Our 2002 list included established and modern writers’ works we had not read previously. For the classics we trust you will agree, for the others, time will tell.
- THE LIVING IS EASY by Dorothy West
- THE WIND DONE GONE by Alice Randall
- IF YOU CAN’T BE FREE, BE A MYSTERY: IN SEARCH OF BILLIE HOLIDAY by Farah Jasmine Griffin
- JUBILEE by Margaret Walker
- THE BLUEST EYE by Toni Morrison
- A DAY OF ABSENCE by Douglas Turner Ward
2002 ADDITIONAL READING
While as a group we read 6 works per year, individually we read many other works and regularly recommend additional titles, especially if we feel we were forced to omit good works from our list, as was the case in 2002. Other title suggestions include the following:
- BETWEEN THE SHEETS by Juanita Bynum
- BREAKING BARRIERS by Angella Current
- CANE RIVER by Lalita Tademy
- THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM by John A. Williams
- THE MISEDUCATION OF THE NEGRO by Carter G. Woodson
- MY SOUL TO KEEP by Tananarive Due
- THE NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS by Frederick Douglass
- RACE TRAP by Bob Johnson
- SOJOURNER TRUTH: A LIFE, A SYMBOL by Nell Painter
- SOUL ON ICE by Eldridge Cleaver
- STANDING AT THE SCRATCH LINE by Guy Johnson
- UNCLE TOM’S CABIN by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- YESTERDAY WILL MAKE YOU CRY by Chester Himes