How Beautiful We Were

Imbolo Mbue

The Seven Daughters of Dupree

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Memphis

Tara M. Stringfellow

The Old Drift

Namwali Serpell

Black Cake

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All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake

Tiya Miles

The Long Song

Andrea Levy

Matia

Emily Tsokos Purtill

A Woman Is No Man

Etaf Rum

The Historian's Daughter

Rashida Murphy

Where the Fruit Falls

Karen Wyld

Believe In Me

Lucy Neave

Beloved

Toni Morrison

Cane River

Lalita Tademy

The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

China Room

Sunjeev Sahota

Song of the Crocodile

Nardi Simpson

The Eighth Life

Nino Haratischwili

We Are All Birds of Uganda

Hafsa Zayyan

Peach Blossom Spring

Melissa Fu

Family Lore

Elizabeth Acevedo

Red at the Bone

Jacqueline Woodson

The Mountains Sing

Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel García Márquez

Zeal

Morgan Jerkins

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende

Mornings in Jenin

Susan Abulhawa

Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Alex Haley

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee