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Book recs from BAME authors

10/06/2020 1181 Views Arts, Culture & Media Add to Favourite 4 Comments 5
 
Hi everyone! I want to buy and read more books by BAME female authors, to support and empower them in these difficult times. Unfortunately, BAME authors do not get the same hype for novels as their white counterparts which is disappointing and the few BAME books I have read have been better then the popular books written by white authors. So, what recommendations does everybody have? I'm not really picky over specific genres. I'll start: - Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan by Shrabani Basu - Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin
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  • Shameem

    11/06/2020

    I think these lists are amazing. I'm feeling inspired, so may have to order some new books to read. Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World by Kat Pankhurst Girl, Women, Other by Bernardine Evaristo Razia by Abda Khan It’s not about the burqa edited by Mariam Khan From Victims to suspects: Muslim Women since 9/11 by Shakira Hussain Forty Rules of love by Elif Shafak The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak The Holy Woman by Qaisra Shahraz Typhoon by Qaisra Shahraz Revolt Qaisra Shahraz A pear of jeans & other stories by Qaisra Shahraz The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Great Equal Power by Jo Swinson

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  • Sabahn

    11/06/2020

    **Here are some of my favourites!** Girl, Woman, Other’ by Bernardine Evaristo 'Homegoing' by Yaa Gyasi Children of Blood and Bone' by Tomi Adeyemi The Four Agreements’ by Don Miguel Ruiz A thousand splendid suns’ by Khaled Hosseini The holy woman’ by Qaisra Shahraz Courage to be disliked’ by Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi Written in the stars’ by Aisha Saeed One Thousand and One Nights’ by Hanan Al-Shaykh A woman is no man’ by Etaf Rum

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  • NazminA

    10/06/2020

    I have quite an ecclectic taste in books (basically anything and everything!) but incidentally the vast majority of the books on my shelves seem to be those written by BAME authors so here are some of my recommendations: 1. Lyrics Alley by Leila Aboulela 2. Secret daughter by Shilpi Gowda 3. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 4. Sari & Sins by Nisha Minhas 5. Lascar by Shahida Rahman 6. A girl like that by Tanaz Bhathena 7. Pride, prejudice and other flavors by Sonali Dev 8. Empress Orchid by Anchee Min 9. The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 10. The Red Carpet by Lavanya Sankaran

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  • Shai

    10/06/2020

    here are a few suggestions! Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging - Afua Hirsch (UK) It's Not About the Burqa - Mariam Khan (UK) Becoming - Michelle Obama (US) The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls - Mona Eltahawy (US) Headscarves and Hymens - Mona Eltahawy (US) Colour Purple - Alice Walker (US) Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) We Should all be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria)

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