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May 2013 - An Angry-Ass Black Woman by Karen E. Quinones Miller
The autobiographical novel from the author of Uptown Dreams and Satin Doll
Karen E. Quinones Miller is AN ANGRY-ASS BLACK WOMAN
You’d be angry, too . . . if you grew up poorer than poor in Harlem in the 1960s and ’70s, a place of unrelenting violence, racism, crime, rape, scamming, drinking, and drugging . . . with a dad permanently checked out in Bellevue and a mom at the end of her rope raising you, your twin sister, and your two brothers, moving every time the money runs out— and doing what it takes to survive.
But there’s more to her story . . . Ke-Ke Quinones was whip smart and sassy, a voracious reader of everything from poetry to the classics. No matter what, 117th Street—where you could always count on someone to stand up for you—would always be home. And with every hard-knock lesson learned, Ke-Ke grew fiercer, unleashing her inner angry-ass black woman to get through it all.
Is this her final chapter? Now, decades later, comatose in a hospital bed after a medical crisis, she reflects on her life—her
Reading List 2013-2014
Our Rating system is as follows: 5 Stars = Excellent 4 Stars = Good 3 Stars = It's Okay
2 Stars = Buyer Beware 1 Star = Hated It
Month |
Title/Book |
Author |
Rating |
May |
An Angry-Ass Black Woman |
Karen E. Quinones Miller |
4.4 |
June |
The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln |
Stephen L. Carter |
4.5 |
July |
Decadence |
Eric Jerome Dickey |
3.0 |
August |
The Perfect Marriage |
Kimberla Lawson Roby |
3.8 |
September |
Waiting For Jules |
Tamara N. Houston |
3.0 |
October |
Domino Falls |
Steven Barnes and Tananarive Due |
? |
November |
My Soul to Keep |
Tananarive Due |
? |
December |
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie |
Ayana Mathis |
? |
January |
The Dead Man Wife |
Solomon Jones |
? |
February |
The Morning After |
Kendra Norman Bellamy and Hank Stewart |
? |
March |
The Cutting Season |
Attica Locke |
? |
April |
The Millionaire Wives Club |
Tu-Shonda Whittaker |
? |
Reading List 2012-2013
Our Rating system is as follows: 5 Stars = Excellent 4 Stars = Good 3 Stars = It's Okay
2 Stars = Buyer Beware 1 Star = Hated It
Month |
Title/Book |
Author |
Rating |
May |
The Stalker Chronicles |
Electa Rome Parks |
3.4 |
June |
When The Thrill Is Gone |
Walter Mosley |
3.4 |
July |
Forever Soul Ties |
Vanessa Davis-Griggs |
2.8 |
August |
Gathering of Waters |
Bernice McFadden |
4.2 |
September |
Deceit and Devotion |
RM Johnson |
3.1 |
October |
Fourth Sunday: A Journey of a Book Club |
Because We Read |
3.8 |
November |
Lucy |
Jamaica Kincaid |
3.1 |
December |
Loom |
Shella Gillus |
3.8 |
January |
An Accidental Affair |
Eric Jerome Dickey |
3.3 |
February |
The Family Business |
Carl Weber & Eric Pete |
4.0 |
March |
Darling Nikki |
E. V. Adams |
2.8 |
April |
Sinners & Saints |
