If you missed the Adult Book Club meeting you can still enjoy the book.  Our past book club selections often guide what we will read in the future and tend come up in current discussions.

July 2005
Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black middle Class Lost its Mind? by Michael Eric Dyson

June 2005
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

May 2005
Daughter of the Empire by Raymond Feist

April 2005
Blindness by Jose Saramago

March 2005
Brick Lane by Monica Ali

February 2005
All About Love by Bell Hooks

January 2005:
Wild Seed by Octavia Butler

October 2004:
The End of Blackness by Debra J. Dickerson

September 2004:
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela

April 2004
Homemade Love by J. California Cooper

March 2004
Two Nations: Black & White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal by Andrew Hacker

February 2004
Cane by Jean Toomer

January 2004
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter

August 2003
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

July 2003
Sexual Healing by Jill Nelson. A wild, sexy ride, in which two inventive and hilarious sisters figure out a way to bring water into their sexual desert—and yours too. 

June 2003
A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul. Themes: Trinidadian history, East Indian culture, colonialism, Land ownership and identity.

May 2003
Hoop Roots by John Edgar Wideman. Themes: Basketball culture, black male fathers/father-figures

April 2003
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Themes: The struggle for feminine self-identify and equality, love, black southern vernacular.

March 2003
Child of God by Lolita Files. Themes: Family secrets, incest, supernatural power.

February 2003
Native Son by Richard Wright. Themes: Racially charged anger and isolation.

January 2003
The Ecstatic by Victor Lavalle. Themes: Obesity, mental illness, family dysfunction.

Other notable selections from 2000-2002

The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Sugar by Bernice McFadden
The Bonesetters Daughter by Amy Tan
The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason
Finding Fish by Antwone Fisher
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman

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