OKHA, the queer + Black book club: Recommendations

By OKHA, the queer + Black book club

By OKHA, the queer + Black book club

OKHA bring works by African, Caribbean and Afro-Latinx people to the forefront. We provide a space for book lovers and those who never really read to come together and also create a space where we can share perspectives, learnings and experiences orally. Let's analyse, educate and build community one tale at a time.

 

This read list is made up our personal faves, OKHA reads, recommendations and right of passage reads for happy, erudite Queer Black buffness! 

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

£9.99 £9.49

A Quick Ting On: Black British Businesses

Tskenya-Sarah Frazer

£12.99 £12.34

Brown Girl In The Ring

Nalo Hopkinson

£11.99 £11.39

Under the Udala Trees

Chinelo Okparanta

£8.99 £8.54

Fictional Novel, Queer Read

All About Love: New Visions

Bell Hooks

£10.99 £10.44

Zami: A New Spelling of my Name

Audre Lorde

£9.99 £9.49

Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019

Bernardine Evaristo

£9.99 £9.49

Giovanni's Room

James Baldwin

£7.99 £7.59

Children of Blood and Bone

Tomi Adeyemi

£8.99 £8.54

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

£8.99 £8.54

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi

£14.99

bone

Yrsa Daley-Ward

£9.99 £9.49

The Terrible

Yrsa Daley-Ward

£9.99 £9.49

Cygnet

Season Butler

£8.99 £8.54

AWS Classics The Joys of Motherhood

Buchi Emecheta

£10.99

The Lonely Londoners

Sam Selvon

£9.99 £9.49

I Am Nobody's Nigger

Dean Atta

£7.99 £7.59

Poor

Caleb Femi

£9.99 £9.49

And Still I Rise

Dr Maya Angelou

£8.99 £8.54

Sula

Toni Morrison

£9.99 £9.49

Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

£9.99 £9.49

Beloved

Toni Morrison

£10.99 £10.44

Purple Hibiscus

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

£8.99 £8.54

We Should All Be Feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

£6.99 £6.64

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Adrienne Maree Brown

£12.50 £11.87

Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

Emma Glass, Irenosen Okojie, et al.

£14.99 £14.24

Sister Outsider

Audre Lorde

£9.99 £9.49

Memorial

Bryan Washington

£14.99 £14.24

Homie

Danez Smith

£10.99 £10.44

Glittering City

Cyprian Ekwensi

£2.00 £1.86

The Sex Lives of African Women

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

£18.99

Kindred

Octavia E. Butler

£6.99 £6.50

Bessie Smith: A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

Jackie Kay

£10.99 £10.44

Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance

A.B. Christa Schwarz

£18.99

Join the OKHA book club, for queer and black fam primarily where the focus is literature, poetry, and plays by African, Caribbean & Afro-Latinx authors. For each session we will provide the read, have an exhibition by a queer + black artist and usually another component such as a panel discussion, author Q+A or screening. We meet every Last Friday of the month via Zoom - visit www.prim.black and subscribe to our newsletter for details.

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