Well-Read Black Girl Book Club

 

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Meetings on the fourth Sunday of the month at 3:00 PM. 

 

WORD Bookstores is happy to join the American Booksellers Association and Well-Read Black Girl to have our own WRBG Book Club Meet-ups!  This group will be curated and facilitated by our very own WORDie Member, Nnennaya. Read on to discover why Glory started the WRBG Book Club and why we love them and her so much. Here's to reading women of color, may we forever discover ourselves within their stories. 

"I often get asked why I started Well-Read Black Girl? The answer is simple: I LOVE TO READ. Does anyone remember ‘Honey, I Love’ by Eloise Greenfield? My 7-year-old self didn’t have the words for life-changing. My enchantment with storytelling has simply followed me into adulthood. Authors like, Toni Morrison, Zora Neale Hurston, Octavia Butler, Alice Walker, Maya Angelou and countless others always seem to have the answers in to all my questions. My quarter-life crisis ended swiftly after reading ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’. With every heartbreak, I revisit June Jordan’s ‘Directed by Desire’. When I feel sassy, I often quote Maya Angelou. “Nothing will work unless you do.” Whatever the situation, I have the words and ultimately, the wisdom, sitting on my bookshelf. I will always love reading the stories of women who look, sound and feel just like me." - Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl Founder

 

Book group selections are 10% off when purchased at WORD. 

 

Looking for recommendations to hold you over between meetings? Check out  Well-Read Black Girl's Reading List!

 

ABOUT THE BOOK GROUP LEADER

Nnenna Nkouka is an avid book lover since her childhood and has lead several book clubs in the past. She has been a participant of the Well-Read Book Club since 2016; attending a meetup and the 2018 WRBG festival. She has always been around books in some capacity whether it was working for a children’s literacy non-profit organization or working as a bookseller at bookstore. During the day she is a digital media advertising operations specialist in NYC. She is a wife and mother of two fierce young girls who share her love of books.

 

 

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The Fraud: A Novel By Zadie Smith Cover Image
$29.00
ISBN: 9780525558965
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Published: Penguin Press - September 5th, 2023

Discussion: January 28, 2024


Company: Stories By Shannon Sanders Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781644452516
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Published: Graywolf Press - October 3rd, 2023

Discussion: February 25, 2024


How to Say Babylon: A Memoir By Safiya Sinclair Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781982132330
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Published: 37 Ink - October 3rd, 2023

Discussion: March 24, 2024


Chrome Valley: Poems By Mahogany L. Browne Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9781324092278
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Published: Liveright - February 7th, 2023

Discussion: April 28, 2024


Nightbloom By Peace Adzo Medie Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781643752846
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Published: Algonquin Books - June 13th, 2023

Discussion: September 24, 2023


South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation By Imani Perry Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780062977373
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Published: Ecco - February 28th, 2023

Discussion: October 22, 2023


The Nigerwife: A Novel By Vanessa Walters Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781668011089
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Published: Atria Books - May 2nd, 2023

Discussion: November 19, 2023


The City We Became: A Novel (The Great Cities #1) By N. K. Jemisin Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780316509886
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Published: Orbit - July 27th, 2021

Discussion: May 28, 2023


Call Us What We Carry: Poems By Amanda Gorman Cover Image
$24.99
ISBN: 9780593465066
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Published: Viking Books - December 7th, 2021

Discussion: April 23, 2023


Freshwater By Akwaeke Emezi Cover Image
$14.40
ISBN: 9780802128997
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Published: Grove Press - December 18th, 2018

Discussion: March 26, 2023


The Furrows: A Novel By Namwali Serpell Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9780593448915
Published: Hogarth - September 27th, 2022

Discussion: February 26, 2023


Black Cake: A Novel By Charmaine Wilkerson Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593358351
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Published: Ballantine Books - November 29th, 2022

Discussion: January 22, 2023 January 29, 2023


Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough By Candice Marie Benbow, Melissa Harris-Perry (Foreword by) Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780593238462
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Published: Convergent Books - January 18th, 2022

Discussion: November 27, 2022


The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories By Danielle Evans Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593189450
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Published: Riverhead Books - November 9th, 2021

Discussion: October 23, 2022


You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel By Akwaeke Emezi Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982188702
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Published: Atria Books - May 24th, 2022

Discussion: September 24, 2022


Noor By Nnedi Okorafor Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780756416096
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Published: DAW - November 16th, 2021

Discussion: TUESDAY, June 28, 2022


Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781501126079
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Published: Scribner - May 8th, 2018

Discussion: May 29, 2022


Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?: A Novel By Lizzie Damilola Blackburn Cover Image
$26.00
Out of Stock - Not Available
ISBN: 9780593299005
Published: Pamela Dorman Books - January 18th, 2022

Discussion: April 24, 2022


On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library By Glory Edim (Editor) Cover Image
By Glory Edim (Editor)
$23.95
ISBN: 9781631497698
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Published: Liveright - October 26th, 2021

Discussion: March 27, 2022  March 29, 2022 @ 7PM


All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake By Tiya Miles Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781984854995
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Published: Random House - June 8th, 2021

Discussion: February 27, 2022


Libertie: A Novel By Kaitlyn Greenidge Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9781616207014
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Published: Algonquin Books - March 30th, 2021

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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies By Deesha Philyaw Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781949199734
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Published: West Virginia University Press - September 1st, 2020

Discussion: November 28, 2021

[Read in conjunction with Field Study, Chet'la Sebree]


Field Study By Chet'la Sebree Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780374539023
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Published: FSG Originals - June 1st, 2021

Discussion: November 28, 2021

[Read in conjunction with The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, Deesha Philyaw]


Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir By Ashley C. Ford Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250305978
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Published: Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book - June 1st, 2021

Discussion: October 31, 2021


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Popisho: A Novel By Leone Ross Cover Image
$28.00
Out of Stock - Not Available
ISBN: 9780374602451
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - April 20th, 2021

Discussion: September 26, 2021


Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower By Brittney Cooper Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781250112880
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Published: Picador - March 5th, 2019

Discussion: August 22, 2021


Luster: A Novel By Raven Leilani Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781250798671
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Published: Picador - June 8th, 2021

Discussion: July 22, 2021


The Other Black Girl: A Novel By Zakiya Dalila Harris Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781982160135
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Published: Atria Books - June 1st, 2021

Discussion: June 27, 2021


Remote Control By Nnedi Okorafor Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781250772800
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Published: Tordotcom - January 19th, 2021

Discussion: May 23, 2021


In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose By Alice Walker Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780156028646
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Published: Amistad - May 17th, 2004

Discussion: April 25, 2021


Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orisha #1) By Tomi Adeyemi Cover Image
$21.99
ISBN: 9781250170972
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) - March 6th, 2018

Discussion: March 28, 2021


Parable of the Sower By Octavia E. Butler Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781538732182
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Published: Grand Central Publishing - April 30th, 2019

Discussion: February 28, 2021


Nervous Conditions By Tsiti Dangarembga Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780954702335
Availability: Out of Print
Published: Ayebia Clarke Publishing - December 19th, 2004

Discussion: January 24, 2021