Books Read by Exoteric Book Club thru 12/31/2022
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
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
Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty - 3
Black Betty by Walter Mosley
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
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
Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi - 3
Broken Window by Jeffery Deaver
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
Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter - 5
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card - 3.58
Escape by Carolyn Jessop
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
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
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
Leaving Cecil Street by Diane McKinney Whetstone - 3
Life is Short but Wide by J. California Cooper
Little Green by Walter Mosley
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
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
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
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Simple Truth by David Baldacci
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
Souled Out? How Blacks are Winning & Losing in Sports By Shaun Powell
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
The Talisman by Stephen King - 3
Tempest Tales by Walter Mosley
Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston -
Thieves Paradise by?
Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed you Made by Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant
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
Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts (Won the Walker Peray Award)
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalup
3 Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin