow, NCBC Rating = 4.25
February - Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors by Bill Cosby, Alvin Poussaint, NCBC Rating = 2.0
March - Conception by Kalisha Buckhanon, NCBC Rating = 3.5
April - Seen It All and Done The Rest by Pearl Cleage, NCBC Rating = 3.25
May - If The Creek Don't Rise by Rita Williams, NCBC Rating = 3
June - Orange Mint & Honey by Carleen Brice, NCBC Rating = 4.70
July - Meeting Cancelled
August - We'll Never Tell by Kayla Perrin, NCBC Rating = 2.2
September - By The Rivers of Babylon by Cindy Brown Austin, NCBC Rating = 3.25
October - Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama, NCBC Rating = 3
November -Joint Meeting with Mocha Expressions: Encore Selection: Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice, NCBC Rating = 3.5
December - No Meeting

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2007 BOM Selections

January - Blood on the Leaves by Jeff Stetson, NCBC Rating = 4.8
February - Tumbling by Dianne McKinney-Whetstone, NCBC Rating = 4.8
March - Fear of the Dark by Walter Mosley, NCBC Rating = 3.6
April - Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas, NCBC Rating = 4.7
May - Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy, NCBC Rating = 3.2
June - Sleeping With Strangers by Eric Jerome Dickey, NCBC Rating = 3.5
July - CANCELLED: Let's Get It On by Jill Nelson, NCBC Rating = The book was not released as promised.
August - All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones, NCBC Rating = 4
September - Waking With Enemies by Eric Jerome Dickey, NCBC Rating = 3
October - Sweeter Than Honey by Mary B. Morrison, NCBC Rating = 1.25
November - What's Done In The Dark by Gloria Mallette [Joint Meeting With Mocha Expressions], NCBC Rating = 3.25
December - Them by Nathan McCall, NCBC Rating = TBD

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2006 BOM Selections

January -They Tell Me of a Home by Daniel Black, NCBC Rating = 4.4
February - Bailey's Cafe by Gloria Naylor, NCBC Rating = 3.5
A Deeper Blue: Passion Marks II by Lee Hayes, NCBC Rating = 2.1
March - Nowhere Is A Place by Bernice L. McFadden, NCBC Rating = 4.4
Who Does She Think She Is? by Benilde Little,NCBC Rating = 3.4
April - Forty Acres by Phyllis Dixon, NCBC Rating = 4.3
May -Third Girl From The Left by Martha Southgate, NCBC Rating = 3.9
June -Baby Brother's Blues by Pearl Cleage, NCBC Rating = 3.5
July - The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner by Andrea Smith, NCBC Rating = 4.3
August - The Covenant With Black America by Tavis Smiley, NCBC Rating = 3.5
September - Girls Most Likely by Sheila Williams, NCBC Rating = 2.3
October - From Super "Man" to Man by J. A. Rogers, NCBC Rating = 4
November - Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin, NCBC Rating = 2.6 (Using Mocha Expression's Rating Scale)
December - What I Know For Sure by Tavis Smiley, NCBC Rating = No Rating Applied

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2005 BOM Selections

January - Passion Marks by Lee A. Hayes, NCBC Rating = 4.0 and Purple Hibiscus by Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie,NCBC Rating = 3.1
February - The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes,NCBC Rating = 4.1 and Fannin' The Flames by Parry "Ebony Satin" Brown, NCBC Rating = 3.8
March -The Preacher's Son by Carl Weber, NCBC Rating = 4.2 and Some People, Some Other Place by J. California Cooper,NCBC Rating = 3.8
April - The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips, NCBC Rating = 4.5 (Audio Interview with Author after the discussion) and Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon and NCBC Rating = 4.4
May - Cover Girls by T. D. Jakes, NCBC Rating = 2.2
June - Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage, NCBC Rating = 4.0 and Tastes Like Chicken by Lolita Files, NCBC Rating = 3.3
July - Let The Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland (Ebele Oseye), NCBC Rating = 3.4 and The Bridge by Solomon Jones, NCBC Rating = 3.5
August - When Loves Calls, You Better Answer by Bertice Berry, NCBC Rating = 3.9
September - The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan, NCBC Rating = 2.8 and Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey, NCBC Rating = 3.7
October - Better Than I Know Myself by Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant and NCBC Rating = 3.3, Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley, NCBC Rating = 3.7
November - 72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell, NCBC Rating = 4.0
December - Passport Diaries by Tamara Gregory, NCBC Rating = 4.1

