Fiction:
Irenosen Okojie’s Butterfly Fish
Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Kiran Desai’s Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (reread)
Angie Thomas’ The Hate U Give
Kate Atkinson’s A God in Ruins
Natsuo Kirono’s The Goddess Chronicles
Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar
Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen
Helene Wecker’s The Golem and the Djinni
Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Girl of Ink and Stars
Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin
Ali Smith’s How to be both
Ali Smith’s Autumn
Nicola Barker’s Darkmans
Chihundu Onuzo’s Welcome to Lagos
Feminism:
Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay’s Hunger
T.O. Walker’s Not my shame
Una’s Becoming Unbecoming
Heidi Safia Mirza (Ed.) Black British Feminism
Patricia Hill Collins’ From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism
Cherrie Moraga & Gloria Anzaldua (Eds.) This Bridge Called my Back: Writings by Radical Women of Colour (4th edition)
Kat Banyard’s Pimp State: Sex, Money and the Future of Equality
Barbara Smith’s Towards a Black Feminist Criticism
Audre Lorde’s A Burst of Light & other essays
Gerda Lerner’s The Creation of Feminist Consciousness
Non Fiction
Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Clothing of Books
Anabel Hernandez’ Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and their Godfathers
Lucy Worsley’s If Walls Could Talk
Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race
Rachel Holmes’ Eleanor Marx
Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Poetry:
Sabrina Mahfouz’ How You Might Know Me
Ntozake Shange’s For Coloured Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf
Audre Lorde’s Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems
Autography, Biography and Memoir:
Lorraine Hansford’ To be Young, Gifted and Black: An Informal Autobiography of Lorraine Hansford
Sherie M. Randolph’s Florence ‘Flo’ Kennedy The Life of a Black Feminist Radical
Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures
Julie Bindel & Harriet Wistrich (eds.) The Map of my Life: The Story of Emma Humphreys
Germaine Greer’s Shakespeare’s Wife
Jenny Uglow’s The Pinecone: The story of Sarah Losh, Romantic heroine, architect and visionary
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
