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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Books in Order
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a Kenyan author and academic, who has been described as East Africa's leading novelist and an important figure in modern African literature.
Bibliography verified: April 2026
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What are all of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's book series? Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has written 6 book series. The most notable is the Adventures of Njamba Nene series.
Complete series list with all books in reading order below.
Book Series by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
- #1
Njamba Nene and the flying bus(1986) - #2
Njama Nene's Pistol(1986)
- #1
As Long As Trees Take Root in the Earth (By: Alain Mabanckou)(2007) - #2
Black Diamond (By: Zakes Mda)(2009) - #3
Passage of Tears (By: Abdourahman A. Waberi)(2009) - #4
Rachel's Blue (By: Zakes Mda)(2013) - #5
Naming the Dawn (By: Abdourahman A. Waberi)(2019) - #6
Modern Sovereign (By: Joseph Tonda)(2020) - #7
Of Morsels and Marvels (By: Maryse Condé)(2020) - #8
A Land Like You (By: Tobie Nathan)(2020) - #9
What Is Africa to Me? (By: Maryse Condé)(2021) - #10
Seasons in Hippoland (By: Wanjiku wa Ngũgĩ)(2021) - #11
Culture and Liberation (By: Alex la Guma)(2022) - #12
The Journey of a Caribbean Writer (By: Maryse Condé)(2022) - #13
The Language of Languages(2022)
- #1
Strange Country (By: Seamus Deane)(1990) - #2
States of Fantasy (By: Jacqueline Rose)(1996) - #3
Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams(1998) - #4
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self (By: Marina Warner)(2002) - #5
Yeats and Violence (By: Michael Wood)(2010) - #6
Under the Hammer (By: James Simpson)(2010) - #7
Forensic Shakespeare (By: Quentin Skinner)(2014) - #8
Psyche and Ethos (By: Amanda Anderson)(2018) - #9
Street Songs (By: Daniel Karlin)(2018) - #10
Poetics of the Pillory (By: Thomas Keymer)(2019) - #11
The Trouble with Literature (By: Victoria Kahn)(2020) - #12
Messing About in Boats (By: Michael Hofmann)(2021) - #13
Bibliophobia (By: Brian Cummings)(2022) - #14
Four Continents(2008) - #15
Gods and Soldiers(2009) - #16
Unmasked(2020)
- #1
Dreams in a Time of War(2005) - #2
In the House of the Interpreter(2012) - #3
Birth of a Dream Weaver(2016)
- #1
Homecoming(1972) - #2
Detained(1981) - #3
Decolonising the Mind(1981) - #4
Writers in Politics(1981) - #5
Barrel of a Pen(1983) - #6
Writing Against Neocolonialism(1986) - #7
Moving the Centre(1993) - #8
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Speaks(2005) - #9
Something Torn and New(2009) - #10
Globalectics(2012) - #11
In the Name of the Mother(2013) - #12
Secure the Base(2015) - #13
Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir(2018) - #14The Language of Languages(2022)
- #15
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas(2025)
- #1
Weep Not, Child(1964) - #2The River Between(1965)
- #3
A Grain of Wheat(1967) - #4
Petals of Blood(1977) - #5
Devil on the Cross(1980) - #6Matigari(1986)
- #7
Wizard of the Crow(2004) - #8
The Perfect Nine(2018) - #9
The Upright Revolution(2016) - #10
The Black Hermit(1968) - #11
The Trial of Dedan Kimathi(1976) - #12
I Will Marry When I Want(1982) - #13
Secret Lives and Other Stories(1975) - #14
This Time Tomorrow(1977) - #15
To Stir the Heart: Four African Stories(2007) - #16
Minutes of Glory and Other Stories(2019)
About Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o was a Kenyan author and academic, who has been described as East Africa's leading novelist and an important figure in modern African literature.
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