Table Talk  Titles

Here are the books by African American authors that we’ve discussed in the Douglass Branch Library’s Table Talk Book Club.

2021

Spring

• Jan. 12: The Other Madisons by Bettye Kearse 
• Feb. 9: It's Not All Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan 
• Mar. 9: Trouble Is What I Do  by Walter Mosley
• Apr. 13: One Night in Georgia by Celeste O. Norfleet *Joint discussion with Cover to Cover.

Fall

• Sep. 14:  Just As I Am: A Memoir by Cicely Tyson
• Oct. 12: Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
• Nov. 9: The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli
• Dec. 14: The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
• 2020

2020

Spring

• Jan. 14: The Path Made Clear by Oprah Winfrey
• Feb. 11: The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir by Jenifer Lewis
• Mar. 10: Right Beside You by Mary Monroe
• Apr. 14: The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead *Joint discussion with Cover to Cover

Fall

• Sep. 8 Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
• Oct. 13 The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race by Jesmyn Ward
• Nov. 10 Deacon King Kong by James McBride
• Dec. 9 Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

 2019

Spring

• Jan. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
• Feb. Banks Sisters by Nikki Turner
• Mar. What Truth Sounds Like by Michael Eric Dyson
• Apr. Becoming by Michelle Obama *Joint discussion with Cover to Cover

Fall

• Sep. Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward By Valerie Jarrett
• Oct. If Beale Street Could Talk By James Baldwin
• Nov. Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life By Kim McLarin
• Dec. Long Way Down By Jason Reynolds

2018

Spring

• Jan. Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen
• Feb. Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile
• Mar. Sin of a Woman by Kimberla Lawson Roby
• Apr. The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead *Joint  discussion with Cover to Cover

Fall

• Sep. An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
• Oct. Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
• Nov. Torn Bible by Sharon D. Green
• Dec. The Book in Room 316 by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

2017

Spring

• Jan. Best Friends Forever by Kimberla Lawson Roby
• Feb. The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
• Mar. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• Apr. Before I Forget by B. Smith and Dan Gasby *Joint discussion with Cover to Cover

Fall

• Sep.  I Almost Forgot About You by Terry McMillan
• Oct. The New Jim Crow by M. Alexander
• Nov. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow
• Dec . Catching a Story Fish by Janice N. Harrington