African nations

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah (memoir, Sierra Leone)
You Must Set Forth at Dawn, by Wole Soyinka (memoir, Nigeria)
A Krio Engagement and Other Stories, by Nana Grey-Johnson (short stories, The Gambia)
Jaime Bunda, Secret Agent, by Pepetela (mystery, Angola)
I Will Marry When I Want, by Thiong’o (play, Kenya)
States and Power in Africa, by Herbst (political analysis, continent-wide)

In The Country of Men, by Hisahm Matar
There is No Me Without You, by Melissa Fay Greene
A Bend in the River, by V.S. Naipal
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, by Gil Courtemanche
Graceland, by Chris Abani
Life and Times of Michael K, by J.M. Coetzee

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd
A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer

Links - Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)
A Long Way Gone - Ishmael Beah (Sierra Leone)
The Cairo Trilogy - Naguib Mahfouz (3 books, Egypt)
The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears - Dinaw Megestu (Ethiopia)
Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
No Future Without Forgiveness - Desmond Tutu (non-fic)
Life and Times of Michael K - J.M. Coetzee
Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton
Aman: The Story of a Somali Girl - Virginia Lee Barnes (biography)
A Bend in the River - V.S. Naipal
Season of Migration to the North - Salih El Tayyib

Dinesen's Out of Africa
http://astripedarmchair.wordpress.com/?s=%22out+of+africa%22

The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears

Half of a Yellow Sun
Flame Trees of Thika
Story of an African Farm
What is the What
Frankie and Stankie
The Darling
Brazzaville Beach
Cry, the Beloved Country
No Longer At Ease
July's People
A Sport of Nature
Before I Forget
So Long a Letter
The Camel Bookmobile
Ladysmith
West With the Night

We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
A Long Way Home: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmae Beah
Don't Let's Go To the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra Fuller
Listening for Lions by Julius Lester
The Old African by Julius Lester
African Princess by Joyce Hansen

Ladies No 1 Detective Agency
http://tukopamoja.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!8234535A7FECFC04!1166.entry
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NOTE: I got these lists from the Africa Reading Challenge and will divide them into separate posts as soon as I can.