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Congo Books
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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as congo)
avg rating 4.11 — 784,601 ratings — published 1998
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 163 times as congo)
avg rating 4.19 — 67,153 ratings — published 1998
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as congo)
avg rating 3.43 — 549,733 ratings — published 1899
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as congo)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,516 ratings — published 2010
Congo: een geschiedenis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as congo)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,212 ratings — published 2010
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as congo)
avg rating 4.36 — 14,800 ratings — published 2023
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as congo)
avg rating 3.98 — 11,941 ratings — published 2007
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as congo)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,232 ratings — published 2000
Congo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as congo)
avg rating 3.63 — 177,449 ratings — published 1980
Broken Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as congo)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,982 ratings — published 2005
Black Moses (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as congo)
avg rating 3.43 — 2,211 ratings — published 2015
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as congo)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,711 ratings — published 2023
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as congo)
avg rating 4.09 — 787 ratings — published 2006
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as congo)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,354 ratings — published 2017
The Assassination of Lumumba (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as congo)
avg rating 3.97 — 281 ratings — published 1999
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as congo)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,552 ratings — published 1979
No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as congo)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,802 ratings — published 1996
Congo Inc.: Bismarck's Testament (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as congo)
avg rating 3.72 — 432 ratings — published 2014
Endangered (Ape Quartet #1)
by (shelved 18 times as congo)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,145 ratings — published 2012
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as congo)
avg rating 3.94 — 125 ratings — published 2002
Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as congo)
avg rating 3.47 — 944 ratings — published 2013
Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as congo)
avg rating 3.68 — 430 ratings — published 2007
African Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as congo)
avg rating 3.20 — 1,122 ratings — published 2003
El sueño del celta (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as congo)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,008 ratings — published 2010
The Death of Comrade President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 3.56 — 577 ratings — published 2018
Mémoires de porc-épic (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,173 ratings — published 2006
Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 4.01 — 417 ratings — published 2012
Brazzaville Beach (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,481 ratings — published 1990
A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,289 ratings — published 2010
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,032 ratings — published 2010
The Witch Doctor's Wife (Belgian Congo Mystery #1)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,517 ratings — published 2009
The Mission Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.47 — 7,198 ratings — published 2006
Tintin au Congo (Tintin #2)
by (shelved 11 times as congo)
avg rating 3.15 — 11,837 ratings — published 1930
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 4.12 — 128 ratings — published
La vie et demie (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.54 — 229 ratings — published 1979
The Catastrophist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.73 — 871 ratings — published 1997
Little Boys Come from the Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.92 — 255 ratings — published 1998
Johnny Mad Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.91 — 430 ratings — published 2002
Photo de groupe au bord du fleuve (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 4.31 — 220 ratings — published 2010
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,019 ratings — published 2000
The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as congo)
avg rating 4.45 — 3,900 ratings — published 2012
Shut Up You're Pretty (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as congo)
avg rating 3.55 — 4,195 ratings — published 2019
Congolese wiskunde (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as congo)
avg rating 3.71 — 240 ratings — published 2008
The Lights of Pointe-Noire (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as congo)
avg rating 3.69 — 290 ratings — published 2013
The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996–2006 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as congo)
avg rating 3.92 — 52 ratings — published 2005
Child Soldier: When Boys and Girls Are Used in War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as congo)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,229 ratings — published 2015
Congo, My Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as congo)
avg rating 4.12 — 41 ratings — published 1961
The Crime of the Congo (Nook)
by (shelved 7 times as congo)
avg rating 3.85 — 188 ratings — published 1909
“My rights to the Congo are not for sharing; they are the fruits of my labours and my expenditures . . . The adversaries of the Congo are pressing for immediate annexation. These persons no doubt hope that a change of regime would sabotage the work now in progress and would enable them to reap some rich booty.”
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“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at the time and later historians, demographers, and anthropologists have made estimates of great loss.”
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
