What Book[s] Are You Currently Reading?

**sansradio** · 03-21-2023, 06:07 PM

Oreo - Fran Ross

**sansradio** · 03-28-2023, 08:35 AM

Real Life - Brandon Taylor

**sansradio** · 04-08-2023, 06:52 PM

Red at the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson

**sansradio** · 04-11-2023, 06:38 PM

A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston - Robyn Crawford

**lakeside** · 04-18-2023, 07:34 PM

The Haunting of Rookward House by Darcy Coates | Goodreads
These are my guilty pleasures. Not exactly reading Proust in French
[[did that in college) now it's the fun stuff!

**sansradio** · 04-20-2023, 12:08 PM

The Wide Circumference of Love - Marita Golden

**sansradio** · 05-02-2023, 07:08 PM

Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail - Jonathan Chait

**lakeside** · 05-03-2023, 10:17 PM

The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager: 9780593183212 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

**sansradio** · 05-08-2023, 02:38 PM

Oil! - Upton Sinclair

**sansradio** · 05-23-2023, 12:19 PM

An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States - Kyle T. Mays

**sansradio** · 05-30-2023, 01:25 PM

The Fiction of LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka [foreword by Greg Tate]

**sansradio** · 06-12-2023, 10:28 PM

Negroland: A Memoir - Margo Jefferson

**sansradio** · 06-19-2023, 10:20 PM

Recitatif - Toni Morrison

**sansradio** · 06-20-2023, 05:44 PM

Siren Queen - Nghi Vo

**lakeside** · 06-27-2023, 02:00 PM

A big fan of architecture. Alden Dow studied with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin.

**lakeside** · 07-04-2023, 11:30 AM

You Shouldn't Have Come Here — Jeneva Rose

**sansradio** · 07-06-2023, 05:06 PM

Walking in My Joy: In These Streets - Jenifer Lewis

**sansradio** · 07-13-2023, 07:14 PM

White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson

**sansradio** · 07-20-2023, 06:45 AM

Black Klansman: Race, Hate and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime - Ron Stallworth

**sansradio** · 07-27-2023, 06:48 AM

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons - Imani Perry

**sansradio** · 08-01-2023, 09:12 AM

Filthy Animals - Brandon Taylor

**sansradio** · 08-14-2023, 05:34 PM

The Ballad of Black Tom - Victor LaValle

**sophisticated_soul** · 08-14-2023, 06:24 PM

The Murder of Cleopatra - Pat Brown - Prometheus Books 2013
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Subtitled: History's Greatest Cold Case.

Did Octavian dispatch Cleopatra and put out the suicide story for his own benefit? History is written by victors. The story is speculative but interesting.

**sansradio** · 08-17-2023, 06:01 PM

Black Moses - Alain Mabanckou

A clever 1970s Congolese take on Oliver Twist.

**moe** · 08-21-2023, 01:43 PM

They Called Us Exceptional....Other Lies That Raised Us - Prachi Gupta

**sansradio** · 08-23-2023, 08:11 PM

The Death of Vivek Oji - Akwaeke Emezi

Thr tagline of this novel is: What does it mean for a family to lose a child they never really knew? Not even 30 pages in...and I'm shattered.

**sansradio** · 09-01-2023, 07:02 AM

Half an Inch of Water: Stories - Percival Everett

The fiction master returns with a collection of offbeat stories set in the American West.

**sansradio** · 09-12-2023, 06:53 PM

Josephine Baker's Last Dance - Sherry Jones

The French music-hall queen/WWII Résistance spy/civil rights icon gets the historical fiction treatment.

**lakeside** · 09-20-2023, 10:22 AM

I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon by Mac Griswold | Goodreads

**sansradio** · 10-04-2023, 06:45 AM

Nothing Compares 2 U: An Oral History of Prince - Touré

**sansradio** · 10-11-2023, 07:14 AM

Pym - Mat Johnson

A fired literature professor goes on a wild quest through Antarctica to uncover the Black roots of Poe's only novel.

**sansradio** · 10-28-2023, 06:21 PM

The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks - Jeanne Theoharis

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She was not some hapless, unwitting seamstress who one day got tired on a Jim Crow bus but a fierce, tireless civil rights tactician and organizer many years before her storied arrest and for decades afterward. This biography explodes the myths and illuminates her life and work.

**sansradio** · 11-15-2023, 11:28 PM

Didn't We Almost Have It All: In Defense of Whitney Houston - Gerrick Kennedy

This author does a fantastic job of nailing the essence of what made the world fall in love with Whitney--and explores why that same world tore her down with glee in her darkest hours. Recommended.

**sansradio** · 11-21-2023, 07:53 AM

The Housing Lark - Sam Selvon

A group of Caribbean immigrants comically plot to buy a house together in repressive, racist 1960s London.

**sansradio** · 11-29-2023, 08:33 AM

In West Mills - De'Shawn Charles Winslow

A four-decade-spanning saga of the loves and secrets of an independent, hard-living, outspoken woman in rural North Carolina.

**lakeside** · 12-05-2023, 01:30 PM

A Haunting on the Hill

Book review: Elizabeth Hand's 'A Haunting on the Hill' honors Shirley Jackson : NPR

**sansradio** · 12-13-2023, 07:53 AM

Otis Redding: An Unfinished Life - Jonathan Gould

Exhaustive and long-overdue.

**lakeside** · 12-23-2023, 04:15 PM

Where The Dead Wait...Ally Wilkes
Where the Dead Wait | Book by Ally Wilkes | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster [[simonandschuster.com)

**sansradio** · 12-29-2023, 08:06 AM

Slave Old Man - Patrick Chamoiseau

The title character engages in a lyrical battle with nature--namely a hound on his trail--as he escapes his bondage in Martinique.

**sansradio** · 01-02-2024, 05:58 PM

Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation - Imani Perry

A critical analysis of the concept of patriarchy in global culture from the Enlightenment to the present.

**lakeside** · 01-12-2024, 07:35 PM

The Stranger Upstairs by Lisa M. Matlin: 9780593599952 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

**sansradio** · 01-17-2024, 12:16 PM

We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America - D. Watkins

**sansradio** · 01-25-2024, 07:42 AM

Black Deutschland - Darryl Pinckney

A gay, Black American man goes on a quest to escape his past and find love and fulfillment in 1980s Berlin.

**sansradio** · 02-10-2024, 09:39 PM

The Changeling - Victor LaValle

Myth, phantasmagoria and social commentary collide in this horror fable set in late-20th-century outer-borough New York.

**lakeside** · 03-02-2024, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by sansradio

The Changeling - Victor LaValle

Myth, phantasmagoria and social commentary collide in this horror fable set in late-20th-century outer-borough New York.

This looks right up my alley! I'll have to check this one out.

**lakeside** · 03-02-2024, 08:47 PM

The Neighbors by Ania Ahlborn | Goodreads

**sansradio** · 03-03-2024, 09:19 AM

Originally Posted by lakeside

This looks right up my alley! I'll have to check this one out.

Indeed! It’s disturbing and masterful. It was also made into a limited series on Apple+ TV last year starring LaKeith Stanfield and Zazie Beetz which was, surprisingly, equally as effective and well-made!