Bessie Head

27 books

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology by Beverly Lawn

40 Short Stories: A Portable Anthology

Beverly Lawn with James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Alice Walker, Yusuf Idris, Amy Tan, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Bessie Head, Joyce Carol Oates, Sandra Cisneros, Willa Cather, Toni Cade Bambara, Tim O'Brien, Gabriel García Márquez, James Joyce, Alice Munro, Lorrie Moore, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Updike, D.H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Tillie Olsen, Eudora Welty, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Raymond Carver, Grace Paley, Ralph Ellison, Katherine Anne Porter, Guy de Maupassant, Flannery O'Connor, Anton Chekhov, Jhumpa Lahiri, Franz Kafka, Jamaica Kincaid, Sherman Alexie, William Faulkner, Haruki Murakami, Stephen Crane, Kate Chopin

fiction classics short stories informative medium-paced

546 pages | first published 2000

A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings by Bessie Head, Craig MacKenzie

A Woman Alone: Autobiographical Writings

Bessie Head, Craig MacKenzie

nonfiction essays memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

107 pages | first published 1990

Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter

Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women

Angela Carter

fiction feminism short stories adventurous dark medium-paced

416 pages | first published 1986

Call Me Woman by Ellen Kuzwayo, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer

Call Me Woman

Ellen Kuzwayo, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer

nonfiction autobiography biography emotional reflective slow-paced

288 pages | first published 1985

Opening Worlds : Short Stories from Different Cultures by Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe

Opening Worlds : Short Stories from Different Cultures

Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe

fiction short stories reflective slow-paced

105 pages | first published 2002

Other Voices, Other Vistas:: China, India, Japan, and Latin America by Various

Other Voices, Other Vistas:: China, India, Japan, and Latin America

Various

fiction short stories adventurous slow-paced

480 pages

Tales Of Tenderness And Power by Bessie Head

Tales Of Tenderness And Power

Bessie Head

nonfiction short stories challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

144 pages | first published 1991

The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales by Bessie Head

The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales

Bessie Head

fiction short stories emotional reflective slow-paced

109 pages | first published 1977

To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head

To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head

fiction short stories challenging reflective slow-paced

96 pages | first published 2007

A Bewitched Crossroad: An African Saga by Bessie Head

A Bewitched Crossroad: An African Saga

Bessie Head

reflective sad medium-paced

198 pages | first published 1986