Place: South Africa
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Subdivisions in South Africa:
Cape of Good Hope - 1Cape Town - 6
Eastern Cape - 1
Johannesburg - 7
Kruger National Park - 1
Pretoria - 0
Soweto - 1
Books set in South Africa:
| Title | Author | Year Written | Time Period | Genre | |
| 1 | African Short Stories Edited by Chinua Achebe, this collection of short stories by African authors offers a good sampling of the continent. A... | Achebe, Chinua | 1985 | 1960-1985 | Short Stories |
| 2 | At the Crossroads An award-winning book set in South Africa. A group of kids in a small village are waiting for their dads to come home af... | Isadora, Rachel | 1991 | 1991 | Children's |
| 3 | Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black Short stories by Nobel prize winner, mostly set in modern South Africa.... | Nadine, Gordimer | 2007 | Contemporary | Short Stories |
| 4 | The Elephant Whisperer An amazing true story of elephant conservation in South Africa. Lawrence Anthony agrees to take on a herd of rogue eleph... | Anthony, Lawrence | 2009 | Present | Memoir or Biography |
| 5 | Elspeth Huxley With Liberia making headlines as to send or not to send that is the president’s question (it only took fourteen year... | Nicholls, C.S. | 2003 | 1907-1997 | Memoir or Biography |
| 6 | The End of Apartheid This book is intended for younger readers, with lots of pictures, drawings, timelines, and so forth to help school age k... | Bradley, Catherine | 1996 | 1948-1994 | Children's Non-Fiction |
| 7 | Jamela's Dress Jamela is a young girl who lives in South Africa; she gets in trouble with her mother for accidentally ruining some fanc... | Daly, Niki | 1999 | 1999 | Children's |
| 8 | Life and Times of Michael K A deliberately Kafkaesque story about a man trying to bring his mother home in a country filled with turmoil.... | Coetzee, J.M. | 1984 | 1984 | Novel |
| 9 | Mafeking Road and Other Stories A collection of short stories, mainly told by a Boer War era narrator named Oom Schalk Lourens. I had mixed feelings abo... | Bosman, Herman Charles | 1947 | Early 20th century | Short Stories |
| 10 | Margaret and Charley Subtitled The Personal Story of Dr. Charles Best, the Co-Discoverer of Insulin. This book is about Charles Best and his ... | Best, Henry B.M. | 2003 | 1899-1988 | Memoir or Biography |
| 11 | The Middle of Somewhere Another excellent book about South Africa from Sheila Gordon. The Middle of Somewhere is about a black girl named Rebecc... | Gordon, Sheila | 1990 | Late 1980s | Young Adult |
| 12 | Middlepost The crazy adventures of a peddler fleeing Lithuania and trying to make his way across South Africa while only speaking Y... | Sher, Antony | 1989 | 1901 | Novel - Historical |
| 13 | Mine Boy A novel famous for drawing attention to the plight of black people in South Africa - this book is about mining condition... | Abrahams, Peter | 1946 | 1940s | Novel |
| 14 | My Traitor's Heart Malan left South Africa in 1977 rather than be drafted in the army and fight to enforce apartheid. He returned home year... | Malan, Rian | 1989 | 1989 | Memoir or Biography |
| 15 | Renewal Time This excellent collection of short stories is essentially made up of a series of character portraits, most of people liv... | Mphahlele, Ezekiel | 1988 | 1980s | Short Stories |
| 16 | Satyagraha This is actually the libretto for an opera of the same name by Philip Glass. And the libretto is actually a collection o... | de Jong, Constance | 1980 | 1893-1913 | Poetry |
| 17 | Smokescreen Wow, it's been quite a while since I read any Dick Francis - I encountered his books when I was much younger, so it was ... | Francis, Dick | 1973 | 1973 | Thriller |
| 18 | Spearhead A would-be thriller about a charismatic black leader in prison in South Africa - will he escape, be broken out, taken to... | Driscoll, Peter | 1987 | 1987 | Thriller |
| 19 | Tomorrow is Another Country Subtitled The Inside Story of South Africa's Road to Change. Sparks covers the secret meetings that helped bring about t... | Sparks, Allister | 1995 | 1986-1995 | History |
| 20 | Tree of Life: The world of the African Baobab Excellent book giving children an understanding of the savannah ecology of southern Africa and one of the central life-g... | Bash, Barbara | 1989 | timeless | Children's Non-Fiction |
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