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Title
Publisher
Peak
1
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
2
Purple Hibiscus
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3
Dream Count
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
4
Stay with Me
Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
5
The Years Of Blood
Adedayo Agarau
6
Alfred A. Knopf
#6
7
An Orchestra of Minorities
Chigozie Obioma
8
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad
Damilare Kuku
9
When We Were Fireflies
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim
10
The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
Lola Shoneyin
11
Under the Udala Trees
Chinelo Okparanta
12
The Middle Daughter
Chika Unigwe
13
Masobe Books
#13
14
A Broken People’s Playlist
Chimeka Garricks
15
The Mechanics of Yenagoa
Michael Afenfia
16
Ogadinma (or Everything Will Be All Right)
Ukamaka Olisakwe
17
The Joys of Motherhood
Buchi Emecheta
18
Oil on Water
Helon Habila
19
Blessings
Chukwuebuka Ibeh
20
Vagabonds
Eloghosa Osunde
21
Nervous Conditions
Tsitsi Dangarembga
22
Tomorrow I Become A Woman
Aiwanose Odafen
23
Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor
24
The Girl With The Louding Voice
Abi Dare
25
Everything Good Will Come
Sefi Atta
26
Yinka Where is Your Huzband
Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
27
Second-Class Citizen
Buchi Emecheta
28
Heinemann
#28
29
The Palm-Wine Drinkard
Amos Tutuola
30
The Parlour Wife
Foluso Agbaje
31
Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
32
A Meal is a Meal
Nnamdi Anyadu
33
Masobe Books
#33
34
A very gidi Christmas
Tomilola Coco Adeyemo
35
Heart Analytics
Kulthum Asha
36
Born on a Tuesday
Elnathan John
37
We Need New Names
NoViolet Bulawayo
38
Butter Honey Pig Bread
Francesca Ekwuyasi
39
Mrs Kuti
Remilekun Anikulapo-Kuti
40
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
Akwaeke Emezi
41
Years of Shame
Obinna Udenwe
42
Someone birthed them broken
Ama Asantewa Diaka
43
Buried Beneath the Baobab Tree
Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani
44
The Man Died
Wole Soyinka
45
His Only Wife
Peace Adzo Medie
46
This Motherless Land
Nikki May
47
Petals of Blood
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
48
The Sex Lives of African Women
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
49
Confessions of Nairobi Women
Joan Thatiah
50
How Beautiful We Were
Imbolo Mbue
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