My top picks would be:
1. Sugar / Bernice L. McFadden
2..This bitter earth / Bernice L. McFadden
3.What looks like crazy on an ordinary day / Pearl Cleage
4.I wish I had a red dress : a novel / Pearl Cleage
5.The Book of Ruth / Jane Hamilton
6.The hand I fan with / Tina McElroy Ansa
7.The men of Brewster Place / Gloria Naylor.
8.The secret life of bees / Sue Monk Kidd.
9.The way forward is with a broken heart / Alice Walker.
10.The wind done gone / Alice Randall.
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