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A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.88 — 7,169 ratings — published 1967
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.91 — 49,302 ratings — published 1937
Circling the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.94 — 82,675 ratings — published 2015
Petals of Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,806 ratings — published 1977
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,887 ratings — published 2004
The River Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,593 ratings — published 1965
West with the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.16 — 42,072 ratings — published 1942
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,561 ratings — published 2011
Weep Not Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,457 ratings — published 1964
When Stars Are Scattered (Audio CD)
by (shelved 50 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.59 — 33,924 ratings — published 2020
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,591 ratings — published 2005
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,163 ratings — published 1959
Dreams in a Time of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,824 ratings — published 2005
Devil on the Cross (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,227 ratings — published 1980
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 37 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,711 ratings — published 2003
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.94 — 232,849 ratings — published 1995
It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,096 ratings — published 2009
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,457 ratings — published 2018
The Dragonfly Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.87 — 872 ratings — published 2019
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,099 ratings — published 1981
Say You're One of Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.55 — 16,534 ratings — published 2008
Leopard at the Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,648 ratings — published 2017
The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.74 — 4,600 ratings — published 2008
The Constant Gardener (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.83 — 31,708 ratings — published 2001
The White Masai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.56 — 11,229 ratings — published 1998
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,473 ratings — published 2016
Bill Bryson's African Diary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.49 — 10,625 ratings — published 2002
The House of Rust (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,546 ratings — published 2021
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,438 ratings — published 2006
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,046 ratings — published 2011
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa (Mr Malik #1)
by (shelved 24 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,278 ratings — published 2008
Dance of the Jakaranda (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,014 ratings — published 2017
Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.09 — 384 ratings — published 2005
Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,630 ratings — published 2010
White Mischief (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,446 ratings — published 1982
Nairobi Heat (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.26 — 796 ratings — published 2009
I Dreamed of Africa (tie-in edition)
by (shelved 20 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,524 ratings — published 1991
Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,986 ratings — published 1937
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.20 — 6,361 ratings — published 1973
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,045 ratings — published 2010
14 Cows for America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,570 ratings — published 2007
A Change in Altitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.26 — 12,557 ratings — published 1998
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.24 — 21,688 ratings — published 2011
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.23 — 795 ratings — published 2008
Coming to Birth (Women Writing Africa)
by (shelved 18 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.74 — 289 ratings — published 1987
Lucky Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,910 ratings — published 2023
The Promised Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.91 — 131 ratings — published 1966
“Our people think: I , Wangari, a Kenyan by birth - how can I be a vagrant in my own country as if I were a foreigner.”
― Devil on the Cross
― Devil on the Cross
“Even adults who were stiffened by the starch of their miserable lives, for whom breaking the stony discipline of austere and judgmental intolerance was usually off the table, melted in the magical luminescence and energetic charm of the pre-pubescent Ruka.”
― Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun
― Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun
