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last updated June, 2026
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih
Like Water for Chocolate
Laura Esquivel
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot DĂaz
Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
Maya Angelou
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler
So Long a Letter
Mariama Bâ
When the Emperor Was Divine
Julie Otsuka
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Chinua Achebe
Wide Sargasso Sea
Jean Rhys
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