Novels, Short Story Collections & Plays

• Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck

• The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

• Jagua Nana, by Cyprian Ekwensi

• Black Sunday, by Tola Rotimi Abraham

• The House of Hunger, by Dambudzo Marechera

• Stay With Me, by Ayobami Adebayo

• The Book of Night Women, by Marlon James

• The Trees, by Percival Everett

• A Dance of the Forests, by Wole Soyinka

• Purple Hibiscus, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

• The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss

• All The Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr

• Daughters Who Walk This Path, by Yejide Kilanko

• In Dependence, by Sarah Ladipo Manyika

• A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara

 

Flash Fiction

• Light, by Lesley Nneka Arimah

• Foucault and Pencil, by Lydia Davis

 

Non-Fiction (Books, Essays & Journal Articles)

• The Tragic Sense of Life, by Miguel de Unamuno

• On the Abolition of All Political Parties, by Simone Weil

• Break Every Rule, by Carole Maso

• Bluets, by Maggie Nelson

• & Other Stories, by Eloghosa Osunde

• On Quitting Academia, by Malcolm Gaskill

• Unsinkable City, by Wole Soyinka

• The Dis(order) of Things, by Julia Bell

• When Losing is Likely, by Brad East

• The Unexemplary Simone Weil, by Alexa Hazel

• Art and Property Now, by John Berger

• A Load of Shit, by John Berger

• Betwixt-and-Between: Essays on the Writing Life, by Jenny Boully

• Leave the Dead Some Room to Dance: Postcolonial Founding and the Problem of Inheritance in Wole Soyinka's A Dance of the Forests, by David Thomas Suell

• 'Colonialism Had Never Really Ended': My Life in the Shadow of Cecil Rhodes, by Simukai Chigudu

 

Poetry

• She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, by M. NourbeSe Philip

• The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry, by Wendell Berry

• The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, by Kei Miller

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Interviews with Writers & Artists

• Chris Abani by Colm Tóibín, July 2006 (BOMB Magazine)

• Etel Adnan by Lisa Robertson, April 2014 (BOMB Magazine)

• Oral History Project: Odili Donald Odita by Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi, November 2020 (BOMB Magazine)

• Open to Possibility: Jesse Wine Interviewed by Cassie Packard, January 2021 (BOMB Magazine)

• Percival Everett, The Art of Fiction No. 235, Summer 2017 (The Paris Review)

• James Baldwin: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations by James Baldwin and Quincy Troupe, December 2014 (Melville House)

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