Liberia

Books in this genre are set in or about Liberia.

She Would Be King
The House at Sugar Beach
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
Journey Without Maps
Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit
The Darling
Dream Country
A Marker to Measure Drift
Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It
Allah Is Not Obliged
And Still Peace Did Not Come: A Memoir of Reconciliation
The Mask of Anarchy Updated Edition: The Destruction of Liberia and the Religious Dimension of an African Civil War
Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El SaadawiAya by Marguerite AbouetNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaSeason of Migration to the North by Tayeb SalihThe Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba
Tour d'Afrique
71 books — 21 voters
Mr. Impossible by Loretta ChaseAs You Desire by Connie BrockwayThe Other Guy's Bride by Connie BrockwayA Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna RaybournMr. Impossible by Loretta Chase
Historical Romance Set in Africa
54 books — 21 voters

Chasing the Devil by Tim ButcherThings Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeA Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichiePurple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
West Africa
201 books — 87 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,788 books — 1,669 voters


Hank Bracker
Knüppel of the French Foreign Legion from Seawater Two, taken from page 164 In a flash I ascended the steep ladder to the bridge and opened the door to the wheelhouse. Once inside, I stood in the shadows where I knew that I was out of sight and carefully peered through the windows. What I saw made my heart skip a beat. It was Franz Knüppel, making his way between some of the huge bales of rubber towards the forward part of the ship. In the dark I fumbled for the signal pistol kept in a box on ...more
Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two...."

Hank Bracker
BA Nubian Princess Zahra for a young man, Liberia was exciting, but it was also an outright dangerous place to be. It wasn’t only the dangerous situations that could present themselves, such as suddenly being confronted by gangs or petty criminals on the streets or along the roads between villages. There were also natural dangers that could run the gamut from snake bites to being attacked by wild animals. I constantly heard stories, told to me by my crew members, of friends, family and neighbors ...more
Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two...."

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