Start Here: Nigerian Fiction Essentials
If you only ever read five Nigerian novels, make them these.
5 books
Reading lists
Sets of books chosen to be read next to each other.
Beyond Nigeria: Voices Across the Continent
Africa is fifty-four countries, and this shelf is our reminder that the fiction is too.
4 books
Diaspora Stories: Leaving, Arriving, Belonging
Every one of these books is about the moment you realise leaving home didn't make you a different person, just a person somewhere else.
4 books
African Speculative & Fantasy
Magic systems built on Efik river deities, Igbo ogbanje, Nsibidi script and worlds no Western publisher would have thought to commission.
4 books
Thrillers & Page-Turners
Sometimes you just want a book that won't let you put it down.
5 books
Love, Marriage & Family
The Nigerian family is a novel waiting to happen, and these five prove it.
5 books
Queer African Lit
Queer African stories exist, they always have, and this is where we keep them.
5 books
Young Adult
Books for teenagers that don't talk down to them and don't look like everything else on the YA table.
3 books
Non-Fiction & Memoir
Two brave books about things our communities tend to keep quiet.
2 books
Short Reads (under 300 pages)
Every book here can be finished in a weekend, and none of them feel slight.
6 books
Published in Nigeria: Support Homegrown Presses
These editions were printed in Lagos, not licensed from London or New York, and buying them puts money directly into the Nigerian publishing ecosystem.
10 books
Book Club Picks
Chosen for one reason: they generate argument.
5 books
Plays & Short Stories
For readers who want something other than a novel.
2 books