I admit, I am super extra. I put this list together for a then boyfriend, who I believe had lost his way, had stopped hearing the sound of the drums. This is my get your life list. Do you guys have one? Please tell me am not the only OCD bibliophile.
- Alex Haley - The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley
- Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
- Barack Obama - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
- Biyi Bamidele - Burma Boy
- Carlos Moore - Fela, This Bitch of a Life (this one is very hard to find)
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus
- Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
- Chinua Achebe - The Education of a British-Protected Child
- Chris Abani - Graceland
- Gordon Parks - Voices in the Mirror: An Autobiography
- Helene Cooper - The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood
- Isabel Wilkerson - The Warmth of other suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myths
- Madison Smart Bell - All Souls' Rising: A Novel of Haiti (1)
- Martin Luther King Jr - Why We Can’t Wait
- Maya Angelou - I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- Maya Angelou - The Heart of a Woman
- Reginald Lewis - Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?: How Reginald Lewis Created a Billion Dollar Empire
- Russell Simmons - Super Rich
- Tananarive Due - My Soul to Keep (Black Vampire Science series)
- Wole Soyinka - Aké: The Years of Childhood
- Wole Soyinka - Ibadan
- Wole Soyinka - You must set forth at Dawn: A Memoir