Cutting for Stone by Abraham   Verghese
All Things Ethiopia
66 books — 41 voters

The Flying Man by Roopa Farooki
Orange Prize For Fiction Longlist 2012
20 books — 153 voters
NW by Zadie Smith
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2012
151 books — 269 voters

Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Ou... by Philip GourevitchAnthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,754 books — 1,633 voters
The Red Tent by Anita DiamantRoots by Alex Haley
Best Historical Fiction
7,405 books — 25,585 voters

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLife of Pi by Yann MartelOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyWar and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Abandoned Books
1,473 books — 1,465 voters