Victoria Christopher Murray & ReShonda Tate-Billingsley |
3.6 |
Reading List 2011-2012
Our Rating system is as follows: 5 Stars = Excellent 4 Stars = Good 3 Stars = It's Okay
2 Stars = Buyer Beware 1 Star = Hated It
Month |
Title/Book |
Author |
Rating |
May |
From Cape Town With Love |
Blair Underwood, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes |
3.8 |
June |
Silver Sparrow |
Tayari Jones |
4.0 |
July |
Southern Discomfort |
LaTonya Jones |
3.3 |
August |
32 Candles |
Ernessa T. Carter |
4.8 |
September |
Some Sing, Some Cry |
Ntozake Shange & Ifa Bayeza |
3.5 |
October |
Red Hats |
Damon Wayons |
4.0 |
November |
Corregidora |
Gayl Jones |
3.0 |
December |
Perfect Peace |
Daniel Black |
4.3 |
January |
In Search of Tennessee Sunshine |
Margaret Johnson-Hodge |
2.5 |
February |
Just Wanna Testify |
Pearl Cleage |
4.0 |
March |
Daddy by Default |
Pat Tucker |
3.0 |
April |
Losing It |
Zaria Garrison |
3.4 |
Reading List 2010-2011
Month |
Title/Book |
Author |
Rating |
May |
Mama Dearest |
E. Lynn Harris |
3.6 |
June |
Cornered |
Brandon Massey |
4.1 |
July |
The Cheating Curve |
Paula T. Renfroe |
3.6 |
August |
Till You Hear From Me |
Pearl Cleage |
3.8 |
September |
My Soul Cries Out |
Sherri Lewis |
3.8 |
October |
Too Little, Too Late |
Victoria Christopher Murray |
4.1 |
November |
The Street |
Ann Petry |
4.5 |
December |
Glorious |
Bernice McFadden |
4.1 |
January |
Wench |
Dolen Perkins-Valdez |
4.8 |
February |
Cougars |
Earl Sewell |
3.2 |
March |
Sins of the Father |
Angela Benson |
3.9 |
April |
Getting to Happy |
Terry McMillan |
3.8 |
Reading List 2009-2010
Month |
Title/Book |
Author |
Rating |
May |
That Devil Is No Friend of MIne |
JD Mason |
3.7 |
June |
Erotic City |
Pynk |
3.0 |
July |
Jezebel |
Jacquelin Thomas |
4.0 |
August |
Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man |
Steve Harvey |
3.9 |
September |
Love On A Two-Way Street |
JL King |
3.7 |
October |
Unexpected Interruptions |
Trice Hickman |
3.0 |
November |
Black Betty |
Walter Mosley |
3.3 |
December |
The Love Child's Revenge |
Nicole Bailey-Williams |
3.0 |
January |
Pleasure |
Eric Jerome Dickey |
4.6 |
February |
Single Husbands |
Honey B |
3.0 |
March |
In the Night of the Heat |
Blair Underwood, Steven Barnes, Tananrive Due |
3.8 |
April |
What Doesn't Kill You |
Virginia Deberry & Donna Grant |
4.2 |
Reading List 2008-2009
Month |
Title/Book |
Author |
Rating |
May |
Casanegra |
Blair Underwood, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due |
4.4 |
June |
Gotta Keep On Tryin' |
Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant |
3.4 |
July |
Keepin' It Tight |
Shani Greene-Dowdell |
2.0 |
August |
Love You Like Hallelujah |
Latisha Lovely |
3.3 |
September |
The Amen Sisters |
Angela Benson |
4.0 |
October |
Something He Can Feel |
Marissa Monteilh |
3.3 |
November |
Passing |
Nella Larsen |
2.2 |
December |
Naked Love |
Darnella Ford |
4.4 |
