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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

ByChristopher Hitchens(Editor)

2007 • 63 Readers • 530 pages • 3.9

In paradise

ByPeter Matthiessen

2014 • 7 Readers • 274 pages • 4

The Zanzibar Chest: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands

ByAidan Hartley

2003 • 4 Readers

The Travels of Ibn Battuta

The Travels of Ibn Battuta: Volume V: Index

ByA.D.H. Bivar(Editor)

2011 • 1 Reader

The Man Who Would Be King

ByRudyard Kipling

1885 • 25 Readers • 228 pages • 3

#9 of 10 in George Smiley

A Legacy of Spies

ByJohn le Carré

2017 • 51 Readers • 264 pages • 4

Landfalls: On the Edge of Islam with Ibn Battutah

ByTim Mackintosh-Smith

2010 • 1 Reader

Lagoon

ByNnedi Okorafor

2014 • 127 Readers • 306 pages • 3.6

Duluoz Legend

On the Road

ByJack Kerouac

1955 • 779 Readers • 254 pages • 3.3

#1 of 3 in The African Trilogy

The Tree Where Man Was Born

ByPeter Matthiessen

1972 • 4 Readers • 306 pages

The Bastard of Istanbul

ByElif Shafak

2006 • 66 Readers • 368 pages • 3.8

Patagonia Express

ByLuis Sepúlveda

1995 • 9 Readers • 184 pages • 4.3

100 Love Sonnets

ByPablo Neruda,Stephen Tapscott(Translator)

1959 • 23 Readers • 232 pages • 4.8

City

ByP.D. Smith

2011 • 2 Readers • 400 pages

The Zambia project

The Zambia project:the story of two worlds flipped upside down

ByChip Huber

2012 • 1 Reader • 201 pages

I Love Jesus & I Accept Evolution

ByDenis O. Lamoureux

2009 • 2 Readers • 4

The Noonday Demon

ByAndrew Solomon

2000 • 92 Readers • 578 pages • 4.1

The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between

ByHisham Matar

2016 • 55 Readers • 256 pages • 4

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

ByPeter Matthiessen

1965 • 15 Readers • 387 pages • 3.8

The Good Father

ByNoah Hawley

2012 • 17 Readers • 307 pages • 4

The art of choosing

BySheena Iyengar

1989 • 24 Readers • 329 pages • 3

#1 of 3 in Shadow Country Trilogy

Shadow Country

ByPeter Matthiessen

2008 • 23 Readers • 912 pages • 3.5

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

ByStephen King

#7 of 23 in No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Blue Shoes and Happiness

ByAlexander McCall Smith

2006 • 26 Readers • 227 pages • 3.5

Into the Wild

ByJon Krakauer,Christopher Johnson McCandless

755 Readers • 3.9

Estonia: A Ramble Through the Periphery

ByAlexander Theroux

2011 • 2 Readers

Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo

ByAnjan Sundaram

2013 • 6 Readers • 288 pages • 3

Cloud Road

ByJohn Harrison

2010 • 1 Reader

How Should a Person Be?

BySheila Heti

2012 • 61 Readers • 290 pages • 3.6

The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence

ByMartin Meredith

2005 • 17 Readers • 768 pages • 4.5

Bay of Tigers: An African Odyssey

ByPedro Rosa Mendes

2 Readers

Dead Aid

ByDambisa Moyo

2009 • 15 Readers • 188 pages • 3.3

For Us Surrender is Out of the Question

ByMac McClelland

2010 • 2 Readers • 388 pages

Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move

ByReece Jones

2016 • 7 Readers • 224 pages • 4

Yemen

Yemen: The Unknown Arabia

ByTim Mackintosh-Smith

2 Readers

On Photography

BySusan Sontag

1973 • 87 Readers • 224 pages • 4

Tropic of Capricorn

BySimon Reeve

2008 • 3 Readers • 376 pages • 3

The Village of Waiting

ByGeorge Packer

2015 • 3 Readers • 336 pages

Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success

ByAdam M. Grant

2013 • 136 Readers • 321 pages • 4.1

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

ByKatherine Boo

2012 • 185 Readers • 4

Collected Fictions

ByJorge Luis Borges,Andrew Hurley(Translator)

