Black Futures Book Club X Langston Seattle

Black Futures Book Club invites you into an immersive monthly gathering where literature becomes a portal for collective dreaming, critical reflection, and liberated imagination. Rooted in Black speculative and futurist traditions, this reading series centers authors who dare to reimagine the world through Black lenses, honoring ancestral wisdom, grieving inherited and ongoing injustices, and conjuring futures unbound by oppression.

Black Futures book club will meet virtually in July, November, and December.

Current Book List (2026)

September 28: You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado
October 26: The Black Girl Survives in This One: Horror Stories by Desiree S. Evans
November 23 (Virtual): Son of the Morning by Akwaeke Emezi
December 28 (Virtual): Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

Previously Read:

January: We are the Crisis by Cadwell Turnbull
February 23: We Will Rise Again edited by Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older
March 23: When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen
April 27: The Abbott – Graphic Novel Series by Saladin Ahmed
May 25: Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead
June 22: Positive Obsession – Octavia E. Butler Biography by Susana M. Morris

July 27 (Virtual): Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon

August 31: As the Earth Dreams: A Black Canadian Speculative Story by Terese Mason Pierre

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