When the Village Sleeps: A Novel
By: Sindiwe Magona
3.58
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
‘All the way to school, and all day long, the same thought kept turning and turning in Busi’s mind.…
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1. Fiela se Kind
By: Dalene Matthee
4.05
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
Die bruin vrou Fiela Komoetie het haar wit vondelingkind Benjamin met liefde en trots grootgemaak, … read more
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"...unhappiness was something you got used to or something that passed."-Dalene Matthee, Fiela se Kind
"If he had to wish, what would he wish for, he asked himself. What was there to wish for... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible."-Dalene Matthee, Fiela se Kind
"But memories got left behind while you kept walking on; every time you had to retrace your steps further to return to your memories, and sometimes it was better not to turn back at all."-Dalene Matthee, Fiela se Kind
"The power of a woman was different, he decided: sly, fearless, changeable as the moods of the sea, but he knew instinctively that that was the power against which his own would be measured."-Dalene Matthee, Fiela se Kind
2. Red Ink
By: Angela Makholwa
3.81
Format: 595 pages, Paperback
When Lucy Khambule receives an unexpected call from a convicted serial killer, nicknamed The Butche… read more
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3. Mother to Mother
By: Sindiwe Magona
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Sindiwe Magona's novel Mother to Mother explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the … read more
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4. 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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5. 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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6. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.73
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more
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"Let us not reason like cowards,"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"There is no story that is not true."-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
7. Krik? Krak!
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
At an astonishingly young age, Edwidge Danticat has become one of our most celebrated new writers. … read more
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8. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
9. The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
By: A.J. Hackwith
3.82
Format: 384 pages, ebook
In the first book in a brilliant new fantasy series, books that aren't finished by their authors re… read more
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"The best stories are bled."-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
"Nothing burns up humanity as thoroughly as eternity."-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
"Beat an archangel, divert war, save our souls. Simple as that?"-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
"Build good fences, make good friends, and keep your laundry indoors."-A.J. Hackwith, The Library of the Unwritten (Hell's Library, #1)
10. The Old Drift
By: Namwali Serpell
3.74
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nati… read more
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"Every family is a war but some are more civil than others."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Only a sister, an alternative self, could inspire such a sordid mix of disgust and envy."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"She stepped from the trashy bedlam of the road into the cool cave of the shop, relieved to escape the experience of walking outside while female."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Old like her father was old, a shaggy shambling old, an old where you'd lost the order of things and felt so sad that you simply had to embrace the loss, reassuring yourself with the lie that you had…"-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
11. An Angel's Demise: A Novel
By: Sue Nyathi
3.99
Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition
An Angel’s Demise is an epic saga that explores a contested legacy and the heartrending destiny of … read more
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12. The Theory of Flight
By: Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
3.94
Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition
‘On the third of September, not so long ago, something truly wondrous happened on the Beauford Farm… read more
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- fiction
"He made her laugh, which was the third betrayal."-Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, The Theory of Flight
"Death, like a jealous lover, consumes completely. Death will not allow him to intervene."-Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, The Theory of Flight
"You took to the streets to free yourself of expectations and obligations. You took to the streets because you wanted to be left alone - or rather because you wanted the privacy that could only come f…"-Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, The Theory of Flight
13. Collective Amnesia
By: Koleka Putuma
4.46
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This highly-anticipated debut collection from one of the country's most acclaimed young voices mark… read more
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- african literature
14. The Reed Dance Stalker
By: Angela Makholwa
3.77
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
'And in breaking news, convicted serial killer and rapist, Napoleon Dingiswayo, escaped from Pretor… read more
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15. We Have Everything We Need To Start Again: Empowering poems to bring you hope
By: Koleka Putuma
3.45
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Press both feet to the ground. Place your hand on your heart. You are brave and capable. It will a… read more
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16. I Do… Don't I?
By: Zibu Sithole
4.00
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
I Do ... Don't I? is the much-anticipated sequel to the popular novel The Thing with Zola. It conti… read more
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17. The Thing with Zola: A Novel
By: Zibu Sithole
3.94
Format: 213 pages, Kindle Edition
Twenty-nine-year-old Zola has spent the past ten years working and studying in Europe, thanks to a … read more
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18. When the Village Sleeps: A Novel
By: Sindiwe Magona
3.58
Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition
‘All the way to school, and all day long, the same thought kept turning and turning in Busi’s mind.… read more
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19. The Ones with Purpose
By: Nozizwe Cynthia Jele
4.19
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
“I imagined a dying person’s last breath as something resembling an exclamation mark, distinct and … read more
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20. The Great Level
By: Stella Tillyard
3.74
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A ‘magical, haunting’ (Philippa Gregory) novel of a tragic love affair in a threatened worldIn 1649… read more
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21. The Child
By: Alistair Mackay
4.49
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
After suffering a mental breakdown and losing his job at a New York advertising agency, a young man… read more
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