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: January 2026

Book Series by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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