The Nubian Circle Book Club rates books on a scale from 1 to 5. Each member provides
their rating and a group average is displayed below.
The ratings are interpreted as follows:
1 = Poor - Not Recommended
2 = Fair/Needs Improvement - Not Recommended
3 = OK/Good - Recommended (perhaps with caution)
4 = Very Good - Strongly Recommended
5 = Outstanding - Highly Recommended
Nubian
Circle Book Club - 2010 Selections | | House
of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III NCBC Rating = 3.2 | | Some Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill NCBC Rating = 5 | | Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones NCBC Rating = 3.3 | | Sugar by Bernice McFadden NCBC Rating = 3.5 | | Perfect Peace by Daniel
O. Black NCBC Rating = 4.5 | | The Help by Kathryn Stockett NCBC Rating = TBD | | 32 Candles by Ernessa
T. Carter NCBC Rating = TBD | | Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon NCBC Rating = TBD | | | | | | | | |
Nubian Circle Book Club - 2009
Selections
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Midnight: A Gangster Love Story by Sister Souljah
NCBC Rating = 3.4
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Song Yet Sung by James McBride
NCBC Rating = 4.38
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Push: A Novel by Saffire
NCBC Rating = 4.3 |
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
NCBC Rating = 3.2 |
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Life Is Short But Wide by J. California Cooper
NCBC Rating = 3.1
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Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey
NCBC Rating = 2.6 |
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The Shack by William P. Young
NCBC Rating = 4.2 |
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Children of the Waters by Carleen Brice
NCBC Rating = 3.3 |
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The Good House by Tananarive Due
NCBC Rating = 3.4 |
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The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
NCBC Rating = 3.4
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Mama Dearest by E. Lynn Harris
NCBC Rating = TBD |
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The People vs Cashmere by Karen Williams NCBC Rating = TBD
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Nubian Circle Book Club - 2008 Selections
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Color Me Butterfly by L. Y. Marlow
NCBC Rating = 4.25
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Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors by Bill Cosby, Alvin Poussaint
NCBC Rating = 2.0
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Conception by Kalisha Buckhanon
NCBC Rating = 3.5 |
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Seen It All and Done The Rest by Pearl Cleage
NCBC Rating = 3.25 |
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If The Creek Don't Rise by Rita Williams
NCBC Rating = 3
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Orange Mint & Honey by Carleen Brice
NCBC Rating = 4.70 |
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We'll Never Tell by Kayla Perrin
NCBC Rating = 2.2 |
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By The Rivers of Babylon by Cindy Brown Austin
NCBC Rating = 3.25 |
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Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama
NCBC Rating = 3
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Joint Meeting with Mocha Expressions: Encore Selection:
Orange Mint and Honey by Carleen Brice
NCBC Rating = 3.5 |
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Nubian Circle Book Club - 2007 Selections |
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Blood on the Leaves by Jeff Stetson
NCBC Rating = 4.8
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Tumbling by Dianne McKinney-Whetstone
NCBC Rating = 4.8
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Fear of the Dark by Walter Mosley
NCBC Rating = 3.6
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Freshwater Road by Denise Nicholas
NCBC Rating = 4.7 |
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Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy
NCBC Rating = 3.2
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Sleeping With Strangers by Eric Jerome Dickey
NCBC Rating = 3.5 |
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CANCELLED: Let's Get It On by Jill Nelson
NCBC Rating = The book was not released as promised. |
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All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
NCBC Rating = 4 |
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Waking With Enemies by Eric Jerome Dickey
NCBC Rating = 3 |
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Sweeter Than Honey by Mary B. Morrison
NCBC Rating = 1.25
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What's Done In The Dark by Gloria Mallette [Joint Meeting With Mocha Expressions]
NCBC Rating = 3.25 |
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Them by Nathan McCall
NCBC Rating = TBD
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Nubian Circle Book Club - 2006 Selections
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They Tell Me of a Home by Daniel Black
NCBC Rating = 4.4
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Bailey's Cafe by Gloria Naylor
NCBC Rating = 3.5
A Deeper Blue: Passion Marks II by Lee Hayes
NCBC Rating = 2.1 |
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Nowhere Is A Place by Bernice L. McFadden
NCBC Rating = 4.4
Who Does She Think She Is? by Benilde Little
NCBC Rating = 3.4
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Forty Acres by Phyllis Dixon
NCBC Rating = 4.3
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Third Girl From The Left by Martha Southgate
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Baby Brother's Blues by Pearl Cleage
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The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner by Andrea Smith
NCBC Rating = 4.3 |
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The Covenant With Black America by Tavis Smiley
NCBC Rating = 3.5 |
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Girls Most Likely by Sheila Williams
NCBC Rating = 2.3 |
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From Super "Man" to Man by J. A. Rogers
NCBC Rating = 4
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Jump at the Sun by Kim McLarin
NCBC Rating = 2.6 (Using Mocha Expression's Rating Scale) |
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What I Know For Sure by Tavis Smiley
NCBC Rating = No Rating Applied
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Nubian Circle Book Club - 2005 Selections
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Passion Marks by Lee A. Hayes
NCBC Rating = 4.0
Purple Hibiscus by Chiamanda Ngozi Adichie
