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Achebe, Chinua
The education of a British-Protected Child (2009)
Girls at war and other stories (1972)
Things fall apart (1958)

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
We should all be feminists (2014)
Americanah (2013)
Half of a Yellow Sun (2007)
Purple Hibiscus (2005)

D'Aguiar, Fred
The Longest Memory (1994)

Aidoo, Ama Ata
African Love Stories (2006)

Angelou, Maya
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)

Arendt, Hannah
Responsibility and Judgement (2003)

Bâ, Mariama
So Long a Letter (1981)

Bah, Ishmael
A Long Way Gone (2007)

Baldwin, James
If Beale Street Could Talk (1974)
Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
Another Country (1962)
Giovanni's Room (1956)

Banora, Corinne
Musskeeba (2007)

Barthes, Roland
La chambre claire (1980)

Beatty, Melody
More Language of letting go (2000)

Beauvoir, Simone de
Le deuxième Sexe (1973)
Les Mandarins (1954)

Biko, Steve
I write what I like (1978)

Böll, Heinrich
Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum (1974)
Als der Krieg ausbrach (1962)
Nicht nur zur Weihnachtszeit (1952)

Borchert, Wolfgang
Draussen vor der Tür (1947)

Brecht, Bertolt
Der kaukasische Kreidekreis (1944)
mit Weill Die Dreigroschen Oper (1928) (1924)

Breton, André
Manifeste du Surréalisme (1924)

Brink, André
A Dry White Season (1979)
A Chain of Voices (1978)

Brontë, Charlotte
Jane Eyre (1847)

Brown, Diane
The Sabi (2013)

Brüllmann, Cornelia H.
Weiblichkeit beim Wort genommen. (2005)

Bukowski, Charles
Women (1978)
Post Office (1971)
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1970)

Burroughs, William S.
Naked Lunch (1959)

Butler, Olivia
Parable of the Talents (1998)
Dawn, Lilith's Brood, Imago (1987-89)
Kindred (1979)

Camara, Mariatu
The Bite of the Mango (2008)

Camus, Albert
La Mort heureuse (1971)
La Peste (1947)
L'Étranger (1942)

Carlisle, Clare
Philosopher of the Heart (2019)

Carson, Anne
Sapho drives Upstate
from Freeman's Arrival (2015)

Castaneda, Carlos
Eagles Gift (1981)
Journey to Xtlan (1972)
A Separate Reality (1971)
The Teachings of Don Juan (1968)

Catel & Bocquet
Kiki de Monpartnasse (2011)

Chan, Yong Kang
Reconnect to Love: A Journey From
Lonliness to Deep Connection (2020)

Chatwin, Bruce
Songlines (1987)

Coates, Ta-Nehisi
Between the World and Me (2015)

Coelho, Paul
The Zahir (2005)

Cole, Teju
Known and Strange Things (2016)
Open City (2011)
Every day is for the thief (2007)

Colette
Claudine s'en va (1903)
Claudine à Paris (1901)
Claudine à l'ecole (1900)

Coplan, David
In Township Tonight! (2008)

Coulin, Delphine
Samba pour la France (2014)

Dahl, Roald
Kiss Kiss (1960)
Someone Like You (1953)

Deleuze, Gilles; Guattari, Félix
Milles Plateaux (1980)
Anti-Oedipus (1972)

de Saint- Exupéry, Antoine
Le Petit Prince (1943)
Terre des Hommes (1939)

Du Bois, W. E. B.
The Souls of Black Folk (1903)

Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
Justiz (1985)
Der Richter und sein Henker (1950)

Durell, Lawrence
The Revolt of Aphrodite (1974)
The Alexandria Quartett (1962)
Bitter Lemons (1957)

El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz
The Diary of MalcolmX (1964)

Ellison, Ralph
Invisible Man (1952)

Enders, Giulia
Darm mit Charme (2014)

