Book reading challenge books from South Africa

Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Africa Challenge" were written by authors from South Africa. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenstrom EN

Rating: 5 2 Votes

Country: Africa /

South Africa

Description:

Wearily, I take the path to the river, there in the cool to fill my being with the sounds of my sister-being, to refresh myself in the modest scents of pigeonwood and mitzeerie, to let my gaze end in a tangle of monkey ropes and fern arches and the slowly descending leaves, and to find rest, all day long, all night long. A young slave girl accompanies her owner on an expedition into the African interior in search of a mythical city. In unfamiliar terrain, the party gets lost. One by one, our narrator's companions disappear, leaving her to take refuge in the hollow of a baobab tree. There, she ... continue

Genre fiction Historical fiction

Tags: Set in SOUTH AFRICA Female author

Recommended: 08 Oct 2022

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The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay EN

Rating: 4 94 Votes

Country: Africa /

South Africa

Description:

“The Power of One has everything: suspense, the exotic, violence; mysticism, psychology and magic; schoolboy adventures, drama.” –The New York Times “Unabashedly uplifting . . . asserts forcefully what all of us would like to believe: that the individual, armed with the spirit of independence–‘the power of one’–can prevail.” –Cleveland Plain Dealer In 1939, as Hitler casts his enormous, cruel shadow across the world, the seeds of apartheid take root in South Africa. There, a boy called Peekay is born. His childhood is marked by humiliation and abandonment, yet he vows to survive and conceives ... continue

Genre fiction Historical fiction Cultural Young Adult Historical

Tags: Set in SOUTH AFRICA Male author

Recommended: 31 Oct 2022

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The Promise by Damon Galgut EN

Rating: 4 3 Votes

Country: Africa /

South Africa

Description:

"Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa: Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family reflects the atmosphere of its country-- an atmosphere of resentment, renewal, and ultimately hope"--Publisher marketing.

Genre fiction

Tags: Male author

Recommended: 23 Jun 2022

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Ways of Dying : A Novel by Zakes Mda EN

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Country: Africa /

South Africa

Description:

A professional mourner, Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village, at the funeral of a young boy, and joins forces with her to heal the pain of the past and build new lives for themselves in post-apartheid South Africa. Original.

Genre fiction

Tags: Male author

Recommended: 23 Jun 2022

Books from South Africa

The Expedition to the Baobab Tree by Wilma Stockenstrom EN

The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay EN

The Promise by Damon Galgut EN

Ways of Dying : A Novel by Zakes Mda EN

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