The Hundred Wells of Salaga
By: Ayesha Harruna Attah
3.72
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
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1. Who Fears Death
By: Nnedi Okorafor
3.94
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning literary author presents her first foray into supernatural fantasy with a novel of… read more
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- africa
- fiction
"If you spend enough time in the desert, you will hear it speak."-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
"Oh, how our traditions limit and outcast those of us who aren't normal."-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
"My mother once said that fear is like a man who, once burned, is afraid of a glow worm"-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
"To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them."-Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
2. Second Class Citizen
By: Buchi Emecheta
4.09
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women an… read more
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- africa
- fiction
- historical fiction
- womens
- african literature
"She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost."-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Tho…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
3. The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead
By: Chanelle Benz
3.68
Format: 205 pages, ebook
A stunningly original debut collection, The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Deadis about lives across hi… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. Daughters Who Walk This Path
By: Yejide Kilanko
4.00
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Spirited and intelligent, Morayo grows up surrounded by school friends and family in busy, modern-d… read more
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- africa
- fiction
- african literature
5. On Black Sisters Street
By: Chika Unigwe
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
On Black Sisters Streettells the haunting story of four very different women who have left their Af… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- african literature
6. The Gun
By: Fuminori Nakamura , Allison Markin Powell
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
In Tokyo a college student's discovery and eventual obsession with a stolen handgun awakens somethi… read more
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- fiction
7. So Long a Letter
By: Mariama Bâ , Modupé Bodé-Thomas
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her strugg… read more
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- africa
- fiction
- african literature
8. Outrun the Moon
By: Stacey Lee
4.09
Format: None pages, Hardcover
San Francisco, 1906: Fifteen-year-old Mercy Wong is determined to break from the poverty in Chinato… read more
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9. Womb City
By: Tlotlo Tsamaase
3.19
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which be… read more
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- africa
- fiction
10. His Only Wife
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.74
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
“Elikem married me in absentia; he did not come to our wedding.” Afi Tekple is a young seamstres… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- africa
- ghana
- fiction
11. Der Hausmann
By: Wlada Kolosowa
4.18
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
»Plötzlich Randlage.« Bei Tim und Thea verdient sie das Geld, er macht den Haushalt. Kein Problem … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
12. The Mechanics of Yenagoa
By: Michael Afenfia
3.84
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
Ebinimi, star mechanic of Kalakala Street, is a man with a hapless knack for getting in and out of … read more
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- africa
- fiction
- african literature
13. The Middle Daughter
By: Chika Unigwe
3.83
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A lush, powerful tale of family and sisterhood from award-winning author Chika Unigwe, perfect for … read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- african literature
14. Nightbloom
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- africa
- ghana
- fiction
- african literature
15. Blessings
By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- african literature
16. Das Liebespaar des Jahrhunderts
By: Julia Schoch
3.67
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
Wo geht die Liebe hin, wenn man sagt, sie ist verschwunden? Eine Frau will ihren Mann verlassen.… read more
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- womens
- fiction
17. Neighbors and Other Stories
By: Diane Oliver
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He loved them, he had to. After all, they were his, but sometimes loving became a burden. And if he had met them at the bus station, perhaps they would have become that to him."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories
18. Lucky Girl
By: Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu
4.11
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Longing for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- historical fiction
19. The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
By: Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
3.98
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
A conversation starter like Three Women but centering the experiences of women of color: a melliflu… read more
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- africa
- ghana
- african literature
"I spent years avoiding sex with guys because I didn’t want anyone to gossip about me. I wish I had realized sooner that no matter what I did guys would claim to have fucked me every which way under t…"-Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, The Sex Lives of African Women: Self-Discovery, Freedom, and Healing
20. A Girl Is a Body of Water
By: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
4.15
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted h… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african literature
"Remember, be a good person, not a good girl. Good girls suffer a lot in this life."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
"Explore it, love it, find out what it is capable of before you hand it over to a man."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
"Stories are critical, Kirabo. The minute we fall silent, someone will fill the silence for us."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
"Children do absolutely nothing on their arrival that warrants presents every year. If anything, they should give presents to their mothers, who come close to death."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
21. Scatterlings
By: Rešoketšwe Manenzhe
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In This journey, someone will get lost, someone will give up and turn back, and someone may go all … read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african literature
- international
22. West
By: Carys Davies
3.70
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge anci… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
23. Carolina Built
By: Kianna Alexander
3.65
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
This “exuberant celebration of Black women’s joy as well as their achievements” (Kate Quinn, New Yo… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
"When I interact with others, I try to let goodwill and love for humanity guide me. I don't always succeed, but I pray for the grace to do better the next time."-Kianna Alexander, Carolina Built
24. She Would Be King
By: Wayétu Moore
4.00
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history—a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s forma… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african literature
"Loneliness while in the presence of others is a most cruel kind"-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
"This was his mother. This was his poetic lo e, whose fallen shadow broke his spirit as he sprinted with the wind. She was gone."-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
"How can you leave me?' Maisy had said one night. 'You are my sister now. My flesh. Flesh cannot leave you.' At which Gbessa almost lost her breath. The kindness, the newness, stunned her."-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
"We did not have books on Emerson. That place where we lost our language, lost ourselves. They told us we had no history but darkness, so they kept the books away for fear we might understand the trut…"-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
25. Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution (Ethnographic)
By: Sherine Hamdy
4.06
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
As young girls in Cairo, Anna and Layla strike up an unlikely friendship that crosses class, cultur… read more
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26. Daughter in Exile
By: Bisi Adjapon
3.86
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of The Teller of Secrets returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, sto… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- ghana
- fiction
- african literature
27. The Hundred Wells of Salaga
By: Ayesha Harruna Attah
3.72
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey … read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- ghana
- womens
- african literature
- international
28. All Your Children, Scattered
By: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
4.15
Format: 192 pages, ebook
WINNER OF THE PRIX ETHIOPHILE, THE PRIX DES RACINES ET DES MOTS, AND THE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS D… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african literature
29. Woman, Eat Me Whole: Poems
By: Ama Asantewa Diaka
3.82
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
A bold, mesmerizing debut collection exploring womanhood, the body, mental illness, and what it mea… read more
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- africa
30. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
By: Damilare Kuku
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more
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- adult fiction
- africa
- fiction
- african literature
31. Reichskanzlerplatz
By: Nora Bossong
3.63
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Nora Bossong zeichnet in ihrem neuen Roman das intensive Porträt der Frau, die Magda Goebbels wurde… read more
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- historical fiction
