The New Harlem Book Club Information Thread

[UpAndComing]

Not what I intended. I was thinking strictly humanities.

 

[invalid]

I wouldn't mind adding The covenant with black America to that list. Ready for Revolution by Stokely Carmichael was dope too but that joint is like a thousand pages.

I think we can build up to Carmichael.

Are they books we're gonna have to buy or will they be readily available?

However you obtain the book is how you obtain it. I will facilitate the book club, I’ll leave it up to posters on how they get the material.

Libgen can be a resource.

Library Genesis

Library Genesis is a scientific community targeting collection of books on natural science disciplines and engineering.

libgen.is

Hyperlink back to the below original post for instructions on how to download.

Library Genesis

I picked up forty different books from this site in the past year. As a result my mind frame totally changed in a short time period and it was done without spending a dime. Using Libgen you can make that happen for yourself if you want it. The barrier to entry for knowledge has never been lower.

Library Genesis

^A link to downloads for the Autobiography of Malcolm X. If you're on an Apple device I recommend the Epub version, the pdf version if you're not.

Drop some books you suggest we pick up or to check their availability.

 

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@YvrzTrvly
@Silky Johnson
@Sister Mary Clarence
@Jermaine Colington
@MrSpook
@Leasy
@Louisiana Fisher
@EARFQUAKE

I think this is good enough. Don’t need a large group. I hope you all will be committed, but if not, it’s all good.

Next steps will be to pick our inaugural book before I make out a schedule.

I suggested that we start from the Schomburg list. But if you have a suggestion feel free to mention it. Once I get a book recommendation from each one of you, I will do a poll. I would ask for everyone to pick a book, other than your own, that speaks to you. You can pick multiple books. The book with the most votes will be our first. And our next book will be the book with the next highest vote and so on.

Here is the Schomburg list for reference:

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All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studiesby Akasha Gloria Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott & Barbara Smith, eds.​

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes​

The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat​

The Autobiography of Malcolm Xby Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley​

Bad Feminist: Essays by Roxane Gay​

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates​

Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do by Jennifer L. Eberhardt​

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James​

A Black Women's History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross​

The Bluest Eye: A Novel by Toni Morrison​

Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry​

A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel by Marlon James​

Brown: Poems by Kevin Young​

Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady​

Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine​

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010 by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser, eds.​

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad​

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old Southby Michael W. Twitty​

Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soulby Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.​

Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg by Vanessa K. Valdés​

Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith​

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper​

Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman​

Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith​

Fences by August Wilson​

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin​

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin​

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race by Jesmyn Ward, ed.​

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis​

From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor​

Harlem Nocturne: Women Artists and Progressive Politics During World War II by Farah Jasmine Griffin​

Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon​

High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America by Jessica B. Harris​

The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter​

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgotby Mikki Kendall​

How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi​

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones​

I Know Why the Caged Bird Singsby Maya Angelou​

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose by Alice Walker​

Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin​

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson​

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler​

Kwame Brathwaite: Black Is Beautiful by Kwame Brathwaite​

The Light of the World: A Memoirby Elizabeth Alexander​

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman, Jr.​

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Books contd.

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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinventionby Manning Marable​

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad​

Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward​

Monument: Poems: New and Selected by Natasha Trethewey​

My Song: A Memoir by Harry Belafonte​

Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson​

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander​

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead​

Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor​

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, adapted by John Jennings, art by Damian Duffy​

Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children by Trina Greene Brown​

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison​

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown​

Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter by Jordan T. Camp & Christina Heatherton​

Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present by Deborah Willis​

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris​

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A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry​

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock​

S O S: Poems 1961–2013 by Amiri Baraka​

Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems by Sonia Sanchez​

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde​

So You Want to Talk About Raceby Ijeoma Oluo​

The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome by Alondra Nelson​

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi​

Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.​

The Street by Ann Petry​

Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell S. Jackson​

Sweat by Lynn Nottage​

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black by bell hooks​

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston​

Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom​

The Tradition by Jericho Brown​

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead​

Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor​

Voyage of the Sable Venus: And Other Poems by Robin Coste Lewis​

Wade in the Water: Poems by Tracy K. Smith​

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson​

The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes​

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman​

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie​

We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina L. Love​

We're On: A June Jordan Readerby June Jordan​

Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim, ed.​

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays by Damon Young​

Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?: Stories by Kathleen Collins​

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele​

Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King, Jr.​

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

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor​

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon​

 

[Joe Budden]

I vote for the autobiography of Malcolm X.

I’m very excited excited for this. I’ve always wanted to be apart of a black book club.

Can’t wait to see the other brehs suggestions.

 

[invalid]

I vote for the autobiography of Malcolm X.

This is actually my first suggestion as well. Still haven’t read it.

 

[Joe Budden]

This is actually my first suggestion as well. Still haven’t read it.

Huge fan of the movie but yeah it’s time I read it as well.

 

[5thbornpowerseed]

Im interested
Add me

 

[Sister Mary Clarence]

I'm down for Malcolm X as well. Read it 20 years ago but would love to dive in again

 

[Ahadi]

That would be dope. What’s the first book?

Add me

 

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[Geek Nasty]

I’m in let’s start with one of the essentials. I pitch something like Souls of Black Folk something else like that

 

[invalid]

@YvrzTrvly
@Silky Johnson
@Sister Mary Clarence
@Jermaine Colington
@MrSpook
@Leasy
@Louisiana Fisher
@EARFQUAKE
@5thbornpowerseed
@Mufasa Ahadi
@Arbitrage!
@Geek Nasty

So we have The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the Souls of Black Folks. Other suggestions for our inaugural book before I poll?

Poll thread will be created on Thursday.

Also, we need an official name for our book club. Pitch your suggestions as well.

 

[Leasy]

@YvrzTrvly
@Silky Johnson
@Sister Mary Clarence
@Jermaine Colington
@MrSpook
@Leasy
@Louisiana Fisher
@EARFQUAKE
@5thbornpowerseed
@Mufasa Ahadi
@Arbitrage!
@Geek Nasty

So we have The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the Souls of Black Folks. Other suggestions for our inaugural book before I poll?

Poll thread will be created on Thursday.

Also, we need an official name for our book club. Pitch your suggestions as well.

Black Boy by Richard Wright to the list