This is just a tiny sampling of titles I can suggest. I'm still working on this list and am open to more suggestions. You can leave them in the comments on the sign up post or the post for linking to reviews.





Africa
Half of a Yellow Sun by  Chimamanda Adichie
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe
The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Maru by Bessie Head
Butterfly Burning by Yvonne Vera
So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
Grain of Wheat by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
The Poor Christ of Bomba by Mongo Beti
Ancestor Stones by Aminatta Forna
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
"Blood In the Sun" trilogy(Maps, Gifts, Secrets) by Nuruddin Farah
Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora by Michael Angelo Gomez
I Do Not Come To You By Chance by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Adichie

North America
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sugar by Bernice McFadden
Kinky Gazpacho by Lori Tharps
Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Street by Ann Petry
The Untelling by Tayari Jones
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
In Another Place, Not Here by Dionne Brand
The Book of Negroes (CA)/ Someone Knows My Name (US) by Lawrence Hill
The Big Sea by Langston Hughes
Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora by Michael Angelo Gomez
The Birth of African-American Culture An Anthropological Perspective by Sidney Wilfred Mintz
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Blackberries, Blackberries by Crystal Wilkinson
Water Street by Crystal Wilkinson
The Wife of His Youth by Charles W. Chesnutt

Central America
Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 by George Reid Andrews
Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora by Michael Angelo Gomez

South America
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands by Jorge Amado
City of God by Paulo Lins
Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 by George Reid Andrews
Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora by Michael Angelo Gomez

Caribbean/ West Indian
The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Unburnable by Marie-Elena John
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson
Me Dying Trial by Patricia Powell
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James
The Atlantic Sound by Caryl Phillips
Masters of the Dew by Jacques Roumain
Crossing the Mangrove by Maryse Conde
Texaco: A Novel by Patrick Chamoiseau
Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 by George Reid Andrews
Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora by Michael Angelo Gomez
Krik? Krak! by Edwidge Danticat
Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat
The Children of Sisyphus by Orlando Patterson

Europe
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
Foreigners by Caryl Phillips
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora by Michael Angelo Gomez
On Black Sisters' Street by Chika Unigwe
Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out by Katharina Oguntoye, et al