What to Read After A Grain of Wheat
Readers who loved A Grain of Wheat by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where A Grain of Wheat 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 A Grain of Wheat
The Joys of Motherhood
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Nervous Conditions
Anthills of the Savannah
Ake
Maru
The Palm-wine Drinkard ; And, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Two thousand seasons
Mine boy
Chaka
Butterfly Burning
Efuru
Changes
The Famished Road
Ambiguous Adventure
Maps
Petals of Blood
Weep Not, Child
Wizard of the Crow
The Thing Around Your Neck
Devil on the Cross
No Loger at Ease
The River Between
Half of a Yellow Sun