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Somali Books
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Desert Flower (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as somali)
avg rating 4.25 — 42,436 ratings — published 1998
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as somali)
avg rating 4.24 — 21,544 ratings — published 2011
The Orchard of Lost Souls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as somali)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,884 ratings — published 2013
The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as somali)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,235 ratings — published 2021
The Fortune Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as somali)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,740 ratings — published 2021
Black Mamba Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as somali)
avg rating 3.75 — 2,396 ratings — published 2010
Infidel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as somali)
avg rating 4.20 — 93,038 ratings — published 2006
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as somali)
avg rating 4.19 — 9,769 ratings — published 2022
When Stars Are Scattered (Audio CD)
by (shelved 3 times as somali)
avg rating 4.59 — 33,320 ratings — published 2020
Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as somali)
avg rating 4.22 — 181 ratings — published 1993
North of Dawn (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as somali)
avg rating 3.39 — 945 ratings — published 2018
Call Me American: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as somali)
avg rating 4.52 — 4,750 ratings — published 2018
Mucda Seeska Naxwaha Af Soomaaliga (Manx Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Seeska Naxwaha Af Soomaaliga (Manx Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Qaamuuska Af Soomaaliga: iyo Naxwaha Af Soomaaliga oo Kooban (Somali Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published
The betrayal of the Somalis (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published 1982
Barbar [Tavshedens objekt] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 4.05 — 670 ratings — published 2023
Cassandra a Mogadiscio (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.71 — 440 ratings — published 2023
Warda My Journey from the Horn of Africa to a College Education (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 4.33 — 36 ratings — published
Somali Nationalism: International Politics and the Drive for Unity in the Horn of Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published 1999
Daughters of Arraweelo: Stories of Somali Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.86 — 28 ratings — published
Ayan, of the Lucky (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 4.07 — 28 ratings — published
This Is What America Looks Like: My Journey from Refugee to Congresswoman (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,458 ratings — published 2020
Angry Queer Somali Boy: A Complicated Memoir (The Regina Collection, 14)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.71 — 480 ratings — published 2019
Soo Fariista / Come Sit Down: A Somali American Cookbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 4.27 — 11 ratings — published
Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.78 — 815 ratings — published 1994
Somali Sultanate: The Geledi City-State over 150 Years (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.38 — 8 ratings — published 2001
The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,581 ratings — published 2018
Dina händer var fulla av liv (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,853 ratings — published 2020
The Conquest of Abyssinia: Futuh Al Habasa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.78 — 23 ratings — published 2005
The Shaping of Somali Society: Reconstructing the History of a Pastoral People, 1600-1900 (Ethnohistory)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 1982
An Anthology of Somali Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.78 — 46 ratings — published 1993
Keeping Hope Alive: One Woman: 90,000 Lives Changed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 4.20 — 869 ratings — published 2013
The Mayor of Mogadishu: A Story of Chaos and Redemption in the Ruins of Somalia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 4.02 — 448 ratings — published 2016
Culture and Customs of Somalia (Culture and Customs of Africa)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.95 — 19 ratings — published 2000
Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,625 ratings — published 2010
Somali Oral Poetry and the Failed She-Camel Nation State: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Deelley Poetry Debate (1979–1980) (Society and Politics in Africa Book 24)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Fairytales for Lost Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 4.21 — 397 ratings — published 2013
A Pastoral Democracy: A study of pastoralism and politics among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa (1961, reprinted with a new introduction in 1982) (Classics in African Anthropology)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1961
A Modern History of the Somali (Eastern African Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.94 — 84 ratings — published 1980
The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,766 ratings — published 2002
The Color of Home (Phyllis Fogelman Books)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 4.18 — 442 ratings — published 2002
A House in the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 4.28 — 73,624 ratings — published 2013
Wiil Waal: A Somali Folktale (Somali Bilingual Book Project) (English and Somali Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 4.16 — 57 ratings — published 2007
Dhegdheer: A Scary Somali Folktale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 4.16 — 64 ratings — published 2006
Colloquial Somali (Colloquial Series)
by (shelved 2 times as somali)
avg rating 3.81 — 27 ratings — published 1995
“Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying)”
― The Walking Drum
― The Walking Drum
“[Bashe] found it easier to swallow all of the hardship he faced growing up, this pent up anguish became a well-disciplined beast, that was never meant to see the light of day or be dealt with in any capacity whatsoever.”
― The Dig Up
― The Dig Up