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2004 BOM Selections

January - Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks, NCBC Rating = 2.9
February - A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines,NCBC Rating = 4.1 andT he Honey Well by Gloria Mallette, NCBC Rating = 4.6
March -A Love Noire by Erica Simone Turnipseed, NCBC Rating = 3.6 and What Becomes of the Brokenhearted by E. Lynn Harris, NCBC Rating = 4.1
April - Kindred by Octavia Butler, NCBC Rating = 4.7 andA Woman's Worth by Tracy Price-Thompson,NCBC Rating = 4.2
May - The Wake of the Winds by J. California Cooper, NCBC Rating = 4.0 and On The Down Low by J. L. King, NCBC Rating = 2.0 (Author signing event)
June - Leaving Cecil Street by Dianne McKinney-Whetstone, NCBC Rating = 4.4 and Family Secrets by Astria Richard, NCBC Rating = 3.4
July - Crave by Darnella Ford, NCBC Rating = 3.0 andGothan Diaries by Tony Lewis Lee, Crystal McCrary Anthony, NCBC Rating = 2.7
August - Camilla's Roses by Bernice McFadden, NCBC Rating = 3.6
September - Like The First Time by Francis Ray, NCBC Rating = 3.6 and Man In My Basement by Walter Mosley,NCBC Rating = 3.3
October - Blood on the Leaves by Jeff Stetson, NCBC Rating = 4.9 and Red Light Wives by Mary Monroe, NCBC Rating = 4.0
November - The Seasons of Beento Blackbird by Akosua Busia, NCBC Rating = 3.3
December - The Blackbird Papers by Ian Smith, NCBC Rating = 3.9

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2003 BOM Selections

January - Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy, NCBC Rating = 3.3
February - Harlem Redux by Persia Walker, NCBC Rating = 4.8
March - Loving Donovan by Bernice McFadden, NCBC Rating = 4.1
April - A Man Most Worthy by Marcus Major, NCBC Rating = 3.0
May - Chocolate Sangria by Tracy Price-Thompson, NCBC Rating = 2.9
June - Leslie by Omar Tyree, NCBC Rating = 2.8 and The Sisters of APF: The Indoctrination of Soror Ride Dick by Zane, NCBC Rating = 2.5
July - The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen Carter, NCBC Rating = 2.3 and Sexual Healing by Jill Nelson, NCBC Rating = 4.5
August - Redemption Song by Bertice Berry, NCBC Rating = 4.8 and Selah's Bed by Jenoyne Adams,NCBC Rating = 4.4
September - The Other Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey, NCBC Rating = 4.3 and Push by Saffire, NCBC Rating = 4.0
October - The Blacker the Berry... by Wallace Thurman, NCBC Rating = 3.0
November - Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson, NCBC Rating = 4.8
December - No Meeting

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2002 BOM Selections

January - Seraph on the Suwanee by Zora Neale Hurston, NCBC Rating = 4.0
February- Fragments of he Ark by Louise Merriweather,NCBC Rating = 2.8
March - This Bitter Earth by Bernice McFadden, NCBC Rating = 4.8
April - I Wish I Had A Red Dress by Pearl Cleage , NCBC Rating = 3.5
May - The Justus Girls by Evelyn "Slim" Lambright, NCBC Rating = 4.4
June - Cane River by Lalita Tademy , NCBC Rating = 4.9
July - Child of God by Lolita Files, NCBC Rating = 4.8
August - The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah, NCBC Rating = 4.5
September - The Queen of Harlem by Brian Keith Jackson, NCBC Rating = 4.3
October - Married But Still Looking by Travis Hunter, NCBC Rating = 3.0 (Author in attendance)
November - Addicted by Zane, NCBC Rating = 2.9
December - No Meeting

