Small Things
By: Nthikeng Mohlele
3.73
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
I, in my own determined and peculiar ways, to certain approximate and exact degrees, don't think mu…
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1. Every Day Is for the Thief
By: Teju Cole
3.70
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A young Nigerian writer living in New York City returns to Lagos in search of a subject-and himself… read more
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"Money, dished out in quantities fitting the context, is a social lubricant here. It eases passage even as it maintains hierarchies. Fifty naira for the man who helps you back out from the parking spo…"-Teju Cole, Every Day Is for the Thief
2. Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
By: Alexander McCall Smith
3.98
Format: 233 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: Older cover edition of 9780349116655. In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency… read more
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"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
"It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life."-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
"Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no."-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
"Perhaps if you don't know there's a gap, you don't worry about it. If you were a millipede, a tshongololo , crawling along the ground would you look at the birds and worry about not having wings? Pro…"-Alexander McCall Smith, Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #2)
3. Attack on Titan, Vol. 2 (Attack on Titan, #2)
By: Hajime Isayama
4.16
Format: 422 pages, Paperback
BIRTH OF A MONSTER The Colossal Titan has breached humanity's first line of defense, Wall Maria. Mi… read more
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4. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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5. Ways of Dying (Toloki #1)
By: Zakes Mda
3.98
Format: 480 pages,
In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda's acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast a… read more
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6. What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
By: Lesley Nneka Arimah
4.46
Format: 170 pages, Hardcover
In Who Will Greet You at Homea woman desperate for a child weaves one out of hair, with unsettling … read more
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7. Welcome to Our Hillbrow
By: Phaswane Mpe
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Hillbrow is a microcosm of the changing South African psyche. This novel links Hillbrow, rural Tira… read more
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8. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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9. Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a… read more
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10. Half of a Yellow Sun
By: None
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence o… read more
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11. Youth
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man's struggle to… read more
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12. Boulder
By: Eva Baltasar
3.89
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more
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"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"-Eva Baltasar, Boulder
13. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
14. Mr Salary
By: Sally Rooney
3.78
Format: 33 pages, Paperback
My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more
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"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary
15. Tomorrow I Become a Woman
By: Aiwanose Odafen
4.24
Format: None pages, Audiobook
What can I do?’ she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then aga… read more
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16. Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
By: Eve Babitz
4.10
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Eve Babitz captured the voluptuous quality of L.A. in the1960s in a wildly original, totally unique… read more
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"The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"...chivalry was just another nefarious masculine scheme to keep women in their place."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"Well, who is he?' I asked, the first time I saw Mary with his glazed expression. 'Money,' Mary said."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
"It's very easy to stand L.A., which is why it's almost inevitable that all sorts of ideas get entertained."-Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
17. Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
By: Damilare Kuku
4.03
Format: None pages, Paperback
A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity … read more
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18. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
19. Girls of Little Hope
By: Sam Beckbessinger
3.80
Format: 397 pages, Paperback
A chilling and eerie tale of monsters, teen angst and small-town America for fans of Stranger Thing… read more
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20. Critical But Stable
By: Angela Makholwa
3.49
Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition
A thrilling story of wealth, power and the true cost of ‘having it all’. Because sometimes the pric… read more
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21. Small Things
By: Nthikeng Mohlele
3.73
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
I, in my own determined and peculiar ways, to certain approximate and exact degrees, don't think mu… read more
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