Take On Africa

List of Books read during ‘Take On Africa’, in order read. (Those with an asterisk * are related to Africa and those in bold I enjoyed most and would highly recommend):

• Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys

• Lolita – Nabokov

• A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson

• Our Man in Havana – Graham Greene

• The Last Templar – Raymond Khoury

• * Sahara (The Life of the Great Desert) – Marq de Villiers and Sheila Hirtle

• The Road – Cormac McCarthy

• What I talk about when I talk about running – Haruki Murakami

• * Bend in the River – V.S. Naipul

• The Good Soldier – Ford Maddox Ford

• The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera

• Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut

• The Memory of Running – Ron McCarty

• The Kray Brothers – Charlie Kray

• * What is the What? - Dave Eggars

• War of the World – Niall Ferguson

• White Teeth – Zadie Smith

• * Hustling is not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl – John M. Chernoff

• * The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver

• * The Sword and the Cross – Fergus Fleming

Currently Reading:

• The Mulberry Empire – Philip Hensher

Currently Listening to:

• The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (audiobook, abridged) – Lars Stiegsson

Other books in my bags to be read:

• * In The Footsteps Of Mr Kurtz – Michela Wong

• * Moods of Future Joys – Alastair Humphreys

• A Ride In The Neon Sun – Josie Dew

• Imperium – Ryszard Kapuscinski