The following is a list of books kitabu has read since the group started in 1996: 1996 Month Title Author September Black Boy Richard Wright October Makes Me Wanna Holler Nathan McCall November The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison December Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston 1997 Month Title Author January Selected Poems: Rita Dove Rita Dove February Atonement Kim Martin Sadler March Nappy Aliona L. Gibson April Urban Romance Nelson George May The Ways of White Folks Langston Hughes June When Death Comes Stealing Valerie Wilson Wesley July Kiss The Girls James Patterson August Simple Speaks His Mind Langston Hughes September Black Betty Walter Mosley October The Color of Water James McBride November Just Above My Head James Baldwin December Live from Death Row Mummia Abdul-Jamal 1998 Month Title Author January Push Sapphire February Possessing the Secret of Joy Alice Walker March Tell Them We are Rising Ruth Wright Hayre April Disappearing Acts Terry McMillian May Tryin' To Sleep In The Bed You Made June Invisible Life E. Lynn Harris July Mama Day Gloria Naylor August Daughters of the Dust Julie Nash September Kaffir Boy Mark Mathabane October The George C. Wolfe November Of Water and the Spirit Malidoma Patrice Some December Kwanzaa; A Celebration of Family, Community & Culture Maulana Karenga 1999 Month Title Author January Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat February Friends, Lovers and Soulmates Derek S. & Darlene P. Howell March Sally Hemmings Barbara Chase Riboud April By the Light of My Father's Smile Alice Walker June What Looks Like Crazy On An Ordinary Day Pearl Cleage July Parable Of The Sower Octavia E. Butler August A Lesson Before Dying Ernest Gaines September A Time of Terror James Cameron November Li'l Mama's Rules Sheneska Jackson December Before the Mayflower Lerone Bennett Jr. 2000 Month Title Author January Movie: Imitation of Life (1934 original film version) Fannie Hurst February Alice Walker March Movie: Jungle Fever Spike Lee April Only Twice I've Wished for Heaven Dawn Turner Trice May Sport of the God Paul Laurence Dunbar June The Harris Men RM Johnson July Yellow Dog Walter Mosley September Be I Whole Gita Brown October Tumbling Diane McKinney-Whetstone November Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime J December Movie: She's Gotta Have It Spike Lee 2001 Month Title Author February Miles: The Autobiography Miles Davis & Q. Troupe May Cookie Cutter June Crick, Crack, Monkey Merle Hodge July Standing on the Scratch Line Guy Johnson September All of Me: A Voluptuous Tale Vernice October The Spook Who Sat by the Door Sam Greenlee November The Seasons of Beento Blackbird Aksoua Busla December Any Way the Wind Blows E. Lynn Harris 2002 Month Title Author January Original Writings Kitabu Members February Something's Wrong With Your Scale: A Romantic Comedy Van Whitfield March The Coldest Winter Ever Sista Souljah April Black White Jewish Rebecca Walker May I Wish I Had A Red Dress Pearl Cleage June Lookin' For Luv Carl Weber July Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do Valerie Wilson Wesley August Good Peoples Marcus Major September The Debt Randall Robinson October Sasha's Way Scott Haskins, Jr. November Losing the Race John McWhorter December Kindred Octavia Butler 2003 Month Title Author February Child of God Lolita Files March Faith & The Good Thing Charles Johnson April Emperor of Stephen Carter May Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Harriet Jacobs June Prisoner's Wife asha bandale July Bad Boy Brawley Brown Walter Mosely August Good Fences Michael Datcher September Love & Justice Rique Johnson Feeding Frenzy Jonathan Luckett October Beetle Creek William Demby November Ladies in Waiting Linda Hudson-Smith December Movie: Training Day Anton Fuqua-Director 2004 Month Title Author January Original Writing Kitabu Members February Forced Into Glory Lerone Bennett, Jr. March Black Girl in Shay Youngblood April The Polished Hoe Austin Clark May The Amen Corner: A Play James Baldwin July In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. Wil Haygood August The Pact Sampson Davis, M.D., George Jenkins M.D., and Rameck Hunt, M.D. September The Secrets of Darlene Dalton Randle Haley October Better Than I Know Myself November The Known World Edward P. Jones December Movie – Antwone Fisher Antwone Fisher; Denzel Washington, Director 2005 Month Title Author January Panhandle Dreams Gwen Parker February Dad Interrupted: A Novel Van Whitfield March Boaz Brown Michelle Stimpson April Bailey’s Café Gloria Naylor May July Dreams from My Father Barack Obama August Drinking Coffee Elsewhere ZZ Packer September Finding Martha’s Vineyard: African Americans at Home on an Island Jill Nelson October Love Toni Morrison November Some People, Some Other Place J. December Movie – Mo’ Better Blues Spike Lee 2006 Month Title Author January The Mis-Education of the Negro Carter G. Woodson February Jazz Toni Morrison March Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Hans Massaquoi April Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights May Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys Jawanza Kunjufu July Open House: Of Family, Friends, Food, Piano Lessons, and the Search for a Room of My Own Patricia Williams August Public Enemy #2 – An All New Boondocks Collection Aaron McGruder September The Covenant with Black Tavis Smiley October Milk in my Coffee Eric Jerome Dickey November Colored People Henry Louis Gates, Jr. December Movie – Akeelah and the Bee Doug Atchison
2008 Month Title Author January Original Writings Kitabu Members February A Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela March Sugar Bernice McFadden April Creating Success from the Inside Out May Two's Company, three's an Affair Kathy L. Carr June July Love Noire Erica Simone Turnipseed August Will You Die With Me? My Life and the Black Panther Party Flores Alexander Forbes September The Covenant with Black Tavis Smiley October Milk in my Coffee Eric Jerome Dickey November Colored People Henry Louis Gates, Jr. December Movie – What Black Men Think Doug Atchison
