Young readers
- Kamla and Kate, Jamila Gavin
- Aditi and the One-Eyed Monkey, Suniti Namjoshi
- Tara on the Shikara, Sigrun Srivastava
- Mala, Gita Wolf & Annouchka Gravel Galouchko
- Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain, Margaret Bateson-Hill & Francesca Pelizzoli
- The Jessame Stories, Julia Jarman
- More Jessame Stories, Julia Jarman
- Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World, Cynthia Chin-Lee
- Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale, John Steptoe
- Amazing Grace, Mary Hoffman
- I Can Do it Too!, Karen Baicker
Older children
- The Wheel of Surya, Jamila Gavin
- The Eye of the Horse, Jamila Gavin
- The Track of the Wind, Jamila Gavin
- Island’s End, Padma Venkatraman
- Noughts and Crosses, Malorie Blackman
- Checkmate, Malorie Blackman
- Roll of thunder hear my cry, Mildred Taylor
- Let the circle be unbroken, Mildred Taylor
- The midnight robber, Nalo Hopkinson
- Harriet’s Daughter, Marlene Nourbese Philip
- The Kayla Chronicles, Sherri Winston
- Annie Allen, Gwendolyn Brooks
At least aged 14 -16
- Persepolis: The Story of an Iranian Childhood, Marjane Satrapi
- Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return, Marjane Satrapi
- The Other Side of Truth, Beverley Naidoo
- We Got Issues! A Young Woman’s Guide to a Bold, Courageous and Empowered Life, Edited by Rha Goddess and JLove Calderon
- Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Wide Sargaso Sea, Jean Rys
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
- Long Road to Nowhere, Amryl Johnson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker
- Annie John – Jamaica Kincaid
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name – Audre Lorde
- Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
- Assata : An Autobiography – Assata Shakur
- Aya de Yopougon, Marguerite Abouet and drawn by Clément Oubrerie
- We Sinful Women – Contemporary Urdu Feminst Poetry, Kishwar Naheed
- As a Black Woman, Maud Sulter
- The fat black woman’s poems, Grace Nichols
- A Dangerous Knowing: Four Black Women Poets. Barbara Burford, Gabriela Pearse, Grace Nichols & Jackie Kay
- The Conversations of Cow, Sunita Namjoshi
- Baby Ji, Abha Dawesar
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