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Kenya Books
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A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,030 ratings — published 1967
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.91 — 48,710 ratings — published 1937
Circling the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.94 — 82,242 ratings — published 2015
Petals of Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,750 ratings — published 1977
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,832 ratings — published 2004
The River Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,499 ratings — published 1965
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,530 ratings — published 2011
West with the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.16 — 41,528 ratings — published 1942
Weep Not Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.90 — 4,376 ratings — published 1964
When Stars Are Scattered (Audio CD)
by (shelved 49 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.59 — 33,346 ratings — published 2020
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,569 ratings — published 2005
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,139 ratings — published 1959
Dreams in a Time of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,805 ratings — published 2005
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,701 ratings — published 2003
Devil on the Cross (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,171 ratings — published 1980
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.94 — 232,006 ratings — published 1995
The Dragonfly Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.87 — 854 ratings — published 2019
Leopard at the Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,592 ratings — published 2017
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,009 ratings — published 1981
Say You're One of Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.55 — 16,465 ratings — published 2008
It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,081 ratings — published 2009
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,430 ratings — published 2018
The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,581 ratings — published 2008
The White Masai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.56 — 11,060 ratings — published 1998
The Constant Gardener (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.83 — 31,354 ratings — published 2001
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,442 ratings — published 2016
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,049 ratings — published 2006
Bill Bryson's African Diary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.49 — 10,555 ratings — published 2002
The House of Rust (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.54 — 1,487 ratings — published 2021
Dance of the Jakaranda (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,000 ratings — published 2017
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa (Mr Malik #1)
by (shelved 24 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,244 ratings — published 2008
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.92 — 12,988 ratings — published 2011
Nairobi Heat (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.26 — 793 ratings — published 2009
White Mischief (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,429 ratings — published 1982
I Dreamed of Africa (tie-in edition)
by (shelved 20 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,491 ratings — published 1991
Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,458 ratings — published 2010
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,291 ratings — published 1973
14 Cows for America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,567 ratings — published 2007
A Change in Altitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.26 — 12,477 ratings — published 1998
Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,916 ratings — published 1937
Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.08 — 382 ratings — published 2005
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,043 ratings — published 2010
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.23 — 797 ratings — published 2008
Coming to Birth (Women Writing Africa)
by (shelved 18 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.75 — 284 ratings — published 1987
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.24 — 21,551 ratings — published 2011
The Camel Bookmobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.38 — 2,444 ratings — published 2007
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,784 ratings — published 1960
“Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb”
― A Grain of Wheat
― A Grain of Wheat
“Hungry stomachs growl the same tune.”
― Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun
― Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun















