Below is a list of the books I’ve reviewed on this platform since 2014. I’ve read other novels, including non-African/Caribbean/Black fiction in the past and those reviews & ratings are on my Goodreads account.
A
Aboulela, Leila – Minaret
Achebe, Chinua – Girls at War and Other Stories
Achebe, Chinua – The Trouble with Nigeria
Achebe, Chinua – Things Fall Apart
Adichie, Chimamanda N. – Olikoye
Adichie, Chimamanda N. – The Thing Around Your Neck
Adichie, Chimamanda N. – We Should All Be Feminists
Adichie, Chimamanda N. – Zikora: A Short Story
Aidoo, Ama Ata (editor) – African Love Stories: An Anthology
Akita, Marcelle Mateki – Lizard & Other Stories
Angelou, Maya – All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
Angelou, Maya – Letter to My Daughter
Angelou, Maya – Mom & Me & Mom
Arimah, Lesley Nneka – What It Means When A Man Fall From The Sky
Arthurs, Alexia – How To Love A Jamaican
Attah, Ayesha H. – Harmattan Rain
Attah, Ayesha H. – Saturday’s Shadows
Attah, Ayesha H. – The Deep Blue Between
Attah, Ayesha H. – The Hundred Wells of Salaga
Awachie, Ifeanyi – Summer in Igboland
B
Bâ, Mariama – So Long A Letter
Baingana, Doreen – Tropical Fish
Blue, Maame – Bad Love
Bulawayo, NoViolet – We Need New Names
C
Chigumadzi, Panashe – Sweet Medicine
Chinodya, Shimmer – Can We Talk and Other Stories
Chisala, Upile – soft magic.
Clarke, Austin – Pig Tails ‘n Breadfruit: A Culinary Memoir
Clemmons, Zinzi – What We Lose: A Novel
Coetzee, J.M. – Disgrace
Cole, Teju – Every Day is For the Thief
Cooper, Brittney – Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Cooper, J. California – Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories
D
Daley-Ward, Yrsa – bone
Danquah, Meri Nana-Ama – Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman’s Journey Through Depression
Danticat, Edwidge – Krik? Krak!
Darko, Amma – Beyond the Horizon
Darko, Amma – The Housemaid
Diaka, Ama Asantewa (Poetra Asantewa) – You Too Will Know Me
Díaz, Junot – This Is How You Lose Her
Dyson, Michael Eric – Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
E
Elhillo, Safia – The January Children
Elle, Alex – Neon Soul
Emecheta, Buchi – The Bride Price
Emezi, Akwaeke – Freshwater
Evaristo, Bernardine – Girl, Woman, Other
F
Folarin, Tope – A Particular Kind of Black Man
G
Gholar, Tiffany – A Bitter Pill To Swallow
Gyasi, Yaa – Homegoing
H
Hollist, Pede – So The Path Does Not Die
hooks, bell – We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
I
Iweala, Uzodinma – Speak No Evil
J
Jackson, Naomi – The Star Side of Bird Hill
Jones, Tayari – An American Marriage
Jones, Tayari – Silver Sparrow
K
Kincaid, Jamaica – A Small Place
Kincaid, Jamaica – Lucy
M
Manyika, Sarah L. – Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun
Mathis, Ayana – The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
Matlwa, Kopano – Period Pain
Mbue, Imbolo – Behold the Dreamers
Molosi, Donald – We Are All Blue
Moore, Wayétu – She Would Be King
Morrison, Toni – Sula
N
Noah, Trevor – Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Nwapa, Flora – Women Are Different
O
Obioma, Chigozie – The Fishermen
Okparanta, Chinelo – Happiness, Like Water
Okparanta, Chinelo – Harry Sylvester Bird
Onuzo, Chibundu – The Spider King’s Daughter
Osman, Diriye – Fairytales For Lost Children
Osondu, E.C. – Voice of America: Stories
Oyono, Ferdinand – Houseboy
P
Parker, Morgan – There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
R
Rae, Issa – The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Reid-Benta, Zalika – Frying Plantain
Rhimes, Shonda – Year of Yes
S
Senior, Olive – Pepperpot: Best New Stories From The Caribbean
Shire, Warsan – Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth
Smith, Clint – Counting Descent
Souljah, Sister – A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story
T
Tadjo, Véronique – As the Crow Flies
wa Thiong’o, Ngūgī – Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir
wa Thiong’o, Ngūgī – Matigari
Tutuola, Amos – The Palm-Wine Drinkard
U
Umebinyuo, Ijeoma – Questions for Ada
V
Vera, Yvonne (editor) – Opening Spaces: Contemporary African Women’s Writing
W
Waheed, Nayyirah – nejma
Waheed, Nayyirah – salt.
Wainaina, Binyavanga – One Day I Will Write About This Place
Walker, Alice – The Color Purple
Walker, Alice – You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down
Winfrey, Oprah – What I Know for Sure
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