Zimbabwe

Books in this genre are set in or about Zimbabwe.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Zimbabwe"

I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives
We Need New Names
Leaving Before the Rains Come
Buck: A Memoir
Dingo Firestorm: The Greatest Battle of the Rhodesian Bush War
The Book of Memory
Diamond Boy
The White Shadow
104 Horses: A Memoir of Farm and Family, Africa and Exile
The Maestro, the Magistrate and the Mathematician
The Death of Rex Nhongo
Dark Lands
Nervous Conditions
We Need New Names
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa
Glory
This Mournable Body
The Hairdresser of Harare
Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa
The House of Hunger
House of Stone
The Book of Memory
An Elegy for Easterly: Stories
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
The Grass is Singing
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWhat the Earl Desires by Aliyah BurkeThe Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuHer Reluctant Viscount by Aliyah BurkeA Respectable Trade by Philippa Gregory
Africans in Romance
39 books — 11 voters
A Stranger in Olondria by Sofia SamatarThe Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose UtomiBloodline by William GraceSon of the Storm by Suyi Davies OkungbowaEverfair by Nisi Shawl
Africa-Influenced Epic Fantasy
41 books — 12 voters

The Last Twilight by Marjorie M. LiuWild Seed by Octavia E. ButlerTimeless by Gail CarrigerSerpent's Kiss by Thea HarrisonEternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost
Paranormal Romance Set in Africa
23 books — 11 voters
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniMemoirs of a Geisha by Arthur GoldenThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Around the World One Book from Each Country
1,100 books — 1,025 voters



Petina Gappah
“ Later, as she drove the children to school, she thought how worn the grooves were along which they moved their quarrels. She could feel herself saying all the clichéd phrases of a thousand injured women before her, but she could never stop herself. - ‘The Negotiated Settlement ”
― Petina Gappah, An Elegy for Easterly: Stories

Thabo Katlholo
“ As an ancient cradle of Iron Age civilization, Zimbabwe has a great emotional importance to the economy of Southern Africa and that's especially true for Botswana since both countries are landlocked. Harare was the site of some historic scenes and the best trade regimes, and it is where generations of Southern African children have gone for their education. Bulawayo was a trade giant amongst the people of the north – the Bakalanga, the Venda and the Shona. Now brick-by-brick the empire was facin ...more ”
― Thabo Katlholo, The Mud Hut I Grew Upon

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