Fallaci, Oriana
Lettera a un Bambino mai nato (1975)

Fanon, Frantz
The Wretched of the Earth (1961)
Black Skin, White Masks (1952)

Fenton, Simon
Chasing Hornbills (2016)
Squirting Milk at Chameleons (2015)

Fielding, Helen
Bridget Jones: Mad about the Boy (2013)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999)
Bridget Jones' Diary (1996)

Forna, Aminatta
Memory of Love (2010)
Ancestor Stones (2006)

Freeman, John
Home (2017)
Family (2016)
Arrival (2015)

Fromm, Erich
Die Kunst des Liebens (1956)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Dichtung und Wahrheit (1811-1833)
Farbenlehre (1810)
Faust (1808)

Gordimer, Nadine
The Pickup (2001)
None to Accompany Me (1994)

Grass, Günter
Katz und Maus (1961)
Die Blechtrommel (1959)

Han, Buyung-Chul
Agonie des Eros (2013)

Hansberry, Lorraine
To be Young, Gifted and Black (1969)
A Raisin in the Sun (1958)

Harris, Anthony
I'm OK, You're OK (1969)

Hesse, Hermann
Narziss und Goldmund (1930)
Der Steppenwolf (1927)
Siddartha (1922)

Head, Bessie
A Question of Power (1971)
When Rain Clouds Gather (1968)

Hodgkinson, Tom
Business for Bohemians (2016)

Houssouba, Mohomodou
Bagoundié Blues (2003)

Hugo, Victor
Les Misérables (1862)
Notre Dame de Paris (1831)

Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World (1932)

Jong, Erica
Fear of Flying (1973)

Jung, C. G.
Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken (1962)

Kafka, Franz
Das Schloss (1926)
Der Prozess (1925)
Die Verwandlung (1915)

Kabou, Axelle
Et si l'Afrique refusait le développement?

Kapralik, Elena
Antonin Artaud, 1896-1948 (1977)

Kerouac, Jack
On the Road (1957)

Kierkegaard, Søren
Either/Or (1843)

Koren, Leonhard
Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers,
Poets & Philosophers (1994)

Kübler Ross, Elisabeth
Interviews mit Sterbenden (1969)

Küng, Hans
Christ sein (1974)

Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching (first edited 2nd century BC)

Lee, Lilian
Farewell My Concubine (1985)

Lindgren, Astrid
Pippi Långstrump Söderhavet (1948)
Pippi Långstrump går ombord (1946)
Pippi Långstrump (1945)

Lorde, Audre
Sister Outsider (1984)

Lüem, Barbara
Wir sind wie der Berg lächelnd aber stark.(1988)

Mabanckou, Alain
Lettre à Jimmy (2007)
Verre Cassé (2005)

Maeda, John
The Laws of Simplicity (2006)

Malcolm X
Autobiography (1964)

Mandela, Nelson
No Easy Walk to Freedom (1965)

Mann, Klaus
Mephisto (1936)

Mann, Thomas
Die Buddenbrooks (1901)

Marechera, Dambudzo
Cemetery of Mind (1992)
The Black Insider (1991)
The House of Hunger (1978)

Marquis de Sade
Justine ou les Malheurs de la Vertu (1791)

Matthews, James
The Party is over (1997)

Mbembe, Achille
Critique de la Raison Nègre (2013)
On the Postcolony (2001)

Mc Elroy, Mark
Absolute Beginners Guide to Tarot (2006)

Mian Mian
Candy (2003)

Miller, Henry
Nexus (1960)
Quiet Days in Clichy (1956)
Plexus (1953)
Sexus (1949)
Tropic of Cancer (1934)

Millman, Dan
The life you were born to live (1994)

Mishima, Yukio
仮面の告白 Confessions of a Mask (1949)

Moody, Anne
Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)

Morrison, Toni
God Help the Child (2015)
Jazz (1992)
Beloved (1987)
Tar Baby (1981)
Song of Solomon (1977)
The Bluest Eye (1970)

