100 Books by Black Women | Newcastle Libraries

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Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 1977

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From the award-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun', a powerful story of love, race and identity. As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race....

2) An American marriage

Author

Jones, Tayari

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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...

3) And the stars were burning brightly

Author

Jawando, Danielle

4) Behold the dreamers

Author

Mbue, Imbolo

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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK A powerful and timely story of marriage, class, race and the pursuit of the American Dream. Behold the Dreamers is a dazzling debut novel about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - and of what we're prepared to sacrifice to hold on to each of them. 'We all do what we gotta do to become American, abi?' New York, 2007: a city of dreamers and strivers, where the...

5) Beloved

Author

Morrison, Toni

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Adult Book, Teenage Book

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7) Butterfly fish

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Okojie, Irenosen

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With wry humour and a deft touch, 'Butterfly Fish' is a work of magic, elegance, and captivating storytelling. A dual narrativeset in contemporary London and eighteenth century Benin in Africa, the book traverses the realms of magic realism with luminous style and graceful, effortless prose.

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9) Family lore

Author

Acevedo, Elizabeth

10) Freshwater

Author

Emezi, Akwaeke

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Adult Book, eBook

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Ada was born with one foot on the other side. Having prayed her into existence, her parents Saul and Saachi struggle to deal with the volatile and contradictory spirits peopling their troubled girl. When Ada comes of age and heads to college, the entities within her grow in power and agency. An assault leads to a crystallization of her selves: As?ghara and Saint Vincent. As Ada fades into the background of her own mind and these selves - now protective,...

11) Ghana must go

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Selasi, Taiye

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This is the story of a family, of the simple, devastating ways in which families tear themselves apart, and of the long, troubled journeys that they make to bring themselves together again.

12) Girl, woman, other

Author

Evaristo, Bernardine

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Adult Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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Welcome to Newcastle, 1905. Ten-year-old Grace is an orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet. Cornwall, 1953. Winsome is a young bride, recently arrived from Barbados, realising the man she married might be a fool. London, 1980. Amma is the fierce queen of her squatters' palace, ready to Smash The Patriarchy with a new kind of feminist theatre. Oxford, 2008. Carole is rejecting her cultural background (Nigeria by way of...

13) Glory

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Bulawayo, Noviolet

14) Heaven, my home

Author

Locke, Attica

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16) Honey & spice

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Babalola, Bolu

17) How the one-armed sister sweeps her house

Author

Jones, Cherie

18) I know why the caged bird sings

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Angelou, Maya

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In this, the first volume of her autobiography, writer and poet Maya Angelou reflects on her childhood spent growing up in the American South of the 1930s. There she learned the power of the white townsfolk and suffered the trauma of rape.

19) Kindred

Author

Butler, Octavia E

20) Kintu

Author

Makumbi, Jennifer Nansubuga