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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 — 412,731 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.31 — 412,780 ratings — published 2013
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.47 — 403,373 ratings — published 2016
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.34 — 183,575 ratings — published 2006
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.18 — 143,160 ratings — published 2003
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.06 — 65,960 ratings — published 2017
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.64 — 352,944 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.39 — 330,694 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.49 — 807,390 ratings — published 2016
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,024 ratings — published 2008
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,518 ratings — published 2010
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.42 — 173,414 ratings — published 2020
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,182 ratings — published 2020
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.01 — 36,644 ratings — published 2018
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.94 — 85,962 ratings — published 2016
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,772 ratings — published 2015
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,914 ratings — published 2015
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.04 — 22,998 ratings — published 1988
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,393 ratings — published 2013
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,369 ratings — published 2013
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,031 ratings — published 1961
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 162,428 ratings — published 2020
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,361 ratings — published 1979
His Only Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.73 — 33,075 ratings — published 2020
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.86 — 117,250 ratings — published 1999
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,308 ratings — published 1980
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,338 ratings — published 2024
The Shadow King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.65 — 14,963 ratings — published 2019
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.21 — 40,682 ratings — published 2021
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.50 — 88,305 ratings — published 2017
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,305 ratings — published 1964
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,774 ratings — published 2004
Say You're One of Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.55 — 16,392 ratings — published 2008
A Spell of Good Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,017 ratings — published 2023
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.84 — 80,578 ratings — published 2015
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.53 — 57,537 ratings — published 2022
Butter Honey Pig Bread (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.29 — 13,333 ratings — published 2020
A Girl Is a Body of Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,656 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 — 16,365 ratings — published 2017
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.11 — 250,991 ratings — published 2018
Kintu (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,532 ratings — published 2014
The River Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,387 ratings — published 1965
Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.94 — 17,642 ratings — published 2020
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,593 ratings — published 1991
Pet (Pet, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.14 — 34,348 ratings — published 2019
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,442 ratings — published 1968
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as african-authors)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,245 ratings — published 2007
I Do Not Come to You by Chance (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,878 ratings — published 2009
At Night All Blood is Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.80 — 28,400 ratings — published 2018
On Black Sisters Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as african-authors)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,797 ratings — published 2007
“Your smile tells me you have arrived at your God's appointed life destination where even you a belated princess will thrive”
― Love's Affliction
― Love's Affliction
“Grace had always found the old priest's inflexibility towards the spirit world baffling. He accepted angels and the Holy Spirit but rejected outright ancestors and any other spirits as pagan superstitions. This seemed illogical to her; either you believed in spirits or you didn't.”
― The Lions' Den
― The Lions' Den
