Currently Reading:
Giovanni’s Room
James Baldwin
In the past 3 years I have ready many books, and through these different resources, I have picked up titles from various authors reading lists and recommendations from friends. This list is forever growing!
I try my best to buy these books to reduce the list, but this is what I currently have planned to buy and read. Let me know if you have any of these books in the comments and tell me what you think!
This is not in order of preference. Only in order of when I came across them.
Absolute Beginners
Colin Macinnes
Britain, Slavery, and The Myth of Abolition
Boukman Academy
White Fragility
Robin DiAngelo
1984
George Orwell
Heart of the Race – Black Women’s Lives in Britain
Beverly Bryan
Changing Britannia – Life Experience in Britain
Roxy Harris & Sarah White
Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell
Kingdom of Africa
Olu Balogun
Open City
Teju Cole
Sozaboy
Ken Saro Wiwa
The Trouble with Nigeria
Chinua Achebe
Up From Slavery
Booker T Washington
Think Like a White Man: A Satirical Guide to Conquering the World… While Black
Nels Abbey
The Good Immigrant
Nikesh Shukla
Homecoming
Yaa Gyasi
Pigeon English
Stephen Kelman
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beevher Stowe
Marching Powder
Rusty Young
Black Skin, White Masks
Franz Fanon
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us
Hanif Abdurraqib
Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
As Good As Any Man – Scotland’s Black Tommy
John Sadler
Staying Power
Peter Fryer
It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop
MK Asante