#12Women12Countries - Read Women in Translation from a country in Africa - #12Women12Countries Annual Reading Challenge

#12Women12Countries Annual Reading Challenge - hosted by tbrlowdown

#12Women12Countries - Read Women in Translation from a country in Africa

Read a book written by a woman from a country that's not your own.

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Slave
Slave/Freedom #1

Damien Lewis, Mende Nazer

350 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Slave

Slave/Freedom #1

Damien Lewis, Mende Nazer

350 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi

300 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi

300 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

All Men Want to Know
Nina Bouraoui with Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Translator)

174 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ emotional reflective slow-paced

All Men Want to Know

Nina Bouraoui with Aneesa Abbas Higgins (Translator)

174 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ emotional reflective slow-paced

In den Knochen, Gedichte by Yrsa Daley-Ward

In den Knochen, Gedichte
Yrsa Daley-Ward with Nora Bossong (Translator), Gregor Runge (Translator)

192 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction feminism poetry dark emotional reflective medium-paced

In den Knochen, Gedichte

Yrsa Daley-Ward with Nora Bossong (Translator), Gregor Runge (Translator)

192 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction feminism poetry dark emotional reflective medium-paced

So Long a Letter
Mariama Bâ with Modupé Bodé-Thomas, Kenneth W. Harrow

96 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective slow-paced

So Long a Letter

Mariama Bâ with Modupé Bodé-Thomas, Kenneth W. Harrow

96 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

fiction classics literary emotional reflective slow-paced

Glory
NoViolet Bulawayo

403 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction literary challenging dark reflective medium-paced

Glory

NoViolet Bulawayo

403 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction literary challenging dark reflective medium-paced

Minor Detail
Adania Shibli with عدنية شبلي, Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator)

112 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary historical literary dark sad tense medium-paced

Minor Detail

Adania Shibli with عدنية شبلي, Elisabeth Jaquette (Translator)

112 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary historical literary dark sad tense medium-paced

Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa by Rachel Zadok, Karina Szczurek, Jason Mykl Snyman

306 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction short stories adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

306 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction short stories adventurous challenging reflective medium-paced

Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi with Sherif Hetata

128 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

fiction literary challenging dark reflective medium-paced

Woman at Point Zero

Nawal El Saadawi with Sherif Hetata

128 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

fiction literary challenging dark reflective medium-paced

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with Zainab Jah (Narrator)

18 hours, 10 minutes • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Half of a Yellow Sun

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie with Zainab Jah (Narrator)

18 hours, 10 minutes • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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