Book rating based on 5 point rating scale, with 5 the highest         

                                                                                                           

Book Title, Author, and Book Rating

A Dirty Wicked Town Omaha by David L. Bristow - 3

A Million Little Pieces by James Frey  
A Never Event By Evelyn V. McKnight & T. T. Bennington - 3.4                               

Act Like a Lady and Think like a Man by Steve Harvey

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini - 4                

Alchemist by Paulo Coelho                                                                  

All I did was Shoot my Man by Walter Mosley                                     

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins - 3.9

American Sickness by Elisabeth Rosenthal - 3.5

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - 4                       

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones - 3.4

Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik  - 4                       

Antwone Fisher Story (Movie) based on Screenplay:     

At Last by Lisa Harrison Jacksons (next book:  What I Would Give)                  

Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama                                                     

Autobiography of an X-Colored Man by James Waldon Johnson           

Bad Boy Brawley Brown by Walter Mosley                                                       

Bared to You by Sylvia Day                                                                 

Becoming By Michelle Obama - 4

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande - 3.8

Biting the Hand:  Growing up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee - 3.7

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty - 3 

Bits and Pieces by Whoopi Goldberg - 3.5

Black AF History:  The Un-Whitewashed Story of America  by Michael Harriot - 3.8                     

Black Betty by Walter Mosley

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson - 4.5

Black History Reader:  101 Questions you Never thought to ask  by Dr. Claud Anderson - 4.1                                                             

Blow Fly by Patricia Cornwell                                                              

Bluest Eye by Tony Morrison

Bone of the Bone:  Essays on America by the Daughter...by Sarah Smarsh - 2.8                                                            

Book of Night Women by Marion James

Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson - 4                                                         

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah - 4                       

Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet  - 3                                              

Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi - 3                       

Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver  - 4                                                                   

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson                                                      

Can’t Stop Loving You by Lisa Harrison Jackson                                              

Caste By Isabel Wilkerson - 4.2

Children of Blood & Bones by Tomi Adejemi - 3.4

The Circle by Dave Eggers - 3                       

Coldest Winter by Sister Soldier

Constitution of the United States of America - 4.6                                                                      

Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown  - 5                       

Dark Half by Stephen King - 3                       

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch - 3                       

Deacon King Kong by James McBride - 3.95

Defending Jacob by William Handay - 3.6

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman - 3.6

Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter - 5                     

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - 3.58

Escape by Carolyn Jessop  - 4                                                                               

Faith & Favor:  Discovering Family at Fifty by Lisa Quates - 3.2

Fall on Your Knees by Ann Marie MacDonald - 5           

Fear Itself by Walter Mosley                                                                 

Find Her by Lisa Gardner - 4                       

First Black Quarterback by Marlin Briscoe

Four Winds by Kristin Hannah  - 3.6                                                      

Franklin Cover-up by John W. Decamp  - 3                                               

Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins - 3                       

God Help the Child by Toni Morrison - 3                       

Good Lord Bird by James McBride - 3                       

Greedy Bastards by Dylan Ratigan

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell - 3.9 

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead - 3.5                                                                 

The Hate you Give By:  Angie Thomas – 3

Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullough - 5         

Help by Kathryn Stockett                                                                                 

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance - 3                       

The House Girl by Tara Conklin                                                                       

I Almost forgot About You by Terry McMillan - 3 

I Am Because We Are by Chidiogo Akunyili - 4                     

I Say a Little Prayer by E. Lynn Harris                                                 

I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown - 3.5

If Beale Street Could Talk By James Baldwin - 3

The Immortal Life of Henriette Lacks by Rebecca Skloot - 3                     

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali - 3                       

It's not all Downhill from Here by Terry McMillan - 3.5

Just One Night by Kara Davis

Kill'em and Leave by  James McBride - 3.99                                                             

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann - 3.9

Kindered by Octavia Butler - 4                       

Known to Evil by Walter Mosley                                                                      

Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Last Sword Maker by Brian Nelson - 4.2                                     

Leaving Cecil Street by Diane McKinney Whetstone  - 3 

Legacy:  A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uche Blackstock - 4.2                    

Life is Short but Wide by J. California Cooper                                      

Little Green by Walter Mosley

Long After we are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris - 3.9                                                            

Love by Tony Morrison                                                                        

Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold                                                             

Mary by James Patterson

Memo by John Hope Bryant - 3.6                            

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides - 3 

Monday's Not Coming by Tiffany D. Jackson - 4.2                     

My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due                                                    

The Missing Part of me by Lisa Harrison Jackson                                              

The Nickel Boys By Colson Whitehead - 3

Nigger by Dick Gregory and Robert Lipsyte - 3.6

No Disrespect by Sister Souljah                                                            

No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay                                                       

Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz  - 3                       

On the Down Low by J. L. King                                                                      

The Other Barack by Sally Jacobs           

PACT by Samson Davis, Romick Hunt, & George Jenkins                             

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler - 4                       

Passage by Justin Cronin                                                                                  

Picking Cotton by Ronald Cotton                                                                     

Playing my Mothers Blues by Valerie Wilson Wesley - 3                                      

Pleasantville by Attica Locke - 3                       

Protect America by Roland Stewart                                                                  

Push by Sapphire                                                                                 

Queen Sugar by Natalie  Braszile - 4                       

Reader by Bernhard Schlink 

Red at the Bone By Jacqueline Woodson – 3

Rolling Stone Magazine, Women Shaping the future-3                                                  

Room by Emma Donahue - 3.4

Russian Roulette By Michael Isikoff & David Corn - 3

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward - 3.5

Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan                                                         

Season of the Harvest by Michael R. Hicks  - 4                       

Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani - 4                       

Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd                                                  

The Sellout by Paul Beatty - 2                       

Shack by William P. Young  - 4                                                               

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb                                                     

Simple Truth by David Baldacci  - 3 

Skin of the Sea by Natasha Bowen - 3.9                                                                    

Sleeping Beauties By Stephen King and Owen King - 2.2

Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult - 4                       

Sommeil by Tony O’Neal - (Screenplay)                                                           

Song Yet Sung by James McBride  - 5                                                                  

Souled Out?  How Blacks are Winning & Losing in Sports By Shaun Powell  - 3

South Side by Natalie Moore - 3.9               

Such a Fun Age By kiley Reid - 2.9

Sudden Summer Breeze by Pensacola Helene (Jefferson).          

Taking by Dean Koontz  - 4                                                                      

The Talisman by Stephen King  - 3                       

Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley  - 4                                                                     

Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston -           

Thieves Paradise by?  

Travelers Gift:  Seven Decisions that determine Personal Success by Andy Andrews - 3.5

Three Bodies Burning:  The Anatomy of an investigation into Murder by Brian Bogdanoff  - 3                                                             

Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed you Made by Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant  - 4        

Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis                                                         

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup                                           

You are the Money by West Hall                                                                      

Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson                                                      

Water Knife By Paolo Bacigalupi - 3.2

Way the Crow Flies by Ann Marie MacDonald

We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union - 3.3

The Wedding by Dorothy West - 3                       

War Girls by Tochi Onyebuchi - 1.9

What Doesn’t Kill You by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant                          

What I Know for Sure by Oprah Winfrey - 2.7

What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day by Pearl Cleage 

When Chicken Heads Come Home to Roost by Joan Morgan - 2.6                                        

Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts (Won the Walker Peray Award)

While Justice Sleeps by Stacy Abrams - 3.3           

Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor                                                   

Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalup

Women by Kristin Hannah - 4                                                                      

3 Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin