Read the World: Nigeria

Books by authors from Nigeria or set in/about Nigeria.

Updated January 10, 2024
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Things fall apart
Achebe, Chinua.
Paper Book
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change Okonkwo is...
My sister, the serial killer a novel
Braithwaite, Oyinkan
Paper Book
My Sister, the Serial Killer is a blackly comic novel about how blood is thicker - and more difficult to get out of the carpet - than water...
The girl with the louding voice [electronic resource] A novel
Daré, Abi.
Paper Book
***Out now: Abi Daré's new novel AND SO I ROAR*** 'Unforgettable' New York Times 'Impressive' Observer 'Remarkable' Independent 'Important' Guardian 'Captivating' Mirror 'Luminous' Daily Mail '...
Second-class citizen
Emecheta, Buchi.
Paper Book
Adah's desire to write is pitted against the forces of an egotistical and unfeeling husband and a largely indifferent white society.
Americanah [electronic resource]
Ngozi Adichie, Chimamanda.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A delicious, important novel' The Times 'Alert, alive and gripping' Independent 'Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both.' Guardian As...
Lagoon
Okorafor, Nnedi.
Paper Book
Three strangers, each isolated by his or her own problems: Adaora, the marine biologist. Anthony, the rapper famous throughout Africa. Agu, the troubled soldier. Wandering Bar Beach in Lagos, Nigeria's legendary mega-city, they're more alone than they've ever been before. But when...
Under the udala trees [electronic resource]
Okparanta, Chinelo.
Paper Book
One day in 1968, at the height of the Biafran civil war, Ijeoma's father is killed and her world is transformed forever. Separated from her grief-stricken mother, she meets another young lost girl, Amina, and the two become inseparable. Theirs is a relationship that will shake the foundations of...

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