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- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- From Scratch by Tembi Locke
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Small Country by Gaël Faye
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
- The Last Sentence by Tumelo Buthelezi
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Becoming by Michelle Obama