Recs if you like Stay with Me...

an engaging collection that captures the depth and diversity of African storytelling, blending tradition, history, and modern life through powerful voices.

Goodreads 80 of the Past Decade’s Very Popular Fiction from 2016 - 2025

2025 Broken Country - Isola 2024 The Women - Real Americans 2023 Tom Lake - Weyward 2022 Demon Copperhead - Diamond Eye 2021 Reading List - Cloud Cuckoo Land 2020 My Dark Vanessa - Vanishing Half 2019 Giver of Stars - Girl, Woman, Other 2018 Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell - Where the Crawdads Sing 2017 Stay with Me - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo 2016 Lilac Girls - Behold the Dreamers

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Probably due to my own lack of knowledge To East, West and South Africa

A non exhaustive list consider this an appetizer and as I grow in my journey I’ll make more specific ones.

Last updated 12.10.25

A compilation of all of Belletrist’s monthly picks

Just a list of books I've read from around the world, hoping others will find it useful.

i am not a mother… i am just a woman with a complicated relationship with her mom! btw i’m only adding books i have read