113 books
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Congo Books
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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as congo)
avg rating 4.11 — 801,368 ratings — published 1998
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 172 times as congo)
avg rating 4.19 — 70,810 ratings — published 1998
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as congo)
avg rating 3.43 — 565,916 ratings — published 1899
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as congo)
avg rating 4.36 — 17,659 ratings — published 2023
Congo: een geschiedenis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as congo)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,634 ratings — published 2010
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as congo)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,690 ratings — published 2010
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as congo)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,200 ratings — published 2007
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as congo)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,302 ratings — published 2000
Congo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as congo)
avg rating 3.64 — 179,881 ratings — published 1980
Broken Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as congo)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,061 ratings — published 2005
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as congo)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,007 ratings — published 2023
Black Moses (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as congo)
avg rating 3.42 — 2,296 ratings — published 2015
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as congo)
avg rating 4.10 — 801 ratings — published 2006
The Assassination of Lumumba (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as congo)
avg rating 3.97 — 301 ratings — published 1999
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as congo)
avg rating 4.25 — 7,571 ratings — published 2017
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as congo)
avg rating 3.92 — 127 ratings — published 2002
No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as congo)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,822 ratings — published
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as congo)
avg rating 3.77 — 18,964 ratings — published 1979
Congo Inc.: Bismarck's Testament (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as congo)
avg rating 3.72 — 475 ratings — published 2014
Endangered (Ape Quartet #1)
by (shelved 17 times as congo)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,166 ratings — published 2012
Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as congo)
avg rating 3.47 — 949 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 — 437 ratings — published 2007
El sueño del celta (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as congo)
avg rating 3.85 — 10,401 ratings — published 2010
Mémoires de porc-épic (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as congo)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,230 ratings — published 2006
African Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as congo)
avg rating 3.19 — 1,186 ratings — published 2003
The Death of Comrade President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 3.57 — 610 ratings — published 2018
Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 4.01 — 429 ratings — published 2012
Brazzaville Beach (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,731 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 — 2,309 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 — 2,043 ratings — published 2010
The Witch Doctor's Wife (Belgian Congo Mystery #1)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,531 ratings — published 2009
The Mission Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.47 — 7,414 ratings — published 2006
Tintin au Congo (Tintin #2)
by (shelved 11 times as congo)
avg rating 3.14 — 12,294 ratings — published 1930
Congo, My Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as congo)
avg rating 4.14 — 42 ratings — published 1961
Little Boys Come from the Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as congo)
avg rating 3.89 — 261 ratings — published 1998
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 4.11 — 140 ratings — published
La vie et demie (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.53 — 247 ratings — published 1979
The Catastrophist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.73 — 886 ratings — published 1997
Johnny Mad Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.92 — 450 ratings — published 2002
The Lights of Pointe-Noire (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.68 — 298 ratings — published 2013
Photo de groupe au bord du fleuve (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 4.31 — 237 ratings — published 2010
The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996–2006 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.92 — 52 ratings — published 2005
Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.41 — 98 ratings — published 2014
Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 4.49 — 41 ratings — published 1972
The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.38 — 58 ratings — published 2007
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,031 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 — 4,075 ratings — published 2012
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as congo)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,241 ratings — published 2021
“Pendant les 25 dernières années, l’idée du Congo a été étroitement liée dans l’imaginaire occidental au livre de 1998 intitulé “Le fantôme du roi Léopold” de l’écrivain américain Adam Hochschild. Ce livre est largement étudié dans les lycées et les universités, et il figure régulièrement en tête des listes des meilleures ventes en matière d’histoire coloniale, africaine et occidentale. Hochschild est devenu une sorte de roi du Congo, ou du moins de son histoire. Le livre est systématiquement cité par les universitaires réputés dans leurs notes de bas de page chaque fois qu’ils veulent affirmer qu’il est “bien connu” et “indiscutable” que des hommes sinistres en Europe ont semé le chaos en Afrique il y a plus d’un siècle. Toute discussion sur le Congo, ou sur le colonialisme européen en général, commence invariablement par la question : “Avez-vous lu Le fantôme du roi Léopold ?”
― King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
― King Hochschild’s Hoax: An absurdly deceptive book on Congolese rubber production is better described as historical fiction.
“We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible













