What to Read After Oil on Water
Readers who loved Oil on Water by Helon Habila keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Oil on Water 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 Oil on Water
The secret lives of Baba Segi's wives
Everything Good Will Come
Beasts of No Nation
Foreign Gods Inc
Cloth Girl
Stars of the New Curfew
On Black Sisters Street
Hairdresser of Harare
Wife of the Gods
Reading the Ceiling
Home and Exile
Say You're One of Them
Butterfly Burning
The Palm-wine Drinkard ; And, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Black Mamba Boy
Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away
Open City
Kehinde
How to Read the Air
Radiance of Tomorrow
Our Sister Killjoy, or, Reflections from a black-eyed squint
I Do Not Come to You by Chance
The Bride Price
Cion