Mujila, Fiston Mwanza
Tram 83 (2014)

Musil, Robert
Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (1930-43)
Die Verwirrungen des Zöglings Törleß (1906)

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Decolonising the Mind (1986)

Nietzsche, Friedrich
Also sprach Zarathustra (1883)

Nin, Anaïs
Delta of Venus (1977)
Diaries of Anaïs Nin (1931-74)

Njami, Simon
James Baldwin (1991)
African gigolo (1989)
Cercueil & Cie (1985)

Nkrumah, Kwame
Consciencism (1970)

Nwokolo, Chuma
The Ghost Sani Ababcha (2013)
Diaries of a Dead African (2003)

Nyathi, Sue
The Polygamist (2012)

Omotoso, Yewande
Bom Boy (2011)

Orwell, George
1984 (1949)
Animal Farm (1945)

Parkin, Gaile
Baking Cakes in Kigali (2009)

Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Teorema (1968)

Philips, Caryl
Crossing the River (1993)

Pilkington, Doris
Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996)

Plath, Sylvia
Collected Poems (1982)
The Bell Jar (1963)

Poe, Edgar Allan
The Fall of the House of Usher (1839)

Preston Blier, Susanne
African Vodun (1995)

Proust, Marcel
À la recherche du temps perdu (1913)

Ptah, Heru
A Hip-Hop Story (2003)

Puzo, Mario
The Godfather (1969)

Reich, Wilhelm
Die sexuelle Revolution (1936)

Salinger, J.D.
The Catcher in the Rye (1951)

Sanders, Helke
Oh Lucy (1991)

Sartre, Jean Paul
Les mains sales (1948)
Les jeux sont faits (1947)
L'âge de raison (1945)
Le sursis (1945)
L'être et le néant (1943)
La nausee (1938)

Selasi, Taiye
Ghana Must Go (2013)

Sharma, Robin S.
The Monk who sold his Ferrari (2008)

Sigauke/Hartmann (editors)
African Roar (2010)

Signer, David
Ökonomie der Hexerei (2004)

Smith, Patty
Year of the Monkey (2019)
Devotion (2017)
M Train (2015)
The Coral Sea (1996)

Smith, Zadie
On Beauty (2005)

Sontag, Susan
As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh (2012)
Styles of Radical Will (1969)
Against Interpretation (1961)

Soyinka, Wole
Of Africa (2012)
Collected Plays 1 (1972)
The Lion and the Jewel (1959)

Stein, Gertrude
Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein (1990)

Steinbeck, John
East of Eden (1952)

Theweleit, Klaus
Buch der Könige. Orpheus and Euridike (1988)

Tolkien, J.R.R.
The Lord of the Rings 1-3 (1937-49)

Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina (1878)

Traven, B.
Das Totenschiff (1926)

Tutu, Desmond
No Future without Forgiveness (2000)

Walker, Alice
The Color Purple (1982)
Meridian (1976)

Wallace, Michele
Dark Designs and Visual Culture (2004)

Wei Hui, Zhou
Marrying Buddha (2005)
Shanghai Baby (2002)

Wilde, Oscar
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)

Williams, Tenessee
Memoirs (1975)
Moise and the World of Reason (1975)
The Milk Train doesn't stop here any more (1963)
A Cat of a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
A Streetcar named Desire (1951)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1950)
The Glass Menagerie (1944)

Woolf, Virginia
A Room of One's Own (1929)
Orlando (1928)
Mrs Dalloway (1925)

Yoshimoto, Banana
Lizard (1993)
Asleep (1992)
Kitchen (1988)

Zanoni, Ivo
Der Dichter am Bahnhof (2010)
Transit und Grenze (2006)

Zephaniah, Benjamin
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah (2018)
Refugee Boy (2001)
City Psalms (1992)

Zorn, Fritz
Mars (1977)