The Stranger
1942★ 8.9
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Things Fall Apart
1958★ 8.9
The Plague
1947★ 8.6
Heart of Darkness
1899★ 8.6
The Cairo Trilogy
1957★ 7.8
Disgrace
1999★ 7.7
Children of the Alley
1959★ 6.9
Cry, the Beloved Country
1948★ 6.7
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Author unknown
1550 BC★ 6.7
The Muqaddimah
1377★ 6.7
Wind, Sand and Stars
1939★ 6.6
Out of Africa
1937★ 6.5
Season of Migration to the North
1966★ 6.4
Nervous Conditions
1988★ 6.2
Desert
1980★ 6.1
So Long a Letter
1981★ 6.1
Woman at Point Zero
1977★ 6.0
The Joys of Motherhood
1979★ 6.0
Long Walk to Freedom
1994★ 5.8
King Leopold's Ghost
1998★ 5.8