January |
The Darkest Child |
Delores Phillips |
4.4 |
February |
Miss Etta's Fast House |
Victor McGlothin |
3.1 |
March |
Just Too Good To Be True |
E. Lynn Harris |
4.4 |
April |
Sexcapades |
Honey B |
2.8 |
Reading List 2007-2008
Month |
Title/Book |
Author |
Rating |
May |
When Loving You Is Wrong |
Dywane D. Birch |
3.1 |
June |
Vicious |
Brandon Massey |
4.0 |
July |
I Say A Little Prayer |
E. Lynn Harris |
4.1 |
August |
5 Minutes and 42 Seconds |
TJ Williams |
3.3 |
September |
Forgivin' Ain't Forgettin' |
Mata Elliot |
3.4 |
October |
A Sin and A Shame |
Victoria Christopher Murray |
3.7 |
November |
Betsey Brown |
Ntozake Shange |
3.5 |
December |
Every Woman Needs a Wife |
Naleighna Kai |
3.0 |
January |
Thug-A-Licious |
Noire |
3.5 |
February |
Love and Lies |
Kimberla Lawson Roby |
4.0 |
March |
When Somebody Loves You Back |
Mary B. Morrison |
3.4 |
April |
My Husband's Girlfriend |
Cydney Rax |
2.4 |
Reading List 2006-2007
Month |
Title/Book |
Author |
Rating |
May |
Changing Faces |
Kimberla Lawson Roby |
3.5 |
June |
The Company You Keep |
Angela Henry |
3.3 |
July |
What A Sista Should Do |
Tiffany L. Warren |
2.8 |
August |
72 Hour Hold |
Bebe Campbell Moore |
3.1 |
September |
Other Men Wives |
Freddie Lee Johnson |
3.8 |
October |
Are You Satisfied Yet? |
MBridges |
3.0 |
November |
Mama Day |
Gloria Naylor |
3.8 |
December |
Baby Brother's Blues |
Pearl Cleage |
4.2 |
January |
Knockin' Boots |
Tracy Price Thompson |
3.7 |
February |
So You Call Yourself A Man |
Carl Weber |
3.5 |
March |
When Love Calls You Better Answer |
Bertice Berry |
4.6 |
April |
Grown Folks Business |
Victoria Christopher Murray |
3.8 |
Reading List 2005-2006
Month |
Title/Book |
Author |
Rating |
May |
Playing My Mother's Blues |
Valerie Wilson Wesley |
4.6 |
June |
Taste Like Chicken |
Lolita Files |
3.5 |
July |
Within The Shadows |
Brandon Massey |
4.0 |
August |
Woman Thou Art Loosed: The Novel |
TD Jakes |
2.8 |
September |
All I Need To Get By |
Sophfronia Scott |
3.1 |
October |
Blackbird Papers |
Ian Smith |
4.4 |
November |
Push |
Sapphire |
4.0 |
December |
The Untelling |
Tayari Jones |
3.9 |
January |
Can't Get Enough |
Connie Briscoe |
3.8 |
February |
Whoreson |
Donald Goins |
2.0 |
March |
G Spot |
Noire |
4.2 |
April |
Lovin' You Is Wrong |
Alisha Yvonne |
2.8 |
Reading List 2004-2005
Month |
Title/Book |
Author |
Rating |
May |
In My Bedroom |
Donna Hill |
4.2 |
June |
Caught Up! |
Winston Chapman |
3.6 |
July |
Trouble Man |
Travis Hunter |
4.2 |
August |
A Change Gonna Come |
Jacquelin Thomas |
3.8 |
September |
Another Man's Wife |
Shonda Cheeks |
3.3 |
October |
Dark Corner |
Brandon Massey |
4.1 |
November |
The Wedding |
Dorothy West |
3.2 |
December |
Sugar |
Bernice McFadden |
4.4 |
January |
Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do |
Pearl Cleage |
4.5 |
February |
Simon Says |
Collen Dixon |
3.0 |
March |
As We Lay |
Darlene Johnson |
