dead white men

I've been worrying that the blog might be re-fostering a sense of the canon; ie. the idea of 'classics' is pretty dubious, politically, and the majority of writers are dead, middle-class, european white men. I guess the point is more that writers should be 'underread', rather than 'underrated'. Anyways, here are a few suggestions of anti-/ non- canonical writers or novels to supplement things:

BS Johnson, House Mother Normal
Jean Rhys, Sleep it Off, Lady/ Tigers are Better-Looking
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote
Chinua Achebe, A Man of the People
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat
Stella Gibbons, Bassett