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Sula by Toni Morrison
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

A Thirst for Rain by Roslyn Carrington
Seasons of Bento Blackbird by Akosua Busia
Hannibal Pride of Carthage
by David Anthony Durham
Anything by Octavia Butler
A Life for a Life by Earnest Hill
The Audacity of Hope
by Barack Obama
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
What the Dog Saw
by Malcolm Gladwell
Graceland by Chris Abani
Corregidora by Gayle Jones
Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime by J. California Cooper
The Complete Stories of Zora Neale Hurston
The Personal Touch by Terrie Williams
Only Twice I Wished for Heaven
by Dawn Turner Trice
Baby of the Family by Tina McElroy Ansa
Disappearing Acts by Terry McMillan
Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall