Here are all my highly recommended books to read!

Abulhawa, Susan – Mornings in Jenin

Aldarra, Suad – I Don’t Want to Talk About Home

Alvarez, Julia – How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Alvarez, Julia – In the Time of the Butterflies

Angelou, Maya – Letter to my Daughter

Arthurs, Alexia – How to Love a Jamaican

Atta, Dean – The Black Flamingo

Atwood, Margaret – The Testaments

Babalola, Bolu – Love In Colour

Bennett, Brit – The Vanishing Half

Brady, Fern – Strong Female Character

Bromley, Freya – The Tidal Year

Brown, Natasha – Assembly

Butler, Octavia – Parable of the Sower

Butler, Octavia – Parable of the Talents

Butler, Octavia – Kindred

Castillo, Elaine – America is Not the Heart

Cruz, Angie – How Not to Drown In a Glass of Water

Davis, Viola – Finding Me

Dawson, Juno – Her Majesty’s Royal Coven

Dennis-Benn, Nicole – Patsy

Edim, Glory – Well-Read Black Girl

Ephron, Nora – Heartburn

Evaristo, Bernadine – Girl, Woman, Other

Garthwaite, Annie – Cecily

Garthwaite, Annie – The King’s Mother

Harper, Elodie – The Wolf Den

Harper, Elodie – The Temple of Fortuna

Haynes, Natalie – A Thousand Ships

Hosseini, Khaled – A Thousand Splendid Suns

Jemisin, N.K – The Fifth Season

Jemisin, N.K – The Obelisk Gate

Jemisin, N.K – The Stone Sky

Jewell, Lisa – None of This is True

Johnson, Sadeqa – Yellow Wife

Kent, Hannah – Burial Rites

Kent, Hannah – Devotion

Kuang, R.F. – Yellowface

Lee, Jing Jing – How We Disappeared

Lee, Min Jin – Pachinko

Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga – Manchester Happened

McCurdy, Jeannette – I’m Glad My Mom Died

McDaniel, Tiffany – Betty

McDaniel, Tiffany – On the Savage Side

Mitchell, David – Unruly

Multiple Authors – My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird

Ng, Celeste – Our Missing Hearts

Noah, Trevor – Born A Crime

O’Donoghue, Caroline – The Rachel Incident

O’Farrell, Maggie – Hamnet

Patchett, Ann – Tom Lake

Peters, Torrey – Detransition, Baby

Reid, Kiley – Such a Fun Age

Roy, Arundhati – The God of Small Things

Russell, Kate Elizabeth – My Dark Vanessa

Ryan, Donal – The Queen of Dirt Island

Sealey, Jasmine – The Island of Forgetting

Shamsie, Kamila – Home Fire

Smith, Ali – Girl Meets Boy

Tahir, Sabaa – All My Rage

Taylor, Brandon – Real Life

Walker, Alice – The Color Purple

Ward, Jesmyn – Men We Reaped

West, Dorothy – The Wedding

Willliams, Fiona – The House of Broken Bricks

Wilson, Jessica – It’s Always Been Ours

Younis, Nussaibah – Fundamentally

Yousafzai, Malala – We Are Displaced

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Appiah, Krystle Zara – Rootless

Bishop, Katie – The Girls of Summer

Bracken, Alexandra – Lore

Bradley, Kaliane – The Ministry of Time

Brashares, Ann – Sisterhood Everlasting

Clarke, Diana – Thin Girls

Dawson, Juno – Meat Market

Dawson, Juno – The Shadow Cabinet

Diop, David – At Night All Blood is Black

Emelumadu, Chikolidi – Dazzling

Emezi, Akwaeke – The Death of Vivek Oji

Fu, Melissa – Peach Blossom Spring

Garcia, Gabriela – Of Women and Salt

Groff, Lauren – Matrix

Gyasi, Yaa – Transcendent Kingdom

Hall, Araminta – One of the Good Guys

Harper, Elodie – The House with the Golden Door

Haydock, Sophie – The Flames

Honeyman, Gail – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Hui, Angela – Takeaway

Jackson, Naomi – The Star Side of Bird Hill

Jackson, Tiffany D. – Grown

Jenkins-Reid, Taylor – Malibu Rising

Larsen, Nella – Passing

Lawton, Georgina – Raceless

Lupton, Rosamund – Three Hours

Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga – Kintu

Mellors, Coco – Blue Sisters

Metcalfe, Anna – Chrysalis

Miller, Kei – The Last Warner Woman

Millwood-Hargrave, Kiran – The Mercies

Morrison, Toni – The Bluest Eye

Murata, Sayaka – Convenience Store Woman

Mustapha, Sahar – The Beauty of Your Face

Nealon, Louise – Snowflake

Obama, Michelle – Becoming

O’Donoghue, Caroline – Scenes of a Graphic Nature

Owens, Delia – Where The Crawdads Sing

Oza, Janika – A History of Burning

Philyaw, Deesha – The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Pin, Cecile – Wandering Souls

Shafak, Elif – 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World

Shreeves-Lee, Jac – Broadwater

Sinclair, Safiya – How to Say Babylon

Straub, Emma – All Adults Here

Stringfellow, Tara M. – Memphis

Stuart, Douglas – Shuggie Bain

Stuart, Douglas – Young Mungo

Teo, Sharlene – Ponti

Thomas, Angie – The Hate You Give

Whitehead, Colson – The Nickel Boys

Wilkinson, Lauren – American Spy

Williams, Tia – Seven Days in June

Winn, Raynor – The Salt Path

Zayyan, Hafsa – We Are All Birds of Uganda

Zoboi, Ibi – American Street