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Color Me Read Book Club Selections

1. The Kite Runner — Khalid Hussein

2. The Known World — Edward P. Jones

3. Simple Takes a Wife — Langston Hughes

4. A Confederacy of Dunces — John Kennedy Toole

5. Is Bill Cosby Right? — Michael Eric Dyson

6. Douglass’ Women — Jewell Parker Rhodes

7. The Secret Life of Bees — Sue Monk Kidd

8. Dreams of My Father — Barack Obama

9. Finding Fish — Antwone Fisher

10. Getting Mother’s Body — Suzanne Lori Parks

11. The Dew Breaker — Edwidge Danticat

12.  Six Little Pieces — Walter Mosley

13. Finding Grace — Shirlee Taylor Haizlip

14. Some People, Some Other Place —  J. California Cooper

15. Kindred — Octavia Butler

16. Cinnamon Kiss — Walter Mosley

17. Ten Little Indians — Sherman Alexie

18. Life of Pi — Yann Martel

19. A Thousand Splendid Suns — Khalid Hosseini

20. White Boy Shuffle — Paul Beatty

21. Half a Yellow Sun — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

22. Nerve Damage — Peter Abrahams

23. The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency — Alexander McCall Smith

24. Reading Lolita in Tehran — Azar Nafisi

25. The House Gun — Nadine Gordimer

26. The Bluest Eye — Toni Morrison

27. On Beauty — Zadie Smith

28. Emperor of Ocean Park — Stephen L. Carter

29. Man Gone Down — Michael Thomas

30. Small Island — Andrea Levy

31. The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao — Junot Diaz

32. Daughter of Fortune — Isabel Allende

33. Addicted — Zane

34. And Then We Came To An End — Joshua Ferris

35. Tyrell — Coe Booth

36. The Hemingses of Monticello — Annette Gordon-Reed

37. The Glass Castle — Jeannette Walls

38. The End of the Affair — Graham Greene

39. The Shack — William Young

40. Sag Harbor — Coleson Whitehead

41. Island Beneath the Sea — Isabel Allende

42. A Question of Freedom — R. Dwayne Betts

43. Before You Suffocate Your Fool Self — Danielle Evans

44. Flashman — George Macdonald Fraser

46. Havana Blue — Leonardo Padura

47. The Help —  Kathryn Stockett

48. Salvage the Bones — Jesmyn Ward

49.  The Warmth of Other Suns – Isabel Wilkerson

50.  The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

51. The Lord of Light — Roger Zelazny

52. The Good Lord Bird — James McBride

53. Lovers at the Chameleon Club — Francine Prose

54. Dirty Love — Andre Dubus III

55. The Valley of Amazement — Amy Tan

56. The Black Count — Tom Reis

57. The Color of Water — James McBride

58. Where’d You Go, Bernadette? — Maria Semple

59. Sharp Objects — Gillian Flynn

60. Bossy Pants — Tina Fey

61. The Twelve Tribes of Hattie — Ayana Mathis

62. Gone Girl — Gillian Flynn

63. The Circle — Dick Eggers

64. Americanah — Chimamanda Adiche

65. The Scapegoat — Daphne Du Maurier

66. Home — Toni Morrison

67. The Girl on the Train — Paula Hawkins

68. Still Alice — Lisa Genova

69. Loving Day — Mat Johnson

70. The Turner House — Angela Flournoy

71. The Sellout — Paul Beatty

72. Conquistadora — Esmeralda Santiago

73. Just Mercy — Bryan Stevenson

74. The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden — Jonas Jonasson

75. Empire of the Fund — William A. Birdthistle

76. The Trespasser — Tana French

77. Born a Crime — Trevor Noah

78. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry — Gabrielle Zivin

79. The Mandibles 2029-2047 — Lionel Shriver

80. We Need to Talk About Kevin — Lionel Shriver

81. If Sons, Then Heirs — Lorene Carey

82. The Gate to Women’s Country — Sheri Tepper

83. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo — Stieg Larson

84. Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward

85. Crazy Rich Asians” by Kevin Kwan

86. Who Is Black Panther? – Jesse Holland

87. Men Without Women – Haruki Murakami

88. An American Marriage – Tayari Jones

89. Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took    Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster– Steven L. Carter

90.  A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea – Masaji Ishikawa

91. Becoming – Michelle Obama

92. Busted – Wendy Ruderman and Barbara Laker

93. American Spy – Lauren Wilkinson

94. How to Be An Antiracist – Ibram X. Kendi

95. My Sister, The Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite

96. Heaven My Home – Attica Locke

97. Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid

98. Deacon King Kong – James McBride

99. The Two of Them – Joanna Russ

100. The Great Divorce – C.S. Lewis

101. The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X – Les and Tamara Payne

102. The Vanishing Half –  Brit Bennett

103. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike – Phil Knight

104. While Justice Sleeps –  Stacy Abrams

105. The Other Black Girl – Zakiya Dalila Harris

106. It’s Not All Downhill From Here – Terry McMillan

107, Scythe – Neal Shusterman.

108. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev –  Dawnie Walton

109. The Personal Librarian – Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

110. The Monsters We Defy – Leslye Penelope

111. Harlem Shuffle – Colson Whitehead

112. Finding Me – Viola Davis

113. My Sunday Best: Pearls of Wisdom, Wit, Grace and Style – La Verne Wimberly and Barbranda Lumpkins Walls

114. All That She Carried – Tiya Miles