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Kenya Books
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A Grain of Wheat (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.88 — 6,828 ratings — published 1967
Out of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.91 — 48,051 ratings — published 1937
Circling the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.94 — 81,770 ratings — published 2015
Petals of Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,686 ratings — published 1977
Wizard of the Crow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,774 ratings — published 2004
One Day I Will Write About This Place: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,492 ratings — published 2011
The River Between (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,386 ratings — published 1965
West with the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.15 — 41,014 ratings — published 1942
Weep Not Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.91 — 4,281 ratings — published 1964
When Stars Are Scattered (Audio CD)
by (shelved 45 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.59 — 32,562 ratings — published 2020
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,100 ratings — published 1959
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,533 ratings — published 2005
Dreams in a Time of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,776 ratings — published 2005
Devil on the Cross (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,113 ratings — published 1980
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,688 ratings — published 2003
Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.94 — 231,131 ratings — published 1995
The Dragonfly Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.87 — 827 ratings — published 2019
The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,397 ratings — published 2018
Leopard at the Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.03 — 6,526 ratings — published 2017
It's Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,052 ratings — published 2009
Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,919 ratings — published 1981
Say You're One of Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.55 — 16,391 ratings — published 2008
The Bolter: Edwardian Heartbreak and High Society Scandal in Kenya (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.73 — 4,550 ratings — published 2008
The White Masai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.56 — 10,857 ratings — published 1998
The Constant Gardener (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.83 — 30,974 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 — 3,419 ratings — published 2016
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.20 — 92,642 ratings — published 2006
Bill Bryson's African Diary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.49 — 10,481 ratings — published 2002
The House of Rust (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.55 — 1,443 ratings — published 2021
A Guide to the Birds of East Africa (Mr Malik #1)
by (shelved 24 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,204 ratings — published 2008
Dance of the Jakaranda (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.69 — 978 ratings — published 2017
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.91 — 12,893 ratings — published 2011
Nairobi Heat (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.27 — 787 ratings — published 2009
A Change in Altitude (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.26 — 12,398 ratings — published 1998
I Dreamed of Africa (tie-in edition)
by (shelved 20 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,332 ratings — published 1991
Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.07 — 377 ratings — published 2005
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 — 10,277 ratings — published 2010
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.19 — 6,196 ratings — published 1973
White Mischief (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,413 ratings — published 1982
14 Cows for America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.33 — 3,561 ratings — published 2007
Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,852 ratings — published 1937
Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.23 — 792 ratings — published 2008
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.24 — 21,426 ratings — published 2011
Mama Miti: Wangari Maathai and the Trees of Kenya (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,038 ratings — published 2010
The Camel Bookmobile (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.38 — 2,437 ratings — published 2007
Coming to Birth (Women Writing Africa)
by (shelved 17 times as kenya)
avg rating 3.75 — 279 ratings — published 1987
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as kenya)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,735 ratings — published 1960
“It was the fundamental bifurcation of the masses of human meat into two starkly opposite classes: the haves and the have-nots. The have-nots had barely anything. The haves had it all. The haves had everything except concern and compassion for the have-nots, who they regarded as little more than cockroaches.”
― Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun
― Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun
“Violence was a slippery slope, lubricated by a lot of blood, if history had any lessons to teach.”
― Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun
― Love Connection: Romance in the Land of the Rising Sun














