the Library

A selection of POSTSCRIPT’s favourite reads.

 

a.

Akala
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
2018

Akwaeke Emezi
Freshwater
2018

Ayesha Harruna Attah
The Hundred Wells of Salaga
2018

b.

bell hooks
All About Love
2000

Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other
2019

Bolu Babalola
Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold
2020

c.

Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Mother Country
2018

Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart
1958

Chitra Nagarajan et al
She Called Me Woman
2018

d.

D.H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers
1913

Dodie Smith
I Capture the Castle
1948

e.

Elizabeth Gaskell
North and South
1855

Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
1847

f.

Friends of the Earth
Why Women Will Save the Planet
2015

Frantz Fanon
Black Skin, White Masks
1952

g.

Grace Talusan
The Body Papers
2019

George Orwell
1984
1949

h.

Homi K. Bhabha
The Location of Culture
1994

Helen Oyeyemi
The Icarus Girl
2005

I.

Ian McEwan
Enduring Love
1997

Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Questions for Ada
2016

Irenosen Okojie
Speak Gigantular
2016

J.

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumi
Kintu
2018

Johny Pitts
Afropean
2019

Jon Ronson
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
2015

k.

Kayo Chingonyi
Kumukanda
2017

Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns
2007

L.

Leila Slimani
Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women's Intimate Lives in the Arab World
2020

Leslie Jamison
The Empathy Exams
2014

Lucy Siegle
To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out the World?
2008

M.

M. Scott Peck
The Road Less Travelled
1978

Malorie Blackman
Noughts & Crosses
2001

Maya Angelou
And Still I Rise
1978

N.

Nanjala Nayabola
Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics
2018

Nikesh Shukla
The Good Immigrant
2015

Nikita Gill
Wild Embers
2017

O.

Orna Donath
Regretting Motherhood: A Study
2015

Otegha Uwagba
Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods
2020

Owen Jones
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class
2011

p.

Paul Kalanithi
When Breath Becomes Air
2016

Petina Gappah
Rotten Row
2016

R.

Rebecca Skloot
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
2010

Rene Eddo Lodge
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race
2017

Reni K Amayo
Daughters of Nri - The Return Of The Earth Mother Book 1
2019

Robin Yassin-Kassab
The Road from Damascus
2008

s.

Sabrina Mahfouz
The Things I Would Tell You
2017

Dr Samara Linton and Rianna Walcott
The Colour of Madness: Exploring BAME mental health in the UK
2018

Sophie Hannah
The Poetry of Sex
2014

T.

Thomas Hardy
Tess of the D’Ubervilles
1891

Toni Morrison
Beloved
1987

Trevor Noah
Born A Crime
2016

v.

Vivant Denon
No Tomorrow
1777

Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
1927

w.

Warsan Shire
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth
2011

Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White
1860

Y.

Yaa Gyasi
Homegoing
2016

Yuko Tsushima
Territory of Light
1978