Blood River by Tim ButcherBorn a Crime by Trevor NoahPurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieTick Bite Fever by David Bennun
Great Modern African Reads
88 books — 56 voters
Tropical Fish by Doreen BainganaOne Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina
East Africa
251 books — 99 voters

Lost in a Good Book by Jasper FfordeSomething Rotten by Jasper FfordeA Dirty Job by Christopher MooreThe Antipope by Robert RankinThud! by Terry Pratchett
Best Comic Fantasy
132 books — 204 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherThe Lost City of Z by David GrannWest with the Night by Beryl MarkhamThe River of Doubt by Candice MillardA Land So Strange by Andrés Reséndez
Best Historical Travel Journals
335 books — 239 voters

1984 by George OrwellGreat Expectations by Charles DickensMiddlemarch by George EliotEmma by Jane Austen
I Should Probably Read This Sometime...
11,961 books — 10,698 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherDiamonds, Gold, and War by Martin MeredithAfrican Perspectives on Colonialism by A. Adu BoahenWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchChameleon Days by Tim Bascom
Africa - Nonfiction
402 books — 164 voters

A Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonGood Omens by Terry PratchettGuards! Guards! by Terry PratchettThe Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Books that Make you Laugh
3,508 books — 5,193 voters
Blood River by Tim Butcher
Best Books Ever
77,352 books — 288,665 voters

The Other Slavery by Andrés ReséndezA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonFreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt
Best 21st Century Non-Fiction
2,070 books — 1,363 voters
Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Books You Would Recommend to Strangers
12,925 books — 8,347 voters

Kon-Tiki by Thor HeyerdahlThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyHawaii by James A. MichenerHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Around the World in 100 Books
1,324 books — 707 voters
Preparing the Ghost by Matthew Gavin Frank
Ocean Exploration
54 books — 9 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Memoirs of Experiments
240 books — 112 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Best Page-Turners with Redeeming Social Value
8,084 books — 5,803 voters

Chasing the Devil by Tim ButcherNeverwhere by Neil GaimanA Walk in the Woods by Bill BrysonThe Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
32,188 books — 122,624 voters
1491 by Charles C. MannLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildThe Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez
Best History Books
3,829 books — 3,868 voters

Summer by Edith WhartonThe Ransom of Red Chief by O. HenrySomething Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse
Best Books of the Decade: 1910s
532 books — 777 voters
Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha ChristieThe Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan BradleyWhose Body? by Dorothy L. SayersThe Eyre Affair by Jasper FfordeThe Man With a Load of Mischief by Martha Grimes
Cozy Mystery Series - First Book of a Series
1,177 books — 2,487 voters

Blood River by Tim ButcherThrough Siberia by Accident by Dervla MurphyThe Sex Lives of Cannibals by J. Maarten TroostDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxThe Chains of Heaven by Philip Marsden
Travel Published in Decade: 2000s
47 books — 21 voters
Grandma Gatewood's Walk by Ben Montgomery
Travel Published in Decade: 2010s
56 books — 55 voters

Rope from the Sky by Zach Vertin
Sudan and South Sudan
79 books — 37 voters
Blood River by Tim ButcherDark Star Safari by Paul TherouxIn Ethiopia with a Mule by Dervla MurphyJourney Without Maps by Graham GreeneThe Caliph's House by Tahir Shah
Adventure Travel & Exploration In Africa
121 books — 115 voters

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownA Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
My Favourite Non Fiction Books
1,381 books — 291 voters

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam HochschildBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownBlood River by Tim Butcher
Best Non-Fiction (no biographies)
6,263 books — 8,067 voters
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Must Read Non-Fiction
5,315 books — 4,637 voters

We Two by Gillian Gill
Best Queen Victoria Books
74 books — 95 voters
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownOrientalism by Edward W. Said
Books About Colonialism
682 books — 241 voters


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