What to Read After There Was a Country
Readers who loved There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where There Was a Country is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after There Was a Country
Ake
The Challenge for Africa
Dreams in a time of war
Everything good will come
Lose your mother
This child will be great
Saviors and Survivors
Histories of the Hanged
Joseph Anton
One day I will write about this place
Another America
The Joys of Motherhood
Efuru
Anthills of the savannah
Ghana must go
Arrow of God
No Loger at Ease
The secret lives of Baba Segi's wives
Chike and the River
Americanah
Thomas Sankara parle, La révolution au Burkina Faso 1983-1987
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Weep not, child
A Man of the People