Toni Morrison A New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Kansas City StarAt the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie   WINNER OF THE BAILEYS PRIZE BEST OF THE BESTWinner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, this is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpieceThis novel...

Nicholas D Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation—the oppression of women and girls in the developing...

Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race   Margot Lee Shetterly   NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOscar Nominated For Best Picture...

Michael Donkor Shortlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize • Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize • Nominated for the Edinburgh First Book Award • One of The Observer's "New Faces...

Paul Theroux In this wickedly satiric romp, Paul Theroux captures the essence of Hawaii as it has never been depicted. The novel's narrator, a down-on-his-luck writer, escapes to Waikiki and...

Imbolo Mbue We should have known the end was near. So begins Imbolo Mbue's devastating second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it...

Maya AngelouMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American...

Zora Neale HustronThe most prolific African-American woman author from 1920 to 1950, Hurston was praised for her writing and condemned for her independence, arrogance, and audaciousness. This unique anthology, with...

James BaldwinIn this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old...

André BrinkAndre Brink has had a long career as a South African novelist, one that has provided him a forum for voicing his opposition to apartheid. Imaginings of Sand depicts...

Damon GalgutA young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels with little purpose, letting the chance encounters of the road dictate his path. But although he...