Reading Challenge

2017 Black History and Black Author Reading Challenge

Book discussions will take place at River Lights Bookstore (1098 Main St.) the last Sunday of the month at 3:30 p.m.

JANUARY–FEBRUARY
“Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63”
by Taylor Branch

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award

MARCH–APRIL
“Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65”
by Taylor Branch

MAY-JUNE
“At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965–68”
by Taylor Branch

National Book Award finalist

SEPTEMBER
“Citizen: An American Lyric”
by Claudia Rankine

Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry, Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism, Winner of the NAACP Image Award

OCTOBER
“Stamped for the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America”
by Ibram X. Kendi

National Book Award winner

NOVEMBER
“From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation”
by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

“This brilliant book is the best analysis we have of the #BlackLivesMatter moment of the long struggle for freedom in America. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has emerged as the most sophisticated and courageous radical intellectual of her generation.”  – Dr. Cornel West