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LeVar Burton launched a digital book club May 2021 and membership is open to all.
The LeVar Burton Book Club by Fable, a social reading app that encourages users to build safe communities and foster mental wellness through reading.
Every three months, Burton will select three new books to be added to a “folio” and will handpick a new book monthly for the group to read as a unit. Each folio also comes with a customized book club discussion board to help readers engage with their virtual community.
Burton’s advocacy for literature is unyielding, as he also hosts the LeVar Burton Reads podcast for children, teenagers, and adults.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole - Louisiana State University Press; 35th Anniversary Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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After more than three decades, the peerless wit and indulgent absurdity of A Confederacy of Dunces continues to attract new readers. Though the manuscript was rejected by many publishers during Toole's lifetime, his mother successfully published the book years after her son's suicide,... |
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley - Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback
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A new eight-hour event series based on Roots will be simulcast on the History Channel, Lifetime, and A&E over four consecutive nights beginning Memorial Day, May 30, 2016"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia,... |
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Noor
Nnedi Okorafor - DAW
Format: Hardcover
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Anwuli Okwudili prefers to be called AO. To her, these initials have always stood for Artificial Organism. AO has never really felt...natural, and that's putting it lightly. Her parents spent most of the days before she was born praying for her peaceful passing because even in-utero... |
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Deacon King Kong: A Novel
James McBride - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses... |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin - Everyman's Library
Format: Print book
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This haunting coming-of-age story, based in part on James Baldwin's childhood in Harlem, is an American classic. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was Baldwin's first major work. With a potent combination of lyrical compassion and resonant rage, he portrays... |
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Parable of the Sower: A Novel
Octavia E Butler - Seven Stories Press
Format: Print book
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Parable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of desperate scavengers and roaming bands of people... |
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
Jesmyn Ward - Scribner
Format: Hardcover
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The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race - collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation - are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that... |
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Aftermath
LEVAR BURTON - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Book
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The acclaimed actor's shockingly prescient novel of speculative fiction "presents a near-future United States torn apart by civil war and deep racial strife" (Tampa Bay Times) . For the first time ever, available as an audiobook read by the author.America today is teetering... |
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