Books like My Sister, the Serial Killer
A Lagos nurse narrates, with dry exhaustion, the third boyfriend her beautiful younger sister has killed and asked her to help clean up after.
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Lost Lambs
The Flynns of a small coastal town are coming apart: the parents' open marriage is failing, and their three daughters each go off the rails, the youngest by investigating the shipping magnate who looms over the town.
No Longer at Ease
Obi Okonkwo, grandson of the Okonkwo of Things Fall Apart, comes home to Lagos from England full of ideals, takes a government job and ends up on trial for taking a bribe.
Convenience Store Woman
A convenience store worker in Tokyo has organised her entire life around her job, and everyone who tries to 'fix' her only makes things worse.
The Interpreters
Five young Nigerian intellectuals home from study abroad, a journalist, an engineer, a lecturer, a painter and a civil servant, meet in the bars of Lagos and Ibadan and try to make sense of the new country.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
In a Nigeria lightly fictionalised, a surgeon and his oldest friend, an engineer about to take up a post at the United Nations, discover that someone is trafficking in body parts from the hospital.
You
A Manhattan bookseller narrates, to the woman he is stalking, his entirely reasonable reasons for becoming the worst thing that will ever happen to her.
Yellowface
When her more successful friend dies, a struggling white novelist steals the unfinished manuscript about Chinese labourers in World War I, publishes it as her own, and lives in fear of being found out online.
Dream Count
During the pandemic, four African women in America and Nigeria, a travel writer, a lawyer, a banker and a Guinean housekeeper whose life is upended by an assault, look back on love, friendship and the lives they hoped for.
Americanah
Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love as teenagers in Lagos; Ifemelu leaves to study in America and discovers race, while Obinze, shut out of the US after 9/11, ends up undocumented in London.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
A young woman in New York medicates herself into months of hibernation, trying to sleep her way out of grief and into a new self.
Amsterdam
Two old friends, a composer and a newspaper editor, meet at the funeral of a woman they both loved and make a pact, which leads to a darkly comic disaster in Amsterdam.
Notes on a Scandal
A lonely schoolteacher becomes obsessed with a colleague's scandalous affair with a student, and her account of events may not be entirely reliable.