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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 637 times as african)
avg rating 3.75 — 427,462 ratings — published 1958
Americanah (Hardcover)
by (shelved 376 times as african)
avg rating 4.31 — 427,455 ratings — published 2013
Half of a Yellow Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 365 times as african)
avg rating 4.34 — 193,384 ratings — published 2006
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 311 times as african)
avg rating 4.46 — 430,692 ratings — published 2016
Purple Hibiscus (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as african)
avg rating 4.18 — 151,776 ratings — published 2003
My Sister, the Serial Killer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 190 times as african)
avg rating 3.63 — 382,978 ratings — published 2018
Disgrace (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as african)
avg rating 3.86 — 122,094 ratings — published 1999
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as african)
avg rating 4.48 — 851,695 ratings — published 2016
We Should All Be Feminists (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 162 times as african)
avg rating 4.39 — 342,583 ratings — published 2012
Nervous Conditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 141 times as african)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,440 ratings — published 1988
Stay with Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as african)
avg rating 4.06 — 68,849 ratings — published 2017
The Thing Around Your Neck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as african)
avg rating 4.22 — 52,034 ratings — published 2008
The Girl with the Louding Voice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 128 times as african)
avg rating 4.42 — 181,482 ratings — published 2020
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as african)
avg rating 4.09 — 18,248 ratings — published 2010
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 114 times as african)
avg rating 4.10 — 260,386 ratings — published 2018
The Fishermen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 112 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 23,006 ratings — published 2015
So Long a Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as african)
avg rating 4.00 — 13,693 ratings — published 1980
The Death of Vivek Oji (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as african)
avg rating 4.11 — 70,746 ratings — published 2020
We Need New Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as african)
avg rating 3.75 — 23,892 ratings — published 2013
Season of Migration to the North (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as african)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,573 ratings — published 1966
Transcendent Kingdom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as african)
avg rating 4.09 — 168,799 ratings — published 2020
No Longer at Ease (The African Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 93 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 13,650 ratings — published 1961
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as african)
avg rating 4.16 — 197,100 ratings — published 2007
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as african)
avg rating 3.81 — 280,154 ratings — published 1998
A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as african)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,290 ratings — published 1967
Cry, the Beloved Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 81,370 ratings — published 1948
Waiting for the Barbarians (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 37,301 ratings — published 1980
The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as african)
avg rating 4.12 — 815,111 ratings — published 1998
Freshwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as african)
avg rating 4.00 — 38,277 ratings — published 2018
The Famished Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,973 ratings — published 1991
Behold the Dreamers (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as african)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,770 ratings — published 2016
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as african)
avg rating 4.50 — 90,423 ratings — published 2017
Cutting for Stone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as african)
avg rating 4.34 — 440,081 ratings — published 2009
Akata Witch (The Nsibidi Scripts, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as african)
avg rating 4.02 — 39,232 ratings — published 2011
Arrow of God (The African Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 73 times as african)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,861 ratings — published 1964
At Night All Blood is Black (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as african)
avg rating 3.79 — 30,818 ratings — published 2018
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as african)
avg rating 3.43 — 577,066 ratings — published 1899
Binti (Binti, #1)
by (shelved 64 times as african)
avg rating 3.83 — 82,959 ratings — published 2015
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as african)
avg rating 4.02 — 15,605 ratings — published 2015
Long Walk to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as african)
avg rating 4.36 — 97,644 ratings — published 1991
The Joys of Motherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as african)
avg rating 4.22 — 8,808 ratings — published 1979
Dream Count (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 61 times as african)
avg rating 3.76 — 55,632 ratings — published 2025
His Only Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 3.73 — 34,247 ratings — published 2020
Ghana Must Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 3.84 — 12,582 ratings — published 2013
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,535 ratings — published 1968
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as african)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,932 ratings — published 2004
Life & Times of Michael K (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as african)
avg rating 3.87 — 22,035 ratings — published 1983
The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as african)
avg rating 3.71 — 4,086 ratings — published 1952
Who Fears Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as african)
avg rating 3.93 — 29,071 ratings — published 2010
“If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.”
― Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs
― Lifelines: The Black Book of Proverbs
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
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