A Look Back – What We Read in 2000 & 2001

As we continue our 30 Day Celebration, we will be taking a stroll down Literary Lane and sharing many things about RAWSISTAZ, our members, authors & literary trivia. Does anyone know what the first reading selection for our online book club was?   :::::drumroll please:::: 

Our complete reading lists for 2000 and 2001 are below.


2000 READING LIST

October
Not a Day Goes By by E. Lynn Harris

November
Temptation by Victoria Christopher Murray

December
Addicted by Zane

2001 READING LIST

January
Sugar by Bernice McFadden
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Thurston

February
God Don’t Like Ugly by Mary Monroe
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

March
Yo Yo Love by Daaimah S. Poole
The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter Woodson

April
And on the Eighth Day She Rested by JD Mason
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown

May
Like Boogie on Tuesday by Linda Dominique Grosvenor
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor

June
Forever by Timmothy B. McCann
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin

July
Hot Johnny and the Woman Who Loved Him Sandra Jackson-Opoku
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

August
Satin Doll by Karen E. Quinones-Miller
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

September
What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell
The Color Purple by Alice Walker

October
Justus Girls by Slim Lambright
Daddy Was A Number Runner by Louise Meriwether

November
Married Men by Carl Weber
Daddy Was a Number Runner

December
Saturday’s Child by Gayle Sloan
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor