Every year members make suggestions of what books they would like to include in the reading list for the following year and it is put to the vote. There have been plenty of suggestions this year, it’s a shame we can only choose twelve. Voting will take place during the Month of November and the shortlist will be announced in December. Below is the list of titles on the Longlist.
- How to write about Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina
- If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
- The Durbar’s Apprentice by Remington Blackstaff
- What a Mother’s Love Don’t Teach You by Sharma Taylor
- Fire Rush – Jacqueline Crooks
- The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph
- Nearly All The Men in Lagos are Mad by Damilare Kuku
- The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr
- Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
- Britons through Negro Spectacles by A.B.C Merriman Labor
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
- Maybe I Don’t Belong Here: A Memoir of Race, Identity, Breakdown and Recovery by David Harewood
- Black is the Body: Stories from my grandmother’s time, my mother’s time, and mine by Emily Bernard
- “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy and the Rise of Jim Crow” by Henry Louis Gates
- His Only Wife by Peace Adzo Medie
- The Second Time We Met by Frances Mensah Williams
- The Trees by Percival Everett
- Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
- A Bigger Picture – My fight to bring a new African voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate
- Black Skin White Masks by Frantz Fanon
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Rodney Walter
- Neither Our Far, No in Deep by Leah T Williams
- Jam Run by Russell Brooks
- Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal