What to Read After Home and Exile
Readers who loved Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Home and Exile 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 Home and Exile
Decolonising the Mind
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi
The evidence of things not seen
Changes
Ake
Oil on water
Waiting for an angel
The palm-wine drinkard ; and, My life in the bush of ghosts
Jump and Other Stories
Everything good will come
Mine boy
Topi Shukla
Two thousand seasons
Kehinde
Efuru
Conversations with James Baldwin
Cion
The interpreters
Second-class citizen
The Education of a British-Protected Child
There Was a Country
Anthills of the savannah
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
A Man of the People