4.2 |
April |
A Woman's Worth |
Tracy Price-Thompson |
4.6 |
Reading List 2003-2004
Month |
Title/Book |
Author |
Rating |
May |
PG County |
Connie Briscoe |
3.9 |
June |
Twilight Moods |
e.d. Jossel Flowers |
3.4 |
July |
The Shirt Off His Back |
Parry Brown |
3.2 |
August |
Pent Up Passion |
Hope C. Clarke |
2.5 |
September |
A Love Of My Own |
E. Lynn Harris |
4.2 |
October |
An Ordinary Woman |
Donna Hill |
4.0 |
November |
Daddy Was A Number Runner |
Louise Meriwether |
3.75 |
December |
The Color Of Love |
Sandra Kitt |
3.3 |
January |
More Like Wrestling |
Danyel Smith |
2.7 |
February |
A Man Most Worthy |
Marcus Major |
3.6 |
March |
Church Folks |
Michele Andrea Bowen |
4.2 |
April |
Prayer For Deliverance |
Christopher Chambers |
3.5 |
Reading List 2002-2003
Month |
Title/Book |
Author |
Rating |
May |
Blind Ambitions |
Lolita Files |
3.29 |
June |
Shattered Souls |
Dywane D. Birch |
4.56 |
July |
Daughter by Spirit |
V. Anthony Rivers |
2.69 |
August |
Shades of Jade |
Gloria Mallette |
3.9 |
September |
What Love Puts You Through |
Larry L. Lee |
3.2 |
October |
Cookie Cutter |
Sterling Anthony |
4.1 |
November |
Blacker the Berry |
Wallace Thurman |
3.0 |
December |
Child of God |
Lolita Files |
4.5 |
January |
Shame On It All |
Zane |
3.0 |
February |
Married Men |
Carl Weber |
4.2 |
March |
Baggage Check |
Curtis Bunn |
3.6 |
April |
Joy |
Victoria Christopher Murray |
4.2 |
Reading List 2001-2002
MONTH |
BOOK |
AUTHOR |
RATING |
MAY |
GOD DON'T LIKE UGLY |
MARY MONROE |
4.2 |
JUNE |
BUTTERSCOTCH BLUES |
MARGARET JOHNSON-HODGE |
4.7 |
JULY |
A TWIST OF FATE |
ROBYN WILLIAMS |
4.2 |
AUGUST |
ADDICTED |
ZANE |
4.8 |
SEPTEMBER |
GOOD PEOPLES |
MARCUS MAJOR |
3.55 |
OCTOBER |
DETAILS AT TEN |
ADRELLA GARLAND |
3.56 |
NOVEMBER |
INVISIBLE MAN |
RALPH ELLISON |
3.25 |
DECEMBER |
GOT TO BE REAL |
E. LYNN HARRIS, ERIC JEROME DICKEY, MARCUS MAJOR, COLIN CHANNER |
3.61 |
JANUARY |
TEMPTATION |
VICTORIA CHRISTOPHER MURRAY |
4.6 |
FEBRUARY |
LIAR'S GAME |
ERIC JEROME DICKEY |
2.7 |
MARCH |
LOOKIN' FOR LUV |
CARL WEBER |
4.0 |
APRIL |
A DAY LATE AND A DOLLAR SHORT |
TERRY MCMILLAN |
4.2 |
Reading List 2000-2001
SCALE (1-10)
MONTH |
BOOK |
AUTHOR |
RATING |
MAY |
UNTIL |
TIMMOTHY MCCANN |
8.5 |
JUNE |
CHEATERS |
ERIC JEROME DICKEY |
8.65 |
JULY |
WHEN ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE |
CAMIKA SPENCER |
8.4 |
AUGUST |
ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER |
SHANDRA HILL |
6.85 |
SEPTEMBER |
COLDEST WINTER EVER |
SISTER SOULJAH |
9.4 |
OCTOBER |
NOTHING BUT THE RENT |
SHARON MITCHELL |
6.57 |
NOVEMBER |
SOMETIMES I CRY |
LINDA DOMINIQUE GROSVENOR |
7.25 |
DECEMBER |
GOOD HAIR |
BENILDE LITTLE |
6.93 |
JANUARY |
SATIN DOLL |
KAREN E. QUINONES MILLER |
8.87 |
FEBRUARY |
PRICE OF PASSION |
EVELYN PALFREY |
9.6 |
MARCH |
THERE EYES WERE WATCHING GOD |
ZORA NEAL HURSTON |
6.94 |
APRIL |
ALL OF ME: A VOLUPTUOUS TALE |
VENISE BERRY |
9.1 |