Book Recommendations for
General Fiction, set in Middle & Southern Africa
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Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
Paperback: 04/08/2025
Stupendous African Gothic, by the winner of Yale University's Windham–Campbell Prize.
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Colum McCann
Hardcover: 03/25/2025
A propulsive novel of rupture and repair in the digital age, delving into a hidden world deep under the ocean&...
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Ondjaki, Lyn Miller-Lachmann
Hardcover: 07/23/2024
A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in ...
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Gothataone Moeng
Paperback: 02/06/2024
Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate ...
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Damon Galgut
Paperback: 03/15/2022
A modern family saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by twice Booker ...
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Nana Nkweti
Paperback: 06/01/2021
A "boisterous and high-spirited debut" (Kirkus starred review), named one of the Most Anticipated Books for ...
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Patrice Nganang
Paperback: 08/11/2020
The second volume in a magisterial trilogy, the story of Cameroon caught between empires during World War II.
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