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
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
Houseboy (African Writers)
The Madonna of Excelsior
Our Sister Killjoy, or, Reflections from a black-eyed squint
Ambiguous Adventure
The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
Mine boy
Smouldering Charcoal
Efuru
Foe
Pauvre Christ De Bomba
The Palm-wine Drinkard ; And, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
House of Hunger
Girls at War and Other Stories
The Joys of Motherhood
So Long a Letter
The Heart of Redness
The Whale Caller
The Stillborn
Cion
The Interpreters
Ways of Dying
Changes