2020 Reading List

Our 2020 reading list consists of three sets of two. Two female authors, two male authors and two works of the inimitable Toni Morrison following her death August 5, 2019.

Here are our 2020 titles. Note – we customarily read 6 books per year however due to our 4th Culture Keepers Award, coming November 2020, our list is only five, this year.

  • THE NICKEL BOYS: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
  • THEY WERE HER PROPERTY: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie Jones Rogers
  • THE ORIGIN OF OTHERS (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 2016 Book 56) by Toni Morrison
  • TOUGH LOVE: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For by Susan Rice
  • THE BLUEST EYE by Toni Morrison

ANNOUNCING MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM OPEN BOOK DISCUSSION of THE BLUEST EYE by Toni Morrison

The Bibliophiles are pleased to announce our third Open Book Discussion at The Montclair Art Museum. We will be discussing Toni Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye. This event is scheduled for Sunday, June 28. SAVE THE DATE. More details to come.