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African Lit Books
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 299 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.74 � 396,067 ratings � published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 196 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.32 � 394,463 ratings � published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 182 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.34 � 172,426 ratings � published 2006
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.18 � 133,194 ratings � published 2003
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.47 � 376,539 ratings � published 2016
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.65 � 323,661 ratings � published 2018
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.04 � 21,614 ratings � published 1988
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.99 � 11,298 ratings � published 1980
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.23 � 47,376 ratings � published 2008
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.06 � 62,364 ratings � published 2017
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.72 � 31,543 ratings � published 1966
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.86 � 112,446 ratings � published 1999
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.08 � 14,717 ratings � published 2010
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.40 � 315,194 ratings � published 2012
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.88 � 20,990 ratings � published 2015
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.12 � 65,067 ratings � published 2020
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.02 � 34,884 ratings � published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.49 � 761,861 ratings � published 2016
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 59 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.87 � 12,328 ratings � published 1960
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.73 � 13,290 ratings � published 1991
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.74 � 22,863 ratings � published 2013
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.21 � 7,946 ratings � published 1979
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.43 � 163,643 ratings � published 2020
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.92 � 77,725 ratings � published 1948
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.88 � 6,356 ratings � published 1967
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.10 � 156,437 ratings � published 2020
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.95 � 83,569 ratings � published 2016
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.02 � 13,896 ratings � published 2015
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.85 � 12,125 ratings � published 2013
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.87 � 3,344 ratings � published 1968
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 43 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.79 � 8,703 ratings � published 1964
God's Bits of Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.98 � 3,014 ratings � published 1960
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.16 � 191,312 ratings � published 2007
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.73 � 3,472 ratings � published 1952
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.11 � 241,447 ratings � published 2018
Petals of Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.89 � 2,490 ratings � published 1977
The Old Drift (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.73 � 7,303 ratings � published 2019
A Man of the People (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.89 � 5,338 ratings � published 1966
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.22 � 3,577 ratings � published 2004
The Shadow King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.66 � 14,392 ratings � published 2019
How Beautiful We Were (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.95 � 18,164 ratings � published 2021
Kintu (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.11 � 4,264 ratings � published 2014
An Orchestra of Minorities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.69 � 6,083 ratings � published 2019
Woman at Point Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.20 � 25,573 ratings � published 1975
July's People (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.51 � 7,988 ratings � published 1981
At Night All Blood is Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.81 � 26,187 ratings � published 2018
The River Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.79 � 5,009 ratings � published 1965
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as african-lit)
avg rating 3.93 � 34,190 ratings � published 1980
A Girl Is a Body of Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.15 � 8,115 ratings � published 2020
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as african-lit)
avg rating 4.10 � 15,843 ratings � published 2017
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