Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus – the best book you read by an author is always the first. Americanah might be classed as her best by literary types, by this will always be my favourite
Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle
Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
Angela Bourkes’ The Burning of Bridget Cleary
Leila Abdoulela’s Lyrics Alley
Diane Setterfield’s The Thirteenth Tale
Sapphire’s Push
Kris Radish’s The Elegant Gathering of Snows
Andrea Levy’s The Long Song
Barbara Kingsolver’s Poisonwood Bible
Andrea Levy’s Small Island
Peggy Orenstein’s Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
