Books from South Africa
127 popular south african books
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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 Two Towers : The Lord of the Rings #2 by J. R. R. Tolkien EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
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The Company of the Ring is sundered. Frodo and Sam continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin - alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.
Thus continues the classic tale begun in The Fellowship of the Ring, which reaches its awesome climax in The Return of the King.
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Country: Africa / South Africa
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From the author of Never Never, co-written with Colleen Hoover! #1 New York Times bestselling author Tarryn Fisher delivers a pulse-pounding, fast-paced suspense novel that will leave you breathless—an instant bestselling thriller you won’t be able to put down! Imagine that your husband has two other wives. You’ve never met the other wives. None of you know each other, and because of this unconventional arrangement, you can see your husband only one day a week. But you love him so much you don’t care. Or at least that’s what you’ve told yourself. But one day, while you’re doing laundry, you fi... continue
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The Woman in the Blue Cloak by Deon Meyer EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
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Internationally acclaimed writer Deon Meyer returns to his beloved Benny Griessel series with a case that combines the disappearance of an Old Masters painting with a grisly murder
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Them : An Extreme Horror Novella by Mique Watson EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
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Jeanette thought she'd get to enjoy the cozy, rainy evening after the hellacious week she'd just endured. Snuggled up on her couch with her Labrador, Nico, everything seemed perfect. Rest couldn't come sooner. Then it happened. The program on the television cut to black. EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM. Jeanette's heart stops. The signal is choppy, yet the message is clear: "They look like people." And then the power goes out. Someone knocks on the door. It is soon made clear to Jeanette that the world she once knew has ended. The place she once called home is now anything but. The world beyond the... continue
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Things I Don't Want to Know : A Response to George Orwell's 1946 Essay 'Why I Write' by Deborah Levy EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
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Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that contested territory and shape it to her need. It is a work of dazzling insight and deep psychological succour, from one of our most vital contemporary writers. This first volume of the trilogy focuses on the writer as a young woman - the confusion and turbulence of youth, and the uncertainties of carving an identity as a writer. The second volume, The Co... continue
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To My Children's Children by Sindiwe Magona EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
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This powerful and widely acclaimed autobiography of Sindiwe Magona's early years in South Africa, announced the arrival of a major new black writer. Here she gives an account of her eventful first 23 years and tells a candid, unself-pitying story of triumph and endurance in the face of hardships relentlessly reinforced by the apartheid system.
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Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth by J. R. R. Tolkien EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
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This collection of narratives ranges in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring. It comprises such elements as Gandalf's account of how he came to send the Dwarves to the party at Bag-End and stories of the Five Wizards.
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Van vaders en vlugtelinge by S. J. Naudé AF
Country: Africa / South Africa
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Vida y época de Michael K by J. M. Coetzee ES
Country: Africa / South Africa
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Cuenta la historia que estando el filósofo Diógenes sentado frente al tonel donde vivía con su perro, se le presentó Alejandro Magno: “Mis respetos, Diógenes. Soy el hombre más poderoso de la tierra; decime que puedo hacer por vos". Y Diógenes le respondió: “Correte un poco que me tapas el sol”. Diógenes era un hombre libre, porque había reducido sus necesidades a los esencial.
Michael K es un hombre que tiene todos los factores de la vida en su contra, desde su defecto de nacimiento hasta el contexto... continue
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Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee EN
Country: Africa / South Africa
South Africa
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A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state. J. M. Coetzee's pr... continue