Imani Seymour

If you haven’t heard of a cookbook book club (say that ten times fast), then you are in for a treat! A cookbook club is a community that gathers once a month to dine on and discuss specific recipes from a selected cookbook. Now, all of us here at Off the Shelf might not be experts in the kitchen, but we do have some experience curating niche book club lists for everything from thriller groups to seasonal historical fiction and beyond.

Kathleen Grissom is the author of bestselling novels The Kitchen House, Glory Over Everything, and, most recently, Crow Mary. All her books tell sweeping tales of resilience and hope across the span of history through a deeply personal lens. And, it seems that, what Grissom loves to write, she also loves to read.

|+| Add to Your Shelf A Right Worthy Woman In nineteenth-century Richmond, Virginia, Maggie Lena Walker spent her childhood helping her formerly enslaved mother with her laundry service. There, she witnessed the massive divide between their Black community and her mother’s wealthy white clients and became determined to ensure a better life for herself and those around her. A RIGHT WORTHY WOMEN is the inspiring story of how her hard work and determination—plus support from friends like W. E. B.