Fiction:
Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go
Kamila Shamsie’s A God in Every Stone
Nadifa Mohamed’s The Orchard of Lost Souls
Esmeralda Santiago’s Almost a Woman
Octavia Butler’s Kindred
Carol Birch’s The Naming of Eliza Quinn
Andrea Levy’s The Fruit of Lemons
Jamaica Kincaid’s The autobiography of my mother
Andrea Levy’s Every Light Burning in the House
Andrea Levy’s Never Far From Nowhere
Ruiyan Xu’s The Lost and Forgotten Languages of Shanghai
Helen Oyeyemi’s Boy. Snow. Bird
Yejide Kilanko’s Daughters who walk this path
Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guave Orchard
History:
Esmeralda Santiago’s When I was Puerto Rican – A Memoir
Yejide Kilanko’s Chasing Butterflies
Jackie Kay’s Red Dust Road
Poetry:
Jackie Kay’s Fiere
nayyirah waheed’s salt
Sabrina Mahfouz’ The Clean Collection
Padma Viswanathan’s The Toss of a Lemon
Shauna Singh Baldwin’s The Selector of Souls
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
Bucha Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood
Zora Neale Hurston’s Their eyes were watching
Sabina Khan’s The Realm of the Goddess
Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk
*Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies
Madeleine Miller’s The Song of Achilles
Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Love
*nayyirah waheed’s nejma
Jeanne Theoharis’ The Rebellious Life of Mrs Rosa Parks
*Assata Shakur’s Assata: An Autobiography
Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra: A Life
