We asked Wasafiri readers to suggest books to add to the English Literature curriculum. Here are the 40 suggestions we received in the order that they were submitted:
Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories (anthology)
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Kintu by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Minty Alley by CLR James
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Our Sister Killjoy by Ama Ata Aidoo
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
The Friends by Rosa Guy
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakurni
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah
Rumi's Poetry
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
Roads of Hunger by Blake Jerome Everitt
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo
We That Are Young by Preti Taneja
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Adichie
Fractals: New & Selected Poems | Translations 1980-2015 by Sudeep Sen
Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman
My Brother by Jamaica Kincaid
Ice Candy Man by Bhapsi Sidwa
Brother Man by Roger Mais
Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English by Ken Saro-Wiwa
Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Under the Skin by Michael Faber
Volcano Suite by Shake Keane
The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore
Citizen: an American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Reef by Romesh Gunesekera
The Impact of Science on Society by Bertrand Russell
Old Goriot by Honore de Balzac
One Thousand Days In A Refrigerator by Manoj Kumar Panda
The Wedding of Zein by Tayeb Salih
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
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