Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Sign in with Facebook
Score
A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.
| 1 |
|
So Long a Letter
by
3.99 avg rating — 12,016 ratings
score: 200,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 2 |
|
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by
3.74 avg rating — 408,195 ratings
score: 199,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 3 |
|
Cry, the Beloved Country
by
3.93 avg rating — 79,152 ratings
score: 197,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4 |
|
A Girl Is a Body of Water
by
4.15 avg rating — 8,526 ratings
score: 180,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 5 |
|
The Joys of Motherhood
by
4.21 avg rating — 8,244 ratings
score: 97,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 6 |
|
A Grain of Wheat
by
3.88 avg rating — 6,703 ratings
score: 96,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 7 |
|
The African Child
by
3.71 avg rating — 2,544 ratings
score: 95,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 8 |
|
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
by
3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 94,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 9 |
|
The Poor Christ of Bomba
by
3.75 avg rating — 338 ratings
score: 93,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 10 |
|
A Question of Power
by
3.69 avg rating — 1,116 ratings
score: 92,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 11 |
|
Woman at Point Zero
by
4.22 avg rating — 28,762 ratings
score: 91,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 12 |
|
Burger's Daughter
by
3.49 avg rating — 2,294 ratings
score: 90,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 13 |
|
Long Walk to Freedom
by
4.36 avg rating — 93,411 ratings
score: 89,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 14 |
|
Changes: A Love Story
by
3.79 avg rating — 2,078 ratings
score: 88,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 15 |
|
Daughter in Exile
by
Bisi Adjapon (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 960 ratings
score: 87,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 16 |
|
The Teller of Secrets
by
Bisi Adjapon (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 1,546 ratings
score: 86,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 17 |
|
Of women and frogs
by
Bisi Adjapon (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 1,546 ratings
score: 85,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 18 |
|
Tomorrow Died Yesterday
by
Chimeka Garricks (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 903 ratings
score: 84,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 19 |
|
Born on a Tuesday
by
4.06 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
score: 83,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 20 |
|
The Hairdresser of Harare
by
Tendai Huchu (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 3,002 ratings
score: 81,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 21 |
|
We Need New Names
by
3.75 avg rating — 23,247 ratings
score: 80,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 22 |
|
Glory
by
3.70 avg rating — 5,741 ratings
score: 79,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 23 |
|
Americanah
by
4.31 avg rating — 407,951 ratings
score: 78,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 24 |
|
Faceless
by
3.84 avg rating — 445 ratings
score: 77,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 25 |
|
The Housemaid
by
3.54 avg rating — 157 ratings
score: 76,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 26 |
|
The Kite Runner
by
Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,449,243 ratings
score: 75,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 27 |
|
Stay with Me
by
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 64,914 ratings
score: 74,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 28 |
|
Not My Time to Die
by
4.46 avg rating — 164 ratings
score: 73,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 29 |
|
In Every Mirror She's Black (In Every Mirror She’s Black, #1)
by
Lola Akinmade Åkerström (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 10,880 ratings
score: 72,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 30 |
|
Rekiya and Z
by
Muti'ah Badruddeen (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 60 ratings
score: 71,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 31 |
|
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
by
Lola Shoneyin (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 15,998 ratings
score: 70,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 32 |
|
Lightseekers (Philip Taiwo, #1)
by
Femi Kayode (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 3,366 ratings
score: 69,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 33 |
|
An Orchestra of Minorities
by
Chigozie Obioma (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 6,242 ratings
score: 68,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 34 |
|
The Death of Vivek Oji
by
Akwaeke Emezi (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 67,383 ratings
score: 67,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 35 |
|
Even When Your Voice Shakes
by
3.94 avg rating — 429 ratings
score: 66,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 36 |
|
His Only Wife
by
3.74 avg rating — 32,757 ratings
score: 65,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 37 |
|
Nervous Conditions
by
4.04 avg rating — 22,608 ratings
score: 64,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 38 |
|
Nairobi Heat
by
3.26 avg rating — 780 ratings
score: 63,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 39 |
|
The Muchwezi, The Flower & The Suitor
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 62,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 40 |
|
Dance of the Jakaranda
by
3.69 avg rating — 961 ratings
score: 61,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 41 |
|
Small by Small: Becoming a Doctor in 1990s Nigeria
by
4.21 avg rating — 86 ratings
score: 60,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 42 |
|
Season of Crimson Blossoms
by
3.91 avg rating — 741 ratings
score: 59,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 43 |
|
Black Moses
by
3.43 avg rating — 2,233 ratings
score: 58,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 44 |
|
The Famished Road
by
3.73 avg rating — 13,507 ratings
score: 57,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 45 |
|
Wizard of the Crow
by
4.23 avg rating — 3,725 ratings
score: 56,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 46 |
|
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
by
Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 38,164 ratings
score: 55,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 47 |
|
Redemption in Indigo
by
3.88 avg rating — 2,956 ratings
score: 54,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 48 |
|
Freshwater
by
Akwaeke Emezi (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 36,196 ratings
score: 53,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 49 |
|
Tail of the Blue Bird
by
Nii Ayikwei Parkes (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 668 ratings
score: 52,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 50 |
|
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by
Tomi Adeyemi (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 248,760 ratings
score: 51,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 51 |
|
Shut Up You're Pretty
by
3.54 avg rating — 4,231 ratings
score: 50,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 52 |
|
Thirteen Months of Sunrise
by
3.74 avg rating — 402 ratings
score: 49,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 53 |
|
Dreams and Assorted Nightmares
by
4.18 avg rating — 78 ratings
score: 48,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 54 |
|
For you I’d steal a goat
by
3.70 avg rating — 170 ratings
score: 47,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 55 |
|
What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
by
Lesley Nneka Arimah (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 16,261 ratings
score: 46,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 56 |
|
Rain and Other Stories
by
4.11 avg rating — 944 ratings
score: 45,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 57 |
|
Happiness, Like Water
by
Chinelo Okparanta (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 1,804 ratings
score: 44,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 58 |
|
The Quarter: Stories (Saqi Bookshelf)
by
3.43 avg rating — 571 ratings
score: 43,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 59 |
|
Anowa
by
3.81 avg rating — 290 ratings
score: 42,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 60 |
|
I Will Marry When I Want
by
3.94 avg rating — 541 ratings
score: 41,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 61 |
|
The Train Driver and Other Plays
by
3.52 avg rating — 50 ratings
score: 40,
and
1 person voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
61 books ·
3 voters ·
list created January 22nd, 2024
by Wamuyu Wanjohi (votes) .
Tags:
africana
People Who Voted On This List (3)
Anyone can add books to this list.
How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
