Non-African Authored Reviews

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As the tagline of this blog suggests, I promote African Literature. However, I read non-African-authored books and this is a list of those I wrote about on this blogs arranged by title. Note that most of these aren't reviews but comments.
  1. 1984 by George Orwell
  2. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
  3. A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul
  4. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
  5. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  6. The Castle by Franz Kafka
  7. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  8. Dayward by ZZ Packer
  9. Dreams from my Father by Barack Obama
  10. The Entire Northern Side was Covered with Fire by Rivka Galchen
  11. Fela, This Bitch of a Life by Carlos Moore
  12. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  13. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  14. Here We Aren't, So Quickly by Jonathan Safran Foer
  15. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  16. The Kid by Salvatore Scibona
  17. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  18. Kwame Nkrumah: Vision and Tragedy by David Rooney
  19. Lenny Hearts Eunice by Gary Shteyngart
  20. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  21. The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
  22. On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
  23. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  24. The Pilot by Joshua Ferris
  25. Possession by A. S. Byatt
  26. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  27. Sand Daughter by Sarah Bryant
  28. The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall
  29. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  30. Sula by Toni Morrison
  31. Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
  32. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  33. Twins by C.E. Morgan
  34. Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
  35. What do You do Out There, When You're Alone by Philipp Meyer
  36. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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