What we’re about
**WARNING: A scammer is sending emails to authors pretending to represent this group by offering author spotlights or other favors in exchange for money. Please ignore these messages. Contact the group organizer, Alysia Allen, via direct message on Meetup if you have any questions.
We are a group of black women who love to read, want to read more, and meet like-minded women. We are here to inspire women to read, share literature, fellowship, and encourage others in the joy of reading. We meet in Tempe at Changing Hands Bookstore every month. We are an eclectic group of Black women, and so are our reading selections. Find out more on our website www.mochagirlsread.com
For Authors and Publishers, please email Mocha Girl Classy at [classy@mochagirlsread.com](mailto:classy@mochagirlsread.com)
Sponsors
Upcoming events
7
- Network event
MGR {Month} 2026 Newsletter
Online / Your Home, 123 Main St, Los Angeles, ca, US0 attendees from 13 groups*** This is not an event, just a monthly Mocha Girl Read newsletter. ***
December 2025
📖 Nominations for JANUARY monthly selection 📖
Each month, Mocha Girls Read members select one book to nominate for our Monthly Book Selection. To make the process fun & easy, we give you a theme for each upcoming month — helping us mix up genres, authors, & perspectives all year long. In 2026, our year-long theme is Around the World, where we’ll explore books & authors from different countries & cultures each month.
Nominations: December 8–14, 2025
Voting: December 15–21, 2025
Winner Announced: December 22, 2025
Theme for January:
SCANDINAVIAN AUTHORS
(Any book written by an author from a Scandinavian country.)
Remember: one nomination and three votes per person.
Happy Holiday Wishes from Mocha Girls Read
To all the Mocha Girls, both near and far, we wish you a delightful holiday season. Whether you’re celebrating Hanukkah, Christmas, or Kwanzaa, may your festivities be filled with joyful moments and enriched by wonderful characters.
~ The Mocha Girls Read Sisterhood
✨ If Mocha Girls Read has inspired you, challenged you, or made you feel seen — Giving Tuesday is your chance to give back.
👉 Donate now!
Let’s do this together, Mocha Girls. Let’s show the world what a community of readers can do. 📚💪🏾
📕 What are we reading this month? 📕
Spilling the Tea by Brenda Jackson
Ninetysomething Mama Laverne is determined to find all of her great-grandchildren their perfect match before going home to glory. So far, her success rate is 100 percent—and she intends to keep it that way.
After sustaining injuries in Iraq, Chancellor Madaris was told he’d never walk again. Chance credits his great-grandmother Mama Laverne with giving him the will to heal and prove the doctors wrong. He has a healthy respect for her meddling ways and knows he’ll eventually end up next on her matchmaking list.
When Zoey Pritchard was eight, she survived a car accident that took the lives of her mother and father, and was sent to live with her great-aunt who refused to speak about her parents. Zoey has no memory from before the crash, but she’s been having the same dream over and over…
Searching for answers, Zoey travels to Houston, where she uncovers a scandal involving her parents and the wealthy and powerful Madaris family. Her trail leads her straight to Chance’s door. The dislike and intense attraction are instant and simultaneous. But to help Zoey restore her memory, he grudgingly introduces her to his great-grandmother…
Was it chance, or Mama Laverne’s plan, that threw this pair together?
FOLLOW US /LIKE US/ STALK US📲❤️
Past events
1092
Group links
Organizers
Sponsors