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OU🌸 10 BOOKS. 10 WOMEN AUTHORS. 100 YEARS. 📚
To round off Women’s History Month, we're sharing ten powerful works of fiction over the past 100 years (almost!) that centre women’s voices, lives, journeys, strength, and becoming.
👩🏾🦱 From quiet resilience to bold resistance, girlhood to womanhood, loves and losses, looking back, in the now, and predicting the future they bring character to life over generations.
✨️PLUM BUN: A Novel Without A Moral – Jessie Redmond Fauset (Charles Elkin Matthews 1928) The life of a woman who decides to pass for white.
✨️THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD – Zora Neale Hurston (J B Lippincott & Co 1937). A journey from teen to self-assured womanhood.
✨️THE STREET – Ann Petry (Houghton Miflin 1946) One of the first novels by an African American woman to reach commercial success.
✨️LADY SINGS THE BLUES – Billie Holiday (Doubleday 1956) The jazz icon’s tragic and triumphant memoir.
AMOUR, COLÈRE, ET FOLIE (LOVE, ANGER, MADNESS) – Marie Vieux-Chauvet (Gallimard 1968) Towering novella trilogy banned for critique of life under Haiti’s Duvalier regime.
✨️SULA – Toni Morrison (Alfred A. Knopf 1973) A complex friendship exploring freedom, loyalty and womanhood.
✨️NERVOUS CONDITIONS – Tsitsi Dangarembga (The Women’s Press 1988) Coming-of-age story on education, gender and independence.
✨️PARABLE OF THE SOWER – Octavia Butler (Four Walls Eight Windows 1993) Classic. Dystopian. Eerily prophetic.
✨️SMALL ISLAND – Andrea Levy (Headline Review 2004) Migration, identity and women navigating change.
✨️CONFESIONS OF FRANNIE LANGTON - Sara Collins (Viking 2019) Gothic and gripping - from a Jamaican plantation to Frannie’s murder trial in Georgian London.
✨️SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF DUPREE Nikesha Elise Williams (Simon & Shuster 2026) A girl’s search for her father’s identity. An astounding debut novel.
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