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Recommended reading list

Westminster Libraries carry many titles by prominent black and minority authors. Here we have compiled a selected list for your enjoyment.

The Long Song by Andrea Levy (Fiction)

My Life in Search of Africa by John Henrik Clarke (Autobiographical)

Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou (Non-Fiction)

And Still I Rise by Maya Angelou (Non-Fiction)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Fiction)

With Hope in Their Eyes: Compelling Stories of the Windrush Generation by Vivian Francis (Non-Fiction)

Keep on Moving: The Windrush Legacy - The Black Experience in Britain from 1948. by Tony Sewell (Non-Fiction)

Empire Windrush: Fifty Years of Writing About Black Britain by Onyekachi Wambu (Non-Fiction)

Black Mahler the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Story by Charles Elford (Biography)

Walter Tull, (1888-1918), Officer, Footballer: All the Guns in France Couldn't Wake Me by Phil Vasili (Biography)

In Search of Josephine Baker by John Kirby Abraham (Biography)

Getting to Happy by Terry McMillan (Fiction)

Tempted by Trouble by Eric Jerome Dickey (Fiction)

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