Book Index

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Leila Aboulela
- Minaret (2006)
Sulaiman Addonia
- Silence is My Mother Tongue (2020)
Kaouther Adimi
- December Kids (2020)
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
- Friday Black (2018)
Julian Aguon
- No country for eight-spot butterflies: A lyric essay (2022)
Hanna Ali
- The Story of Us (2017)
Djaïli Amadou Amal
- The Impatient (2022)
Mona Ameziane
- Auf Basidis Dach (2021)
Mohamed Amjahid
- Der weisse Fleck (2021)
Nathacha Appanah
- Tropic of Violence (2020)
Margaret Atwood
- The Testaments (2019)
Fatma Aydemir
- Djinns (2022)
Nana Oforiatta Ayim
- The God Child (2019)
Priya Basil
- Gastfreundschaft (Hospitality) (2019)
- In the we and now: Becoming a feminist (20221)
Brit Bennett
- Die Mütter (2018)
- The Vanishing Half (2020)
Betiel Berhe
- Silent no more (2023)
JJ Bola
- Mask Off: Masculinity Redefined (2019)
Florence Brokowski-Shekete
- Damn, she can understand me! (2020)
Sarah M. Broom
- The Yellow House (2019)
Natasha Brown
- Assembly (2021)
NoViolet Bulawayo
- Glory: A Novel (2022)
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
- The Grassling (2019)
Margaret Busby
- New Daughters of Africa (2019)
Candice Carty-Williams
- Queenie (2019)
- People Person (2022)
Panashe Chigumadzi
- These Bones Will Rise Again (2018)
Shakil Choudhury
- Deep Diversity – Overcoming Us vs. Them (2015)
Louis Chude-Sokei
- Race and Technology (2023)
Ismat Chughtai
- Lifting the Veil (2018)
Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Between the world and me (2015)
Max Czollek
- Gegenwartsbewältigung (2020)
- Versöhnungstheater (2023)
Emma Dabiri
- What White People Can Do Next (2021)
Tsitsi Dangarembga
- This Mournable Body (2018)
Kamel Daoud
- The Meursault Investigation (2015)
Abi Daré
- The Girl with the Louding Voice (2020)
Francesca Ekwuyasi
- Butter Honey Pig Bread (2020)
Buchi Emecheta
- The Joys of Motherhood (1979)
Akwaeke Emezi
- Freshwater (2018)
- The Death of Vivek Oji (2020)
Louise Erdrich
- The Night Watchman (2020)
Bernardine Evaristo
- Soul Tourists (2005)
- Girl, Woman, Other (2019)
- Manifesto: On Never Giving Up (2021)
- Mr. Loverman (2013)
Nuruddin Farah
- North of Dawn (2018)
Marchelle Farrell
- Uprooting – From the Caribbean to the Countryside (2023)
Shamini Flint
- A Calamitous Chinese Killing (2013)
Damon Galgut
- The Promise (2021)
- The Impostor (2015)
Alicia Garza
- The Purpose of Power: How we come together when we fall apart (2020)
Jessica George
- Maame (2023)
Amitav Ghosh
- The Hungry Tide (2004)
- In an Antique Land (1992)
- The Calcutta Chromosome (1995)
Olga Grjasnowa
- The Power of Multilingualism (2021)
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Undrowned (2020)
Kübra Gümüşay
- Speaking and being: how language binds and frees us (2022)
Abdulrazak Gurnah
- Afterlives (2020)
Abulrazak Gurnah
- By the Sea (2001)
Yaa Gyasi
- Heimkehren (2017)
- Transcendent Kingdom (2020)
Saidiya Hartman
- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (2019)
- Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route (2007)
Hadija Haruna-Oelker
- Die Schönheit der Differenz: Miteinander anders denken (2022)
Moshtari Hilal
- Hässlichkeit (Ugliness) (2023)
Stefanie Hirsbrunner
- Could this be love? (2022)
Ciani-Sophia Höder
- Wut und Böse (2021)
Keri Hulme
- The Bone People (1985)
Zora Neale Hurston
- Their eyes were watching God (1937)
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
- The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (2021)
Raj Kamal Jha
- She will build him a City (2015)
Tayari Jones
- An American Marriage (2019)
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
- A Black Women’s History of the United States (2020)
Shehan Karunatilaka
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (2022)
Natasha A. Kelly
- Schwarzer Feminismus: Grundlagentexte (2019)
Tabish Khair
- The Thing About Thugs (2012)
Abbas Khider
- Palast der Miserablen (2020)
Claire Kohda
- Woman, Eating (2022)
Ailton Krenak
- Ideas to postpone the end of the world (2020)
Jasmina Kuhnke
- Schwarzes Herz (2021)
Şeyda Kurt
- Radikale Zärtlichkeit – Warum Liebe politisch ist (2021)
- Hass – Von der Macht eines widerständen Gefühls (2023)
Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Namesake (2003)
Jessica J. Lee
- Two Trees Make a Forest (2019)
- Turning: A Swimming Memoir (2017)
Alana Lentin
- Racism: A Beginner’s Guide (2008)
Litt Woon Long
- The way through the woods (2019)
Audre Lorde
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982)
- Sister Outsider (2007)
Valeria Luiselli
- Lost Children Archive (2019)
Inger-Maria Mahlke
- Archipelago (2018)
Megha Majumdar
- A Burning (2020)
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
- The first woman (2020)
Ika Marshall-Hügel
- May Ayim. Radikale Dichterin, Sanfte Rebellin (2021)
Mohale Mashigo
- Intruders (2018)
Francesca Melandri
- Alle, außer mir (2017)
Maaza Mengiste
- The Shadow King (2021)
Theodor Wonja Michael
- Black German: An Afro-German Life in the Twentieth Century (2017)
Yara Nakahanda Monteiro
- Loose Ties (2021)
Toni Morrison
- Sula (2002)
- Recitatif (2022)
Leila Mottley
- Nightcrawling (2022)
Sisonke Msimang
- Always another country (2017)
Yassin Musharbash
- Radikal (2011)
Jennifer Neal
- “In Search of Better Skies” (2019)
- Notes on her Colour (2023)
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
- World of Wonders (2020)
Celeste Ng
- Our missing hearts (2022)
Masande Ntshanga
- Triangulum (2019)
Tomi Obaro
- Dele Weds Destiny (2022)
Tupoka Ogette
- Und jetzt Du: Rassismuskritisch leben (2022)
Deniz Ohde
- Streulicht (2020)
Nnedi Okorafor
- Binti (2015)
- Lagoon (2014)
- Shuri: The Search for Black Panther (2019)
Ben Okri
- Dangerous Love (1996)
Musa Okwonga
- In the end, it was all about love. (2021)
Chibundu Onuzo
- Welcome to Lagos (2017)
Olivette Otele
- African Europeans (2020)
Ronya Othmann
- Die Sommer (2020)
Sharon Dodua Otoo
- the things I am thinking while smiling politely (2012)
- Ada’s Realm (2023)
Bruce Pascoe
- Dark Emu (2019)
Johny Pitts
- Afropean (2019)
Nina Mingya Powles
- Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai (2020)
- Small Bodies of Water (2021)
Jean Rhys
- Wide Sargasso Sea (2000)
Monique Roffey
- The Mermaid of Black Conch (2021)
Emilia Roig
- Why We Matter: The End of Oppression (2021)
- Das Ende der Ehe (2023)
Minna Salami
- Sensuous Knowledge (2020)
Mithu Sanyal
- Identitti (2022)
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
- The Most Distant Memory of Men (2023)
Felwine Sarr
- Les lieux qu’habitent mes rêves (2022)
Namwali Serpell
- The Old Drift (2019)
Gitanjali Shree
- Tomb of Sand (2021)
Parini Shroff
- The Bandit Queens (2023)
Zadie Smith
- Swing Time (2016)
Zadie Smith
- Grand Union (2019)
Noah Sow
- The Black Madonna (2019)
Wole Soyinka
- Migrazioni/Migrations (2016)
Tanya Tagaq
- Split Tooth (2018)
Karosh Taha
- In the belly of the queen (2023)
Aminata Touré
- Wir können mehr sein: Die Macht der Vielfalt (2020)
Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
- House of Stone (2019)
Amos Tutuola
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952)
Deniz Utlu
- Gegen Morgen (2019)
- Vaters Meer (2023)
Mario Vargas Llosa
- Harsh Times (2021)
M.G. Vassanji
- The Magic of Saida (2014)
Ocean Vuong
- On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous (2019)
Nicole Watson
- The Boundary (2011)
Olivia Wenzel
- 1000 Coils of Fear (2022)
Colson Whitehead
- Underground Railroad (2017)
- The Nickel Boys (2019)
- Harlem Shuffle (2021)
Charmaine Wilkerson
- Black Cake (2022)
Tara June Winch
- The Yield (2021)
Rafia Zakaria
- Against White Feminism (2021)
Michelle Zauner
- Crying in H-Mart (2021)

Leila Aboulela

Sulaiman Addonia

Kaouther Adimi

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Julian Aguon

Hanna Ali

Djaïli Amadou Amal

Mona Ameziane

Mohamed Amjahid

Nathacha Appanah

Margaret Atwood

Fatma Aydemir

Nana Oforiatta Ayim

Priya Basil

Brit Bennett

Betiel Berhe

JJ Bola

Florence Brokowski-Shekete

Sarah M. Broom

Natasha Brown

NoViolet Bulawayo

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

Margaret Busby

Candice Carty-Williams

Panashe Chigumadzi

Shakil Choudhury

Louis Chude-Sokei

Ismat Chughtai

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Max Czollek

Emma Dabiri

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Kamel Daoud

Abi Daré

Francesca Ekwuyasi

Buchi Emecheta

Akwaeke Emezi

Louise Erdrich

Bernardine Evaristo

Nuruddin Farah

Marchelle Farrell

Shamini Flint

Damon Galgut

Alicia Garza

Jessica George

Amitav Ghosh

Olga Grjasnowa

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Kübra Gümüşay

Abdulrazak Gurnah

Abulrazak Gurnah

Yaa Gyasi

Saidiya Hartman

Hadija Haruna-Oelker

Moshtari Hilal

Stefanie Hirsbrunner

Ciani-Sophia Höder

Keri Hulme

Zora Neale Hurston

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Raj Kamal Jha

Tayari Jones

Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

Shehan Karunatilaka

Natasha A. Kelly

Tabish Khair

Abbas Khider

Claire Kohda

Ailton Krenak

Jasmina Kuhnke

Şeyda Kurt

Jhumpa Lahiri

Jessica J. Lee

Alana Lentin

Litt Woon Long

Audre Lorde

Valeria Luiselli

Inger-Maria Mahlke

Megha Majumdar

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi