What to Read After Maru
Readers who loved Maru by Bessie Head keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Maru 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 Maru
A grain of wheat
Houseboy (African Writers)
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
The Madonna of Excelsior
Our Sister Killjoy, or, Reflections from a black-eyed squint
Girls at War and other stories
Ambiguous adventure
The palm-wine drinkard ; and, My life in the bush of ghosts
House of Hunger
The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
Mine boy
Smouldering Charcoal
Pauvre Christ De Bomba
Foe
Efuru
The Joys of Motherhood
Une si longue lettre
The heart of redness
The Whale Caller
The Stillborn
Cion
The interpreters
Ways of dying
Changes