Lil Nappy Book Club

A monthly virtual book club of multicultural members who read and discuss works by Black authors, LGBTQ authors, writers of color, writers with disabilities, and beyond.

Zero commitment. Entirely welcoming.

Activist and editor Alice Wong discusses the anthology Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century during our July 2021 meet.

Lil Nappy Reading Selections

  • The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation, Raquel Willis

  • I'm So Effing Hungry: Why We Crave What We Crave – and What to Do About It, Dr. Amy Shah

  • Passing, Nella Larsen

  • All About Love, bell hooks

  • Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop, Danyel Smith

  • Parable of the Talents, Octavia Butler [discussion date TBD]

  • Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

  • I Don’t Want to Die Poor, Michael Arceneaux

  • Kink Stories, Edited by R.O. Kwan and Garth Greenwell

  • The Prophets, Robert Jones, Jr.

  • So You Want To Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo

  • Honey Girl, Morgan Rogers

  • Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Edited by Alice Wong

  • Halsey Street, Naima Coster

  • On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

  • What’s Mine And Yours, Naima Coster

  • Thick And Other Essays, Tressie McMillan-Cottom

  • Between The World And Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates

A bi-monthly, multicultural, virtual book club discussing works by Black authors, LGBTQ authors, writers of color, and writers with disabilities. In June, New York Times best-selling author Naima Coster joined to discuss her novels, Halsey Street and What’s Mine And Yours.

New York Times best-selling author Naima Coster joined to discuss her novels, Halsey Street and What’s Mine And Yours.