Year of Publication: 1900 to 1999
This list excludes single stories. Single stories are uncollected short stories published in magazines, blogs, online newspapers, and other places. It is believed that such stories would be collected by author and later 'formally' published, hence their exclusion.
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-1910 to 1919-
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-1920 to 1929-
- The Castle: Franz Kafka
- Death Comes for the Archbishop: Willa Cather
- A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway
- The Great Gatsby: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Mrs. Dalloway: Virginia Woolf
- The Trial: Franz Kafka
- Absalom, Absalom!: William Faulkner
- Auto da Fe: Elias Canetti
- Brave New World: Aldous Huxley
- Chaka: Thomas Mofolo
- Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day: Winifred Watson
- Theatre: Somerset W. Maugham
- 1984: George Orwell
- The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger
- Cry, the Beloved Country: Alan Paton
- Mine Boy: Peter Abrahams
- The Secret Destiny of America: Manly P. Hall
- Arrow of God: Chinua Achebe
- Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman: Dorothy Sterling
- The Foundation Trilogy: Isaac Asimov
- Lord of the Flies: William Golding
- On the Road: Jack Kerouac
- Palace Walk: Naguib Mahfouz
- The Palm-Wine Drinkard: Amos Tutuola
- Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe
- A Grain of Wheat: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- A House for Mr. Biswas: V.S. Naipaul
- A Man of the People: Chinua Achebe
- The Beautyful Ones are not Yet Born: Ayi Kwei Armah
- The Best of Simple: Langston Hughes
- Burning Grass: Cyprian Ekwensi
- Cat's Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut
- Fragments: Ayi Kwei Armah
- The Godfather: Mario Puzo
- Houseboy: Ferdinand Oyono
- The Lion and the Jewel: Wole Soyinka
- Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism: Kwame Nkrumah
- No Easy Walk to Freedom: Nelson Mandela
- No Longer At Ease: Chinua Achebe
- Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again: Ola Rotimi
- The Repudiation: Rashid Boudjedra
- The River Between: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Season of Migration to the North: Tayeb Salih
- To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
- Weep Not, Child: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- A Bend in the River: V.S. Naipaul
- A Question of Power: Bessie Head
- The Blinkards : Kobina Sekyi
- The Bluest Eye: Toni Morrison
- Burger's Daughter: Nadine Gordimer
- The Conservationist: Nadine Gordimer
- Death and the King's Horseman: Wole Soyinka
- Duskland: J.M. Coetzee
- The Gods are not to Blame: Ola Rotimi
- The Healers: Ayi Kwei Armah
- I Write What I Like: Steve Biko
- In the Heart of the Country: J.M. Coetzee
- The Joys of Motherhood: Buchi Emecheta
- Madmen and Specialists: Wole Soyinka
- Maru: Bessie Head
- The Periodic Table: Primo Levi
- So Long a Letter: Mariama Bâ
- Song of Solomon: Toni Morrison
- Sula: Toni Morrison
- Two Thousand Seasons: Ayi Kwei Armah
-1980 to 1989-
- Anthills of the Savannah: Chinua Achebe
- Beloved: Toni Morrison
- Birds of Our Land: Virginia W. Dike
- Dew in the Morning: Shimmer Chinodya
- Distant view of a Minaret: Alifa Rifaat
- Every Man is a Race: Mia Couto
- Fela, This Bitch of a Life: Carlos Moore
- The Handmaid's Tale: Margaret Atwood
- Harvest of Thorns: Shimmer Chinodya
- If I'm So Successful, Why do I Feel like a Fake: the Impostor Phenomenon: Joan C. Harvey with Cynthia Katz
- Incidents at the Shrine: Ben Okri
- July's People: Nadine Gordimer
- Kwame Nkrumah: Vision and Tragedy: David Rooney
- Matigari: Ngugi wa Thiong'o
- Midnight's Children: Salman Rushdie
- Oscar and Lucinda: Peter Carey
- Nervous Conditions: Tsitsi Dangarembga
- Search Sweet Country: Kojo Laing
- The Trouble with Nigeria: Chinua Achebe
- Voices Made Night: Mia Couto
-1990 to 1999-
- A Month and a Day & Letters: Ken Saro-Wiwa
- A Woman Alone: Bessie Head
- Amsterdam: Ian McEwan
- Blindness: Jose Saramago
- Changes: Ama Ata Aidoo
- The Chattering Wagtails of Mikuyu Prison: Jack Mapanje
- The Clothes of Nakedness: Benjamin Kwakye
- Contemporary African Short Stories: Chinua Achebe and C.L. Innes (Editors)
- Dreams from my Father: Barack Obama
- The English Patient: Michael Ondaatje
- The Famished Road: Ben Okri
- The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy
- Infinite Riches: Ben Okri
- The Last Evenings on Earth: Roberto Bolano
- Neighbours: The Story of a Murder: Lilia Momple
- The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Alexander McCall Smith
- Opening Spaces: An Anthology Contemporary African Women's Writing: Yvonne Vera (Editor)
- Possession: A.S. Byatt
- Return of the Water Spirit: Pepetela
- Searching: Nawal El Saadawi
- Shadows: Chenjerai Hove
- Smouldering Charcoal: Tiyambe Zeleza