A monthly virtual book club for Black travelers, wellness seekers, and culture lovers.
Each month, we read one book and gather for a guided conversation about travel, identity, wellness, culture, rest, ambition, and Black life around the world.
The reading room
by Tayari Jones
Theme
Live Discussion
Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 7:00 PM (America/Los Angeles)
Format
in person
Reading List
Book announcements and reading room updates
Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother’s death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration, and inequality. Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life. A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South, Kin is an exuberant, emotionally rich, unforgettable work from one of the brightest and most irresistible voices in contemporary fiction.
How it works
Passport Pages is designed to be easy to join and meaningful once you arrive. The point is connection, not performance.
Every pick connects to travel, wellness, culture, identity, or Black life around the world.
Read the whole thing, listen to the audiobook, skim with intention, or arrive ready to learn from the room.
Each session is a guided 60-minute conversation with prompts, member reflections, and occasional guests.
The discussion connects the book to where we travel, how we rest, and how we move through the world.
Why Travel Black has a book club
It is about how we move, how we care for ourselves, and how we stay connected to culture, community, and wellness wherever life takes us.
Passport Pages is our monthly reading room: a space for books, conversation, Black global life, and the ideas that shape how we travel, rest, gather, and live.
THE TRAVEL BLACK BOOKSHELF
Books selected by Travel Black to make room for new perspectives. Find your next read, whether or not there’s a live discussion on the calendar.
Queer identity, violence, and survival in 1980s–90s Jamaica
By Marlon James
Set in 1988 Kingston, eight strangers—all gay—come together to rehearse a play. After a mob attack kills one man, the survivors face physical recovery and reckon with the violence, hatred, and rage the assault exposes. Their responses range from suppression to pursuit of retribution as the narrative examines queer life in Jamaica across the 1980s and 1990s.
Kin
Saturday, October 31, 2026 at 7:00 PM (America/Los Angeles)
Hosted by TB · in person
TBD
Free to join with a Travel Black account. One seat per reader.
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This signs you up for book picks and updates, not a session reservation. Get reading room notes from Travel Black.
Monthly virtual discussions.
Themes that connect books to travel, wellness, and culture.
A reading room within the Travel Black community.
