Kenya Book List

Adamson, Joy.  Born free: a lioness of two worlds  (1960)

Adamson, Joy. The peoples of Kenya (1966)

Adamson, Joy. Living Free: the story of Elsa and her cubs  (1961)

Anderson, David. Histories of the hanged: the dirty war in Kenya and the end of empire (2005)

Bull, Bartle.  The White Rhino Hotel (1992)

Constant, Paule. Ouregano: a novel (2005)

Creider, Jame Tapsubei. The shrunken dream (1992)

Dhalla, Ghalib Shiraz. Ode to Lata: a novel (2002)

Dinesen, Isak.  Out of Africa (1938)

Dinesen, Isak. Shadows in the Grass (1960)

Fletcher, Colin. The winds of Mara (1973)

Gallmann, Kuki. I dreamed of Africa (1991)

Gellhorn, Martha. The weather in Africa (1978)

Gikandi, Simon. Ngugi wa Thiong’o (2000)

Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Desertion (2005)

Halkin, John. Kenya (1986)

Halperin, Helena. I laugh so I won’t cry: Kenya’s women tell the story of their lives (2005)

Hamilton, Masha. The camel bookmobile (2007)

Hanley, Gerald. Warriors and strangers (1972)

Head, Bessie and Ngugi wa Thiong’o. To stir the heart (2007)

Hemingway, Ernest.  Green hills of Africa (1935)

Hemingway, Ernest. True at first light (1999)

Hemingway, Ernest. Under Kilimanjaro (2005)

Hillaby, John. Journey to the Jade Sea (1965)

Hopkins, Billy. Going places (2003)

Huxley, Elspeth. The flame trees of Thika: memories of an African childhood (1959)

Huxley, Elspeth. The mottled lizard (1962)

Huxley, Elspeth. On the edge of the rift: memories of Kenya (1962)

Huxley, Elspeth.  Out in the midday sun: my Kenya (1985)

Jackman, Brian. The marsh lions: the story of an African pride (1982)

Jones, J. D. F. Freeland (1994)

Kaye, M. M. Death in Kenya (1983)

Kear, Cynthia. Searching for Grace

Keating, Barbara. Blood sisters (2005)

Kenyatta, Jomo. The challenge of Uhuru: the progress of Kenya, 1968 to 1970 (1971)

Kenyatta, Jomo. Facing Mount Kenya: the tribal life of Gikuyu (1938)

Kenyatta, Jomo. Kenya: the land of conflict (1971)

Kenyatta, Jomo. My people of Kikuyu, and, the life of Chief Wangombe (1966)

Kenyatta, Jomo. Suffering without bitterness: the founding of the Kenya Nation (1968)

Kinyatti, Maina wa, editor. Thunder from the mountains: Mau Mau patriotic songs (1980)

Kessel, Joseph. The lion: a novel (1959)

Kurtz, J. Roger. Urban obsessions, urban fears : the postcolonial Kenyan novel (1998)

Lambkin, David. The hanging tree (1996)

Lekuton, Joseph Lemasolai. Facing the lion: growing up Maasai on the African savanna (2005)

Macgoye, Marjorie Oludhe. Chira (1997)

Macgoye, Marjorie Oludhe. Coming to birth (1986)

Macgoye, Marjorie Oludhe. A farm called Kishinev (2005)

Macgoye, Marjorie Oludhe. Homing in (1994)

Macgoye, Marjorie Oludhe. Make it sing and other poems (1998)

Macgoye, Marjorie Oludhe. Murder in Majengo (1972)

Macgoye, Marjorie Oludhe.  The present moment (1987)

Macgoye, Marjorie Oludhe. Street life (1987)

Macgoye, Marjorie Oludhe. Song of Nyarloka and other poems (1977)

Mangua, Charles. Son of woman (1971)

Mangua, Charles. Son of woman in Mombasa (1986)

Mangua, Charles. A tail in the mouth: a novel (1972)

Marciano, Francesca. Rules of the wild (1998)

Markham, Beryl.  West with the night (1942)

Maathai, Wangari. Unbowed: a memoir (2006)

McQuillan, Karin. Elephants’ graveyard (1993) (mystery series)

Moss, Cynthia. Elephant memories: thirteen years in the life of an elephant family (1988)

Mwangi, Meja. Carcase for hounds (1974)

Mwangi, Meja.  Going down River Road (1976)

Mwangi, Meja.  Kill me quick (1973)

Mwangi, Meja. The last plague (2000)

Mwangi, Meja. The return of Shaka (1989)

Mwangi, Meja. Weapon for hunger (1989)

Naipaul, Shiva. North of south: an African journey (1978) (in part)

Ngugi  wa Thiong’O. Barrel of a pen: resistance to repression in neo-colonial Kenya (1983)

Ngugi  wa Thiong’O. Detained: a writers prison diary (1981)

Ngugi  wa Thiong’O. Dreams in a time of war: a childhood memoir (2010)

Ngugi  wa Thiong’O. A grain of wheat (1967)

Ngugi wa Thiong’O and Ngugi wa Mirii. I will marry when I want (1982)

Ngugi wa Thiong’O. Matigari (1989)

Ngugi wa Thiong’O. Petals of blood (1977)

Ngugi wa Thiong’O. The river between (1965)

Ngugi wa Thiong’O. Secret lives, and other stories (1975)

Ngugi wa Thiong’O. The trial of Dedan Kimath (1976)

Ngugi wa Thiong’O. The Wizard of the Crow (2006)

Ngugi wa Thiong’O. Writers in politics: a re-engagement with issues of literature and society (1997) (in part)

Nicholls, C. S. Elspeth Huxley: a biography (2002)

Nivola, Claire. Planting the trees of Kenya: the story of Wangari Maathai (2008)

Ogola, Margaret. I swear by Apollo (2002)

Ogola, Margaret. Place of destiny (2005)

Ogola, Margaret. The river and the source (1994)

Ogot, Grace. Land without thunder: short stories (1968)

Ogot, Grace. The other woman: selected short stories (1976)

Ogot, Grace. The promised land: a novel (1966)

Ogude, James. Ngugi’s novels and African history: narrating the nation (1999)

Owuor, Yvonne Adhiambo. Weight of whispers (2006)

Pavitt, Nigel. Kenya: a country in the making, 1880-1940 (2008)

Rathbone, Julian. As bad as it gets (2003)

Ridgeway, Rick. The shadow of Kilimanjaro: on foot across East Africa (2006)

Robson, Clifford B. Ngugi wa Thiong’o (1979)

Ruark, Robert. Something of value (1955)

Saitoti, Tepilit Ole. Maasai (1980)

Sander, Reinhard and Bernth Lindfors, editor. Ngugi wa Thiong’o speaks: interviews with the Kenyan writer (2006)

Shreve, Anita. A change in altitude: a novel (2009)

Vassani, M. G. The in-between world of Vikram Lall (2003)

Wamwere, Koigi wa. Conscience on trial: why I was detained, notes of a political prisoner in Kenya (1988)

Wamere, Koigi wa. I refuse to die: my journey for freedom (2002)

Western, David. In the dust of Kilimanjaro (1997)

Wiley, Richard. Ahmed’s revenge: a novel (1998)

Williams, Patrick. Ngugi wa Thiong’o (1999)

Wood, Barbara. Green city in the sun (1988)

Wrong, Michela. It’s our turn to eat: the story of a Kenyan whistle-blower (2009)