112 books
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38 voters
Somalia Books
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Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.20 — 92,603 ratings — published 2006
Desert Flower (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.25 — 41,341 ratings — published 1998
The Orchard of Lost Souls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,859 ratings — published 2013
A House in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.28 — 72,407 ratings — published 2013
Black Mamba Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,355 ratings — published 2010
When Stars Are Scattered (Audio CD)
by (shelved 41 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,497 ratings — published 2020
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.30 — 68,944 ratings — published 1999
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,501 ratings — published 2022
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.24 — 21,408 ratings — published 2011
Call Me American: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.52 — 4,649 ratings — published 2018
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.19 — 860 ratings — published 2013
The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,203 ratings — published 2021
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,407 ratings — published 2011
North of Dawn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.38 — 937 ratings — published 2018
From a Crooked Rib (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.30 — 645 ratings — published 1970
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,416 ratings — published 2016
The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.77 — 430 ratings — published 2013
لا تقولي إنك خائفة (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.32 — 15,862 ratings — published 2014
Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.21 — 177 ratings — published 1993
Beyond Babylon (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.94 — 149 ratings — published 2008
Understanding Somalia and Somaliland: Culture, History, Society (Columbia/Hurst)
by (shelved 14 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.54 — 91 ratings — published 1993
The Fortune Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,651 ratings — published 2021
Crossbones (Past Imperfect Trilogy)
by (shelved 13 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.43 — 307 ratings — published 2011
Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State (African Arguments)
by (shelved 13 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.01 — 171 ratings — published 2012
Born in the Big Rains: A Memoir of Somalia and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.90 — 283 ratings — published 2006
The Mayor of Mogadishu: A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.01 — 447 ratings — published 2016
A Modern History of the Somali (Eastern African Studies)
by (shelved 12 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.94 — 83 ratings — published 1980
Fairytales for Lost Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.20 — 394 ratings — published 2013
Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,597 ratings — published 2010
Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.78 — 813 ratings — published 1994
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,301 ratings — published 2020
Desert Dawn (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.86 — 4,494 ratings — published 2001
Hiding in Plain Sight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as somalia)
avg rating 2.89 — 691 ratings — published 2014
Inside Al-Shabaab: The Secret History of Al-Qaeda's Most Powerful Ally (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.13 — 149 ratings — published 2018
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,547 ratings — published 2018
A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,374 ratings — published 2017
In the Company of Heroes: The Personal Story Behind Black Hawk Down (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,936 ratings — published 2003
Surrender or Starve: Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.67 — 472 ratings — published 1988
Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991 (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
by (shelved 8 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.02 — 45 ratings — published 2012
La mia casa è dove sono (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.06 — 690 ratings — published 2010
A Woman of Firsts: The Midwife Who Built a Hospital and Changed the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.57 — 743 ratings — published 2019
Tale of a Boon's Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.27 — 136 ratings — published 2017
Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine (Global Insecurities)
by (shelved 7 times as somalia)
avg rating 4.39 — 101 ratings — published 2016
Sweet and Sour Milk (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.60 — 217 ratings — published 1980
Al-Shabaab in Somalia: The History and Ideology of a Militant Islamist Group, 2005-2012 (Columbia/Hurst)
by (shelved 7 times as somalia)
avg rating 3.84 — 76 ratings — published 2012
“Tínhamos que encarar o rosto obsceno daquela realidade que nos tocou no destino. Aquele barquinho naufragado estava cheio de somalis, essa era realidade! Cheio de homens e mulheres, de seres humanos reduzidos a larvas. Aquela embarcação de papel estava cheia de gente com o nariz como o meu, com a boca como a minha, com os meus cotovelos. Todos nós da diáspora somali, no dia em que ficamos sabendo dessa notícia, não sabíamos o que fazer com os nossos corpos. Os que morreram nas costas da ilha de Lampedusa tinham provocado não somente uma comoção sem igual, mas um mal-estar. Por que eles morreram e nós estávamos vivos? Por que o destino nos dividiu em dois? A estação melhorou muitíssimo nos últimos anos. De uma parte, houve a restauração feita pela prefeitura, de outra, várias comunidades migrantes também se organizaram. Há lojinhas de todo tipo. Quer colocar aplique no cabelo? Quer um pouco de cardamomo para os chás condimentados do seu recanto? Quer um tecido com a história da rainha de Sabá para pendurar nas paredes de casa? Em Termini, encontram-se coisas fantásticas: de saris a raiz de rummay para escovar os dentes, e até goiabada que os brasileiros comem com queijo e chamam romanticamente de 'Romeu & Julieta'. E também quantidades infinitas de eenjera e zighinì. Moha, em sua época de ouro, pintou e bordou. Eu e minha mãe éramos espectadoras mudas das confusões que ele armava. Por um período, ele teve até três nomes. Louis para as mulheres que achavam que ele fosse sul-americano, Ali para as brancas que não sabiam pronunciar seu verdadeiro nome (e todas as vezes lhe diziam 'Que massa, como Ali Babá', e Amedeo para as mais duras na queda e experientes. Só disse seu nome verdadeiro à mulher que se tornou, por fim, a mulher da sua vida. 'Eu não queria estragar o nome. É o que me sobrou da Somália, além de vocês.”
― La mia casa è dove sono
― La mia casa è dove sono
“May your blessings be as countless as the grains of sand in the desert and the stars in the sky.”
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