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- 'Americanah' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. amazon.com. In a way, Americanah is a love story, but it's not the kind of love story you grew up seeing. Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they separate to leave military-ruled Nigeria.
- 'Grand Union: Stories' by Zadie Smith. amazon.com. Smith is known for her short stories, featured in publications from The New Yorker to The Paris Review.
- 'Homegoing' by Yaa Gyasi. amazon.com. Homegoing unravels the history, colonialism, and slavery in Ghana and America over 250 years. Told between two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, the novel explores their individual paths.
- 'We Are Never Meeting in Real Life: Essays' by Samantha Irby. amazon.com. Into collections of essays that might make you cry from laughter? Yeah, us too. Irby, who's also a writer on Hulu's ever-so-funny-and-real Shrill, reaches new heights of masterful writing in her second book.
Originally published in 1980, and edited by Toni Morrison, The Salt Eaters was hugely impactful in establishing the presence of Black women in American literature. This is a boldly optimistic, profound exploration of memory, the self, power and Black health as liberation. Chosen by Aniké Wildman. The Essential June Jordan by June Jordan.
Jan 15, 2024 · These are treasured authors, award-winners, and celebrated Black women writing some of the best books in the UK today. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other was, perhaps, the biggest talking point of 2019, especially after winning the 2019 Booker Prize and being shortlisted for the Women’s Prize 2020.
Feb 3, 2022 · Now 67% Off. $9 at Amazon. Two young Black women, Nella and Hazel meet while working at the seemingly all white publishing house Wanger Books in New York City. Just when they begin to bond over ...
- Character Breakdown. Zawe Ashton. Paperback. 10+ in stock. Available. Smart, entertaining and compellingly honest, Character Breakdown is Zawe Ashton’s account of her acting career and how the years spent in the thespian world shaped her identity.
- Surge. Jay Bernard. Paperback. 10+ in stock. Available. An astounding, incendiary collection that takes the New Cross Fire of 1981 as a jumping off point for an exploration of injustice, prejudice and the turbulence of black lives in the decades since.
- Crossfire. Malorie Blackman. Paperback. 10+ in stock. Available. Malorie Blackman’s Noughts and Crosses series was one of the foundational texts of the Young Adult literature boom and now, over a decade after Double Cross, Sephy and Callum return in a blistering new novel that finds our protagonists all grown up but the dystopian world they inhabit still casting a shadow on their relationship.
- The Grassling. Elizabeth-Jane Burnett. Paperback. In stock. Available. In a profound meditation on the interconnectedness of memory, language and natural history, Burnett explores her father’s home region, the West Country, and the relationship between a place and the people inhabiting it.
Nov 30, 2018 · 15 Books to Read by Black Female American Writers Nelson George, Samuel R. Delany, Major Jackson and others tell us about some of their favorite works of literature. Share full article
Feb 1, 2021 · Octavia E. Butler was a Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning science fiction writer who is best known for the brilliant book Kindred. In this visionary novel, a contemporary Black woman, Dana, is suddenly transported to a Southern plantation. While there, she experiences the complex relationship between slave owners and enslaved people.
