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Books set in Sierra Leone:
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Quest by Aminatta Forna
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
The Bite of the Mango by Mariatu Kamara
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Blood Diamonds by Greg Campbell
No Condition Is Permanent by Cristina Kessler
Ancestor Stones: A Novel by Aminatta Forna
The Turning Over by William McCauley
White Man's Grave: A Novel by Richard Dooling
Black Man's Grave: Letters From Sierra Leone by Gary Stewart
Someone Knows My Name by Lawrence Hill (partially)
Child Soldiers: Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front by Myriam Denov
Chasing the Devil: The Quest for Africa's Fighting Spirit by Tim Butcher
The Lassa Ward by Ross I. Donaldson
The Devil's Feather by Minette Walters
Soldiers of Light by Daniel Bergner
A Princess Found by Sarah Culberson
The Secret Keeper by Paul Harris
Where Witch Birds Fly by Eugene Harkins
The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia 
A Dirty War in West Africa: The RUF And the Destruction of Sierra Leone
Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Women's Lives Through War and Peace in Sierra Leone 
Long Road Home: Building Reconciliation and Trust in Post-war Sierra Leone 
Between Democracy and Terror: The Sierra leone Civil War by Ibrahim Abdullah
The Amistad Revolt by Iyunolu Folayan Osagie
How de Body?: One Man's Terrifying Journey Through an African War 
The Claws of Mercy by John Harris
Sierra Leone Remembered by Esther L. Megill
The Biography Of Mohamed Kallon, The Gem Of Sierra Leone 
A Corner of Time by Siaka Kroma
Gomna's Children by Siaka Kroma
Dancing With The Devils by Maligie Koroma
Under the Tree Called Gbendeh by Donald W. Carter
Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar: A Novel of Magical Vision by Syl Cheney-Coker
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A Man from Another Land: How Finding My Roots Changed My Life 
In Sierra Leone by Michael D. Jackson
Kamakwie: Finding Peace, Love, and Injustice in Sierra Leone by Kathleen Martin
Memories of the Slave Trade: Ritual and the Historical Imagination in Sierra Leone 
Operation Certain Death by Damien Lewis
The Underneath of Things by Mariane Ferme
The Street Boy by Ibrahim Oumarr Jalloh
Softball, Snakes, Sausage Flies and Rice: Peace Corps Experience in 1960s Sierra Leone by Philip Fretz
More books set in Sierra Leone:
The African by William Conton
Aventure en Sierra Léone by Gérard de Villiers
The Blood in the Desert's Eyes: Poems by Syl Cheney-Coker
Bloody Democracy: A Memoir of Sierra Leone in Upheaval by Marwan Khadar
Concerto for an Exile: Poems by Syl Cheney-Coker
Diamonds Are Forever by Ian Fleming (4th book in the James Bond series)
Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
Flight to Freedom by Hugh Zachary (1st book in the Saga of Sierra Leone)
The Graveyard Also Has Teeth: With Concerto for an Exile: Poems 
In the Land of Magic Soldiers: A Story of White and Black in West Africa 
The Kissi Storyteller: Folk Tales from Sierra Leone by Michael Fayia Kallon
The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson
Mother of All Myths by Aminatta Forna
No Past, No Present, No Future by Yulisa Amadu Pat Maddy
Obasai and Other Plays by Yulisa Amadu Pat Maddy
Remote Corners: A Sierra Leone Memoir by Harry Mitchell
Running for My Life: Captive of the Revolutionary United Front 
Sacred River: A Novel by Syl Cheney-Coker
So the Path Does Not Die by Pede Hollist
Stone Child and Other Poems by Syl Cheney-Coker
Unscathed: Escape from Sierra Leone by Philip Ashby
With No Remorse by Cindy Gerard (6th book of Black Ops series)
More books set in Sierra Leone:
Ambushed: A War Reporter's Life on the Line by Ian Stewart
Catch Me a Colobus by Gerald Durrell
The Coconut Bond by Sylvester Smara Lamin
Dear Parent and Ogre by R. Sarif Easmon
Diamond Frog by Steve Hughett (2nd book in Humphrey-Skinner Frog Series)
The Feud And Other Stories by R. Sarif Easmon
Hope in a Ballet Shoe: Orphaned by War, Saved by Ballet
I Did It to Save My Life: Love and Survival in Sierra Leone by Catherine E. Bolten
Iron Butterfly: A Novel of Africa by Clara Whaley Perkins
Journey Without Maps by Graham Greene
The Lady's Command by Stephanie Laurens
My Heart Is Like a Cabbage: A Peace Corps Memoir by Gerald David Mills
More books set in Sierra Leone:
The Price of Liberty by Paul Conton
Theater in Sierra Leone: Five Popular Plays by Iyunolu Folayan Osagie
War and Embodied Memory: Becoming Disabled in Sierra Leone by Maria Berghs
I have read “A Long Way Gone”! It was very inspiring!
