Black Authors Reading Group (Central Library)

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2014

• March 2014: Chasing Utopia by Nikki Giovanni
• April 2014: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
• May 2014: The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
• June 2014: The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
• July 2014: Prepared for a Purpose by Antoinette Tuff
• August 19, 2014: Kindred by Octavia Butler
• September 16, 2014: Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou
• October 21, 2014: Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
• November 18, 2014: Little Green by Walter Mosley
• December: No meeting

2015

• January 20: Conversations with Myself by Nelson Mandela
• February: TBA
• March: The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• April: Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
• May: Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
• June 16: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• July 21: Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• August 18: The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

• September: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
• October: Readings by Nikki Giovanni
• November: Loving Day by Mat Johnson
• December: None