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African Writers Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.75 — 413,811 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.31 — 413,926 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.34 — 184,288 ratings — published 2006
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.18 — 143,787 ratings — published 2003
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.47 — 405,284 ratings — published 2016
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,193 ratings — published 2008
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.49 — 810,274 ratings — published 2016
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 34 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,080 ratings — published 1961
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.64 — 354,816 ratings — published 2018
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.39 — 331,647 ratings — published 2012
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,348 ratings — published 1964
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.00 — 12,382 ratings — published 1980
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.09 — 16,660 ratings — published 2010
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,456 ratings — published 2024
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.06 — 66,190 ratings — published 2017
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,393 ratings — published 1979
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,424 ratings — published 2013
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,108 ratings — published 1988
A Man of the People (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,587 ratings — published 1966
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.42 — 174,105 ratings — published 2020
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,347 ratings — published 2020
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.11 — 251,478 ratings — published 2018
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.94 — 86,074 ratings — published 2016
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.89 — 6,875 ratings — published 1967
The River Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,401 ratings — published 1965
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,837 ratings — published 2015
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,382 ratings — published 2013
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,458 ratings — published 1968
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,782 ratings — published 2004
Weep Not Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,303 ratings — published 1964
His Only Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.73 — 33,173 ratings — published 2020
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.50 — 88,487 ratings — published 2017
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,972 ratings — published 2015
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,936 ratings — published 1981
Petals of Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,701 ratings — published 1977
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.10 — 162,903 ratings — published 2020
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,495 ratings — published 2011
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,610 ratings — published 1991
Anthills of the Savannah (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.85 — 4,586 ratings — published 1987
Woman at Point Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.23 — 30,645 ratings — published 1975
The Concubine (AWS African Writers Series)
by (shelved 12 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,464 ratings — published 1966
Kintu (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,542 ratings — published 2014
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.30 — 583,090 ratings — published 1969
This Mournable Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.33 — 4,983 ratings — published 2018
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.15 — 400,819 ratings — published 2014
Hlomu the Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.41 — 3,454 ratings — published 2020
Aké: The Years of Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,024 ratings — published 1981
Girls at War and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,599 ratings — published 1972
Afterlives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as african-writers)
avg rating 3.77 — 14,147 ratings — published 2020
A Girl Is a Body of Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as african-writers)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,720 ratings — published 2020
“When you're the only light in the dark, please shine. Remember, there will be no value to your inferior incandescence at sunrise”
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“Let’s say that the best way to borrow money from God is not to borrow money from Satan.”
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