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Reads & Reveries

Hi! I’m Tasnim, a London based reader otherwise known as @reads.and.reveries on Instagram. Here I’ve put some lists together based on my own personal interests, including my favourite short story collections, books by Black British writers, poetry collections, and memoirs/biographies. There are some great ones here, I promise!

Manchester Happened: From the winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
How to Love a Jamaican
What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky: From the Winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing 2019
Heads of the Colored People
The Heartsick Diaspora, and other stories
The Sea Cloak
Dancers on the Shore
Nudibranch: the collection from MBE for Literature recipient Irenosen Okojie
Everything Inside
Alligator and Other Stories
Cutting Edge: Noir stories by women
If I Don't Have You
This Lovely City
Come Let Us Sing Anyway
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance
The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney
The Terrible
Deadly Sacrifice
Portable Paradise
The Perseverance
The Confessions of Frannie Langton: Now a major new series with ITVX
Take a Hint, Dani Brown: the must-read romantic comedy
Don't Touch My Hair
Poor
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
From Harvey River: A Memoir Of My Mother And Her Island
Not My Time to Die
The Invisible Muslim: Journeys Through Whiteness and Islam
Heavy: An American Memoir
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: The internationally bestselling classic
All You Can Ever Know: A memoir of adoption
Gather Together In My Name
Breaking & Mending: A junior doctor’s stories of compassion & burnout
My Past Is a Foreign Country: A Muslim feminist finds herself
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
The First Woman: Winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
Mornings in Jenin: The 15th anniversary edition of the Palestinian classic
The Blue Between Sky and Water
The Vanishing Half: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize 2021
These Ghosts Are Family: A Novel
The Shadow King
Girl, Woman, Other: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019
Minor Detail
Ayesha at Last
Take a Hint, Dani Brown: the must-read romantic comedy
Stay With Me
A Different Drummer: the extraordinary rediscovered classic
Pachinko: The New York Times Bestseller
Rebecca
Augustown
Poems from the Edge of Extinction: The Beautiful New Treasury of Poetry in Endangered Languages, in Association with the Nationa
If They Come For Us
bone
My Darling from the Lions
How To Make Curry Goat
Pepper Seed
Portable Paradise
Sisters' Entrance
The Perseverance
To Sweeten Bitter
Felicity
Cannibal
In Nearby Bushes
The Actual
Poor
Heavy: An American Memoir
Caste: The International Bestseller
Just Us: An American Conversation
Lowborn: Growing Up, Getting Away and Returning to Britain’s Poorest Towns
Are We Home Yet?
The Heart Of A Woman
Don't Touch My Hair
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
A Kick in the Belly: Women, Slavery and Resistance
The Invisible Muslim: Journeys Through Whiteness and Islam
The Terrible
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation
Passengers: True Stories of the Underground Railroad
A Stranger's Pose
How To Make Curry Goat
The First Woman: Winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
Kintu: From the winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
Manchester Happened: From the winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
Manchester Happened: From the winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
The Deep Blue Between
If I Don't Have You
Deadly Sacrifice
War to Windrush
LOTE
Brave New Words: The Power of Writing Now
A Book of Secrets
Minor Detail
Pepper Seed
Come Let Us Sing Anyway
The Island of Sea Women: 'Beautifully rendered' -Jodi Picoult
The First Woman: Winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
Kintu: From the winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
A More Perfect Union
The Deep Blue Between
A Golden Age
This Lovely City
Conjure Women
The Shadow King
How We Disappeared: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020
Brooklyn
Wartime Sweethearts
The Confessions of Frannie Langton: Now a major new series with ITVX
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane: A Novel
The Family Tree
The First Woman: Winner of the Jhalak Prize, 2021
The Shadow King
Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
Corregidora
Heads of the Colored People
Dancers on the Shore
Come Let Us Sing Anyway
The Invisible Muslim: Journeys Through Whiteness and Islam
Not My Time to Die
From Harvey River: A Memoir Of My Mother And Her Island
Heavy: An American Memoir
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
The Perseverance
Portable Paradise
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