Sisters of the Word Book Club

ADILAH BARNES, GUEST AUTHOR, SISTERS OF THE WORD, JUNE 2009
 

ADILAH BARNES WITH SISTERS OF THE WORD MEMBERS

(Books Read To Date)

1993

(October)

Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan

Men Are From Mars, Women are from Venus: A practical guide for improving communications and getting what you want in your relationship  by John Gray

1994

Ugly Ways by Tina M. Ansa

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Black Gold by Anita Richmond Bunkley ( Rosemary suggested the words used by Anita Bunkley when  she autographed this book for her. We agreed it was a good one so we became Sisters of the Word )

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston

Red Death by Walter Mosley

Devil In The Blue Dress by Walter Mosley

1995

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler

Life on the Color Line by Gregory Howard Williams

Parallel Times by Brent Staples

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Sisters and Lovers by Connie Briscoe

And Do Remember Me by Marita Golden

When Death Comes Stealing by Valerie Wesley

1996

Having Our Say, The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years by Sarah L. Delaney and A.Elizabeth Delaney with Amy Hill Hearth

The Sacrifice of Tamar by Naomi Ragen

Sula by Toni Morrison

Brothers, Black and Poor by Sylvester Monroe and Peter Goldmen

Laughing In the Dark by Patrice Gaines

In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper

How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry Mc Millan

Marvin Gaye - Biography by ?

1997

Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris

The Hand I Fan With by Tina Mc Elroy

The Rapture of Canaan by Sheri Reynolds

Plum Crazzy by Monique Jewell Anderson (author at the meeting)

Caught Up In The Rapture by Sheneska Jackson

Temptation by Victoria Christopher Murray ( author at the meeting)

Men Cry In The Dark by Michael Baisden

1998

The Value In The Valley by Iyania Vanzant

Trying To Sleep In The Bed You Made by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Singing In TheComeback Choir by Bebe Moore Campbell

The Watsons Go To Birmingham- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis (First Annual Youth Book Talk Picnic)

The Devil's Red Nickel by Robert Greer

Beloved by Toni Morrison

1999

What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage

Milk In My Coffee by Eric Jerome Dickey

Our Kind Of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class by Lawrence Otis Graham 

Blue Light by Walter Mosley

Ladies First by Queen Latifah (Second Annual Youth Book Talk Picnic)

By The Light Of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker

Smart Money Moves For African Americans by Kevin Boston (financial planner present)   

First annual gift basket of donated books to the women's shelter Dec. 1999 

2000

River Cross My Heart by Breena Clark

Nothing But The Rent by Sharon Mitchell

"Louie and Ophelia" starring Ted Lange and Vanessa Bell Calloway (Dinner Theatre)

The Disapperance of Black Leadership by Dr. Earl Ofari Hutchinson (author present)

Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis ( Third Annual Youth Book Talk Picnic)

Gap Creek by Robert Morgan

Sacred Pampering Principles by Debrena Jackson Granny

Second Annual gift basket donated to the women's shelter Dec.2000

2001

Dubious & Darling by Hugh Mitchel Bouvier (author at the meeting)*Poetry

The Red Tent  by Anita Diamant

A Day Late and A Dollar Short by Terry McMillan

Reader's Choice ( Fourth Annual Youth Book Talk Picnic)

Breath,Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat

"Black Woman's Blues" starringVanessa Bell Calloway, Dawnn Lewis and Wendy Raquel Robinson (Dinner Theatre)

Dec. meeting cancelled due to hostess family problems- no gift basket -distributed.

2002

Cane River by Lalita Tademy

Dead Above Gound by Jervey Tervalon (author at the meeting)

The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah

Reader's Choice (Fifth Annual Youth Book Talk Picnic)

A Silver Tongue by Marlene Taylor

The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara

Holiday Gathering- Dinner and Play  James Baldwin- Go Tell it On the Mountain Top-  ( gift basket donation)

2003

Who is My Daddy? By Angela Morris (book club member and author)

I Wish I Had A Red Dress - by Pearl Cleage

Raising Fences - Michael Datcher (author present)

Douglass's Women - Jewell Parker Rhodes

Reader's Choice (Sixth Annual Youth Book Talk and Picnic)

Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

The Prisoner's Wife "A Memoir" - Asha Bandele

Christmas Outing at Harold and Belle's Restaurant

(gift basket donation)

2004

Standing on the Scratch Line - Guy Johnson

I Know Why the Caged Bird sings - Maya Angelou

No Crystal Stair - Eva Rutland

Readers' Choice (Seventh Annual Youth Book Talk and Picnic)

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

Nervous- Zane

Christmas Outing at Stevie Wonder's House Full of Toys Concert (annual book donation to the shelter)

2005

Afeni Shakur- Evolution of a Revolutionary -Jasmine Guy

The Man in My Basement- Walter Mosley

Kinfolks- Kristen Hunter- Lattany

Hottentot Venus - Barbara Chase- Riboud

Eighth Annual Picnic and Book Talk

Some Things I Thought I'd Never Do - Pearl Cleage

Kwanzaa A Celebration of culture and  Cooking - Eric Copage

Christmas Outing at Stevie Wonder's House Full of Toys Concert ( annual end of the year book donation to the shelter)

2006

A Million Little Pieces - James Frey

God Don't Like Ugly - Mary Monroe

Sunshine Has Rain - Sherrance Henderson (author present)

Ninth Annual Picnic and Book Talk

72 Hour Hold - BeBe Moore Campbell

Motown: The Golden Years-Bill Dahlin

2006 ( Continued)

Christmas Outing : Colours of Christmas Concert at Cerritos Performing Arts Center

(annual end of the year book donation to women's shelter)

2007

Chasing Sophea- Gabrielle Pina

On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madame C.J. Walker

A Sin and A Shame - Victoria Christopher Murray

Tenth Annual Book Talk and Picnic (at the beach)

Wings to Fly - Meme Kelly

I, Tituba - Black Witch of Salem - Maryse' Conde

Christmas Outing: At Lucy Florence - One-Woman Act Play "Menopause Mama"

(annual end of the year book donation to women's shelter)

2008

To God Be the Glory--Regina Mixon

Casanegra--Blair Underwood with Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes