Complete Reading List
Since 2018 we’ve read a lot of books! We’re proud to have highlighted over 50 books, mostly written by Black & African authors. Literary fiction from our home country of Zimbabwe features prominently on this list.
3:15 AM and Other Stories, Rudo Manyere
A Family Portrait, Dangarembga, Mabasa, et al
Agriganda, Like A Gringa, Like A Foreigner, Tariro Ndoro
An American Marriage, Teyari Jones
Avenues By Train, Farai Mudzingwa
Because Sadness Is Beautiful, Tanaka Chidora
Black and Female, Tsitsi Dangarembga
Bones, Chenjerai Hove
Chinongwa, Lucy Mushita
Death of Comrade President, Alain Mabanckou
Devil On The Cross, Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Digging Stars, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma
Drinking From Graveyard Wells: Stories, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu
Freshwater, Akwaeke Emezi
Girl, Woman, Other, Bernadine Evaristo
Glory, NoViolet Bulawayo
Homegoing, Yaa Gyasi
House of Hunger, Dambudzo Marechera
House of Stone, Novuyo Tshuma
Hungry Ghosts, Kevin Jared Hosein
In The Company of Men, Véronique Tadjo
Kindred, Octavia Butler
Like Water, Like Sea, Olumide Popoola
Love In Colour, Bolu Babalola
Men of The South, Zukiswa Wanner
My Name Is Maame, Jessica George
My Sister The Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
Nearly All The Men In Lagos Are Mad, Damilare Kuku
On Black Sisters Street, Chika Unigwe
Our Lady of The Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga
Ours, Phillip B. Williams
Out of Darkness, Shining Light, Petina Gappah
Prophet Song, Paul Lynch
River Spirit, Leila Aboulela
Rotten Row, Petina Gappah
Sirens: Tales of Youth and Love, Leroy Mthulisi Ndlovu
So Long A Letter, Mariama Bå
Stay With Me, Ayobami Adebayo
The City Is Mine, Niq Mhlongo
The Creation of Half-Broken People, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
The First Woman, Jennifer Nansugba Makumbi
The Gold Diggers, Sue Nyathi
The Hairdresser of Harare, Tendai Huchu
The Kite Runner, Khaled Kosseini
The Madonna of Excelsior, Zakes Mda
The Library of The Dead, Tendai Huchu
The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell
The Quality of Mercy, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
The Scandalous Times of A Book Louse, Robert Muponde
The Sex Lives of African Women, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
The Shadow King, Maaza Mengiste
The Stone Virgins, Yvonne Vera
The Theory of Flight, Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu
The Train House on Lobengula Street, Fatima Kara
Three Egg Dilemma, Morabo Morojele
This Mournable Body, Tsitsi Dangarembga
Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution, Thomas Sankara
Trapped, Valerie Tagwira
Triangulum, Masande Ntshanga
Under The Udala Trees, Chinelo Okparanta
Wayfarers’ Hymns, Zakes Mda
Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor
Wife of The Gods, Kwei Quartey
Womb City, Tlotlo Tsamaase
Interested in joining our book journey? Find our 2024 reading list here.