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African Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 627 times as african)
avg rating 3.75 — 414,189 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 370 times as african)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,305 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 353 times as african)
avg rating 4.34 — 184,497 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 296 times as african)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,949 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as african)
avg rating 4.18 — 143,980 ratings — published 2003
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 183 times as african)
avg rating 3.64 — 355,494 ratings — published 2018
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 181 times as african)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,697 ratings — published 1999
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as african)
avg rating 4.49 — 811,230 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 156 times as african)
avg rating 4.39 — 331,924 ratings — published 2012
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as african)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,160 ratings — published 1988
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as african)
avg rating 4.06 — 66,250 ratings — published 2017
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as african)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,243 ratings — published 2008
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as african)
avg rating 4.42 — 174,322 ratings — published 2020
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as african)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,704 ratings — published 2010
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,990 ratings — published 2015
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as african)
avg rating 4.11 — 251,691 ratings — published 2018
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as african)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,439 ratings — published 2013
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as african)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,412 ratings — published 2020
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 94 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,088 ratings — published 1961
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as african)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,405 ratings — published 1980
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as african)
avg rating 4.10 — 163,114 ratings — published 2020
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as african)
avg rating 3.81 — 276,291 ratings — published 1998
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,766 ratings — published 1948
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 3.72 — 33,719 ratings — published 1966
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as african)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,517 ratings — published 2007
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,895 ratings — published 1967
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,983 ratings — published 1980
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as african)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,823 ratings — published 2018
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as african)
avg rating 3.94 — 86,117 ratings — published 2016
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as african)
avg rating 4.11 — 795,616 ratings — published 1998
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as african)
avg rating 4.33 — 428,376 ratings — published 2009
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,618 ratings — published 1991
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as african)
avg rating 4.50 — 88,521 ratings — published 2017
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 73 times as african)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,362 ratings — published 1964
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as african)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,463 ratings — published 2011
At Night All Blood is Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as african)
avg rating 3.80 — 28,590 ratings — published 2018
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as african)
avg rating 3.84 — 80,807 ratings — published 2015
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as african)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,859 ratings — published 2015
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as african)
avg rating 4.36 — 94,546 ratings — published 1994
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as african)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,387 ratings — published 2013
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as african)
avg rating 3.43 — 560,428 ratings — published 1899
His Only Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 33,195 ratings — published 2020
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as african)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,784 ratings — published 2004
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as african)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,405 ratings — published 1979
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,459 ratings — published 1968
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 55 times as african)
avg rating 3.79 — 44,247 ratings — published 2025
Life & Times of Michael K (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 21,334 ratings — published 1983
A Spell of Good Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as african)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,078 ratings — published 2023
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as african)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,822 ratings — published 1952
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