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Resources for diversifying your Reading List

A guide to finding research from underrepresented voices

African Books Collective

African books, African writers and African scholarship. African Books Collective is a non profit distribution collective owned by publishers on the continent.

African Minds

African Minds is a not-for-profit, open access publisher based in Cape Town, South Africa. We publish predominantly in the social sciences and our authors are typically African academics and thinkers, as well as international academics who have a close affinity with the continent.

Africa World Press and The Red Sea Press

Our mission is to provide high quality literature on the history, culture, politics of Africa and the African Diaspora.

Alliance of Radical Booksellers

In order to qualify as an ARB member, the bookseller must: -be informed by socialist, anarchist, environmental, feminist or anti-racist concerns -stock or sell books which inspire, support or report on political and/or personal change in the global, national or local sphere.

Ayebia

Bespoke publishers specialising in quality African and Caribbean writing.

Black Classic Press

Black Classic Press is devoted to publishing obscure and significant works by and about people of African descent. We specialize in republishing works that are out of print and quite often out of memory.

Camp Books

Camp Books is more than a bookshop: we specialise in preserving the experiences of LGBTQIA+ people across history, through books, archives, ephemera, and new publications. Our mission is to highlight the story each object has to tell, and promote its use as a tool for education and empowerment.

Carcanet

One of the outstanding literary publishers of our time, Carcanet Press has a special emphasis on poetry from around the world. This is the best place to buy poetry on the web, and offers a massive resource of poems, reviews and pictures for free.

Dialogue books

Dialogue Books shines a spotlight on stories for, about and by readers from the LGBTQI+, disability, working class and BAME communities. The imprint has a clear focus of distinctive, cross-genre titles that spark a conversation across fiction, non-fiction, commercial and literary publishing.

Duke University Press

Duke University Press publishes approximately 120 books annually in the humanities and social sciences. Our specialties include African studies, African American studies, American studies, anthropology, art and art history, Asian studies, Asian American studies, Chicanx/Latinx studies...

Hansib Publications

Publisher of a wide range of books catering for Britain's African-Caribbean and Indo-Caribbean communities

Hope Road Publishing

Hope Road Publishing promotes the best writing from and about Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, with themes of identity, cultural stereotyping, disability and injustices are of particular interest. Includes the Small Axes imprint republishing out of print post-colonial classics – those books which helped to shape cultural shifts at the time they were first in print, and which remain as relevant today.

Hurst Publishers

Hurst is an independently owned non-fiction publisher. Our strengths are in African Studies, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, South Asian Studies, War and Conflict Studies, History and Politics.

Icon Books

Icon Books is an independent publisher that specialises in intelligent, quality non-fiction for a general audience. Our Introducing Graphic Guide series thrives alongside a list of books in science, history, politics, sport, language, humour and much else besides.

Influx Press

London based book publisher of fiction and non fiction. Stories from the margins of culture and sites of resistance that remain under explored in mainstream literature.

Jacaranda Books

Diverse, inclusive literature from award-winning independent, black-owned publisher and bookseller Jacaranda Books. Shop for literary and commercial fiction, biography, memoir, poetry and YA. Home of #TwentyIn2020 for Black British writers.

MIPP International

Books from Russia, Central Asia, Baltic states, Mongolia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova

New Beacon Books

Specialists in African and Caribbean Literature.

Peepal Tress Press

Caribbean and Black British Fiction, Poetry and Non-fiction.

Persephone Books

Books by twentieth-century women writers.

Pluto Press

Pluto Press is an anti-capitalist, internationalist and politically independent publisher. Our books make timely interventions in contemporary struggles.

Verso

Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.

RedBone Press

RedBone Press publishes work celebrating the cultures of black lesbians and gay men, and work that further promotes understanding between black gays and lesbians and the black mainstream.

Saqi Books

Saqi Books is a leading independent publisher of trade and academic books on the Middle East and North Africa.

Virago

International publisher of fiction and non-fiction books by women.

ZED Books

Publisher focusing on marginalised voices.