1998 • 101 Readers • 584 pages • 4.8

No Time Like The Present

ByNadine Gordimer

2010 • 2 Readers • 421 pages

In a Strange Room

ByDamon Galgut

2010 • 17 Readers • 180 pages • 3.3

American War

ByOmar El Akkad

2017 • 261 Readers • 352 pages • 3.8

Plutocrats

ByChrystia Freeland

2012 • 9 Readers • 352 pages • 4.3

Henderson the Rain King

BySaul Bellow

1959 • 38 Readers • 354 pages • 3.9

Flow

ByMihaly Csikszentmihalyi

1990 • 426 Readers • 336 pages • 4.1

#5 of 6 in Robert Langdon

Origin

ByDan Brown

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness

ByAlexandra Fuller

2011 • 11 Readers • 256 pages • 4.5

A Fork in the Road

ByAndré Brink

2009 • 1 Reader

Running the Rift

ByNaomi Benaron

2010 • 18 Readers • 4.4

Travels With My Aunt

ByGraham Greene

1969 • 23 Readers • 254 pages • 3.9

#2 of 2 in Todd Family

A God in Ruins

ByKate Atkinson

2015 • 83 Readers • 480 pages • 4.2

Bill Bryson's African Diary

ByBill Bryson

2002 • 29 Readers • 55 pages • 2.9

#1 of 2 in Todd Family

Life After Life

ByKate Atkinson

2013 • 377 Readers • 544 pages • 3.6

The Immeasurable World: Journeys in Desert Places

ByWilliam Atkins

2018 • 2 Readers • 416 pages • 3

Vanishing Wilderness of Africa

ByGiovanni Bellani

2008 • 1 Reader

Africa Works

Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument

ByPatrick Chabal,Jean-Pascal Daloz

1999 • 2 Readers

What's Wrong with the World

ByG.K. Chesterton

1910 • 9 Readers • 4

Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet

ByNicholas Crane

2002 • 3 Readers • 377 pages

Surprised by Laughter

ByStephen Carr

2004 • 1 Reader

Dirty Feet

ByEdem Awumey,Lazer Lederhendler(Translator)

2009 • 1 Reader • 175 pages

Under the Tump: Sketches of Real Life on the Welsh Borders

ByOliver Balch

2016 • 2 Readers • 320 pages • 4

Nowhere Is a Place: Travels in Patagonia

ByBruce Chatwin,Paul Theroux

1986 • 1 Reader • 109 pages

Fortellekunst

ByHenrik H. Langeland

2011 • 1 Reader • 112 pages

Imaginary Homelands of Writers in Exile

Imaginary Homelands of Writers in Exile: Salman Rushdie, Bharati Mukherjee, and V. S. Naipaul

ByCristina Emanuela Dascalu

2007 • 1 Reader

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi

ByGeoff Dyer

2008 • 7 Readers • 306 pages • 4

Africa junction

ByGinny Baily

2 Readers

The Lawrence Durrell Travel Reader

ByLawrence Durrell

2004 • 1 Reader

The world is what it is

ByPatrick French

2008 • 3 Readers • 555 pages

Blue River, Black Sea

ByAndrew Eames

2009 • 3 Readers • 448 pages • 4

#1 of 2 in Lily Moore Mystery

The Damage Done

ByHilary Davidson

2010 • 2 Readers • 352 pages • 4

Making Sense of the Central African Republic

ByTatiana Carayannis(editor),Louisa Lombard(Editor)

2015 • 1 Reader

Albert Schweitzer

Albert Schweitzer Library

Albert Schweitzer: A Biography

ByJames Brabazon

1975 • 1 Reader

Chasing the Devil

ByTim Butcher

2010 • 6 Readers • 4

The Shadow of Things to Come

ByKossi Efoui

2013 • 1 Reader

A Good Death

ByGil Courtemanche,Wayne Grady(Translator)

2005 • 1 Reader

Leo Africanus

ByAmin Maalouf,Peter Sluglett(Translator)

1986 • 10 Readers • 370 pages • 3.7

Living by the Gun in Chad

Living by the Gun in Chad: Combatants, Impunity and State Formation

ByMarielle Debos,Andrew Brown(Translator)

2013 • 1 Reader

#2 of 1 in Antrobus stories

Stiff Upper Lip

ByLawrence Durrell

1958 • 1 Reader

Africana

ByKwame Anthony Appiah,Henry Louis Gates Jr.

1999 • 2 Readers • 2,144 pages

Power Plays, Power Works

ByJohn Fiske

1993 • 1 Reader

#2 of 3 in Jesus Trilogy

The Schooldays of Jesus

ByJ.M. Coetzee

2016 • 9 Readers • 274 pages • 5

Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It

ByGeoff Dyer

2003 • 18 Readers • 272 pages • 3.4

Harare North

ByBrian Chikwava

2 Readers

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

ByMalcolm Gladwell

2004 • 646 Readers • 320 pages • 3.8

Tao of Photography: Seeing Beyond Seeing

ByPhilippe L. Gross,S.I. Shapiro

2001 • 2 Readers • 144 pages • 4

Wild

ByJay Griffiths

2006 • 5 Readers • 402 pages

Wild Coast

ByJohn Gimlette

2011 • 2 Readers • 368 pages • 4

Travels in Siberia

ByIan Frazier

2010 • 21 Readers • 529 pages • 3.8

Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo

ByEric Hansen

1988 • 12 Readers • 288 pages • 4

The Snow Geese

ByWilliam Fiennes

2001 • 3 Readers • 250 pages • 4

What I Saw in America

ByG.K. Chesterton

1922 • 3 Readers • 84 pages

#1 of 3 in Jesus Trilogy

The Childhood of Jesus

ByJ.M. Coetzee

2013 • 13 Readers • 277 pages • 3.7

Prester John

ByJohn Buchan

4 Readers • 3

A passage to Africa

ByGeorge Alagiah

1 Reader

The Damage Done

The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison

ByWarren Fellows

No Tourists Allowed: Seeking Inner Peace and Sobriety in War-Torn Sudan

ByShannon Egan

2015 • 1 Reader

On Bullshit

ByHarry G. Frankfurt

1986 • 97 Readers • 74 pages • 3.4

A Hologram for the King

ByDave Eggers

2012 • 36 Readers • 312 pages • 3.2

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