NCBC Rating = 3.1
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The Ways of White Folks by Langston Hughes
NCBC Rating = 4.1
Fannin' The Flames by Parry "Ebony Satin" Brown
NCBC Rating = 3.8
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The Preacher's Son by Carl Weber
NCBC Rating = 4.2
Some People, Some Other Place by J. California Cooper
NCBC Rating = 3.8
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The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
NCBC Rating = 4.5
Upstate by Kalisha Buckhanon
NCBC Rating = 4.4
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Cover Girls by T. D. Jakes
NCBC Rating = 2.2
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Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage
NCBC Rating = 4.0
Tastes Like Chicken by Lolita Files
NCBC Rating = 3.3
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Let The Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland (Ebele Oseye)
NCBC Rating = 3.4
The Bridge by Solomon Jones
NCBC Rating = 3.5
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When Loves Calls, You Better Answer by Bertice Berry
NCBC Rating = 3.9
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The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan
NCBC Rating = 2.8
Genevieve by Eric Jerome Dickey
NCBC Rating = 3.7
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Better Than I Know Myself by Virginia DeBerry & Donna Grant
NCBC Rating = 3.3
Cinnamon Kiss by Walter Mosley
NCBC Rating = 3.7
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72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
NCBC Rating = 4.0
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Passport Diaries by Tamara Gregory
NCBC Rating = 4.1
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Nubian Circle Book Club - 2004 Selections
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Getting Mother's Body by Suzan-Lori Parks
NCBC Rating = 2.9
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A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
NCBC Rating = 4.1
The Honey Well by Gloria Mallette
NCBC Rating = 4.6
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A Love Noire by Erica Simone Turnipseed
NCBC Rating = 3.6
What Becomes of the Brokenhearted by E. Lynn Harris
NCBC Rating = 4.1
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Kindred by Octavia Butler
NCBC Rating = 4.7
A Woman's Worth by Tracy Price-Thompson
NCBC Rating = 4.2
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The Wake of the Winds by J. California Cooper
NCBC Rating = 4.0
On The Down Low by J. L. King
NCBC Rating = 2.0
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Leaving Cecil Street by Dianne McKinney-Whetstone
NCBC Rating = 4.4
Family Secrets by Astria Richard
NCBC Rating = 3.4
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Crave by Darnella Ford
NCBC Rating = 3.0
Gothan Diaries by Tony Lewis Lee, Crystal McCrary Anthony
NCBC Rating = 2.7
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Camilla's Roses by Bernice McFadden
NCBC Rating = 3.6
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Like The First Time by Francis Ray
NCBC Rating = 3.6
Man In My Basement by Walter Mosley
NCBC Rating = 3.3
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Blood on the Leaves by Jeff Stetson
NCBC Rating = 4.9
Red Light Wives by Mary Monroe
NCBC Rating = 4.0
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The Seasons of Beento Blackbird by Akosua Busia
NCBC Rating = 3.3
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The Blackbird Papers by Ian Smith
NCBC Rating = 3.9
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Nubian Circle Book Club - 2003 Selections
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy
NCBC Rating = 3.3
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Harlem Redux by Persia Walker
NCBC Rating = 4.8
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Loving Donovan by Bernice McFadden
NCBC Rating = 4.1
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A Man Most Worthy by Marcus Major
NCBC Rating = 3.0
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Chocolate Sangria by Tracy Price-Thompson
NCBC Rating = 2.9
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Leslie by Omar Tyree
NCBC Rating = 2.8
The Sisters of APF: The Indoctrination of Soror Ride Dick by Zane
NCBC Rating = 2.5
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The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen Carter
NCBC Rating = 2.3
Sexual Healing by Jill Nelson
NCBC Rating = 4.5
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Redemption Song by Bertice Berry
NCBC Rating = 4.8
Selah's Bed by Jenoyne Adams
NCBC Rating = 4.4
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The Other Woman by Eric Jerome Dickey
NCBC Rating = 4.3
Push by Saffire
NCBC Rating = 4.0
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The Blacker the Berry... by Wallace Thurman
NCBC Rating = 3.0
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Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson
NCBC Rating = 4.8
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Nubian Circle Book Club - 2002 Selections
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Seraph on the Suwanee by Zora Neale Hurston
NCBC Rating = 4.0
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Fragments of he Ark by Louise Merriweather
NCBC Rating = 2.8
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This Bitter Earth by Bernice McFadden
NCBC Rating = 4.8
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I Wish I Had A Red Dress by Pearl Cleage
NCBC Rating = 3.5
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The Justus Girls by Evelyn "Slim" Lambright
NCBC Rating = 4.4
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Cane River by Lalita Tademy
NCBC Rating = 4.9
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Child of God by Lolita Files
NCBC Rating = 4.8
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The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
NCBC Rating = 4.5
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The Queen of Harlem by Brian Keith Jackson
NCBC Rating = 4.3
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Married But Still Looking by Travis Hunter
NCBC Rating = 3.0
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Addicted by Zane
NCBC Rating = 2.9
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Nubian Circle Book Club - 2001 Selections
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This Side of Eternity by Rosalyn McMillan
NCBC Rating = 3
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All I Ever Wanted by Adrianne Byrd
NCBC Rating = 2
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Sugar by Bernice McFadden
NCBC Rating = 5
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Hearts of Men by Travis Hunter
NCBC Rating = 4.0
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