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2001 BOM Selections

July - This Side of Eternity by Rosalyn McMillan, NCBC Rating = 3 (Author in attendance)
August - All I Ever Wanted by Adrianne Byrd, NCBC Rating = 2
September -Sugar by Bernice McFadden, NCBC Rating = 5
October - Hearts of Men by Travis Hunter, NCBC Rating = 4.0

2001 - 2021

Our Library

January - We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, NCBC Rating = 4.1

February - The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr, NCBC Rating = 4.9

March - How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House - Cherie Jones, NCBC Rating = 3.5

April - The Kindest Lie by Nancy Johnson, NCBC Rating = 3.25

May - Just As I Am by Cicely Tyson, NCBC Rating = TBD

June - Red Island House by Andrea Lee, NCBC Rating = TBD

July - Revival Season by Monica West, NCBC Rating = TBD

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Nubian Circle Book Club - 2020 BOM Selections

January - THICK: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom, NCBC Rating = 5

February - The Revisionists by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, NCBC Rating = 2.7

March - The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips - CANCELED

April - Deacon King Kong by James McBride, NCBC Rating = 1.9

May - Eyes, Breath, Memory by Edwidge Danticat - CANCELED

June - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver , NCBC Rating = 4.5

July - These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card, NCBC Rating: 3.25

August - Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall, NCBC Rating = 3

September - The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, NCBC Rating = 3.6

October - Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, NCBC Rating = 3.7

November - The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by D. Philyaw, NCBC Rating = 5

December - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson, NCBC Rating = 4.3

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Nubian Circle Book Club - 2019 BOM Selections

January - Paper Gods by Goldie Taylor, NCBC Rating = 1.9

February - If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin, NCBC Rating = 4.5

February (Optional) - My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaithe, NCBC Rating = 3.5

March: Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon, NCBC Rating: 4.8

March (Optional): Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James, NCBC Rating: 4.6

April - The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo, NCBC Rating: 4.4

April (Optional): Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams, NCBC Rating: 3

May: The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray, NCBC Rating: 3.5

June: The Mothers by Brit Bennett, NCBC Rating: 1.3

July: Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn, NCBC Rating: 3.5

August: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead, NCBC Rating: 3.1

September: Love by Toni Morrison, NCBC Rating: 3.25

October: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, NCBC Rating = 3.8

November: Before We Were Wicked by Eric Jerome Dickey

December: Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson, NCBC Rating = 3.4

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2018 BOM Selections

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2017 BOM Selections

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2016 BOM Selections

Nubian Circle Book Club - 2015 BOM Selections

April - A Deeper Love Inside: The Porshe Santiaga Story by Sister Souljah

May - Cold Cold Heart by Tami Hoag

June - Dawn (Xenogenesis) by Octavia Butler

July - Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland

August - The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

September - Crazy, Sexy, Revenge by J. D. Mason ***AUTHOR IN ATTENDANCE***

October - Negroland by Margo Jefferson

November - An Untamed State by Roxane Gay

December - My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past by Jennifer Teege and Carolin Sommer

February - Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

March - Who Asked You by Terry McMillan

April - Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

May - Ebony and Ivy by Craig Steven Wilder - Group Average: 4

June - Covenant by Brandon Massey

July - She Makes More by Dawn Delavallade

August - The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

September - Ruby by Cynthia Bond

October - The Blue Zones by Dan Buettner

November - A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown

December - The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

February - The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis

March - The Perfect Marriage by Kimberla Lawson Roby

April - The Host by Stephanie Meyers

May - This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz

June - Meet Desiree by Tonya Goring

July - No Meeting

August - The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly

September - Ghana Must Go by Tayie Selasi

October - Beautiful Dirty Rich and Drop Dead, Gorgeous by J. D. Mason

November - Fish and Grits by Tina Smith-Brown

December - Half a Yellow Sun by Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie

February - The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

March - Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner

April - Bite Marks by Terrance Taylor

May - Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity by Beverly Daniel Tatum

September - Crazy, Sexy, Revenge by J. D. Mason AUTHOR IN ATTENDANCE

December - No Meeting