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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 637 times as african)
avg rating 3.75 — 425,054 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 376 times as african)
avg rating 4.31 — 425,011 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 362 times as african)
avg rating 4.34 — 191,630 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 308 times as african)
avg rating 4.47 — 426,082 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as african)
avg rating 4.18 — 150,327 ratings — published 2003
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as african)
avg rating 3.63 — 376,281 ratings — published 2018
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as african)
avg rating 3.86 — 121,240 ratings — published 1999
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as african)
avg rating 4.48 — 843,234 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 160 times as african)
avg rating 4.39 — 340,591 ratings — published 2012
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as african)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,178 ratings — published 1988
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 134 times as african)
avg rating 4.06 — 68,335 ratings — published 2017
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as african)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,670 ratings — published 2008
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as african)
avg rating 4.42 — 180,243 ratings — published 2020
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as african)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,935 ratings — published 2010
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as african)
avg rating 4.10 — 258,026 ratings — published 2018
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,829 ratings — published 2015
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as african)
avg rating 4.00 — 13,445 ratings — published 1980
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as african)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,328 ratings — published 2020
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as african)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,813 ratings — published 2013
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as african)
avg rating 4.09 — 167,951 ratings — published 2020
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as african)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,192 ratings — published 1966
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 93 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,543 ratings — published 1961
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as african)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,643 ratings — published 2007
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,205 ratings — published 1967
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 90 times as african)
avg rating 3.81 — 279,375 ratings — published 1998
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 80,991 ratings — published 1948
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,026 ratings — published 1980
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as african)
avg rating 4.12 — 810,966 ratings — published 1998
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as african)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,022 ratings — published 2018
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as african)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,416 ratings — published 2016
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,883 ratings — published 1991
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as african)
avg rating 4.50 — 90,125 ratings — published 2017
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as african)
avg rating 4.34 — 438,012 ratings — published 2009
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as african)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,118 ratings — published 2011
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 73 times as african)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,762 ratings — published 1964
At Night All Blood is Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as african)
avg rating 3.79 — 30,452 ratings — published 2018
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as african)
avg rating 3.43 — 573,782 ratings — published 1899
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as african)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,556 ratings — published 2015
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as african)
avg rating 4.03 — 15,466 ratings — published 2015
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as african)
avg rating 4.36 — 96,697 ratings — published 1991
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as african)
avg rating 3.77 — 53,992 ratings — published 2025
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as african)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,540 ratings — published 2013
His Only Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 34,083 ratings — published 2020
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,727 ratings — published 1979
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,520 ratings — published 1968
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as african)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,901 ratings — published 2004
Life & Times of Michael K (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 21,890 ratings — published 1983
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as african)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,027 ratings — published 1952
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 28,942 ratings — published 2010
“In reality most human beings are not, to most human beings, more important than money.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.”
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