More books set in Sierra Leone:
Along the Peal of Drums: Collected Poems by Ambrose Massaquoi
The Anthill and the Nest by Saa Maurice Sindondoeh Jumu
The Art of the Lonely Wanderer by Gbanabom Hallowell
At the Gathering of Roads by Mohamed Gibril Sesay
The Autobiography of an African Princess by Fatima Massaquoi
Ayo Ayo Ayo and Other Love Songs by Moses Kainwo
Be Steadfast: A Peace Corps Journey in Sierra Leone by Bryan J. Meeker
The Beauty Queen of Bonthe and Other Stories of West Africa 
Bleed by Osman Koroma
Blood of the Innocent by Saa Maurice Sindondoeh Jumu
The Break Line by James Brabazon
Broken Metaphor by Oumar Farouk Sesay
A Buccaneer at Heart by Stephanie Laurens
A Call by Celia Eva Beatrice Thompson
A Case of Four Pillows 
Climbing Lilies by Siaka Kroma
Clouds of a Ghoulish War by Bobby David Gboyor
Common Enemy by Brian Sitta Kargbo
Contemporary Fireside Poems: An Anthology by Fatou Taqi
Cruising to Murder by Mark McCrum
Deep Cover by Jack Patterson
The Diamonds by J. Sorie Conteh
Don't Call Me Elvis and Other Poems by Gbanabom Hallowell
Drumbeats of War by Gbanabom Hallowell
The Edge of a Cry by Oumar Farouk Sesay
Family Affairs by Sorie Conteh
The Fate of the Foetus by Mohamed Gibril Sesay
The Ghost of Ngaingah by Michael Fayia Kallon
A Hanging Is Announced by Eustace Palmer
A House for Fanta by Paul Woods
Hungry Vultures by Abdulai Walon-Jalloh
Idols with Tears by Michael Fayia Kallon
In the Belly of the Lion. an Anthology of New Sierra Leonean Short Stories
Islam and Trade in Sierra Leone by Alusine Jalloh
Joy Came in the Morning by Yéma Lucilda Hunter
Landscape of Memories by Oumar Farouk Sesay
The Language of the Dead by Dennis Jung
Leoneanthology: Contemporary Stories & Poems from Sierra Leone
The Lust of Cain: Two Novellas by Gbanabom J. Hallowell
Manners Maketh Man by Siaka Kroma
Manscape in the Sierra: New & Collected Poems 1991-2011
More Than a Survivor: A Child's Story of War, Loss, and Joy 
Nanna by Yéma Lucilda Hunter
Of Flour and Tears by Ahmed Koroma
A Pillar of the Community by Eustace Palmer
The Price by Oumar Farouk Sesay Sesay and Others
Redemption Song by Yéma Lucilda Hunter
The Return of Tarzan: The Adventures of Lord Greystoke
Road to Freedom by Yéma Lucilda Hunter
The Road to Kaibara by Gbanabom Hallowell
Salute to the Remains of a Peasant by Oumar Farouk Sesay
The Second Round by Lenrie Peters
Secret Fear by Mohamed Sheriff
Sierra Leone A Collection of Poems by Lawrence Savage
Singing in Exile and the Child of War by Sheikh Umarr Kamarah
Staging the Amistad: Three Sierra Leonean Plays by Charlie Haffner
A Suitcase full of Dried Fish and other Stories by Bakar Mansaray
A Tale of Three Women by Eustace Palmer
Tales from the Fireside by Siaka Kroma
This Side of Nothingness by Mohamed Gibril Sesay
Unknown Destination by Abdul B Kamara
Voices and Passions by Abdulai Walon-Jalloh
The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare
Waves of a Raining Mind by Mohamed Bangura
We're Not Our Fathers by Joseph Lamin Kamara
The Wind Within by Rachel Cecilia Jillo Massaquoi
A Woman to Emulate by Sophie Allieu
Youthful Yearnings by Jedidah Adlyn Olayinka Johnson
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