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African Authors Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.75 — 415,775 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 415,932 ratings — published 2013
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.47 — 408,994 ratings — published 2016
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.34 — 185,440 ratings — published 2006
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.18 — 144,910 ratings — published 2003
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 66,559 ratings — published 2017
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.64 — 358,486 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 333,251 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.49 — 815,417 ratings — published 2016
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,450 ratings — published 2008
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,879 ratings — published 2010
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.42 — 175,291 ratings — published 2020
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,015 ratings — published 2018
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,723 ratings — published 2020
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.94 — 86,296 ratings — published 2016
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,930 ratings — published 2015
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,061 ratings — published 2015
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,318 ratings — published 1988
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,516 ratings — published 2013
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 163,910 ratings — published 2020
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,405 ratings — published 2013
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,160 ratings — published 1961
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,451 ratings — published 1979
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,634 ratings — published 1980
His Only Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.73 — 33,324 ratings — published 2020
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,632 ratings — published 2024
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.86 — 118,193 ratings — published 1999
The Shadow King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.65 — 15,074 ratings — published 2019
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,184 ratings — published 2021
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.50 — 88,762 ratings — published 2017
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,419 ratings — published 1964
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,793 ratings — published 2004
Say You're One of Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.55 — 16,430 ratings — published 2008
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.52 — 58,176 ratings — published 2022
A Spell of Good Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,139 ratings — published 2023
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.84 — 81,119 ratings — published 2015
Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,806 ratings — published 2020
Butter Honey Pig Bread (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.29 — 13,534 ratings — published 2020
A Girl Is a Body of Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,795 ratings — published 2020
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,424 ratings — published 2017
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.11 — 252,519 ratings — published 2018
Kintu (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,570 ratings — published 2014
The River Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,442 ratings — published 1965
A Man of the People (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,608 ratings — published 1966
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,467 ratings — published 1968
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,649 ratings — published 1991
I Do Not Come to You by Chance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,928 ratings — published 2009
Open Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.99 — 90,476 ratings — published 2021
At Night All Blood is Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.80 — 28,870 ratings — published 2018
On Black Sisters Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,832 ratings — published 2007
“Lord I am just another activist in silence. Let my books speak what lacerates deep into my spirit.”
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“For every day under the sun, he slowly began to live life like he felt the branches in his heart with its flowers blooming and its roots tightening.”
― In the midst of the womb
― In the midst of the womb
