Baldwin & Co Monthly Book Club

Join us for our monthly Book Club! Where conversation and literature join forces and minds are opened and stretched.

We are elated to have our monthly meetings back up and running. Join us on the last Saturday of every month to discuss the latest months read with our conversation expert Dr. Jerid P. Woods - @ablackmanreading.

These monthly meetings are open to the public, and books are available for purchase in Baldwin & Co Bookstore. If you are not from the New Orleans area, no worries as we will have a digital component available so you can join us from wherever you are at.

If you would like a saved signed copy of the books every month, sign up for our monthly bookclub membership online. This will ensure that every month you will recieve a signed first edition copy of the monthly book title, which can either be picked up in store or mailed directly to you.

Monthly picks for 2026

• January: Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite - A young woman must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry, and superstition from the author of the smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer (“A bombshell of a book... Sharp, explosive, hilarious'--New York Times)
• February: On Morrison by Namwali Serpell - An illuminating, electrifying exploration of the work of Toni Morrison by an award-winning novelist and Harvard professor.
• March: Kin by Tayari Jones - A magnificent new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of An American Marriage—Tayari Jones has written an unforgettable novel that sparkles with wit and intelligence and deep feeling about two lifelong friends whose worlds converge after many years apart in the face of a devastating tragedy.
• April: Chain of Ideas by Ibram X. Kendi - The National Book Award-winning historian of Stamped from the Beginning charts how “great replacement theory” has moved from the margins to become the most dominant political theory of our time—and what we can do to safeguard democracy from this insidious threat.
• May: Leave Your Mess at Home by Tolani Akinola - "A warm, smart, hilarious, delicious, riveting" (Curtis Sittenfeld) debut about the uncomfortable, unbreakable ties of family as four adult siblings come home to confront the state of their own lives and each other
• June - December: TBD

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