Books on Africa in order of recommendation
1. The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
2. Dark Star Safari – Paul Theroux
3. Acts of Faith – Phillip Caputo
4. King Leopold’s Ghost – Adam Hochschild
5. Long Walk to Freedom: Autobiography – Nelson Mandela
6. A Burnt Out Case – Graham Greene
7. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
8. White Man’s Grave – Richard Dooling
9. Cry of the Kalahari – Mark and Delia Owens
10. Sunday at the Pool in Kingali – Gil Courtemanche
11. Blackhawk Down – Mark Bowden
12. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Mobutu’s Congo – Michela Wrong
13. Horn of Africa – Philip Caputo
14. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun – Peter Godwin
15. Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa – Peter Godwin
16. Out of Africa – Isak Dinesen
17. Rules of the Wild – Francesca Marciano
18. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight – Alexandra Fuller
19. The Shadow of Kilimanjaro – Rick Ridgeway
20. “I Didn’t Do it for You” :How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation- Michela Wrong
21. The Flame Trees of Thika – Elspeth Huxley
22. A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
23. Something of Value – Robert Ruark
24. The Heart of Darkness – G. Joseph Conrad
25. West With the Night – Beryl Markam
26. Half of a Yellow Sun – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
27. The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
28. The Human Factor – Graham Greene
29. Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
30. The African Queen – C.S. Forester
31. Green Hills of Africa – Ernest Hemingway
32. A Good Man in Africa – William Boyd
33. Half a Life – V.S. Naipaul
34. A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
35. Rainbow’s End – Lauren St. John
36. The Power of One – Bryce Courtenay