reading list

2021 reading list

Karen Lord- Unraveling
Shani Mootoo- Polar Vortex
bell hooks- All About Love: New Visions
Shakirah Bourne - My Fishy Stepmom
Kei Miller - Augustown
Leone Ross - Popisho/This One Sky Day

2020 reading list

Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
The Confessions of Frannie Langton - Sara Collins
Crossfire - Staceyann Chin
A Tall History of Sugar - Curdella Forbes
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them - Junauda Petrus
The Star Side of Bird Hill - Naomi Jackson
Come Let Us Sing Anyway - Leone Ross
over the roofs of the world & Gardening in the Tropics - Olive Senior
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) - N.K. Jemisin
The Girl with the Hazel Eyes - Callie Browning
Like A Mule Bringing Ice-Cream To The Sun - Sarah Ladipo Manyika
The Marvelous Equations of the Dread - Marcia Douglas

2019 reading list

Black Leopard Red Wolf - Marlon James
She Would by King - Wayétu Moore
Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams
The Old Drift - Namwali Serpell
PATSY - Nicole Dennis-Benn
Pet - Akwaeke Emezi
White Dancing Elephants - Chaya Bhuvaneswar
In Nearby Bushes - Kei Miller

2018 reading list

I Am Your Sister (Selections) - Audre Lorde
Halsey Street - Naima Coster
We’re Going To Need More Wine - Gabrielle unionn
Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi
An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Salmon
Girls Burn Brighter - Shoba Rao
The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline
My Mother Was A Freedom Fighter - Aja Monet
Bingo Love - Tee Franklyn
An Untamed State - Roxane Gay

2017 Reading List

I Am Your Sister (Selections) - Audre Lorde
When God Was a Woman - Merlin Stone
Here Comes The Sun - Nicole Dennis-Benn
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth -Warsan Shire
Untwine - Edwidge Danticat
Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorofor
Heavy Crowns - Anna Corniffe
Brew - Dane Figueroa Edidi
Brown Girl In The Ring - Nalo Hopkinson
Hunger - Roxane Gay