What to Read After Petals of Blood
Readers who loved Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Petals of Blood 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 Petals of Blood
The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
One Day I Will Write About This Place
Arrow of God
Ake
Ancestor Stones
Girls at War and Other Stories
Ségou
The Palm-wine Drinkard ; And, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
A Question of Power
Anthills of the Savannah
Butterfly Burning
Chaka
Mother to Mother
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
Burger's Daughter
Maps
The Heart of Redness
Pauvre Christ De Bomba
House of Hunger
Woman at Point Zero
A Grain of Wheat
July's People
Devil on the Cross
Cry, the Beloved Country