Book Selections
Our Current Book Selection
Carroll Next Chapter’s Spring 2025 selection is Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known by George M. Johnson, with illustrations by Charly Palmer.
"In Flamboyants, George M. Johnson celebrates writers, performers, and activists from 1920s Black America whose sexualities have been obscured throughout history. Through 14 essays, Johnson reveals how American culture has been shaped by icons who are both Black and Queer – and whose stories deserve to be celebrated in their entirety.
Interspersed with personal narrative, powerful poetry, and illustrations by award-winning illustrator Charly Palmer, Flamboyants looks to the past for understanding as to how Black and Queer culture has defined the present and will continue to impact the future."
Book Selections
Our 2024 Book Selection
Carroll Next Chapter’s Fall 2024 selection is Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller, “the provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!
Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.”