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Member: charl08Collections2018 (155), 2018 wishlist (75), 2017 (191), Banned Books (1), Netgalley (104), 2016 (307), Guardian reviews (466), Currently reading (14), Your library (1,296), Library loans (714), 50 African Women Writers (50), Read but unowned (904), Digital (320), Academic (356), other books (47), unfinished (102), Teaching 2013-14 (18), PhD (93), Penguin collection (27), Wishlist (1,851), To read (198), Favorites (39), All collections (4,982) Reviews129 reviews Tagsfiction (1,614), history (433), crime (430), Africa (356), US (331), UK (276), in translation (178), humour (178), memoir (169), historical (159) — see all tags MediaBook (4,980), Paper Book (4,601), Audiobook (29), Ebook (342), Video Recording (1), DVD (1), Other (1) Cloudstag cloud, author cloud, tag mirror Recommendations142 recommendations About meLike the library, a work in progress.
About my libraryI read as widely as I can. Genres include crime fiction, fiction in translation, African fiction (especially South African and Nigerian), and contemporary British literature. For academic purposes I read history, gender studies, education policy.
Groups2017 Category Challenge, 75 Books Challenge for 2013, 75 Books Challenge for 2015, 75 Books Challenge for 2016, 75 Books Challenge for 2017, 75 Books Challenge for 2018, A Group Thank You, African/African American Literature, All Books Africa, Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction —show all groups, Atwoodians, BBC Radio 4 Listeners, Best of British, Bookcases: If You Build/Buy Them, They Will Fill, Booker Prize, Books on Books, Club Read 2013, Club Read 2017, Feminist Theory, Gardens & Books, Historical Fiction, Legacy Libraries, Middle Eastern Literature, Monthly Author Reads, New York Review Books, Orange January/July, Persephone Readers, Poetry Fool, Radical History, ReadaThing, Reading Globally, South Africa, The Prizes, TinyCat, Virago Modern Classics Favorite authorsLeila Aboulela, Chinua Achebe, Douglas Adams, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Boris Akunin, Sherman Alexie, Kate Atkinson, Jane Austen, Elia Barceló, Julian Barnes, Alan Bennett, William Boyd, Geraldine Brooks, Peter Carey, Michael Chabon, J. M. Coetzee, Teju Cole, Wendy Cope, Colin Cotterill, E. E. Cummings, Tessa Dare, Miranda Davis, Roddy Doyle, Anne Fadiman, Jasper Fforde, Jacky Fleming, Aminatta Forna, Margaret Forster, Petina Gappah, Linda Grant, Sarah Hall, Kazuo Ishiguro, Liz Jensen, Antjie Krog, Jhumpa Lahiri, Janet Malcolm, Andrew Miller, David Mitchell, L. M. Montgomery, Michael Ondaatje, Julie Otsuka, Ruth Padel, Don Paterson, Dorothy L. Sayers, Rachel Seiffert, Curtis Sittenfeld, Ali Smith, Zadie Smith, Noel Streatfeild, Colm Tóibín, Jill Paton Walsh, Sarah Waters, Bill Watterson (Shared favorites) VenuesFavorites | Visited Favorite bookstoresBroadhurst's Booksellers, Clarke's Bookshop, Clitheroe Books (was Roundstone Books), Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh Castle Bookshop, Elvis Shakespeare, Empire Books, Gould's Book Arcade, Hay Cinema Bookshop, Hill of Content, Kalk Bay Books, Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe, News From Nowhere, Obz Books, Oxfam Books, Parkinsons of Southport, Riverby Books, The Edinburgh Bookshop, The Old Town Bookshop, Waterstone's Ormskirk, Word Power Bookshop Favorite librariesBritish Library, British Library Newspapers, Central Library, Central Library, Liverpool - Picton Library - Hornby Library, Gamla Stans bibliotek (filial till Stockholms Stadsbibliotek), Jessie Street National Women's Library, Landsbókasafn Íslands, Háskólabókasafn - National and University Library of Iceland, Library of Congress, James Madison Memorial Building, Liverpool John Moores University - Aldham Robarts Learning Resource Centre, McDonald Road Library (Edinburgh), Ormskirk Library, Scottish Poetry Library, University of Edinburgh - New College Library Favorite lists2016 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, Book Riot's 100 must-read works of Jewish Fiction, CBC Books - Canada's 100 (+ bonus 10): Which have you read?, The Guardian's 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read, Man Booker Prize Longlist 2015, Top Five Books of 2013, Top Five Books of 2015, Women's reading list, Writers at Risk, Your favorite books from the 2015 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Homepagehttp://www.africainwords.com
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Currently readingAnother Country (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Baldwin
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Life And Fate (Vintage Classic Russians Series) by Vasily Grossman
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu: The Quest for this Storied City and the Race to Save Its Treasures by Charlie English
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Issues of Our Time) by Claude Steele
Hearts And Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote by Jane Robinson
One Hand Tied Behind Us: The Rise of the Women's Suffrage Movement by Jill Norris
How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall
Ordinary People by Diana Evans
Nigerians in Space by Deji Bryce Olukotun
Dreams Must Explain Themselves: The Selected Non-Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin by Ursula K. Le Guin
Portrait of the artist : Käthe Kollwitz by (Art historian) Frances Carey
Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy
Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe by Timothy Garton Ash
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