75 books
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Nigerian Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 186 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,699 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.31 — 419,794 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.34 — 187,979 ratings — published 2006
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.63 — 366,047 ratings — published 2018
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.18 — 147,234 ratings — published 2003
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 74 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.39 — 336,544 ratings — published 2012
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,966 ratings — published 2008
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.42 — 177,506 ratings — published 2020
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.11 — 69,429 ratings — published 2020
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.06 — 67,298 ratings — published 2017
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.01 — 37,446 ratings — published 2018
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,279 ratings — published 2015
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,947 ratings — published 2024
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.50 — 89,341 ratings — published 2017
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,713 ratings — published 1991
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.09 — 17,332 ratings — published 2010
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 26 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,331 ratings — published 1961
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 23 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,575 ratings — published 1964
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,564 ratings — published 1979
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.77 — 50,424 ratings — published 2025
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.10 — 254,456 ratings — published 2018
A Spell of Good Things (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,309 ratings — published 2023
An Orchestra of Minorities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,500 ratings — published 2019
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,141 ratings — published 2015
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,916 ratings — published 1952
Notes on Grief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.21 — 41,812 ratings — published 2021
Open City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.49 — 17,687 ratings — published 2011
A Broken People's Playlist (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,171 ratings — published 2020
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.02 — 38,843 ratings — published 2011
I Do Not Come to You by Chance (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,000 ratings — published 2009
Every Day Is for the Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.69 — 7,986 ratings — published 2007
Aké: The Years of Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,059 ratings — published 1981
Dele Weds Destiny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.60 — 3,230 ratings — published 2022
Butter Honey Pig Bread (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.29 — 13,759 ratings — published 2020
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.84 — 81,753 ratings — published 2015
Second Class Citizen (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.11 — 5,058 ratings — published 1974
Vagabonds! (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.81 — 3,428 ratings — published 2022
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.75 — 19,347 ratings — published 2022
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.08 — 16,489 ratings — published 2017
Death and the King's Horseman (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.80 — 5,539 ratings — published 1975
A Man of the People (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,671 ratings — published 1966
Born on a Tuesday (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,669 ratings — published 2015
On Black Sisters Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,864 ratings — published 2007
Lagoon (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.63 — 9,409 ratings — published 2014
Beasts of No Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,173 ratings — published 2005
Girl, Woman, Other (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.25 — 269,547 ratings — published 2019
Rosewater (The Wormwood Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.74 — 17,262 ratings — published 2017
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.74 — 15,041 ratings — published 1789
Welcome to Lagos (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nigerian)
avg rating 3.78 — 4,219 ratings — published 2017
Happiness, Like Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as nigerian)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,845 ratings — published 2012
“Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.”
― Didi Kanu and the Singing Dwarfs of the North
― Didi Kanu and the Singing Dwarfs of the North
“Weh!”
― Little Bee
― Little Bee












