my friend olga polga asked me to list ten books that influenced me:
1. love - toni morrison
2. their eyes were watching god - zora neale hurston
3. the brief and wondrous life of oscar wao - junot diaz
4. purple hibiscus - chimamanda ngozi adichie
5. the bfg - roald dahl
6. the coldest winter ever - sister souljah
7. the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde
8. wild seed - octavia butler
9. sassafrass, cyprus & indigo - ntozake shange
10. teaching my mother how to give birth - warsan shire