The Helen Lemme Reading Club Library: Titles Read in Helen Lemme Reading Club
This guide provides information about The Helen Lemme Reading Club Library housed at the Afro American Cultural Center along with historical information about The Helen Lemme Reading Club after which the library is dedicated and named.
A listing of titles read and discussed by the Helen Lemme Reading Club in the 1980's and 1990's, compiled through club records found in the Iowa Women's Archive. Titles are listed alphabetically by author.
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
ISBN: 0679427430
Publication Date: 1993-09-21
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
ISBN: 9780440330073
Publication Date: 1953-05-18
The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
ISBN: 0394507126
Publication Date: 1980-02-01
Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps
ISBN: 9780807063378
Publication Date: 1992-04-01
Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
ISBN: 0385150598
Publication Date: 1979-07-01
Brothers and Sisters by Bebe Moore Campbell
ISBN: 9780399139291
Publication Date: 1994-09-06
Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
ISBN: 9780399137464
Publication Date: 1992-09-08
Echo of Lions by Barbara Chase-Riboud
ISBN: 9780688064075
Publication Date: 1989-02-01
Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud
ISBN: 9780380486861
Publication Date: 1980-06-01
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual by Harold Cruse
ISBN: 9780688013905
Publication Date: 1984-01-01
1959 by Thulani Davis
ISBN: 9780802112309
Publication Date: 1992-02-01
Fifth Sunday by Rita Dove
ISBN: 9780912759067
Publication Date: 1985-01-01
Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
ISBN: 9780887480218
Publication Date: 1986-01-01
Through the Ivory Gate by Rita Dove
ISBN: 9780679742401
Publication Date: 1993-10-05
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
ISBN: 9780679732761
Publication Date: 1952-04-14
Cutting Lisa by Percival Everett
ISBN: 0899194125
Publication Date: 1986-11-01
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
ISBN: 9780394514680
Publication Date: 1983-09-12
Cotton Candy on a Rain Day by Nikki Giovanni
ISBN: 9780688033651
Publication Date: 1978-01-01
If This World Were Mine by E. Lynn Harris
ISBN: 9780385486552
Publication Date: 1997-07-14
Maru by Bessie Head
ISBN: 9780841501171
Publication Date: 1971-01-01
The Crazy Kill by Chester B. Himes
ISBN: 9780679725725
Publication Date: 1959
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9781417696031
Publication Date: 1937-09-18
Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780060916510
Publication Date: 1934
Spunk: The Selected Stories of Zora Neale Hurston by Zora Neale Hurston
ISBN: 9780913666791
Publication Date: 1925
Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: Family portraits and personal escapades by Itabari Njeri
ISBN: 0812918053
Publication Date: 1990-01-27
Middle Passage by Charles R. Johnson
ISBN: 9780689119682
Publication Date: 1990-07-11
A Visitation of Spirits by Randall Kenan
ISBN: 9780385415057
Publication Date: 1990-10-01
Let the Dead Bury Their Dead and Other Stories by Randall Kenan
ISBN: 0151498865
Publication Date: 1992-04-01
Tight Spaces by Kesho Scott
ISBN: 9780933216273
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
The Cotillion by John Oliver Killens
ISBN: 9780671270728
Publication Date: 1971-01-01
Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN: 0374194343
Publication Date: 1990-10-22
Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall
ISBN: 9780486468327
Publication Date: 1959
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
ISBN: 0452264715
Publication Date: 1990-02-26
Momma by Terry McMillan
ISBN: 0395399742
Publication Date: 1987-01-01
Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
ISBN: 0670839809
Publication Date: 1992-05-28
Crabcakes by James Alan McPherson
ISBN: 9780684834658
Publication Date: 1998-01-14
Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson
ISBN: 9780449241356
Publication Date: 1980-08-12
Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
ISBN: 9780385337816
Publication Date: 2004-02-03
Beloved by Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780394535975
Publication Date: 1987-08-12
Jazz by Toni Morrison
ISBN: 0679411674
Publication Date: 1992-04-07
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
ISBN: 0394497848
Publication Date: 1977-08-12
Sula by Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780452263499
Publication Date: 1973-11
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780307278449
Publication Date: 1970
Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray; Robert O'Meally (Foreword by)
ISBN: 9781555530518
Publication Date: 1989-05-15
Bailey's Café by Gloria Naylor
ISBN: 0151104506
Publication Date: 1992-09-10
Linden Hills by Gloria Naylor
ISBN: 0899193579
Publication Date: 1985-02-01
Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
ISBN: 0899197167
Publication Date: 1988-02-01
The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
ISBN: 9780140066906
Publication Date: 1983-06-30
The Street by Ann Petry
ISBN: 9780395573808
Publication Date: 1946
Clover by Dori Sanders
ISBN: 9780945575269
Publication Date: 1990-01-03
Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange
ISBN: 9780312541248
Publication Date: 1976
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
ISBN: 1504001583
Publication Date: 1852
Bloods by Wallace Terry
ISBN: 9780394530284
Publication Date: 1984-08-12
The Good Negress by A. J. Verdelle
ISBN: 9781565120853
Publication Date: 1995-01-03
Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful by Alice Walker
ISBN: 9780151421695
Publication Date: 1984-10-01
In Love and Trouble by Alice Walker
ISBN: 9780151444052
Publication Date: 1973-09-01
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
ISBN: 0671458531
Publication Date: 1983-01-01
Black-Eyed Susans and Midnight Birds by Mary Helen Washington (Editor)
ISBN: 0385260156
Publication Date: 1989-12-01
The Wedding by Dorothy West
ISBN: 9780385471435
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Hiding Place by John Edgar Wideman
ISBN: 9780380785018
Publication Date: 1981-01-01
Alchemy of Race and Rights by Patricia J. Williams